Livekit Transitions to AI Agent-Centric Pricing Model, Introducing Agent Session Minutes and Inference Credits

Between the Jul 4, 2025 and Oct 5, 2025 captures of Livekit's pricing page, Pulse recorded 11 changes: LiveKit restructured pricing from connection-based model (concurrent participants, connection minutes, bandwidth) to AI agent-centric model (agent session minutes, inference credits, agent deployments); Primary usage metric changed from 'connection minutes' (time connected to network) to 'agent session minutes' (time in session with AI agent); Agent session minutes metric introduced: Build 1,000 minutes, Ship 5,000 minutes, Scale 50,000 minutes; Inference service with access to STT, LLM, and TTS models via single API key added; Cold start prevention feature added for keeping agents always-on for instant responses; Agent deployments limit introduced: Build 1 deployment, Ship 2 deployments, Scale 4 deployments, Enterprise unlimited; Deployment metrics dashboard showing resource allocation, latency, errors, and process metrics added; Inference credits introduced: Build $2.50 credits (~50 min), Ship $5 credits (~100 min), Scale $50 credits (~1,000 min); Agent deployment hosting on LiveKit Cloud infrastructure added as core feature; Instant rollback to previous agent deployment version added; Concurrent agent sessions limit introduced: Build 5 sessions, Ship 20 sessions, Scale up to 1,000 sessions. Pulse files it as a packaging change (package change, metric change, threshold added, feature added) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 26, 2026) lists Ship at $50 and Scale at $500.

Livekit's previous recorded change was "Livekit Introduces DPA Availability for All Plans, Enhancing Compliance and Flexibility for Users" (Q2 2025). Livekit has been tracked since 2025-01-03.

In the same window Zoom also changed their Software Development & Testing pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.