OpenAI and Google sell the brain. ElevenLabs sells the voice product. Vanira sells agents with eyes, hands, and a dashboard your ops team can run — not just model intake.
We sell the brain.
Best raw model + Realtime runtime. You hire engineers for the body, face, hands, and every camera/upload flow.
We sell the voice agent product.
Widget, phone, WhatsApp, user file attach. Strong for CX — weaker when the agent must operate the host website.
We sell the live multimodal pipe.
Powerful Gemini Live video + audio. You own the entire product surface and ops tooling.
We sell agents with eyes and hands.
Voice widget, dashboard tool builder, upload/camera/live vision presets, DOM automation, blocking tool results — on your site.
Voice, tools, embed, and who builds what
| Dimension | OpenAI | ElevenLabs | Vanira | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core product | Model + agent runtime | Voice agent + TTS platform | Gemini models + Live API | Agent platform + symbiotic UI SDK |
| Primary SDK | @openai/agents (+ realtime) | @elevenlabs/react / client | google-genai (Live API) | @vanira/sdk — widget + VaniraClient + presets |
| Voice transport | WebRTC / WebSocket Realtime | WebSocket conversational AI | WebSocket Gemini Live | WebRTC voice + DataChannel tools |
| Prebuilt call UI | Headless (demo component only) | Widget — voice, chat, file attach | None — you build it | Full widget — FAB, call card, transcript, preset modals |
| Client tools / page actions | You implement every handler | Client tools via SDK | You implement everything | 13 presets — navigate, click, type, form, upload, camera… |
| Blocking tool results | You design client_tool_result flow | Supported — you wire handlers | You design it | Built-in — agent waits for upload, form, DOM actions |
| Embed on customer site | Custom integration | One-line widget script | Custom integration | One script tag with widget-id |
| Telephony | SIP (Realtime) — you integrate | First-class — buy numbers, outbound | Not a packaged phone product | Phone numbers + outbound in dashboard |
1–5 for teams shipping and operating — not API elegance alone
Agent on website this week — ops configures tools
→ Vanira or ElevenLabs
Vanira if the agent must click, type, and open camera on the page. ElevenLabs if support + phone + WhatsApp is enough.
“Open camera now” / “upload your bill” mid-call
→ Vanira
Preset tools with prebuilt modals — no custom frontend per flow.
Support queue + WhatsApp + user attaches PDF
→ ElevenLabs
Native file attach across widget and WhatsApp channels.
Building your own AI product — UI is the moat
→ OpenAI or Google
Headless runtimes; you own every surface.
KYC, refunds, travel booking on customer browser
→ Vanira
Upload + camera + live vision + DOM presets in one embed.
Not “pass an image to the model.” Agent-orchestrated browser media — configured in the dashboard, no custom UI per flow.
vanira_uploadDrag-drop → media_id (blocking)
vanira_cameraMid-call capture + optional liveness
vanira_live_vision~1 FPS stream without double TTS
DOM presetsNavigate, click, type, set date, highlight
Configure upload, camera, and live vision tools in the dashboard. Embed one script tag. Talk to your agent before go-live.