Thanks — I’m glad you asked. I’ll walk through what’s included and what we need to estimate so you can get a realistic cost for running LiveKit fully on‑premise for 250 concurrent users (LiveKit OSS + Egress + Worker/Agent hosting). Short answer • LiveKit Open Source, Egress, and Agents/workers have no licensing fee — software cost is $0. • The total cost will be your infrastructure, bandwidth, storage, and operations (people) costs. To give a concrete estimate I need a few details about how you plan to use it. A few important cost drivers (please confirm or pick options) • Session topology ◦ Do you expect mostly 1:1 calls, many small group rooms (e.g., 5–10 participants), or large group rooms (e.g., 50+ participants / a single meeting with many concurrent streams)? • Media profile ◦ Typical video resolution and frame rate (e.g., 720p@30fps, 480p, audio-only). ◦ Will you use simulcast/VP8 SVC or single high‑res streams? • Egress usage ◦ Will you record all sessions, only some sessions, or stream out (livestream) to external platforms? ◦ Typical recording format/length and whether you’ll use a Chrome compositor/FFmpeg for recording (these are CPU intensive). • Worker/agent workload ◦ What will your agents do? (Simple orchestration, heavy media processing, transcription/AI inference). ◦ Do you expect many short agent jobs or long-running agents per room? • Deployment environment ◦ Will you run on physical servers in a private data center, or in a private cloud (VMs) / co-lo? Which cloud provider and region if applicable? • Reliability & headroom ◦ Desired redundancy (single server vs. active-standby vs. multi-node cluster), and target headroom for bursts (e.g., 20–30% spare capacity). What I can estimate/provide next • If you give the answers above I’ll produce: a. A recommended architecture (number and size of LiveKit servers, egress workers, and agent hosts). b. Approximate CPU, RAM, and network requirements. c. Rough monthly cost ranges for common hosting options (example: private cloud VM-based cost or colo rack cost), plus bandwidth and storage estimates. d. Notes on scaling and redundancy options so you can plan for growth. If you want a quick example now (so you have something to start with), tell me which of the following best matches your expected usage and I’ll return a sample cost estimate: • A: Mostly 1:1 calls, low-res video (480p), few recordings. • B: Many small group calls (5–10 participants), 720p video, occasional recordings. • C: Large rooms and/or heavy recording/streaming (>=50 participants / many recordings / livestreaming). Which option matches you, or send the details for the bullet list above and I’ll prepare a tailored estimate. Sources: The end of Participant Minute pricing | The end of Participant Minute pricing | The end of Participant Minute pricing | Pricing | LiveKit | Build voice, video, and physical AI | LiveKit