Daily
Low-latency infrastructure for building real-time voice, video, and AI conversations
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Available worldwide
What is Daily?
WebRTC platform providing ultra-low latency communication infrastructure for developers to build video calls, voice conversations, and AI agents at global scale. Offers enterprise-grade reliability, compliance certifications, and cloud recording and streaming capabilities.
Daily pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier includes 10,000 minutes/month. Pay-as-you-go pricing starts at $0.004/participant-minute for video with automatic volume discounts up to 45%.
Free
Free- video_and_audio_minutes
- 10,000/mo
- 10,000 free video and audio call minutes per month
- Regional media zones
- IP allowlist
Usage-based
- Video calls at $0.004/participant-minute
- Audio-only at $0.00099/participant-minute
- Cloud recording, streaming, SIP/PSTN dial-in/out
- Automatic volume discounts up to 45%
- Transcription services
Add-ons
- Advanced Firewall Control$500/mo
- Healthcare (HIPAA + BAA)$500/mo
- Advanced Insights$500/mo
- Noise cancellation (Krisp)$0.00 per participant-minute
What Daily does
The capabilities that matter for communication apis, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- SMS
- -
- Voice
- ✓
- -
- RCS
- -
- Transactional email
- -
- Video / real-time
- ✓
- In-app chat
- ✓
- Verify / OTP / 2FA
- -
- Two-way messaging
- ✓
- Geographic coverage
- Global
- Email deliverability tools
- -
- Published per-unit pricing
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (6)
Independently observed- Pipecat→•
- Deepgram
- Krisp
- Mediasoup
- GStreamer
- Silero⇄•
Daily FAQ
Common questions about Daily, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Daily?
WebRTC platform providing ultra-low latency communication infrastructure for developers to build video calls, voice conversations, and AI agents at global scale. Offers enterprise-grade reliability, compliance certifications, and cloud recording and streaming capabilities. It is indexed under Communication APIs.
Is Daily free to use?
Daily is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $0.00. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Daily support?
Daily supports macOS and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://www.daily.co
Can Daily be self-hosted?
Yes. Daily can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://www.daily.co
What does Daily integrate with?
We have confirmed 6 integrations for Daily, including Deepgram, Krisp, Mediasoup, GStreamer, Pipecat and Silero. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.daily.co
What security certifications does Daily have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Daily. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Daily not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Daily alternatives
Other communication apis we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- NovuOpen-source platform for sending notifications and enabling agent conversations across email, SMS, chat, push, and in-app messagingmedium · 73%
- StreamUnified platform for building real-time communication and community featuresmedium · 74%
- PlivoAI voice agents and omnichannel communications platform with usage-based pricinghigh · 75%
- SinchAPIs for SMS, voice, email, video, and verificationmedium · 72%
- InfobipConnect with customers across multiple messaging and communication platformslow · 48%
- AgoraReal-time communication infrastructure for voice, video, and messagingmedium · 72%
Compare Daily
Side by side against other communication apis, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Daily, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 100 | 0.16 | 15.6 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 85 | 0.12 | 9.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.06 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 0.05 | 0.7 | ✓ |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Chat: Yes · Video: Yes · Voice: Yes · Two way: Yes · Global coverage: global · Usage pricing transparent: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-09-03 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-18 · 75% |
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