The provider still bills the open STT socket after the browser hangs up
Gladia bills the upstream live WebSocket by wall clock. A Socket.IO blip can drop the browser while that job is still open. On detach the service flushes provider cost and user billing, then sets socketDetached . flushWallClockBilling skips a session once that flag is set, so the user side stays at the flush. flushPeriodicCost keeps running. The open Gladia socket is still provider spend, and…
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