AI Voice Agents · pricing · Updated November 2026
Pipecat Cloud pricing (2026)
Pipecat Cloud lists a $0 plan (agent-1x (pay as you go)) and no paid price as checked on 2026-11-01, read from Pipecat Cloud's own pricing page; 5 plans. Best for Teams already building on open-source Pipecat who want managed infrastructure without rewriting their agent. Every figure below links to its source and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Entry price: $0 (agent-1x (pay as you go))
- Free tier: —
- Compliance: HIPAA — · SOC 2 — · GDPR —
- 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
As of · every figure below links to its source
Pipecat Cloud plans & pricing
| 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 STALE · 2026-09-10 | 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 no monthly price is recorded. 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 | Quote-only, so no monthly price is recorded. 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 |
Last verified 2026-11-01. STALE marks a plan we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days. 1 of 5 plans above is marked. 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 an earlier version of this record 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 the monthly price recorded as 0 rather than being collapsed into an invented ladder.
Price changes
No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.
Capabilities
Integrations: Pipecat (open source), Daily WebRTC, Deepgram, Cartesia, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Krisp VIVA.
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 none of the three is recorded; The page invites you to start building for free but publishes no forever-free allowance, so no free tier is recorded, rather than one assumed.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Pipecat Cloud cost?
Pipecat Cloud lists a $0 plan (agent-1x (pay as you go)) and no paid price; it has 5 published plans. Verified 2026-11-01.
Does Pipecat Cloud support HIPAA?
Pipecat Cloud's public pages do not say whether it supports HIPAA.
Does Pipecat Cloud have a free plan?
Pipecat Cloud's public pages do not say whether it has a free tier.
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