Hey everyone, I’m new to LiveKit and unsure about one thing: If I self-host only the agent service (not the full LiveKit setup), does that help reduce costs compared to using LiveKit Cloud? Would appreciate some guidance!

I think it is a matter of where you are spending money. Self hosting requires (physical or virtual) servers, routers DNS etc and folks to manage those. LiveKit cloud can give you fast time form idea to deployment as it is all ready to go and ready to scale. You won't need to working about all the technical details about global distribution, fail-over etc. If I were just starting out I would probably using Cloud, hosted agents, etc to get to market in the most efficient way possible. Then adapt from there based on your needs and requirements.

Sorry if I miss understood Livekit. It looks like agents and livekit infra are different am I right? My question is regarding the agent hosting not the entire livekit infra

You can self host LiveKit agents and still use LiveKit cloud and/or inference

Will it save anycost?

I don't know what your costs are so hard to say. But should save a lot in opportunity costs to use LiveKit hosting. I've never heard middle east does not allow WebRTC. I know folks in Saudi Arabia etc use WebRTC.