Our take
Pick Daily if realtime / voice-AI teams who will stay on 10,000 free participant-minutes / month while they open a first Prebuilt room, then pay $0.004 per video participant-minute (volume from $0.0015*) once the free bucket is gone. Pick LiveKit if voice teams who will burn Build for $0 (1,000 agent minutes, $2.50 inference credits, 1 free number) and only open Ship at $50 when they need a second deploy and email
Best for
Daily Calls you embed with a public per-minute tile
LiveKit A voice or video agent with rooms, phones, and traces
Free plan
Daily $0 · 10,000 free participant-minutes / month. Sign up free. No extra charge for HD
LiveKit $0 · you host the media server and the agent process
Lowest paid
Daily Audio-only $0.00099
LiveKit Ship $50/mo
Next step up
Daily Video calls from $0.004
LiveKit Scale $500/mo
Coding agent
Daily
LiveKit Voice Agents
Runs where
Daily Local or hosted
LiveKit Hosted
Watch out
Daily Free minutes are 10,000 / month, then $0.004 / video participant-minute
LiveKit Build $0 is not free tokens
Last checked
Daily 2026-10-23 · daily.co/pricing/video-sdk
LiveKit 2026-10-22 · livekit.io/pricing
realtime / voice-AI teams who will stay on 10,000 free participant-minutes / month while they open a first Prebuilt room, then pay $0.004 per video participant-minute (volume from $0.0015*) once the free bucket is gone.
Read the Daily pagevoice teams who will burn Build for $0 (1,000 agent minutes, $2.50 inference credits, 1 free number) and only open Ship at $50 when they need a second deploy and email support.
Read the LiveKit page
