---
tool: "LiveKit"
slug: "livekit"
category: "Voice Agents & Speech/Audio"
pricing_model: "Hybrid"
pricing_transparency: "Public"
entry_price_monthly: 50
entry_price_annual: 50
annual_discount_pct: 50
native_currency: "USD"
free_plan_available: false
free_trial_days: null
enterprise_pricing_available: false
number_of_plans: 5
key_limit_metric: null
last_checked_date: "2026-09-20"
last_manually_verified: null
verification_status: "Auto-Verified"
vendor_pricing_page: "https://livekit.io/pricing"
vendor_website: "https://livekit.io"
source: https://saaspricehub.io/tools/livekit
---

# LiveKit pricing

Open-source real-time audio/video infrastructure. LiveKit powers WebRTC for voice, video, and AI agent applications. Cloud pricing: Free tier (100 max concurrent participants, 10K minutes/mo), Build $50/mo (500 participants, 150K minutes), Ship $500/mo (3K participants, 1.5M minutes), Enterprise custom. Self-hosted is fully free (Apache 2.0). LiveKit Agents framework powers voice AI at OpenAI (ChatGPT Advanced Voice), Character.ai, and many voice startups.

## Current entry price

**$50/month** billed monthly. **$50/month** billed annually (save 50%).

## All tiers

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Key limit |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Self-hosted | $0 | $0 | free, Apache 2.0 |
| Build | $0 | $0 | free cloud tier, 1,000 agent-session min + 5,000 WebRTC min + $2.50 inference credits/mo, no card required |
| Ship | $50 | $50 | 5,000 agent minutes included, then metered overage ($0.01/agent min) |
| Scale | $500 | $500 | 50,000 agent minutes, HIPAA BAA + SOC 2 Type II + regional data residency |
| Enterprise | custom | custom | volume + dedicated infra |

## Pricing model

- **Model:** Hybrid
- **Key limit metric:** Not specified
- **Free plan:** No
- **Free trial:** No separate trial
- **Enterprise pricing:** Not offered
- **Native currency:** USD

## Verification

- **Last automated check:** 2026-09-20
- **Last manual verification:** Not manually verified
- **Verification status:** Auto-Verified
- **Source:** https://livekit.io/pricing

## Recommendation

In other words, LiveKit is worth it for developers building real-time voice or video features into their products — voice AI agents, video conferencing, live streams. Self-hosted is a serious option (Apache 2.0). Cloud tiers scale predictably: Build ($50/mo) covers early product; Ship ($500/mo) scales to consumer-app volumes. Powers ChatGPT Voice which is a strong endorsement. Downside: it's plumbing — you still need to build the AI logic on top.

## Alternative to consider

Just need transcription (no real-time voice)? AssemblyAI or Deepgram. Building a voice agent (not the transport)? Vapi or Retell abstract LiveKit for you. Building a video-conferencing product? Daily or 100ms compete.

## Vendor context

2026-09-20 auto-check: TIER-NAME CORRECTION (no price movement). Price points $0 / $50 / $500 all confirmed unchanged, but the labels were off by one in our record: 'Build' is the FREE cloud tier, 'Ship' is $50/mo, and 'Scale' is $500/mo. We previously had Build=$50 and Ship=$500, with no Scale tier. Entry paid tier remains $50/mo, 0% delta. Sources agreeing: livekit.com/pricing.md, trtc.io/blog/details/livekit-pricing-2026, cekura.ai/blogs/livekit-pricing. Compliance features (HIPAA BAA, SOC 2 Type II, data residency) are Scale-tier minimum. Cloud is metered above allotments. Baseline snapshots written under the CORRECTED tier names so future history tracks the right plans.

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*Pricing data maintained by SaaS Price Hub. Human-readable page: [https://saaspricehub.io/tools/livekit](https://saaspricehub.io/tools/livekit). All prices in USD unless otherwise noted. This file is machine-readable and updated within 24 hours of any tracked price change.*