The circulating "switch at ~10,000 minutes a month" rule is an infrastructure-only number. Load the engineering and the crossover moves to 90,000–183,000 minutes a month ; strip it out, as most comparison tables do, and it falls to between 360 and 8,100 depending on which LiveKit Cloud tier you buy. Every price was read on the vendor’s own pricing page on 18 September 2026.
What this covers
- What the 10,000-minute rule actually claims
- The criteria that decide this before any price does
- The worked crossover calculation, end to end
- Published inputs (vendor pages, read 18 September 2026)
- The assumptions, stated as assumptions
This is a technical summary. The full guide — with the tables and worked examples — is on our site: *Voice Agent Platform vs Framework: When to Switch*.
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