# Pipecat Cloud pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (agent-1x (pay as you go)). Among the 13 ai voice agents we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** daily.co
**Free tier:** Not published
**Compliance:** HIPAA Not published · SOC 2 Not published · GDPR Not published
**Integrations:** Pipecat (open source), Daily WebRTC, Deepgram, Cartesia, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Krisp VIVA
**Best for:** Teams already building on open-source Pipecat who want managed infrastructure without rewriting their agent; Workloads with steady, predictable volume that can exploit reserved-instance rates; Browser-based voice products that can use free Daily WebRTC transport and skip telephony entirely

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| agent-1x (pay as you go) | $0 | — | per_minute | $0.01 per agent-minute for a 0.5 vCPU / 1 GB container, with no monthly fee. This is compute hosting only — STT, LLM and TTS are billed by their own providers, though Enterprise customers can have inference bundled into one Pipecat bill. Transport: Daily WebRTC 1:1 voice is free, voice and video is $0.004 per participant-minute, and websocket transport bills to the external provider. Telephony extra: SIP dial-in/dial-out $0.003 to $0.02/min, PSTN dial-in/dial-out $0.018/min, SIP REFER $0.20 per event. Recording and storage extra: audio-only $0.005/min, audio and video $0.01349/min, storage $0.003/min. Krisp VIVA noise cancellation is included to 10,000 minutes/month and $0.0015/min beyond that. | daily.co |
| agent-2x (pay as you go) | $0 | — | per_minute | $0.02 per agent-minute for a 1 vCPU / 2 GB container. Same no-fee model as agent-1x; pick this profile when the agent does local inference or heavy tool work. Model inference, transport, telephony and recording still billed separately on the same schedule as agent-1x. | daily.co |
| agent-3x (pay as you go) | $0 | — | per_minute | $0.03 per agent-minute for a 1.5 vCPU / 3 GB container. No monthly fee. Model inference, transport, telephony and recording billed separately on the same schedule as agent-1x. | daily.co |
| Reserved instances | usage-priced | — | per_minute | Reserved capacity drops the compute rate roughly 20x: agent-1x $0.0005/min, agent-2x $0.0010/min, agent-3x $0.0015/min. No month-to-month subscription price is published for reserving capacity and neither the commitment size nor the term is disclosed on the page, so monthlyUsd is null. Reserved capacity is paid for whether or not agents run, so idle time is the buyer's cost. | daily.co |
| Enterprise | quote-only | — | custom | Quote-only, so monthlyUsd is null. Adds enterprise support and the option to bundle AI inference (transcription, LLM, voice models) into a single Pipecat bill instead of paying each provider directly. The page also directs enterprise security questions to sales rather than publishing certifications. | daily.co |

## Price changes

No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.

**Key features:** Managed hosting for Pipecat, the widely used open-source voice-agent framework, so there is a credible exit path to self-hosting; Unlimited concurrency is advertised, though the page directs you to contact Daily rather than publishing a self-serve ceiling — still notable in a category where concurrency is the standard upsell lever; Reserved instances cut the compute rate about 20x for predictable steady-state traffic; Three container sizes priced linearly, so a heavier agent costs proportionally rather than forcing a plan change; Daily WebRTC 1:1 voice transport is free, so a browser-based agent pays compute only; Krisp VIVA noise suppression included to 10,000 minutes/month.

**Plan limits:** The agent-minute rate is pure compute hosting — every model in the pipeline is a separate bill unless you are on Enterprise; PSTN at $0.018/min and SIP REFER at $0.20 per event can exceed the compute cost of the agent itself, which is only $0.01/min on agent-1x; Reserved pricing has no published commitment size or term, and idle reserved capacity is still billed; Recording and storage are priced add-ons: $0.005/min audio-only, $0.01349/min audio and video, $0.003/min storage; Krisp VIVA is free only to 10,000 minutes/month and $0.0015/min beyond; No HIPAA, SOC 2 or GDPR statement on the pricing page; security features are a contact-sales item, so all three flags are null; The page invites you to start building for free but publishes no forever-free allowance, so freeTier is null rather than true.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-09-10
Provenance: Re-verified against daily.co/pricing/pipecat-cloud on 2026-09-10. All three active container rates ($0.01 / $0.02 / $0.03 per agent-minute) and all three reserved rates ($0.0005 / $0.0010 / $0.0015) confirmed unchanged, as are the transport, telephony and storage figures. Two corrections: the recording line was incomplete, and audio-and-video recording at $0.01349/min is now included alongside the $0.005/min audio-only and $0.003/min storage rates; and the Krisp VIVA allowance is free only to 10,000 minutes/month, after which it is $0.0015/min, which the draft omitted while calling the feature free. The unlimited-concurrency claim was also softened because the page directs buyers to make contact rather than publishing a self-serve ceiling. Pipecat Cloud publishes no subscription tiers, so each compute profile is listed as its own usage plan with monthlyUsd 0 rather than being collapsed into an invented ladder.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/ai-voice-agents/pipecat-cloud/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Pipecat Cloud's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-09-10 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/ai-voice-agents/pipecat-cloud/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl