What are the costs for hosting an agent in livekit...
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cold-oyster-96332
09/17/2025, 12:20 AMWhat are the costs for hosting an agent in livekit cloud?
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tall-airline-16756
09/17/2025, 12:20 AMThanks for reaching out, Matin. I'm an AI assistant and I'm here to help. Give me a moment while I research this topic.
tall-airline-16756
09/17/2025, 12:20 AMThank you for your interest! Just to give you a clear picture, hosting an agent in LiveKit Cloud costs $0.01 per minute whenever your agent is actively serving a user—this is what we call an "agent session minute."
We offer different LiveKit Cloud plans, each with a set amount of included agent session minutes to suit your needs:
• Build Plan: Comes with 1,000 agent session minutes, and after that, it’s $0.01 for each additional minute.
• Ship Plan: Includes 5,000 agent session minutes, then $0.01 per extra minute.
• Scale Plan: Offers 50,000 agent session minutes, with $0.01 for every minute beyond that.
These prices also cover hosting across LiveKit’s global network of data centers, unlimited data transfer to and from your agent, plus full access to our observability and analytics features to help you stay in control.
Sources: Deploy and scale agents on LiveKit Cloud | LiveKit Pricing
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cold-oyster-96332
09/17/2025, 12:22 AMAre there any scaling or concurrency limitations?
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tall-airline-16756
09/17/2025, 12:22 AMThanks for reaching out! I’d love to help you understand the scaling and concurrency options with LiveKit Cloud. Here’s a quick overview based on your subscription tier:
• Build Plan: Supports up to 5 concurrent agent sessions.
• Scale Plan: Allows up to 20 concurrent agent sessions, and if you need more, you can always request higher limits.
• Custom Plans: Tailored to your needs, these can support 50+ or even unlimited concurrency.
Even with these limits, LiveKit Cloud is thoughtfully designed to scale smoothly with features like elastic scaling, stateful load balancing, and autoscaling infrastructure. Plus, its global setup helps keep things running reliably with low latency.
If you find yourself needing more concurrency, upgrading your plan or chatting with our sales team about a custom solution is a great next step. Also, you can easily check and manage your current concurrency limits anytime in the LiveKit Cloud dashboard under Settings > Project.
Sources: Quotas and limits | LiveKit Docs | LiveKit Pricing | Deploy and scale agents on LiveKit Cloud | Deployment and scaling | LiveKit Docs | examples/voice_agents/llamaindex-rag/data/raw_data.txt
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cold-oyster-96332
09/17/2025, 12:24 AMjust 20? and for 500? is there any custom pricing or pay as you go?
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tall-airline-16756
09/17/2025, 12:24 AMThank you for reaching out! For 500 concurrent agent sessions, LiveKit Cloud offers custom Enterprise plans designed specifically for larger-scale deployments like yours. These plans come with benefits such as volume pricing, custom concurrency limits, and extra features like support SLAs and SSO to better suit your needs. While the standard rate is $0.01 per agent session minute, we’re happy to explore volume discounts and tailor the plan based on what works best for you.
LiveKit uses a usage-based pricing model, which means you’re charged for compute (connection time) and bandwidth (data transfer). To get the most accurate pricing and understand the infrastructure guarantees, I recommend reaching out to LiveKit Sales with your projected usage and specific requirements — they’ll be more than happy to assist you!
Sources: Deploy and scale agents on LiveKit Cloud | LiveKit Blog | LiveKit | Billing | LiveKit Docs | Russ d'Sa - LiveKit Blog
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