Scale
For scaling applications and global reach.
$0/mo$500/mo
Free for 12 months$6,000
One year of Cloud Scale
Hosted agents, observability, and telephony, with the $500/month fee waived.
Startups
Get up to $23K in infrastructure and inference credits, plus LiveKit’s realtime platform to build, test, launch, and scale your product.
What’s included
Up to $23K to build and scale
Reduce your early infrastructure costs and spend more time building, testing, and finding product-market fit.
Cloud credit usage
$6,900 used$3,100 remaining
ProductCredits used
Agent hosting$3,150
Observability$1,200
Telephony$1,600
Inference$950
$10,000
Additional Cloud credits
Headroom on top of everything the Scale plan already includes.
- AssemblyAI
- Deepgram
- Fish Audio
- Gemma
- Gradium
- Inworld
- Rime
$7,000
Inference credits
Get $1K in credits with each participating inference partner.
Eligibility
Built for early-stage teams
To qualify, your startup should meet the following criteria.
- Voice, video, or physical AI is core to your product
- Fewer than 50 employees
- Under $5M raised and pre–Series A ($5M+ reviewed case-by-case)
- A live website with a publicly identifiable founding team
- Building for real end-users
- Incorporated, or actively incorporating
- In production, or launching within 6 months
Why LiveKit
The platform for realtime AI
Everything you need to build, launch, and scale voice, video, and physical AI.
From prototype to production
Build with open-source SDKs, deploy to LiveKit Cloud, and connect models and telephony.
Built for realtime
Deliver responsive voice and video on infrastructure designed for low-latency interaction.
Your code, your models
Control how your product works and choose the models that fit your needs.
Test and observe
Simulate conversations, monitor real sessions, and troubleshoot issues in one place.
Customer stories
From startup to scale
See how teams of every size build and scale realtime AI with LiveKit.
Healthcare
"LiveKit enables us to very granularly fine-tune our agent code for every workflow and use any model provider. No other platform gives us this level of control."
Jeffery Liu, Founder & Co-CEO
Enterprise Software
"Voice makes AI feel less like a tool and more like a natural part of the experience. LiveKit gives us the scalable foundation to bring those voice experiences to life at enterprise scale, without sacrificing flexibility."
Jonathan von Rüeden, Chief AI Officer of SAP SE
Apply to the LiveKit
Startup Program
Tell us a little about your team and what you’re building. The application takes a few minutes. No pitch deck required. Once approved, you’ll get full access to program benefits.
FAQs
How do credits work, and what can I use them on?
You receive two kinds of credit, and they are not interchangeable.
LiveKit Cloud credits cover anything LiveKit Cloud bills for: agent session minutes, media and data transfer, telephony, and observability. Scale already includes a generous allotment of each, and those come free by default. The $10,000 is there for whatever you use beyond them.
Inference credits are separate, and apply only to the partner models they were granted for. Today that means Deepgram, Inworld, Rime, Fish Audio, AssemblyAI, and Gradium, plus Gemma 4 31B, the latency-optimized model we host ourselves. They all run through LiveKit Inference, so you reach them with the key you already have rather than a separate provider account.
A year of Cloud Scale comes with the program, and Scale carries discounted speech-to-text and text-to-speech rates. Your credits buy more minutes than the same balance would on Build or Ship, and your usage stays cheaper once they run out. LLM pricing, Gemma included, is the same on every plan.
How long do the credits last?
Credits expire 12 months from the date they are issued, or once they are fully consumed, whichever comes first. The 12 months run from issuance, not from when you first use them. Unused credits do not roll over.
Can we sign a BAA for healthcare and other regulated use cases?
Yes. BAAs are available to Scale and Enterprise customers handling protected health information, and the program includes a year of Cloud Scale, so approved startups can put one in place. See our security and compliance overview for the full list of certifications, and our data processing addendum for GDPR terms.
We’ve raised more than $5M. Can we still apply?
Yes. The cutoff is pre-Series A with under $5M raised, but we review applications above it case by case. Apply and tell us why you think it is a fit.
We already use LiveKit. Are we eligible?
The program is built for net-new startup projects, so teams on the free plan using LiveKit to evaluate or build are welcome to apply. We may decline projects that have been running on LiveKit for a while, or that are already paying or contractually committed customers. If that is you and you still think the program is a fit, apply and tell us why, and we will review it.
What happens after I apply?
We review every application against the eligibility criteria above. If you are approved, we email you a promo code. Enter it at checkout when you start your Cloud Scale plan, and the credits land on your project. A card on file is required to enroll.
We’re backed by Y Combinator. Should we apply here?
YC-backed companies have a separate offer. Apply at livekit.com/yc instead. The two offers can’t be combined.