Developer pricing

Build more. Pay less per minute.

Real-time media, telephony, and AI agent infrastructure with transparent usage rates. Bring your preferred providers and keep control of your margins.

50KFree minutes to start
$0.10Per 1,000 audio min
20x+Agent cost advantage
Managed Mediasoup SFUNo bandwidth markupBYOK AI + numbers

Running meetings and calls for a team? Teams. Building an app, agent, or embed? Builders.

Choose what you need to price

Choose the plan that fits your team

Start free, connect your own SIP, or add larger meetings, recording, phone, and translation.

Need per-minute API billing instead? Developer pricing starts at $0.10 per 1K minutes.

Free

Try small rooms and 1-on-1 calls

$0forever
  • Up to 4 participants
  • 15 min meeting limit
  • SD video quality (480p)
  • Screen sharing
  • Phone dial in/out
  • Cloud recording
  • Priority support
Get Started Free

Connect

Use your own SIP at the lowest yearly cost

$10/year
Yearly only - $0.83/month effective
  • Up to 4 participants
  • 15 min meeting limit
  • SD video quality (480p)
  • Screen sharing
  • Bring your own SIP calling
  • Cloud recording
  • Priority support
Choose Connect

Starter

Regular team meetings without credits

$5.99/month
Yearly option: $59.99 - Save 17%
  • Up to 100 participants
  • 24-hour meeting limit
  • HD video quality (720p)
  • Screen sharing
  • 1 hour cloud recording per session
  • Priority support
Choose Starter

Scale

Large rooms, events, and higher usage

Contactsupport
Custom rollout pricing for larger deployments.
  • Up to 3,000 participants
  • 24-hour meeting limit
  • HD+ video quality (1080p)
  • ~1000 mins/mo phone credits
  • ~1000 mins/mo translation
  • 10 hours cloud recording per session
  • Priority support
Contact Support

How MediaSFU Minutes Work

MediaSFU minutes ≠ literal minutes. Your monthly allocation scales based on destination country calling rates.

  • 🇺🇸 US Calls: 1,000 mins ≈ 100,000 actual minutes
  • 🇪🇺 Europe Calls: 1,000 mins ≈ 50,000 actual minutes
  • 🇮🇳 India Calls: 1,000 mins ≈ 10,000 actual minutes

💡 You pay only for actual usage, based on destination calling rates.

Which Plan is Right for You?

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For Small Rooms or AI Agents

Choose Starter or Pro — great for small capacity rooms. Perfect for telephony and AI agents with low concurrent usage.

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For Large Events or Webinars

Choose Pro or Scale — perfect for large capacity rooms and events. Ideal for webinars, town halls, and large meetings with many concurrent participants.

Compare Plans

FeatureFreeConnectStarterProScale
Max participants441003,000
Meeting duration15 min15 min24 hours24 hours
Video qualitySD (480p)SD (480p)HD (720p)HD+ (1080p)
Cloud recording--1 hour per session10 hours per session
Phone / SIP accessNoOwn SIP onlyYesYes
Phone call credits---~1000 min/mo
AI / translationOwn configOwn configIncluded~1000 min/mo
Priority support---Yes

Secure & Encrypted

End-to-end encryption protects all your conversations

Works Anywhere

Join from any browser, no downloads required

24/7 Support

Help when you need it, any time of day

Building an app with video/voice features?

50,000 free build minutes
20,000 Production Minutes
30,000 Sandbox Minutes
100,000 Demo Minutes

Efficient SFU core

Mediasoup-based media routing keeps compute and bandwidth overhead low from the start.

No bandwidth markup

We optimize the cloud layer and pass those savings through instead of charging a platform premium.

Bring your own stack

Keep your LLM, STT, TTS, SIP, and number providers. Pay them directly and keep your margins.

Voice, vision & telephony 10 native SDKs No DevOps headcount
Start Building Free
Need simple monthly plans for meetings instead? Switch to User Subscriptions.

Voice, Vision & Telephony Pricing

Infra-first rates for calls, multimodal sessions, and real-time agents. Bring your own AI providers and keep the margin.

The AI-ready rate is the complete MediaSFU infrastructure total. The agent infrastructure charge is already included.
Service TypeMedia Only (per min)Media + Agent Infra Total (per min)Volume Discount
Phone Call (Telephony)
Human only, no agent
$0.0001$0.0021
Media + agent infrastructure
Up to 40%
Web/Mobile Audio Only$0.0001$0.0021
Media + agent infrastructure
Up to 40%
Web/Mobile Video/Multimodal$0.000375$0.003375
Media + vision agent infrastructure
Up to 40%
AI agent infrastructure

Keep the platform layer at $0.002 per agent minute.

Connect your preferred STT, LLM, and TTS providers. MediaSFU handles the real-time media and orchestration layer without bundling AI usage into a higher platform rate.

Pay AI providers directly Change providers without rebuilding Volume discounts up to 40%
Market rate referenceMediaSFU agent infra: $0.002/min
MediaSFUAgent infrastructure, BYOK
$0.002/minBaseline
VapiHosting
$0.05/min25x the rate
Retell AIVoice infrastructure
$0.055/min~28x the rate
ElevenLabsAdditional call
$0.08/min40x the rate
Bland AIScale talk time, bundled
$0.11/min55x the rate

Reference rates link to each provider. Included services and provider costs differ, so use the calculator below with your own workload.

Compare real-time media rates

Streaming/Meeting

Cost per 1,000 minutes
Resolution MediaSFU100msDailyAgora
QHD (2560x1440)$3.0---------
FHD (1920x1080)$2.25$4.0$4.0$8.99
HD (1280x720)$1.5$4.0$4.0$3.99
SD (640x360)$0.75$4.0$4.0$3.99
QnHD (320x180)$0.375$4.0$4.0$3.99
Audio Only$0.1$1.0$1.0$1.0

Recording

Cost per 1,000 minutes
Resolution MediaSFU100msDailyAgora
QHD (2560x1440)$18---------
FHD (1920x1080)$15$27$13.528
HD (1280x720)$12$27$13.5$14
SD (640x360)$6$13.5$13.5$14
QnHD (320x180)$3$13.5$13.5$14
Audio Only$2$4------
Compare at your volume

See your monthly infrastructure cost

Choose a workload and move the slider to compare estimated platform costs.

Monthly minutes50,000

Agent infrastructure - bring your own STT, LLM, and TTS

MediaSFU$100/mo

Agent infrastructure - bring your own STT, LLM, and TTS

Bland AI$5.5K/mo

Scale talk-time rate; bundled services differ · ~55x MediaSFU

ElevenLabs$4K/mo

additional call rate; external providers at cost · ~40x MediaSFU

Monthly savings at this volume

Bland AI$5.5K/mo
Save $5.4K/mo
ElevenLabs$4K/mo
Save $3.9K/mo
Retell AI$2.8K/mo
Save $2.6K/mo
Vapi$2.5K/mo
Save $2.4K/mo
LiveKit Agent Session$500/mo
Save $400/mo
Annual savings vs cheapest alternative$4,800
Extra runway at $5K burn / month1.0 months

At 50,000 monthly minutes, the estimated annual difference versus the closest listed alternative is $4,800.

Cost Calculators

Streaming & Meeting Calculator

Estimate your WebRTC usage costs

Max: 3,000
Concurrent senders
Max: 30
Minutes per event
Estimated Monthly Cost$1.6560$0.27600 per session × 6 events

Producer Cost

  • First 2 producers @ 100% MC = $0.01200

Consumer Cost

  • First 5 participants @ 100% EPC = $0.06000
  • Next 15 participants @ 80% EPC = $0.14400
  • Next 10 participants @ 60% EPC = $0.07200
20% Medium Usage Discount: -$0.0000040% High Usage Discount: -$0.00000

Recording Calculator

Estimate your cloud recording costs

Media senders
Estimated Monthly Cost$1.440$0.24000 per session × 6 events

Recording Details

  • Audio @ $0.00200/min × 60 min
  • Video Orientation @ Landscape @ 1x
  • Display Type @ Full Video @ 1x
  • No HLS Conversion

Producer Breakdown

  • First 2 producers @ 100% cost = $0.24000
5% Medium Usage Discount: -$0.0000015% High Usage Discount: -$0.00000

Raw-First Recording Architecture

MediaSFU recordings are track-based and raw-first - every participant's audio and video is captured and stored individually at full quality, before any compositing or mixing takes place. Raw tracks are available for all media types: voice, video, screen share, and whiteboard. This gives you clean, isolated inputs for high-accuracy transcription, per-speaker analysis, language workflows, and custom post-session processing.

The first composed version (landscape or portrait) is included free. Additional layout variants (portrait, full-video, full-display) are billed at 25% of the track recording cost. HLS/VOD conversion is available at 5% of the track recording cost.

Per-participant raw tracks saved first
All track types: video, audio, screen share, whiteboard
Original resolution preserved per track
First recomposition included free
S3-compatible custom bucket support
HLS/VOD conversion available
MediaSFU raw-first recording architecture diagram

10 Native SDKs

React, React Native, Expo, Flutter, Angular, Vue, Kotlin, Android, Swift/iOS, Unity

Global Infrastructure

Edge servers on 6 continents with sub-100ms latency

Enterprise Security

E2EE, token auth, IP filtering, webhooks

Just need video meetings for your team?

Pricing questions, answered

How much do the developer rates cost per minute?

Audio transport is $0.0001 per minute ($0.10 per 1,000 minutes), video transport starts at $0.000375 per minute, and AI agent infrastructure is $0.002 per minute ($2 per 1,000 minutes). Volume discounts reach up to 40%.

Does the $0.002/min agent rate include AI provider costs?

No — and that is the point. MediaSFU charges only for the real-time infrastructure and orchestration layer. You bring your own STT, LLM, and TTS providers (BYOK) and pay them directly with no markup, so you keep control of quality and margin.

What do I get for free before paying anything?

Developers get 50,000 free build minutes (20,000 production, 30,000 sandbox) plus 100,000 demo minutes. Teams can use the Free plan for small rooms and 1-on-1 calls with no time-boxed trial.

Should I pick a Teams plan or Developer rates?

If you are running meetings and calls for a team, pick a Teams plan (from $5.99/month, Connect from $10/year with your own SIP). If you are building an app, agent, or embedding communication into a product, use the usage-based developer rates.

How does MediaSFU pricing compare with Vapi, Retell, or Bland?

On published rates, MediaSFU agent infrastructure at $0.002/min is roughly 25x below Vapi's ~$0.05/min platform fee, and well below typical bundled rates from Retell (~$0.055/min) or Bland (~$0.11/min). Bundled platforms include different services, so model your own volume and provider mix.

Are there hidden bandwidth or platform surcharges?

No. MediaSFU does not add bandwidth markup, and supported AI and SIP provider costs stay direct. Recording is track-based with the first composed version included free.

Cloud Phone & Communication

Everything you need for calls, meetings, translation, and multimodal customer flows - included for users and developers

Voice, Vision & Multimodal Agents

Real-time agents for calls, video sessions, intake flows, lead qualification, and 24/7 customer support.

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Outbound Campaigns

AI-powered outbound calling with automated scheduling, smart retries, and real-time analytics.

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Contacts Management

Unified contact management with call history, notes, tags, and CRM integration.

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Phone Dial In/Out

Join and place calls via phone with local numbers worldwide. Available on all plans.

All Plans

Live Translation

Real-time translation during meetings and calls. Break language barriers effortlessly.

All Plans

Virtual Backgrounds

Professional virtual backgrounds and blur effects for polished video calls.

All Plans

Embeddable Widgets

Drop-in video, voice, and chat widgets you can embed in any website or app.

All Plans

Cloud Recording

Record meetings and calls to the cloud with automatic storage and easy playback.

All Plans