The cost & profit explorer
Tavus bills as a monthly plan plus per-minute overage, and runs the LLM, speech-to-text and text-to-speech itself — one bill, plus a little fixed infrastructure. Move the numbers to see cost, revenue, and where you turn a profit.
Move the numbers.
Usage drives Tavus cost; the tiers drive revenue. Nothing is saved.
Growth: $397/mo incl. 1,250 min, then $0.320/min.
Free 70% · Plus 25% · Pro 5% → $2.20 ARPU
Profit by number of users
Break-even is where the line crosses zero (green). Your setting is marked.
Where the cost goes
Monthly, at 500 users. Tavus dominates; infra is flat.
$0.69 per live session · $0.331 effective / min
Per-user & per-hour
What one student, and one avatar hour, costs and earns.
| Revenue per user (ARPU) | $2.20 |
| Cost per user | $0.83 |
| Cost per live session | $0.69 |
| Tavus cost per hour | $19.85 |
| Profit per avatar hour | $34.30 |
| Billed minutes per call | 2.00 min |
| Break-even | 189 users |
Rates are Tavus's published plans — billed per streamed minute with a 30-second call minimum and 6-second rounding, LLM + STT + TTS included (no separate OpenAI/TTS line). Re-confirm current pricing before committing.