Billing Overview

The service items of Tencent Real-Time Communication (TRTC) are divided into two major categories according to the service type: monthly subscription and pay-as-you-go.
Monthly subscription: TRTC launched prepaid packages on March 7, 2023, Beijing Time (UTC+8), unlocking different value-added service features for different applications (SDKAppID). Call monthly packages, Conference monthly packages, Live monthly packages, and RTC-Engine monthly packages are provided, and you can choose an appropriate prepaid package for your business scenarios.
Pay-as-you-go: TRTC defaults to prepaid package billing. When the service usage cannot be deducted by the package or exceeds the balance of the prepaid package, it will be billed based on pay-as-you-go according to your actual business usage.
The fee breakdown is as follows:
Billing Classification
Billable Item
Description
Monthly subscription
TRTC Call (TUICallKit) is a call component that comes with a UI kit. You can use it to implement features such as one-to-one/group calls, multi-platform call making/answering, and offline call push.
TRTC Conference (TUIRoomKit) is a component that comes with a UI kit designed for multi-person audio and video conversations in various scenarios such as enterprise meetings, webinars, and online education. By integrating this component, you can easily add features like room management, member management, microphone management, and screen sharing to your application in just three steps within a day. This allows you to quickly launch your business online.
TRTC Live (TUILiveKit) is a component that comes with a UI kit. You can use it to add video interactive live streaming scenarios to your application with just a few lines of code, significantly reducing your development workload.
On March 7, 2023, Beijing Time (UTC+8), TRTC launched new RTC-Engine monthly packages (Free edition, Standard edition, and Pro edition), which can unlock different value-added service features for different applications (SDKAppID).
The monitoring dashboard charges in a flat-rate subscription mode, supporting room call survey, real-time monitoring, and data dashboard features.
Pay-as-you-go
Audio and video duration is a fundamental billable item for TRTC. There are three specific application scenarios: audio call, video call, and interactive live audio/video streaming, and all the three scenarios can be billed based on audio and video duration (Video duration usage is priced according to the total resolution of the subscribed video).
Note:
10,000 minutes free package per month: All Tencent Cloud accounts with TRTC enabled can receive a package of 10,000 free minutes every month. For accounts registered on or after February 21, 2023, Beijing Time (UTC+8), minutes generated by audio/video calls, interactive live streaming, on-cloud recording, and MixTranscoding can be deducted from the free minutes. For accounts registered before February 21, 2023, Beijing Time (UTC+8), minutes generated by audio/video calls, interactive live streaming, and on-cloud recording can be deducted from the free minutes. For more details, see Free Minutes.
After the free 10,000-minute package given each month is used up, you need to unlock the postpaid feature by purchasing a monthly subscription package, otherwise the service will be unavailable.
The recording feature includes two parts: on-cloud recording, which records audio and video streams within a TRTC room in the cloud, and recording delivery, which delivers the generated audio and video files to the specified storage product.
MixTranscoding is a paid feature launched by TRTC and can be used to process multiple upstream audio and video streams through image mixing, audio and video transcoding, and repackaging. Relay to CDN is the process of publishing the audio and video streams in the TRTC room to the live CDN, enabling the audio and video streams to be played on regular live players for viewing.
Note:
If you have agreed on other billing methods with your business manager, follow the terms of the contract.