Pricing

Straightforward costs for pipelines at any scale

Pay as you go. No minimums. Credits do not expire. Start with $20 free credit — no credit card required.

Pay as you go

$20 credit

then usage-priced, no expiration

  • No credit card to start
  • All nodes, including ASR / Translate / Voice Agent
  • Up to 100 concurrent jobs
  • Mix, relay, record, captions, agents
  • Community support
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List prices in USD, before tax collected at checkout. The Console usage page is authoritative for a job. Rate card version v1 — see billing docs.

What a pipeline costs per hour

Complete jobs, every line included — sources, mixing, encoding, and egress. The component rates further down are what these are built from.

Pipeline USD/hour
9-person room recorded to HLS 720p30 grid, video + audio, 2.5 Mbps $0.78
4-person room mixed to RTMP 1080p30, 5 Mbps $1.28
Single participant recorded to HLS 720p30, 2.5 Mbps $0.59
Web page captured to RTMP 720p30 overlay, no room $0.52
AI voice agent in a room session connected the whole hour $6.00

Live captions are an add-on to any of these, billed only on speech actually recognised rather than wall-clock time. See cost examples for every line item behind these totals.

Sources

Billed only while media is decoded or captured. Tier is actual width × height × fps, not the value in your JSON.

Tier Up to USD/min
audio_only Audio only $0.0002
video_sd 480p30 $0.0008
video_hd 720p30 $0.0016
video_fhd30 1080p30 $0.0032
video_fhd60 1080p60 $0.0048
video_uhd30 4K30 $0.0096
video_uhd60 4K60 $0.016

web_capture uses the same breakpoints at ×. Above 4K60: uhd60 rate × ceil(product / 4K60).

Nodes

Node USD/min Notes
video_mixer $0.001 While compositing, any input count
audio_mixer $0.00025 While mixing
audio_resample $0.00005 Per active track-minute
asr $0.012 VAD-selected speech only
translate $0.04 Provider session time
voice_agent $0.10 Provider session time

asr, translate, and voice_agent are AVFlow-managed — the rate includes the underlying AI service, so there is no separate vendor bill to reconcile.

Sinks

Non-RTC outputs bill encoding (H.264 baseline below) plus egress at $0.12/GB of bytes successfully written.

Encode tier Up to H.264 USD/min
audio Audio $0.00045
video_sd 480p30 $0.002
video_hd 720p30 $0.004
video_fhd30 1080p30 $0.008
video_fhd60 1080p60 $0.012
video_uhd30 4K30 $0.02
video_uhd60 4K60 $0.03

Codec multipliers: H.264 / AVC / VP8 ×1, VP9 ×1.5. Idle jobs with no usage pay a base fee of $0.002/min.

FAQ

Do I need a credit card to start?

No. New Console accounts receive $20 of promotional prepaid credit. You can run any job type until that credit is consumed.

How is usage billed?

We bill actual processed media, not configured paper specs. Durations round up to the next minute per line. Idle gaps with no frames are not billed as source/sink usage. A fully idle job pays only the base fee.

What happens when credit runs out?

New jobs are rejected until you buy more prepaid credit in Console. Pay by card; unused purchased credit does not expire.

Are ASR, Translate, and Voice Agent included in the $20 credit?

Yes. Every registered account can use all node types, including managed AI nodes. Credit is consumed at list prices.

Do you charge for silence?

ASR bills only VAD-selected speech sent to the recognizer. Mixer and encode lines bill while frames or audio are processed. Object storage (S3/R2/GCS) is billed by your storage provider, not AVFlow.

Who processes payments?

AVFlow does not store card numbers. You pay by card at checkout. See the Refund Policy for unused-credit rules.