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  "slug": "daily-co",
  "name": "Daily.co",
  "url": "https://www.daily.co",
  "cat": "rt",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Video call API, usage-based",
  "price": "10,000 free participant-minutes every month. Video $0.004 per participant-minute (down to $0.0015 at volume); audio-only $0.00099; cloud recording $0.01349 per recorded minute; RTMP streaming $0.015/min, HLS $0.03/min. HIPAA add-on $500/mo. No subscription tiers",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Usage-based video and audio call API with no subscription plans at all — you pay per participant-minute and volume discounts apply automatically. Ships Daily Prebuilt, a drop-in embeddable call UI, plus a lower-level JavaScript SDK for custom layouts. Also maintains Pipecat, its open-source framework for realtime voice agents.",
  "why": "The fastest path from nothing to a working video call: Daily Prebuilt in an iframe gives you a full call UI, device pickers and screen share in an afternoon. Pure per-minute pricing means a quiet month costs literally nothing.",
  "warn": "Per-participant-minute billing scales with audience rather than with events, so a 200-person town hall runs roughly $48 an hour before extras. Recording, RTMP and HLS are each metered separately on top of the call minutes.",
  "install": "npm i @daily-co/daily-js",
  "category": {
    "key": "rt",
    "name": "Realtime, comments & collab",
    "desc": "Live updates, comment systems, video, community.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://www.daily.co/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T18:09:22.039+00:00"
  },
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  "upstream_changed_at": null
}