{ "slug": "daily-co", "name": "Daily", "domain": "daily.co", "category": "developer-infrastructure", "categoryName": "Developer infrastructure", "description": "Video and audio APIs billed per participant-minute. 10,000 free minutes each month, then $0.0040 per video participant-minute on the first paid band.", "directAnswer": "Cancel Daily from the billing interface in the Daily dashboard using Cancel plan. Admins make billing updates. It takes about a minute. Public HTML docs do not say when paid access ends, and they do not publish a cash-refund rule for unused minutes.", "price": "Usage-based", "priceMonthlyUsd": null, "planName": "Pay as you go", "subscriptionPlans": [ { "id": "pay-as-you-go", "name": "Pay as you go", "billingOptions": [], "priceNote": "10,000 free participant minutes every month, then graduated per-participant-minute rates. Video and audio: $0.0040 on 10,001-100,000 minutes, then $0.0037 / $0.0034 / $0.0030 / $0.0026 / $0.0022 / $0.0015 at higher bands. Audio-only: $0.00099 on the first paid band. Phone numbers are $2 per number per month.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.daily.co/pricing/video-sdk/" }, { "id": "advanced-firewall-control", "name": "Advanced Firewall Control", "billingOptions": [ { "cycle": "month", "priceUsd": 500 } ], "priceNote": "$500 per month for IP Proxy and TURN server override.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.daily.co/pricing/video-sdk/" }, { "id": "healthcare", "name": "Healthcare", "billingOptions": [ { "cycle": "month", "priceUsd": 500 } ], "priceNote": "$500 per month for HIPAA + BAA.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.daily.co/pricing/video-sdk/" }, { "id": "advanced-insights", "name": "Advanced Insights", "billingOptions": [ { "cycle": "month", "priceUsd": 500 } ], "priceNote": "$500 per month for 5 seats.", "sourceUrl": "https://www.daily.co/pricing/video-sdk/" } ], "difficulty": "Easy", "difficultyScore": 1.8, "billingMethods": [ "web" ], "accountTypes": [ "personal", "team", "enterprise" ], "cancellationUrl": "https://docs.daily.co/changelog/070-2025-09-23", "cancellationTime": "~1 minute", "cancellationTimeSeconds": 60, "steps": { "web": [ { "title": "Sign in as an Admin", "body": "Only Admins can make billing updates. Members cannot." }, { "title": "Open the billing interface", "body": "Open the Daily dashboard billing interface. Docs link billing at dashboard.daily.co/billing when describing adding a card." }, { "title": "Use Cancel plan", "body": "The 23 September 2025 changelog added a Cancel plan button to the billing interface. Follow the prompts shown there." } ], "ios": [], "android": [], "team": [ { "title": "Only Admins change billing", "body": "Dashboard permissions: Admin has Make billing updates. Member does not." } ] }, "platformNotes": { "web": { "note": "This guide covers Daily Video SDK usage and listed monthly add-ons, not Pipecat Cloud, which has a separate pricing page.", "warning": "Public HTML docs do not say when usage billing or add-on fees stop after Cancel plan. Daily Terms of Service and Privacy Policy HTML pages are PDF downloads, so this guide does not quote refund or retention clauses from those files." } }, "refundInfo": "The public HTML pricing page and dashboard docs do not publish a cash-refund rule for unused minutes or add-on time. Daily's Terms of Service is offered as a PDF download, so this guide does not quote a refund clause from it.", "pauseInfo": "No subscription pause option is documented in the public HTML pricing page, changelog or dashboard guide. The pricing FAQ asks whether you can set a spending limit or cap usage; that answer was not in the fetched HTML.", "downgradeInfo": "10,000 free participant minutes per month remain listed after you are on usage pricing. Recurring add-ons (Advanced Firewall Control, Healthcare, Advanced Insights) are $500 per month items. Stopping a paid add-on or plan is the Cancel plan control in billing. No separate in-app downgrade label is published beyond that.", "dataRetentionInfo": "The public HTML pricing FAQ asks about the retention policy around metrics and logs, but the answer was not in the fetched page. Daily's Privacy Policy HTML is a PDF download, so this guide does not quote a retention window from it.", "factRows": [ { "k": "Cancellation fee", "v": "None documented" }, { "k": "Refund window", "v": "None published in public HTML" }, { "k": "Effective", "v": "Not documented in public HTML" }, { "k": "Free plan after", "v": "10,000 free minutes/month remain listed" } ], "faq": [ { "question": "How do I cancel Daily?", "answer": "As an Admin, open the dashboard billing interface and use Cancel plan. The 23 September 2025 changelog added that button." }, { "question": "When does cancellation take effect?", "answer": "Public HTML docs do not say when usage billing or add-on fees stop after Cancel plan." }, { "question": "Does Daily refund unused minutes?", "answer": "The public HTML pricing and dashboard pages do not publish a cash-refund rule. The Terms of Service is a PDF download and is not quoted here." }, { "question": "Is there a free allowance after I cancel add-ons?", "answer": "10,000 free participant minutes per month remain listed on the Video SDK pricing page." }, { "question": "Can I pause or cap spend?", "answer": "No pause control is documented in the fetched HTML. The pricing FAQ asks about a spending limit; that answer was not in the fetched page." } ], "officialSources": [ { "title": "Daily Video SDK pricing", "url": "https://www.daily.co/pricing/video-sdk/", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-24" }, { "title": "Daily changelog 23 September 2025", "url": "https://docs.daily.co/changelog/070-2025-09-23", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-24" }, { "title": "Get video chat insights from the Daily dashboard", "url": "https://docs.daily.co/docs/guides/architecture-and-monitoring/experiment-in-the-dashboard", "lastCheckedAt": "2026-08-24" } ], "verified": true, "manuallyVerifiedAt": "2026-08-24", "nextReviewAt": "2026-10-23", "urls": { "guide": "https://canicancelit.com/cancel/daily-co", "json": "https://canicancelit.com/cancel/daily-co.json", "markdown": "https://canicancelit.com/cancel/daily-co.md" } }