Daily Bots

by Daily.co

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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.

Hosted RTVI bots — Daily.co's managed runtime for Pipecat voice agents.

Cloud, API  ·  see vendor pricing

TL;DR

Best for pipecat developers who want hosted scaling without operating workers. Pricing: see vendor pricing.

Category
Products
Pricing
see vendor pricing
Platforms
Cloud, API

What it is

Daily Bots is Daily.co's managed RTVI service that runs Pipecat pipelines on demand. Customers ship the pipeline definition; Daily handles the WebRTC transport, scaling, and observability. It pairs naturally with the open-source Pipecat framework when the buyer wants OSS portability with managed operations.

Best for: Pipecat developers who want hosted scaling without operating workers.
Watch out for: Locked to Daily.co transport; egress and compute pricing applies.

What people actually do with Daily Bots-style transcription

The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.

Wire it into Google DriveMake.comZapiern8nZoomSlack

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

Daily Bots vs Whipscribe

FeatureDaily BotsWhipscribe
CategoryProductsTranscription APIs
PricingNot verified$6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free
Speaker identificationNot verifiedNamed in the summary, key quotes and chapters
Word timestampsNot verifiedYes
StreamingNot verifiedNo
Languages—99
PlatformsCloud, APIWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Daily Bots

Frequently asked about Daily Bots

How much does Daily Bots cost?

Daily Bots does not publish a self-serve price — it is quoted by the vendor on contact. Expect an enterprise-style agreement rather than a card-and-go signup.

Does Daily Bots work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

Daily Bots runs on Cloud and API. It is not listed for other platforms; check the vendor for anything beyond Cloud and API.

What are the limitations of Daily Bots?

Locked to Daily.co transport; egress and compute pricing applies.

Who is Daily Bots best for?

Pipecat developers who want hosted scaling without operating workers.

Is Daily Bots open source?

No. Daily Bots is a proprietary product from Daily.co. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

Can I use Daily Bots in the browser?

No — Daily Bots is a Cloud and API application, not a web app. You install it rather than sign in to it.

Who makes Daily Bots?

Daily Bots is made by Daily.co.

What kind of tool is Daily Bots?

In this directory Daily Bots is filed under voice agent, voice middleware as a product.

What are the alternatives to Daily Bots?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/daily-bots-alternatives comparing Daily Bots with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Daily Bots-style transcription without running it myself?

Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.

How is Whipscribe different from Daily Bots?

Daily Bots is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.

What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Daily Bots?

$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.

Where is the Daily Bots category heading?

Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.

Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.

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Have the recording already?

Skip the setup and send the file or the link: see MP3 to text for long recordings, how to transcribe a podcast and the SRT file generator.

Rather have it done for you?

Free tools cost setup time. When you want a finished transcript instead: see an honest roundup of the best transcription services, cheap transcription services and the real cost per hour and how our transcription services work.