ANALYSIS VERDICT
LiveKit leads on autonomy (72 vs 71), while Daily starts at $0/mo. Select Daily for pipecat open-source framework powers fast bot prototyping; consider LiveKit if you prioritize industry standard for ultra-low latency multimodal streaming.
| Metric / Feature | Daily Visit daily.co ↗ | LiveKit Visit livekit.io ↗ |
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| Autonomy Score (AES) | 71/100 Core 83 · -12 setup | 72/100 Core 87 · -15 setup |
| Value-to-Cost Ratio | 6.63 | 7.52 |
| Starting Price | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Pricing Model | freemium | freemium |
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Pricing tier comparison
Daily tiers
Free
$0 /month
- 10,000 free participant minutes every month
- Audio and video calls
- Regional media zones and IP allowlist included
- Standard developer support
Pay as you go
$0 /month
- Audio-only participant minutes from $0.00099/min
- Video participant minutes from $0.0040/min
- Volume discounts graduating to $0.00036/min audio and $0.0015/min video
- Cloud recording from $0.01349 per recorded minute
- Dedicated dial-in phone numbers at $2/month per number
Enterprise
Custom /custom
- Volume pricing and committed-use discounts
- Enterprise support SLA
- Healthcare add-on with HIPAA compliance and BAA ($500/mo)
- Advanced firewall control and enterprise security
LiveKit tiers
Build
$0 /month
- 1,000 agent session minutes included
- 5,000 WebRTC minutes included
- 1 free US local phone number (50 inbound mins included)
- Agent deployment, observability, and simulations
- Global edge network & community support
Ship
$50 /month
- 5,000 agent session minutes included (then $0.01/min)
- 150,000 WebRTC minutes included (then $0.0005/min)
- Team collaboration
- Custom voices
- Instant rollback to a previous agent deployment
- Email support
Scale
$500 /month
- 50,000 agent session minutes included (then $0.01/min)
- 1.5M WebRTC minutes included (then $0.0004/min)
- Role-based access
- Metrics export APIs & region pinning
- Private links
- Security reports (SOC 2 Type II) & HIPAA compliance
- Inference discounts
Enterprise
Custom /custom
- Volume pricing, including inference
- Shared Slack channel
- SSO
- Support SLA
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