Technology Radar
Published : Apr 15, 2026
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Apr 2026
Assess
Pipecat is an open-source framework for building real-time voice and multimodal agents with a modular pipeline model for STT, LLM, TTS and transport orchestration. It’s attracting strong interest because teams can iterate quickly on conversational behavior and swap providers with relatively low friction.
Compared to LiveKit Agents, Pipecat offers greater framework flexibility but a less integrated production path, especially for self-hosted deployment, transport reliability and low-latency turn handling at scale. We’ve placed Pipecat in Assess because it provides a strong engineering-facing foundation, but significant platform engineering work is required before it can be relied on for business-critical production workloads.
