The best pipecat alternatives

agents

livekit/agents

A framework for building realtime voice AI agents 🤖🎙️📹

Choose agents if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
• you specifically need agents or openai

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mastra

mastra-ai/mastra

Mastra is the modern TypeScript framework for AI-powered applications and agents.

Choose mastra if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than Python
• you want the more widely starred option (29.5k)
• you specifically need agents or evals

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voltagent

VoltAgent/voltagent

AI Agent Engineering Platform built on an Open Source TypeScript AI Agent Framework

Choose voltagent if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than Python
• MIT License suits your use better than BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
• you specifically need agents or ai-agents

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agenticSeek

Fosowl/agenticSeek

Fully Local Manus AI. No APIs, No $200 monthly bills. Enjoy an autonomous agent that thinks, browses the web, and code for the sole cost of electricity.

Choose agenticSeek if…

• GNU General Public License v3.0 suits your use better than BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
• you want the more widely starred option (27.7k)
• you specifically need agentic-ai or agents

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leon

leon-ai/leon

🧠 Leon is your open-source personal assistant.

Choose leon if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than Python
• MIT License suits your use better than BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
• you specifically need ai-agent or ai-assistant

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VoiceStudio

debpalash/VoiceStudio

VoiceStudio is the open-source, fully-local ElevenLabs alternative — voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription & audiobook creation in 646 languages.

Choose VoiceStudio if…

• GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 suits your use better than BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
• you want the more widely starred option (109.1k)
• you specifically need audiobook or cuda

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OpenMontage

calesthio/OpenMontage

World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 production pipelines, 100+ tools, 700+ agent skill and production-knowledge files. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.

Choose OpenMontage if…

• GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 suits your use better than BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
• you want the more widely starred option (80.0k)
• you specifically need agent or agentic-ai

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unsloth

unslothai/unsloth

Local UI to run and train LLMs and diffusion models. Supports GGUF, MLX, Qwen3.8, DeepSeek-V4, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4, FLUX and more.

Choose unsloth if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
• you want the more widely starred option (79.4k)
• you specifically need agent or chatgpt

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MockingBird

babysor/MockingBird

🚀Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time

Choose MockingBird if…

• you want the more widely starred option (36.9k)
• you specifically need deep-learning or pytorch

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datasets

huggingface/datasets

🤗 The largest hub of ready-to-use datasets for AI models with fast, easy-to-use and efficient data manipulation tools

Choose datasets if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
• you specifically need artificial-intelligence or computer-vision

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doris

apache/doris

Apache Doris is a real-time analytics and hybrid search database for AI agents.

Choose doris if…

• you would rather work in Java than Python
• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
• you specifically need agent or bigquery

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spec-kit

github/spec-kit

💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

Choose spec-kit if…

• MIT License suits your use better than BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
• you want the more widely starred option (149.5k)
• you specifically need copilot or development

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