Pricing designed for developers
No more calculating minutes. LiveKit is priced like infrastructure and scales as you grow.
self-hosted
Open Source
Host and deploy your own instance of LiveKit.
No Cost
Modern SDKs for mobile and web
Custom recording templates
Export room and tracks to RTMP, HLS, and MP4
cloud
Starter
Get your application off the ground quickly.
Free
*No credit card required
Everything from Open Source with:
Your project hosted by LiveKit
50.0GB data transfer included
60 minutes transcoding
Globally distributed mesh SFU
Detailed analytics
cloud
Standard
For projects that need scale and higher data transfer out the gate.
Free + pay-as-you-go
*Credit card required
Everything from Starter with:
$0.18/GB after included 50.0GB data transfer
$0.02/minute after included 60 minutes transcoding
Scale to 100k participant rooms
cloud
Enterprise
For high volume projects with volume discounts.
Custom pricing
Per GB and minute discounts for large volumes
Everything from Standard with:
Discounted usage per GB and minute for high volume applications
99.99% SLA
Enterprise support
What's your cost?
LiveKit's pay-as-you-go model is based on the amount of data you transmit, not how long a user spends in your product. Here's some tools we built to help you estimate your costs with LiveKit Cloud.
What’s included?
Here's a breakdown of each plan and the features it includes.
| Open Source | |
| Included data transfer | Host your own |
| Transcoding | Host your own |
| Real-time Platform | |
| Crystal clear video/audio | |
| 20-100ms latency | |
| Open source SDK & components | |
| Declarative UI support | |
| Adaptive stream | |
| Dynamic broadcast | |
| Detailed analytics | |
| Scale & reliability | |
| 99.99% uptime | |
| Max publisher per room | ~500 |
| Max subscribers per room | ~3000 |
| Mesh SFU architecture | |
| Globally distributed infrastructure | |
| Security | |
| JWT-based permission model | |
| Track-level permissions | |
| SOC2 compliance | |
| Egress | |
| Export to RTMP (Twitch, Youtube, Facebook) | |
| Export to HLS, MP4 | |
| Custom recording templates | |
| Support | |
| Slack community | |
| Support portal | |
| SLA | |
| Enterprise support |
| Starter | |
| Included data transfer | 50GB |
| Transcoding | 60 minutes |
| Real-time Platform | |
| Crystal clear video/audio | |
| 20-100ms latency | |
| Open source SDK & components | |
| Declarative UI support | |
| Adaptive stream | |
| Dynamic broadcast | |
| Detailed analytics | |
| Scale & reliability | |
| 99.99% uptime | |
| Max publisher per room | 100 |
| Max subscribers per room | 100 |
| Mesh SFU architecture | |
| Globally distributed infrastructure | |
| Security | |
| JWT-based permission model | |
| Track-level permissions | |
| SOC2 compliance | |
| Egress | |
| Export to RTMP (Twitch, Youtube, Facebook) | |
| Export to HLS, MP4 | |
| Custom recording templates | |
| Support | |
| Slack community | |
| Support portal | |
| SLA | |
| Enterprise support |
| Standard | |
| Included data transfer | 50GB, $0.18 per GB afterwards |
| Transcoding | 60 minutes included, $0.02 per minute after |
| Real-time Platform | |
| Crystal clear video/audio | |
| 20-100ms latency | |
| Open source SDK & components | |
| Declarative UI support | |
| Adaptive stream | |
| Dynamic broadcast | |
| Detailed analytics | |
| Scale & reliability | |
| 99.99% uptime | |
| Max publisher per room | 100K |
| Max subscribers per room | 100K |
| Mesh SFU architecture | |
| Globally distributed infrastructure | |
| Security | |
| JWT-based permission model | |
| Track-level permissions | |
| SOC2 compliance | |
| Egress | |
| Export to RTMP (Twitch, Youtube, Facebook) | |
| Export to HLS, MP4 | |
| Custom recording templates | |
| Support | |
| Slack community | |
| Support portal | |
| SLA | |
| Enterprise support |
| Enterprise | |
| Included data transfer | Volume pricing available |
| Transcoding | Volume pricing available |
| Real-time Platform | |
| Crystal clear video/audio | |
| 20-100ms latency | |
| Open source SDK & components | |
| Declarative UI support | |
| Adaptive stream | |
| Dynamic broadcast | |
| Detailed analytics | |
| Scale & reliability | |
| 99.99% uptime | |
| Max publisher per room | 100K |
| Max subscribers per room | 100K |
| Mesh SFU architecture | |
| Globally distributed infrastructure | |
| Security | |
| JWT-based permission model | |
| Track-level permissions | |
| SOC2 compliance | |
| Egress | |
| Export to RTMP (Twitch, Youtube, Facebook) | |
| Export to HLS, MP4 | |
| Custom recording templates | |
| Support | |
| Slack community | |
| Support portal | |
| SLA | |
| Enterprise support |
Estimate your cost
Our calculator provides quick estimates based on your use-case and usage, while also offering precise control over attributes like bitrate and UI dimensions.