Daily

Daily provides real time voice and video infrastructure for developers, and is the team behind Pipecat, an open source, vendor neutral framework for building real time voice and multimodal AI agents. The platform has three parts: Pipecat for orchestrating conversational agents, Pipecat Cloud for deploying those agents on Daily's infrastructure, and Daily's global WebRTC network for running calls between agents and people or between people. It serves engineering teams building voice AI agents, telehealth products and embedded video. Daily reports a median first hop latency of 13 milliseconds across more than 75 global points of presence, and offers WebRTC native SDKs, recording, RTMP and HLS live streaming, SIP and PSTN telephony, and real time and post call transcription. On the compliance side it provides end to end encryption, signed HIPAA BAAs, SOC 2 and GDPR coverage, and a 99.99 percent uptime figure. Pricing is usage based with 10,000 free participant minutes every month. Video and audio calls list at $0.004 per participant minute, falling to $0.0015 with automatic volume discounts; audio only calls are $0.00099, falling to $0.00036. Cloud recording is $0.01349 per minute, RTMP streaming $0.015 and HLS streaming $0.03 per minute. SIP runs $0.003 to $0.02 and PSTN $0.018 to $0.03 per minute, phone numbers $2 per month, and real time transcription $0.0059 per unmuted participant minute. Add ons such as HIPAA with a BAA cost $500 per month. Pipecat Cloud is priced separately.