Pricing
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big-microphone-99982
08/06/2025, 8:07 AMPricing
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tall-airline-16756
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tall-airline-16756
08/06/2025, 8:07 AMLiveKit offers a usage-based pricing model with four main plans:
• Build ($0/mo): Includes 100 concurrent participants, 5,000 connection minutes, 50GB bandwidth, and community support. Ideal for hobby projects or development stages.
• Ship (Starting at $50/mo): Includes 1,000 concurrent participants, 150,000 connection minutes, 250GB bandwidth, email support, and more. Additional usage is billed at specific rates.
• Scale (Starting at $500/mo): Includes unlimited participants, 1.5M connection minutes, 3TB bandwidth, HIPAA compliance, and more. Additional usage is billed at reduced rates.
• Enterprise (Custom pricing): For large-scale needs, offering volume pricing, shared Slack channel, support SLA, and on-premise support.
Key pricing components include connection minutes, bandwidth usage, transcoding minutes, and SIP connection minutes. For detailed pricing and cost estimation, visit the LiveKit pricing page.
Sources: Understanding LiveKit Cloud Pricing | LiveKit Cloud Pricing | livekit/livekit_composite | DeepWiki | Billing | LiveKit Docs | Towards a future-aligned pricing model | LiveKit Pricing
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big-microphone-99982
08/06/2025, 8:10 AMAssuming there are two participants, I want to calculate the cost for one hour. Only one person will send 1080p video along with an audio track, and the other person will use only an audio track.
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tall-airline-16756
08/06/2025, 8:11 AMLet's break down the cost for your setup (two participants for one hour, with one sending 1080p video and audio, and the other using audio only):
1. Bandwidth Cost:
◦ Participant with 1080p video + audio: about 1.34 GB.
◦ Audio-only participant: around 0.055 GB.
◦ Total bandwidth comes to roughly 1.395 GB × $0.12/GB = about $0.167.
1. Connection Minutes Cost:
◦ 2 participants × 60 minutes × $0.0005/minute = $0.60.
1. Total Cost: Approximately $0.767.
This is based on typical bitrates (3000 kbps for 1080p video and 128 kbps for audio). If your bitrates differ, feel free to adjust the numbers accordingly. And if you want to dive deeper, the LiveKit Pricing Page has all the details you might need.
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big-microphone-99982
08/06/2025, 8:16 AMvideo is max 1Mbps.
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tall-airline-16756
08/06/2025, 8:16 AMWith the updated video bitrate of 1 Mbps, here’s the new cost breakdown for your scenario:
1. Bandwidth Cost:
◦ Video + audio participant: about 0.442 GB.
◦ Audio-only participant: about 0.041 GB.
◦ Total bandwidth: around 0.483 GB × $0.12/GB = roughly $0.058.
1. Connection Minutes Cost:
◦ 2 participants × 60 minutes × $0.0005/minute = $0.06.
1. Total Cost: approximately $0.12.
This estimate takes into account the lower video bitrate and assumes the usual audio bitrates. If you want me to tweak anything or have more questions, just let me know—I’m here to help!
Sources: Understanding LiveKit Cloud Pricing | LiveKit Cloud Pricing | livekit/livekit_composite | DeepWiki | Towards a future-aligned pricing model
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big-microphone-99982
08/06/2025, 8:18 AMExplain how this gb is calculated.
◦ Video + audio participant: about 0.442 GB.
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tall-airline-16756
08/06/2025, 8:18 AMHere’s a simple breakdown of how the 0.442 GB for the video + audio participant is calculated:
1. Bitrate: The video bitrate is 1 Mbps (1,000,000 bits per second). Audio usually uses much less, so we mainly focus on the video bitrate here.
2. Convert to Bytes: 1 Mbps equals 1,000,000 bits per second ÷ 8 = 125,000 Bytes per second.
3. Calculate Total Bytes: For a 1-hour session (3600 seconds):
125,000 Bytes/second × 3600 seconds = 450,000,000 Bytes.
4. Convert to Gigabytes: 450,000,000 Bytes ÷ 1024 = 439,453.125 KB ÷ 1024 = about 0.442 GB.
This is based on the assumption that the bitrate stays steady at 1 Mbps throughout the session. If you’d like me to explain anything else or go over it again, just let me know—I’m here to help!