Overview of billing for TRTC real-time audio and video services are divided into three categories based on service type: Monthly package fees, excess package consumption fees, and other service consumption fees. The cost breakdown is shown in the following image:
Billing of RTC Engine
The TRTC monthly package is divided into Trial Version, Basic Version, and Professional Version, which can unlock different value-added services for different applications (SDKAppID). If the automatic renewal of the package is enabled, users can enjoy the "buy one month, get one month free" service for their first purchase. See the table below for more details:
Category
Item
Free (default edition)
Standard
Pro
Price
0 USD/month
499 USD/month
Buy one, get one free
1,499 USD/month
Buy one, get one free
Minutes
Free minutes
(deducts audio/video call, on-cloud recording, and On-Cloud MixTranscoding durations)
10,000 minutes/month
10,000 minutes/month
10,000 minutes/month
Bonus minutes
(deducts audio/video call durations)
-
500,000 minutes/month
1,500,000 minutes/month
Pay-as-you-go upon exhaustion
(before the package expires)
Service suspension upon exhaustion
✓
✓
Basic TRTC services
Audio/Video call
✓
✓
✓
On-cloud recording
✓
✓
✓
On-Cloud MixTranscoding
✓
✓
✓
Relay to CSS
✓
✓
✓
Value-added TRTC services
Relay to third-party CDNs
-
✓
✓
AI noise suppression
-
✓
✓
Less stutter under poor network conditions
-
✓
✓
RTMP publish/playback
-
✓
✓
3D spatial audio
-
-
✓
Scaled video coding
-
-
✓
Region of interest coding
-
-
✓
2K/4K video quality
-
-
✓
Supported SDKs/Platforms
iOS/macOS
Android
Windows
Web
Electron
Flutter
React Native
iOS/macOS
Android
Windows
Web
Electron
Flutter
React Native
iOS/macOS
Android
Windows
Web
Electron
Flutter
React Native
Technical support
-
Response time:
5 day/12 hour
P1 - 2 hours
P2 - 6 hours
P3 - 12 hours
Response time:
7 day/24 hour
P1 - 1 hour
P2 - 4 hours
P3 - 8 hours
-
Ticket and email support
Ticket and email support
-
Telegram group
Telegram group
Billing of Excess Usage
For monthly packages that include free usage time, when the time is used up, additional usage beyond the free time will be automatically charged based on the length of the audio and video usage.
Audio and video usage time is divided into four categories based on specific application scenarios: voice interactive live broadcasting, video interactive live broadcasting, voice calling, and video calling. Each of the four basic services can be used individually or in combination. The billing details for each scenario are shown in the following table:
Note
When every month the gift of 10,000 minutes of Free Package of Time is exhausted, you need to unlock the pay-as-you-go function by purchasing the Monthly Package, otherwise, the service will not be available.
Scene
Description of scene
Billing instructions
Audio interactive live streaming
Support for audio interactivity between the host and audience, including the ability to connect via voice chat.
The ability for hosts to engage in inter-room (or inter-live stream) battles.
Smooth transitioning between hosting and co-hosting, with a wait time of less than 300ms.
A limitless number of users can co-host in a single room, with support for up to 50 people connected via voice chat simultaneously.
Low-latency live streaming mode with support for up to 100,000 viewers, with latencies as low as 1,000ms.
When using CDN bypass mode, there is no limit to the number of viewers who can watch the live stream.
Support for video interactivity between the host and audience, including the ability to connect via voice chat.
The ability for hosts to engage in inter-room (or inter-live stream) battles.
Smooth transitioning between hosting and co-hosting, with a wait time of less than 300ms.
A limitless number of users can co-host in a single room, with support for up to 50 people connected via voice chat simultaneously.
Low-latency live streaming mode with support for up to 100,000 viewers, with latencies as low as 1,000ms.
When using CDN bypass mode, there is no limit to the number of viewers who can watch the live stream.
Audio Call
Two-person or multi-person voice call, supporting 48kHz and stereo.
A single room can support up to 300 people being online simultaneously and up to 50 people using their microphones at the same time.
Video Call
Two-person or multi-person video calls are supported with high-definition image quality of 720P, 1080P, 2K, and 4K (on specific devices).
A single room can support up to 300 people being online simultaneously and up to 50 people using their microphones at the same time.
Note
If you have agreed with the business manager on other billing methods, please refer to the agreement in the contract.
Billing of Other Services
The following table shows the billing details of TRTC's extended services for real-time audio and video usage, which are designed to supplement the core features.
The MCU recording cluster is a system used to record real-time audio and video in TRTC rooms, which can on-demand record single or mixed (multiplexing multiple audio and video streams into a single stream) uplink audio and video streams in TRTC rooms. Recorded files are stored on the VOD platform to ensure the reliability and real-time nature of the recording process.
By using the MCU cluster, TRTC can flexibly mix and transcode each upstream audio and video stream within the rooms, and then output the transcoded audio and video streams for live streaming to CDN, which enables viewers to watch the live stream via CDN.
The monitoring dashboard is a quality data monitoring and analysis service launched by Tencent Cloud Real-Time Audio and Video, which provides different dashboard functions for free and paid versions in a fixed-price mode. You can open and subscribe to the payment version according to your business needs through self-service on the console.
The Recording Delivery Service is a paid feature service launched by Tencent Cloud Real-Time Audio and Video. When using the real-time audio and video cloud recording service, fees will be incurred for the recording delivery service during the process of delivering and storing the recording files in the storage bucket.
All Tencent Cloud accounts with TRTC activated can receive free 10,000 minutes per month. For accounts registered on or after Beijing Time on February 21, 2023 (inclusive), the free minutes can be used to deduct minutes generated by Audio/Video calls, Interactive Live Streaming, On-cloud recording, and On-Cloud MixTranscoding. For accounts registered before Beijing Time on February 21, 2023, the free minutes can be used to deduct minutes generated by Audio/Video calls, Interactive Live Streaming, and On-cloud recording. For more details, please refer to the Free Minutes Description.
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