LiveKit delivers real-time communication APIs for voice, video, and data, enabling immersive interactive experiences.
About
LiveKit is an open-source agent framework and cloud platform designed to provide developers with the core tools and services needed to build next-generation applications with visual, auditory, and voice interaction capabilities. By combining powerful real-time communication with AI technologies, it simplifies the integration of complex multimedia features into any application.
Key Features
Pricing & Fees
- Pricing: LiveKit Cloud offers four plans: Build ($0/mo), Ship (starting at $50/mo), Scale (starting at $500/mo), and Enterprise (custom pricing via sales contact).
- Free tier: The Build plan is free with no credit card required, and includes agent deployment, observability, simulations, inference credits, the global edge network, and one free telephony number.
- Usage-based rates: Agent sessions and telephony each cost $0.0100/min, with per-minute inference pricing for LLM, STT, and TTS models (e.g. TTS at $0.0090/min); a phone-call agent is estimated around $0.0479/min in total.
- Open-source option: The Agents framework and LiveKit server are open source, so you can build and self-host without using the paid cloud platform.
- Enterprise extras: The Enterprise plan adds volume pricing (including inference), a shared Slack channel, SSO, and support SLAs; the Scale plan adds HIPAA/security reports, region pinning, and inference discounts.
Who It's For
LiveKit is ideal for developers and teams that need to integrate real-time audio/video and AI capabilities into their products. This includes video conferencing app developers, virtual event platform engineers, edtech companies, telehealth solution providers, and any team building immersive interactive experiences.
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