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