Thanks so much for your question! When you host a LiveKit agent locally, like on your development environment, it’s important to know that this doesn’t count as an agent deployed on LiveKit Cloud. Agents on LiveKit Cloud are fully managed for you in the cloud—they scale automatically and billing is based on agent session minutes. On the other hand, self-hosted agents, including those you run locally, work on your own infrastructure. This means they don’t have the same management, scaling, or billing setup as the Cloud agents. But the great news is, they can still connect to and use LiveKit’s global edge network to handle real-time media transport smoothly. If anything here feels unclear or if you’d like a hand with anything else, please don’t hesitate to reach out—I’m here to help! Sources: LiveKit Pricing | Deploying to custom environments | LiveKit Docs | Deploying to production | LiveKit Docs