LiveKit Cloud pricing: plans and per-minute rates
Checked Nov 10, 2026 on LiveKit’s official pages (sources below). Prices change often: confirm with the provider before you buy.
LiveKit Cloud runs real-time voice and video AI agents (WebRTC, telephony and model inference). Plans set the features; usage is billed per minute.
Figures below are quoted from livekit.com/pricing as read on Nov 10, 2026. Prices change: confirm on LiveKit's page before you buy.
Plans
- Build
- Price$0/mo, no credit card required
- ForStarting a project: agent deployment, observability and simulations
- Ship
- PriceStarting at $50/mo
- ForShipping to real users: team collaboration, custom voices, instant rollback
- Scale
- PriceStarting at $500/mo
- ForScaling: role-based access, metrics export APIs, region pinning, private links, HIPAA
- Enterprise
- PriceCustom
- ForVolume pricing, shared Slack channel, SSO, support SLA
LiveKit says its plans include monthly allotments for agent session minutes, inbound calling minutes (for US local phone numbers) and inference credits.
Per-minute rates shown in the calculator (Build/Ship)
- Agent session
- Rate$0.0100/min
- Telephony, LiveKit US local number
- Rate$0.0100/min
- Observability (enabled)
- Rate$0.0100/min
- LLM example: Gemma 4 31B
- Rate$0.0014/min
- STT example: AssemblyAI Universal-3.6 Pro Streaming
- Rate$0.0075/min
- STT example: Deepgram Nova-3 (Monolingual)
- Rate$0.0048/min
- TTS example: Fish Audio S2.1 Pro
- Rate$0.0090/min
The page lists many more LLM, STT and TTS models, each with its own per-minute price; the calculator's default phone-call example totals $0.0479/min.
LiveKit pricing FAQ
Is LiveKit free?
LiveKit Cloud's Build plan is $0 a month with no credit card required. Usage beyond the included allotments is billed at the per-minute rates.
How is LiveKit priced per minute?
Agent sessions are $0.0100/min on the calculator, plus telephony, observability and the per-minute price of the LLM, STT and TTS models you choose.
Where do these LiveKit prices come from?
LiveKit's own pricing page (https://livekit.com/pricing), read on Nov 10, 2026. We do not estimate bills or add up costs across providers.
Sources (official pages, read Nov 10, 2026)
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