# Will upgrading from free plan enable multiple participants per room for co-streaming?

**URL:** <https://community.livekit.io/t/will-upgrading-from-free-plan-enable-multiple-participants-per-room-for-co-streaming/1363>\
**Category:** Getting Started\
**Tags:** livestream\
**Created:** [June 7, 2026, 5:34am UTC](https://community.livekit.io/t/will-upgrading-from-free-plan-enable-multiple-participants-per-room-for-co-streaming/1363 "2026-06-07T05:34:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![MDfashionco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.livekit.io/mdfashionco/32/1624_2.png) [@MDfashionco](https://community.livekit.io/u/MDfashionco)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 5:34am UTC](https://community.livekit.io/t/will-upgrading-from-free-plan-enable-multiple-participants-per-room-for-co-streaming/1363/1 "2026-06-07T05:34:14Z")

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Hi, I’m building a livestreaming app called Fame Fight (famefight.app) where streamers can go live and battle each other in co-host streams. The feature is fully built but doesn’t work because the free plan appears to limit rooms to 2 participants.

If I upgrade to the Starter plan, will this allow:

1. Multiple participants publishing video in the same room (co-host streams)
2. Viewers joining rooms that already have 2 active publishers

Just want to confirm before upgrading. Thanks!

Do I have to upgrade?

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**Author:** ![khan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.livekit.io/khan/32/1614_2.png) [@khan](https://community.livekit.io/u/khan)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2026, 8:45am UTC](https://community.livekit.io/t/will-upgrading-from-free-plan-enable-multiple-participants-per-room-for-co-streaming/1363/2 "2026-06-07T08:45:34Z")

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The free plan doesn’t limit rooms to two participants. LiveKit doesn’t impose a per-room participant cap on any of its plans.

On the free Build plan, the limit is 100 concurrent participants across your entire project, which is more than enough for a typical co-streaming setup. Upgrading to the Starter plan increases that project-wide limit to 3,000 concurrent participants, but based on what you’ve described, that doesn’t sound like the root cause.

The co-hosting issue is more likely related to token permissions or room configuration. I’d double-check that each participant who needs to publish media has both:

- `canPublish: true`

- `canSubscribe: true`

Before considering an upgrade, it’s worth verifying the room setup and access tokens, as that’s where these issues usually come from.

> **[Quotas and limits | LiveKit Documentation](https://docs.livekit.io/deploy/admin/quotas-and-limits/)**
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> Per-project quotas and metered resources for LiveKit Cloud plans.

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**Author:** ![darryncampbell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.livekit.io/darryncampbell/32/20_2.png) [@darryncampbell](https://community.livekit.io/u/darryncampbell)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 8:52am UTC](https://community.livekit.io/t/will-upgrading-from-free-plan-enable-multiple-participants-per-room-for-co-streaming/1363/3 "2026-06-08T08:52:15Z")

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> [@MDfashionco](#):
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> doesn’t work

Echo @khan 's suggestion above, but also if you could please describe what doesn’t work, it would help to diagnose.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.livekit.io/system/32/26_2.png) [@system](https://community.livekit.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 8:52am UTC](https://community.livekit.io/t/will-upgrading-from-free-plan-enable-multiple-participants-per-room-for-co-streaming/1363/4 "2026-06-23T08:52:39Z")

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