Do i pay for the minutes held in the Livekit Serve...
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Do i pay for the minutes held in the Livekit Server wehn using Livekit cloud or just for the worker minutes with agent session?
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Thanks — I’m responding to your billing question about whether you pay for minutes held on the LiveKit server when using LiveKit Cloud or only for worker/agent session minutes. Short answer • You are billed for agent session minutes (the worker minutes while an agent is actively serving a user), not for generic time the LiveKit server holds a connection. Agent session minutes are charged at $0.01 per minute. • Standard human participants are billed separately as connection minutes (starting at $0.0005 per minute depending on plan). What that means for common cases • If you deploy an agent on LiveKit Cloud and the agent is actively serving a user, you pay the agent session minute rate ($0.01/min) for that active time. • If the agent is idle (not actively serving a user), you are not charged agent session minutes for that idle time. • Media relay or participant connections through LiveKit for regular users are billed as connection minutes under the standard participant pricing, not as agent session minutes. If you’d like, I can: • Help estimate monthly cost given expected concurrent agents and average session length, or • Walk through the specific pricing page or links for your plan. Which would you prefer — an estimated cost example for your usage, or links to the pricing details? Sources: Deploy and scale agents on LiveKit Cloud | Towards a future-aligned pricing model