You can reach “Hello, World” with a voice agent in about ten minutes.
The hard part is testing, iterating, and improving it without running up costs or juggling multiple API keys, billing systems, and dashboards every time something breaks.
We built the LiveKit Startup Program to fix that. Startups accepted into the program receive:
- A year of LiveKit Cloud Scale, with the $500/month plan fee fully waived
- $10,000 in additional LiveKit Cloud credits
- $7,000 in inference credits, with $1,000 each across LiveKit Google DeepMind Gemma 4 31B, Deepgram, Inworld AI, Rime, Fish Audio, AssemblyAI, and Gradium.
That’s up to $23,000 to build with across STT, TTS, and LLMs. No separate accounts or extra provider keys. Every model is just a string in your agent config, and eligible credits apply automatically.
There are incredible startups building the future of voice AI on LiveKit that most people haven’t heard of yet. We want to help more of them get there.
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