Daily

Real-time voice and video APIs with optimized serverless runtimes for conversational AI bots.

Daily is an autonomous voice AI and telephony agent platform starting at $0/month. It achieves an Autonomous Execution Score of 71/100 and integrates natively with Pipecat, OpenAI, Twilio. Its key operational strength is pipecat open-source framework powers fast bot prototyping, while primary tradeoffs include requires developer implementation.

Autonomy: 71/100
Value: 6.63
From: $0/mo
Pricing: freemium
Updated: Nov 2026

Strengths

Pipecat open-source framework powers fast bot prototyping
Global low-latency WebRTC mesh network
Generous monthly developer tier

Tradeoffs

Requires developer implementation
Usage-based scaling can jump on high video usage

Integrations

Pipecat
OpenAI
Twilio
Anthropic
Whisper

Estimate your monthly cost

audio participant minutes per month

$0/mo

On the Pay as you go plan. Audio-only calls. First 10,000 participant minutes free per month; then $0.00099/min, graduating down to $0.00036/min above 5M minutes.

How this score is built

Autonomy base: (100 − 15 human effort) × 0.8
Integrations: +15
Setup friction: −12
Value inputs: 27 features, 4.8 rating

Human effort, feature count and rating are editorial estimates, not test results.

Evidence

Price checked Nov 2026. View source

Vendor states: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA (paid add-on), GDPR.

Pricing 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

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