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Peter Jackman
Peter Jackman

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How Many Voice Agent Workers Do I Need at Peak

Size a voice agent pool by concurrent sessions, not by CPU. At 240 calls in the peak hour with a 4.5 minute average handle time you are offering 18 erlangs of traffic, and Erlang B at 1% blocking needs 28 concurrent slots — three workers at LiveKit's documented 10 jobs per 4-core agent server, four once a rolling deploy is allowed for.

What this covers

  • How many workers do I need so calls don't get rejected at peak?
  • The worked calculation, from calls per hour to worker count
  • Substituting a second set of inputs
  • The occupancy gap: why CPU looks calm while calls are refused
  • Why one worker holds fewer concurrent calls than you expect

This is a technical summary. The full guide — with the tables and worked examples — is on our site: *How Many Voice Agent Workers Do I Need at Peak*.

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