Hume EVI alternatives

Hume's Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) — voice agent platform with vocal-affect understanding, using Hume's proprietary speech-prosody models. Hume will shut down the EVI and TTS APIs on 2026-11-13 (announced in its docs). Full Hume EVI record →

  1. 1 Pipecat (Daily) Voice agent platforms

    also in Voice agent platforms · same storage (kv) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (stateless) · same memory unit (turn) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 17k released 2026-08-01 BSD-2-Clause Compare with Hume EVI →

  2. 2 LiveKit Agents Voice agent platforms

    also in Voice agent platforms · same storage (kv) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (stateless) · same memory unit (turn) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 13k released 2026-08-27 Apache-2.0 (framework); turn-detector models… Compare with Hume EVI →

  3. 3 OpenAI Realtime API Voice agent platforms

    also in Voice agent platforms · same storage (kv) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (stateless) · same memory unit (turn) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 6.9k Compare with Hume EVI →

  4. 4 Bland AI Voice agent platforms

    also in Voice agent platforms · same storage (kv) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (stateless) · same memory unit (turn) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Hume EVI →

  5. 5 Cartesia Sonic Voice agent platforms

    also in Voice agent platforms · same storage (kv) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (stateless) · same memory unit (turn) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Hume EVI →

  6. 6 ElevenLabs Conversational AI (now ElevenAgents) Voice agent platforms ⚠ renamed — now ElevenAgents

    also in Voice agent platforms · same storage (kv) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (stateless) · same memory unit (turn) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Hume EVI →

  7. 7 Retell AI Voice agent platforms

    also in Voice agent platforms · same storage (kv) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (stateless) · same memory unit (turn) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Hume EVI →

  8. 8 Vapi Voice agent platforms

    also in Voice agent platforms · same storage (kv) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (stateless) · same memory unit (turn) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Hume EVI →

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