Daily
Video SDK and WebRTC infrastructure for building calls and voice AI agents.
Price
Free plan
list price
Free tier
Yes
10,000 free minutes/month
SDK downloads
510K
npm @daily-co/daily-js
Status
—
no public status page
How Daily compares
Daily is one of 12 APIs in the Voice (speech-to-text, text-to-speech) category on AgentGid. It is one of 11 that can be started for free. 6 of them ship an official MCP server; Daily does not. Its official SDK is the 5th most downloaded in the category (510K a week). See the full table.
Pricing
| Free tier | 10,000 free minutes/month |
|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | — |
| Usage price | — |
| Good to know | Added automatically: its SDK was in 8 of the public agent repos we sampled when it was added. Prices read from the official pricing page. |
From the official pricing page, checked Oct 13, 2026. Prices change: confirm before you buy.
Use it from an agent
| MCP server | No MCP server found |
|---|---|
| npm | npm install @daily-co/daily-js |
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