The open stack vs. the same stack, productized and accountable.
The honest alternative: assemble Pipecat or LiveKit, Deepgram, an LLM, a text-to-speech engine, and telephony yourself. The voice tools are genuinely off-the-shelf now, and a capable team can get a call working.
Full control and no platform fee. If voice agents are your core focus and you want to own every layer, the open stack is real, and we build on it too.
| Teltura | Building it yourself | |
|---|---|---|
| The call | Built, hardened, and running | A weekend to a first call — then the hard part starts |
| Hosting & scaling | Managed session runtime; you never touch it | Session-per-process scaling is genuinely hard (the docs say so) |
| Compliance | Consent, disclosure, recording, frequency — a ledger built in | Reg F, TCPA, NAIC, recording consent — all yours to build and defend |
| The console | The operator surface, done | The single largest hidden build — and where every incumbent is weakest |
| Time to value | Days to a pilot | Quarters to a defensible product |
The call is the easy part. Teltura is the compliance records, the integrations, and the operator console you would otherwise spend a year building.