Anam

Overview

Best for: Product teams that want predictable per-minute pricing and a polished managed persona with optional custom LLM.

At a glance

Conversation cap 3/5/10/120/120 min by plan. Price is Professional overage $0.11 (Enterprise listed $0.04). cara-4 is 1152x768 landscape or 768x1152 portrait. Idle time is billed.

Features

• managed full pipeline
• bring your own LLM (CUSTOMER_CLIENT_V1 client-side LLM)
• custom avatar from photo in under 2 minutes (vendor)
• custom voice on all plans
• LiveKit integration
• spend cap setting
• concurrency endpoint

Pricing

Free tier: 30 minutes per month, 1 concurrent session, 3 minute conversations.

Source: anam.ai

Setup

1. Create an API key in Anam Lab.
2. Pick avatarId, voiceId and llmId (or a saved personaId).
3. Backend: POST /v1/auth/session-token with the persona config.
4. Frontend: create the Anam client with the session token and stream to a video element.
5. Stop streaming when the user leaves; set a spend cap in Account Settings.

Endpoint

POST https://api.anam.ai/v1/auth/session-token

Authentication

Authorization: Bearer <API key> on server; session token (JWT, 1 h) in browser

// Server-side
const r = await fetch("https://api.anam.ai/v1/auth/session-token", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.ANAM_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    personaConfig: {
      name: "Cara",
      avatarId: "071b0286-4cce-4808-bee2-e642f1062de3",
      voiceId: "de23e340-1416-4dd8-977d-065a7ca11697",
      llmId: "a7cf662c-2ace-4de1-a21e-ef0fbf144bb7",
      systemPrompt: "You are a helpful assistant.",
      maxSessionLengthSeconds: 600,
    },
  }),
});
const { sessionToken } = await r.json();

// Browser (npm i @anam-ai/js-sdk)
import { createClient } from "@anam-ai/js-sdk";
const client = createClient(sessionToken);
await client.streamToVideoElement("persona-video");
// later: await client.stopStreaming();

Written from the current docs. Check the vendor's SDK version before you ship.

Warnings

Plus 9 warnings that apply to all avatars and live video APIs. See category warnings.

Limits

• Concurrent: 1 / 1 / 3 / 5 / 10 by plan; shared across all your sites
• Conversation length: 3 min (Free), 5 min (Starter), 10 min (Explorer), 2 h (Growth/Professional)
• Session token valid 1 hour
• Unused minutes expire monthly

Models and products

Docs and sources

Docs

• Docs index
• Create session token
• Models
• Billing and limits

Sources used

• anam.ai/pricing
• anam.ai/docs/introduction/models.md
• anam.ai/docs/resources/billing-and-limits.md
• anam.ai/docs/api-reference/sessions/create-session-token.md