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Keyframe Labs

Builds human foundation models and sells them as a real-time avatar API: photoreal, emotion-controllable conversational video avatars that an AI agent or application drives with any LLM or voice model, with JavaScript and LiveKit SDKs and per-minute pricing.

StageUndisclosed

Founded2025

HeadquartersSanta Monica, USA

StatusPrivate

Product

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Keyframe Avatars API service Sold on its own

  Real-time avatar API: the persona-2.0-live and persona-1.5-live models render a photoreal, emotion-controllable talking avatar that speaks whatever audio an LLM or voice model sends, with a JavaScript SDK, a LiveKit integration, stock avatars and image-to-avatar on the enterprise plan; Free, Starter $50, Growth $100 and Scale $300 a month plans with included minutes, extra minutes from $0.06 a minute, and a custom Enterprise plan.

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DDeepgramLate-stageKeyframe Avatars and Deepgram Voice Agent API both list voice agent; Keyframe Labs's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAssemblyAILate-stageKeyframe Avatars and AssemblyAI Voice Agent API both list voice agent; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIInkboxUndisclosedKeyframe Avatars and Inkbox both list voice agent; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHAHume AIUndisclosedKeyframe Avatars and Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) both list voice agent; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRunwayLate-stageKeyframe Avatars and Runway Characters do comparable work on avatar video and voice agent; Keyframe Labs's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, application and 3 more rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHHeyGenEarly-stageKeyframe Avatars and LiveAvatar do comparable work on avatar video and voice agent; Keyframe Labs's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRibbonEarly-stageKeyframe Avatars and Ribbon API both list voice agent; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVVEEDEarly-stageKeyframe Avatars and VEED API both list avatar video; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNVIDIAPublicKeyframe Avatars and NVIDIA ACE do comparable work on avatar video and voice agent; Keyframe Labs's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, agent platform and 6 more rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareIAInworld AIUndisclosedKeyframe Avatars and Realtime API both list voice agent; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVVapiEarly-stageKeyframe Avatars and Vapi both list voice agent; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent and agent platform rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCColossyanEarly-stageKeyframe Avatars and Colossyan Learn both list avatar video; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDD-IDUndisclosedKeyframe Avatars and Creative Reality Studio both list avatar video; scale not recorded for either; ships application and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCartesiaEarly-stageKeyframe Avatars and Managed Agents both list voice agent; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEElevenLabsLate-stageKeyframe Avatars and Speech Engine both list voice agent; Keyframe Labs's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTwilioPublicKeyframe Avatars and Conversation Relay both list voice agent; Keyframe Labs's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCerencePublicKeyframe Avatars and Mobile Work Agent both list voice agent; Keyframe Labs's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareFRFurhat RoboticsUndisclosedKeyframe Avatars and FurhatAI Creator both list voice agent; scale not recorded for either; ships application, platform and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKKoyalUndisclosedKeyframe Avatars and Koyal both list avatar video; scale not recorded for either; ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKKuaishouPublicKeyframe Avatars and Kling AI Avatar both list avatar video; Keyframe Labs's scale not recorded; ships application, developer tool and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRRespeecherEarly-stageKeyframe Avatars and Respeecher Space both list voice agent; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBABland AIEarly-stageKeyframe Avatars and Bland both list voice agent; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAmazonPublicKeyframe Avatars and Amazon Lex both list voice agent; Keyframe Labs's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSenseTimePublicKeyframe Avatars and SenseAvatar both list avatar video; Keyframe Labs's scale not recorded; ships application, hardware and 4 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSASoundHound AIPublicKeyframe Avatars and OASYS both list voice agent; Keyframe Labs's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, agent platform and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRARetell AIUndisclosedKeyframe Avatars and Retell AI Voice Agents both list voice agent; scale not recorded for either; ships agent platform rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerComparePPolyAIUndisclosedKeyframe Avatars and Dialog Studio both list voice agent; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent and agent platform rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareXxAIAcquiredKeyframe Avatars and Grok Voice both list voice agent; Keyframe Labs's scale not recorded; xAI is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareYYandexPublicKeyframe Avatars and Yandex SpeechKit both list voice agent; Keyframe Labs's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare

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Sources

Total funding

Not found · 19 Oct 2026

Pages read for this record state no funding total. Tried the home, pricing and terms pages and the company's YC profile.

Valuation

Not found · 19 Oct 2026

Pages read for this record state no valuation. Tried the home, pricing and terms pages and the company's YC profile.

Founded

Company disclosure · 19 Oct 2026

Own YC profile lists Founded: 2025; keyframelabs.com states no founding year.

Public listing

Not found · 19 Oct 2026

No listing on the pages read; treated as private.

Description

Official documentation · 19 Oct 2026

Home page: "Our first family of models powers lifelike avatars that interact with users in real time."

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