Human calling
Second number, no AI
MediaSFU audio delivery$0.0001/min$0.10 per 1K minutes
Direct: number and carrier minutes from your SIP provider
MediaSFU total$1 = 10,000 minutes
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
What $1 buys10,000 audio minutesAbout 167 participant-hours of MediaSFU audio transport. PSTN, AI-provider, and optional service costs remain separate and direct.
Running meetings and calls for a team? Teams. Building an app, agent, or embed? Builders.
Choose what you need to price
01Choose the buying modelTeam subscription or usage-based builder rates
02Compare the right unitPlan limits, participant media, agent runtime, or recording output
03Model a real workloadUse the interactive estimate before you commit budget
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
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
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
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Pro
Meetings plus phone and translation credits
$29.99/month
Yearly option: $299.99 - Save 17%- Up to 250 participants
- 24-hour meeting limit
- HD+ video quality (1080p)
- ~100 mins/mo phone credits
- ~100 mins/mo translation
- 3 hours cloud recording per session
- Priority support
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
How plan minutes work
Plan minutes are calling credits, not clock minutes. Every destination has its own per-minute calling rate, so the same credits stretch much further where calling is cheap. For example, 1,000 plan minutes buy roughly:
🇺🇸 Calls to the US≈ 100,000 talk minutes
🇪🇺 Calls to Europe≈ 50,000 talk minutes
🇮🇳 Calls to India≈ 10,000 talk minutes
You're only billed for what you actually use — at each destination's calling rate. Nothing is charged for minutes you don't spend.
Which Plan is Right for You?
📞
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.
🎥
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
| Feature | Free | Connect | Starter | Pro | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max participants | 4 | 4 | 100 | 250 | 3,000 |
| Meeting duration | 15 min | 15 min | 24 hours | 24 hours | 24 hours |
| Video quality | SD (480p) | SD (480p) | HD (720p) | HD+ (1080p) | HD+ (1080p) |
| Cloud recording | - | - | 1 hour per session | 3 hours per session | 10 hours per session |
| Phone / SIP access | No | Own SIP only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Phone call credits | - | - | - | ~100 min/mo | ~1000 min/mo |
| AI / translation | Own config | Own config | Included | ~100 min/mo | ~1000 min/mo |
| Priority support | - | - | - | Yes | Yes |
Building an app with video/voice features?
50,000 free build minutes
20,000 Production Minutes
30,000 Sandbox Minutes
100,000 Demo Minutes
Voice, vision & telephony 10 native SDKs No DevOps headcount
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.
Build the bill
Pay only for the layers your workflow uses.
Carrier numbers and AI-model usage stay with your chosen providers. MediaSFU charges the real-time transport, agent runtime when enabled, and recording output only when you create it.
Audio phone agent
AI answers or places calls
Transport + agent runtime$0.0021/min$2.10 per 1K minutes
Direct: carrier, STT, LLM, and TTS provider usage
Optional audio recording output: $2 per 1K minutes
Vision + voice
Multimodal agent session
Video transport + agent runtime$0.003375/min$3.375 per 1K minutes
Direct: vision, speech, and language-model provider usage
Optional SD recording output: $6 per 1K minutes
Automatic monthly tiersLower rates apply as eligible usage grows.
Medium2.5M+ minutes/month20% off
High7.5M+ minutes/month40% off
| Service | Media only | AI-ready total | Discounted rates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phone Call (Telephony) Bring your own number. | $0.0001 | $0.0021 Media + agent infrastructure | Medium$0.00168Media only $0.00008 High$0.00126Media only $0.00006 |
| Web/Mobile (Audio Only) Non-telephony audio calls or agents. | $0.0001 | $0.0021 Media + agent infrastructure | Medium$0.00168Media only $0.00008 High$0.00126Media only $0.00006 |
| Web/Mobile (Multimodal) Non-telephony video or multimodal calls or agents. | $0.000375 | $0.003375 Media + vision agent infrastructure | Medium$0.0027Media only $0.0003 High$0.002025Media only $0.000225 |
Eligible MediaSFU usage is measured monthly. The medium and high tiers apply automatically when the threshold is reached; carrier, AI-provider, and optional service charges remain separate.
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/minBaselineVapiHosting
$0.05/min25x the rateRetell AIVoice infrastructure
$0.055/min~28x the rateElevenLabsAdditional call
$0.08/min40x the rateBland AIScale talk time, bundled
$0.11/min55x the rateReference 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 | MediaSFU | 100ms | Daily | Agora |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | MediaSFU | 100ms | Daily | Agora |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QHD (2560x1440) | $18 | --- | --- | --- |
| FHD (1920x1080) | $15 | $27 | $13.5 | 28 |
| 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.
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/moElevenLabs$4K/mo
Save $3.9K/moRetell AI$2.8K/mo
Save $2.6K/moVapi$2.5K/mo
Save $2.4K/moLiveKit Agent Session$500/mo
Save $400/moAt 50,000 monthly minutes, the estimated annual difference versus the closest listed alternative is $4,800.
Model one workload at a time
Interactive cost calculators
Start with live participant usage or recording output. The estimate updates as you change room size, media quality, duration, frequency, layout, and delivery choices.
Planning estimateUses published MediaSFU rate logic. Taxes, provider services, storage, and optional services may be separate.
Use this for live rooms, webinars, conferences, broadcasts, or audio calls.
Meetings & Streaming Cost
Model the live media a room receives and sends
Participants people connected to the roomProducers people sending audio or video
Connected people; max 3,000
Concurrent audio or video senders
Minutes per event
Estimated Monthly Cost$1.6560$0.27600 per session × 6 events
Estimated monthly participant-minutes10,800
20% Medium usageat 2,500,000 min
2,489,200 min remaining
40% High usageat 7,500,000 min
7,489,200 min remaining
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 value, not just storage
Keep clean source tracks. Deliver the outputs each team needs.
MediaSFU captures participant media before composition, preserving useful inputs for transcripts, review, compliance, language workflows, and new layouts after the session.
Audio, video, screen share, and whiteboard are retained as separate tracks.
Original source quality remains available for analysis and post-session processing.
Generate a composed recording, additional layouts, or HLS/VOD delivery.
IncludedFirst compositionLandscape or portrait output
Additional output25% of track costEach extra layout variant
Streaming delivery5% of track costHLS/VOD conversion
Storage choiceYour bucketS3-compatible destinations supported
10 web and native SDKs
Build for web, mobile, and game surfaces with framework-specific packages and guides.
Global media infrastructure
Deploy real-time experiences near users across six continents.
Production controls
Use E2EE, token authorization, domain controls, IP filtering, and 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.
Comparing options?
Platform capabilities
One communications stack. Use only what the workflow needs.
Launch calls, meetings, agents, translation, widgets, and recording without stitching together separate operating surfaces.
Voice, Vision & Multimodal Agents
Real-time agents for calls, video sessions, intake flows, lead qualification, and 24/7 customer support.
AI + mediaOutbound Campaigns
AI-powered outbound calling with automated scheduling, smart retries, and real-time analytics.
Campaign operationsContacts Management
Unified contact management with call history, notes, tags, and CRM integration.
Contact workspacePhone Dial In/Out
Join and place calls via phone with local numbers worldwide. Available on all plans.
TelephonyLive Translation
Real-time translation during meetings and calls. Break language barriers effortlessly.
LanguageVirtual Backgrounds
Professional virtual backgrounds and blur effects for polished video calls.
VideoEmbeddable Widgets
Drop-in video, voice, and chat widgets you can embed in any website or app.
EmbedCloud Recording
Record meetings and calls to the cloud with automatic storage and easy playback.
Capture