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Real-time voice, video, and conversational AI APIs with 10,000 free minutes monthly

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  • Deployment Cloud Based
  • Starting price $0.59
  • Free trial Available
  • Best for Startups, SMEs, Agencies

What is Agora?

Agora is a real-time engagement platform providing Voice, Video, Interactive Live Streaming, Chat, and Conversational AI APIs and SDKs for building low-latency communication into web, mobile, and desktop applications. Its SDKs support Android, iOS, Web, Windows, Flutter, React Native, Unity, and Unreal Engine, targeting use cases like education, gaming, telehealth, and live shopping.

Agora includes 10,000 free minutes per month shared across its core RTC products, with Video HD billed at $3.99 per 1,000 participant-minutes above that threshold and Audio at $0.99 per 1,000 minutes. Add-on products like Chat, Signaling, and Analytics have separate monthly plans, and paid support tiers range from about $1,200 to $4,900 per month.

Key Features of Agora

Agora lists 8 documented features, including Video and Voice Calling SDKs for Android, iOS, Web, Windows, Flutter, React Native, Unity, and Unreal, Sub-200ms global low-latency real-time engagement network and Interactive Live Streaming and Broadcast Streaming APIs. The list below covers what the product does rather than how it is marketed.

  • Video and Voice Calling SDKs for Android, iOS, Web, Windows, Flutter, React Native, Unity, and Unreal
  • Sub-200ms global low-latency real-time engagement network
  • Interactive Live Streaming and Broadcast Streaming APIs
  • Conversational AI Engine with real-time speech-to-text and translation
  • 3D Spatial Audio for gaming and social/metaverse apps
  • Chat SDK and Signaling SDK for real-time messaging
  • 10,000 free minutes per month shared across RTC products
  • SOC2, GDPR, and HIPAA-ready compliance

Agora Pricing

Agora lists 7 plans, from $0.05 to $16.99.

Streaming

$0.59

per 1000 minutes

Starts at $0.59 per 1000 minutes, with the first 10,000 combined RTC minutes free every month.

Signaling and messaging

$0.05

per monthly active user

Starts at $0.05 per monthly active user, with the first 500 monthly users free every month.

Recording

$0.99

per 1000 minutes

Audio and video streams and web pages captured for archive, review or distribution, included in the first 10,000 combined RTC free minutes.

Media Pull

$1.15

per 1000 minutes

External media streams brought into live Agora real time channels.

Real time speech to text

$16.99

per 1000 minutes

Language service for real time transcription of spoken audio streams to text, with the first 300 combined language service minutes free.

Real time translation

$8.99

per 1000 minutes per language

Language service for instant language interpretation, with the first 300 combined language service minutes free.

Flexible Classroom

$2.19

per 1000 minutes

Low code virtual classroom aPaaS solution, with the first 10,000 minutes free every month.

Agora Specifications

Agora is available on web app. It offers an API, has a free trial and has a free plan.

Deployment
  • Cloud Based
Billing cycle
Transaction
Desktop
  • Web App
Languages
  • English
Built for
  • Startups
  • SMEs
  • Agencies
  • Enterprises
Support
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Live Support
  • Tickets
Integrations
OpenAI Realtime API
Public API
Yes
Free trial
Yes
Free plan
Yes
Runs in browser
Yes
Customisable
Yes
Website
agora.io

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Agora FAQs

Yes, Agora provides 10,000 free minutes per month shared across its RTC products (voice, video, streaming), plus 300 free minutes for AI features like the Conversational AI Engine.

Agora bills by participant-minute, not call-minute, so a 10-minute call with 5 participants counts as 50 minutes; Video HD costs $3.99 per 1,000 participant-minutes above the free tier.

Agora SDKs support Android, iOS, Web, Windows, Electron, Flutter, React Native, Unity, and Unreal Engine for building real-time voice and video into apps.

Yes, beyond the free Starter tier, Standard, Premium, and Enterprise support plans range from about $1,200 to $4,900 per month, billed annually.

Yes, the Conversational AI Engine and an Agora plus OpenAI Realtime API integration let developers build real-time voice AI agents at $0.10 per minute after the free tier.