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We had our playground (https://playground.livekit.io) up for a few days using our key. Def racked up a $$$$ bill!

How much is it per minute of talking?

It shakes out to around $0.15 per minute for an average conversation. If history is a guide though, this will get a lot cheaper pretty quickly.

This is cheaper than old cellular calls, inflation adjusted

50% human speaking at $0.06/minute of tokens

50% AI speaking at $0.24/minute of tokens

we (LiveKit Cloud) charge ~$0.0005/minute for each participant (in this case there would be 2)

So blended is $0.151/minute