Daily · FinOps Profile

Daily Co Finops

FOCUS-aligned FinOps profile for Daily. Daily's billing is consumption-based on participant-minutes (Video SDK), agent runtime minutes (Pipecat Cloud) and underlying WebRTC infrastructure usage; bills are invoiced monthly in USD.

Daily Co Finops is the FinOps profile for Daily on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 5 billable meters, billed in USD, on a monthly cycle, and pricing category usage.

The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Realtime, WebRTC, Video, Audio, and SDK.

Category: Realtime Communications Pricing: Usage Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-08.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-08 from the provider's published pricing, and not verified by the provider. Treat the meters and categories as our reading of their pages, not their statement.
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Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsagePurchaseAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
Daily
PricingUnit
participant-minute
ProviderName
Daily
PublisherName
Daily
ServiceCategory
Realtime Communications
ServiceName
Daily Video SDK

Meters

participant_minutes
Unit: minute
Participant-minutes consumed in Daily rooms (primary Video SDK meter).
recording_minutes
Unit: minute
Cloud recording minutes generated.
transcription_minutes
Unit: minute
Speech-to-text transcription minutes generated.
pipecat_agent_minutes
Unit: minute
Voice-AI agent runtime minutes on Pipecat Cloud.
dial_out_minutes
Unit: minute
PSTN/SIP dial-out minutes (separately metered).

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