Billing

Complete reference for Skribby pricing, plan limits, and billing.

Plans Overview

Base Pricing

Meeting Bots

Recordings (Upload)

Transcription Model Pricing

Per-hour costs added to base pricing:

Standard Models

Realtime Models

Realtime models include streaming transcription via WebSocket:

Addons

Per-hour charges added to base pricing:

Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK)

When using your own transcription provider API keys:

The realtime surcharge covers the additional infrastructure for low-latency streaming.

Plan Limits

Concurrency is shared across the entire Skribby organisation, including all API keys and authenticated accounts. See Authenticated Bot Capacity for the statuses that count and account-assignment guidance.

Free Plan

Pay As You Go

Pay As You Go Plus

Contact sales to negotiate PAYG+ pricing and a custom concurrency limit.

What Counts as Billable Time

Meeting Bot Billable Time

Billable time = created_at to terminal status

Billable scenarios:

• Bot joins meeting and records → Full duration
• Bot admitted then meeting ends → Full duration including lobby wait
• Bot waits 5 minutes, admitted, records 30 minutes → 35 minutes

Free scenarios:

• Bot not admitted within 10 minutes → Free (first 10 min grace period)
• Bot cancelled before joining → No charge
• Bot fails during boot → No charge

Lobby Wait Grace Period

The first 10 minutes of lobby waiting is free if the bot is never admitted:

Recordings

Billable time = audio file duration (only charged on successful transcription).

Billing Cycle

• Billing period: Monthly, starting from subscription date
• Payment: Charged on the 1st of each month for previous month's usage
• Currency: USD
• Payment methods: Credit card via Stripe

Usage Tracking

Monitor your usage in the Skribby Dashboard:

• Dashboard home: Current month's usage summary
• Billing page: Detailed breakdown by bot/recording
• Individual bots: Per-bot cost breakdown

Programmatic Pricing Access

Use the Get Bot Pricing endpoint to fetch the full pricing breakdown for a bot in your own systems.

• During a meeting, total.amount is null while usage is still in progress.
• After the bot reaches finished, total.amount returns the final billable amount.
• If a bot is not billable (for example, never admitted within the grace period), total.amount returns 0.00.

Cost Examples

Example 1: Simple Meeting

45-minute Google Meet with Groq Whisper Large v3 Turbo transcription, no addons.

Example 2: Realtime with Video

60-minute Zoom meeting with Deepgram Realtime v3 and video addon.

Example 3: BYOK Realtime

30-minute Teams meeting with AssemblyAI Realtime using your own API key.

You pay AssemblyAI separately for transcription.

Example 4: Recording Upload

2-hour audio file with Deepgram v3 transcription and 1-year storage.

Example 5: Not Admitted (No Charge)

Bot waits 10 minutes, never admitted. Within grace period.

Example 6: Not Admitted (Partial Charge)

Bot configured to wait 20 minutes, never admitted. 10 minutes over grace period.

Exceeding Limits

Concurrent Bot Limit

If you try to create a bot when your organisation is at its concurrency limit, the API returns HTTP 403:

Copy{
    "message": "You have reached the limit of concurrent meeting bots for your plan."
}

The request fails immediately: no bot is created or queued, and Skribby does not retry it automatically.

Resolution:

• Wait for active bots to finish processing
• Upgrade to PAYG+ and negotiate a custom limit above your expected peak
• See Authenticated Bot Capacity for capacity-planning details

Monthly Hour Limit (Free Plan)

If you exceed 5 hours on the Free plan:

Copy{
    "message": "You have exceeded your monthly bot hours limit."
}

Resolution:

• Wait for the next billing cycle
• Upgrade to Pay As You Go

Invoices

Invoices are available in the Billing page:

• View past invoices
• Download PDF receipts
• See line-item breakdown

Invoices include:

• Date range
• Total bot minutes
• Transcription breakdown by model
• Addon charges
• Total amount