Daily Video includes 10,000 free participant minutes monthly. Pipecat Cloud active hosting starts at $0.01/minute for agent-1x; transport, model services and optional features have separate rates.Official source 1 ↗ · Official source 2 ↗
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Primary group
Automation & Agents
What it does
Daily provides realtime calling infrastructure and Pipecat tooling for voice and multimodal AI agents.
Telephony and recording. Add SIP/PSTN calling and audio or audiovisual recordings, charged separately.Official source 1 ↗
Pricing & free limits
Daily Video
First 10,000 minutes free; then $0.004Per participant-minute; graduated volume discounts
Video and audio calls. Audio-only calls start at $0.00099 after the shared free allowance; recording and other services are separate.Official source 1 ↗
1 vCPU and 2 GB memory, supporting voice and video agents.Official source 1 ↗
Pipecat Cloud agent-3x
$0.03 active; $0.0015 reservedPer minute
1.5 vCPU and 3 GB memory for voice/video agents with extra processing.Official source 1 ↗
Enterprise
Custom quoteVolume and support terms
Custom high-volume rates, higher rate limits, SSO, data residency and dedicated support.Official source 1 ↗
Billing details
External LLM, speech-to-text and speech-generation costs are separate from Pipecat hosting, transport and telephony.Official source 1 ↗
Participant minutes multiply call length by participant count; recording uses elapsed recorded minutes instead.Official source 1 ↗
Free access & limits
Daily Video includes 10,000 free participant minutes every month.Official source 1 ↗
Daily WebRTC transport is free for one-to-one voice sessions on Pipecat Cloud; hosting remains separately priced.Official source 1 ↗
Best for & limitations
Developers can build and host realtime voice AI conversations using Pipecat agents and Daily transport.Official source 1 ↗
No hard stop for video overage. Daily Video does not stop calls when the free allowance ends; Pipecat Cloud supports a separate spend-limit setting.Official source 1 ↗
Video changes audio-only billing. Sending any camera or screenshare track changes the session to video pricing.Official source 1 ↗