Usage and limits

#Host licences

Paid plans are priced per host licence, and each licence runs one call at a time — a meeting started at inlinemeet.com/meet, or a call embedded in your product. Both draw on the same licences: with three, any three can run at once. Everyone who joins a call that is already running is free.

An embedded call takes a licence with the first join token minted for it, and gives it back shortly after its last participant leaves — or five minutes after that token, if nobody joins — or when you close the room. Breakout rooms are part of their call. With every licence in use, a token for a call that isn’t running is refused with 409 licence_limit; joining a call that is running always works.

Add or remove licences under Plan and billing in your dashboard. Removing some never ends a call: new ones wait until you’re within the new number.

#Included minutes

Calls you embed are also measured in participant-minutes: one person connected for one minute. Four people in a 30-minute call is 120. Minutes are counted by the media server from when each person connects to when they leave — never from anything a browser reports — so they’re a number you can bill your own customers by.

Every host licence includes 10,000 of them a month on Pro and 20,000 on Business, pooled across your workspace: three Pro licences include 30,000 minutes a month, shared by all your calls. Most products never use them all. Past them, extra minutes are billed at your plan’s rate.

The allowance resets on the first of each month (UTC) and is counted at the licences you have on the day, so adding licences mid-month raises it from then on. Going over never stops a call. A person’s minutes count on the day they leave: a call that runs past midnight (UTC) counts in full on the later day, and one that runs past the end of a month counts in the new one. Meetings at inlinemeet.com/meet never count.

#Read your usage

Your dashboard shows the month so far; the API gives your server the same numbers for your whole workspace, to show inside your own product or feed your own reporting.

curl "https://api.inlinemeet.com/v1/usage?period=2026-09" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $INLINEMEET_API_KEY"

{
  "period": "2026-09",
  "participantMinutes": 7420.5,
  "participantSessions": 311,
  "storedGb": 4.812,
  "includedMinutes": 30000,
  "licences": { "total": 3, "inUse": 1 }
}

#Recording storage

Storage is measured once a day from what you hold, so keeping 10 GB for a week costs a week of 10 GB — not whatever you happened to hold on the last day of the month. Past your plan’s allowance it’s $0.05 per GB a month. Deleting a recording stops it counting from the next day.

#Hosted meeting limits

Meetings your team starts at inlinemeet.com/meet — rather than calls embedded in your product — are covered by your plan, whatever their length in minutes. Starting one needs an account and a free host licence; joining one needs neither. Their limits: