Whether you're running live video at scale or thousands of concurrent AI voice agents — hybrid infrastructure means predictable, dramatically lower costs. No per-minute fees. No bandwidth markups. Bare-metal and alternate cloud where it matters most.
StreamGrid never compromises on stability or scalability — your control plane always runs on enterprise-grade hyperscale cloud with full SLAs. But for bandwidth-heavy media delivery and compute-intensive voice agent workloads, bare-metal and alternate cloud infrastructure eliminates the per-minute fees that make premium cloud platforms so expensive at scale. Same reliability guarantees. Dramatically lower cost.
Control plane on hyperscale cloud for stability. Media delivery on bare-metal for cost efficiency.
Live streaming costs are driven by egress bandwidth, compute, and storage. Agentic voice adds per-minute session fees and telephony charges. Here's how they compare.
The #1 cost — every viewer byte leaves the network
Transcoding, SFU routing, mixing
VOD, replays, archives
Per-minute fees for each agent connection
Voice calls via PSTN for call centers
Auth, signaling, APIs, orchestration
* Relative savings based on industry-typical pricing for hyperscale cloud vs bare-metal/data center providers. Actual ratios vary by region, commitment terms, and traffic volume.
Every model includes the same enterprise-grade control plane, auth, signaling, and SLAs. The only difference is where media processing runs — and what it costs you.
Maximum reliability for mission-critical streams. Everything on hyperscale cloud.
Enterprise & regulatedCloud stability for control plane. Bare-metal for media. Best of both worlds.
Recommended for mostMaximum savings on bare-metal and data center nodes. Cloud stability still guaranteed.
Creators & small business
Hosted real-time platforms charge per-minute session fees for every AI voice agent connection. At scale, these fees dwarf every other line item on your infrastructure bill.
Total: $10K-15K+/month — just for infrastructure fees
Total: a fraction of hosted cost — predictable, fixed server expense
For businesses running AI-powered voice agents — customer support bots, virtual receptionists, outbound calling — the per-minute model on hosted platforms creates a cost ceiling that limits growth. Hybrid infrastructure with cost-optimized processing removes that ceiling entirely.
The result: live streaming becomes as affordable as hosting a website, and running thousands of AI voice agents costs a fraction of what hosted platforms charge. That's infrastructure that scales with you — not against you.
Whether it's live streaming, agentic voice, or both — talk to us about infrastructure that's built for stability and priced for growth.
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