About
LeanCloud is a serverless backend platform that provides database storage, server-side logic with LeanEngine, instant messaging, push notifications, SMS, and multiplayer game services. It supports native SDKs and APIs for Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, Swift, C#, Python, PHP, and curl, and can be deployed across multiple regions to reduce latency.
The Developer plan includes recurring free allowances such as 1 GB of storage space, 30K API requests per day, 3 threads, 10K full-text search queries per day, 100 LiveQuery subscriptions per day, 5K LiveQuery messages per day, 500 daily active users for instant messaging, 10K push notifications per day, and 20 CCU for LeanCloud Play. The pricing page also shows a Client Engine trial with 1 free compute unit, but the main free offering is a perpetual developer tier with usage caps.
- 1 GB free storage space
- 30K API requests per day
- 500 instant messaging DAU
- 10K push notifications per day
- 20 CCU game quota
- 3 backend threads
- 100 LiveQuery subscriptions daily
- 5K LiveQuery messages daily
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable for small projects: it includes meaningful monthly/day quotas for API requests, messaging, push, storage, and game features, but it is still capped and missing several pro features like auto backup, permission management, blacklisting, and keyword filtering. The cheapest paid option is the Business plan, which has a $5/day minimum charge, so the free tier is worth about $5/month in practical cost avoidance, with no credit card requirement called out on the page.
What's included in the free tier
- Developer plan includes 30K API requests per day, shared across LeanStorage, LeanMessage, Push Notifications, and other services.
- Developer plan includes 3 threads.
- Developer plan does not support auto backup.
- Developer plan includes 10K full-text search queries per day.
- Developer plan includes 100 LiveQuery subscriptions per day and 5K LiveQuery messages per day.
- Developer plan includes 1 GB of storage space, with overage billed at $0.05 per GB per day.
- Developer plan includes LeanMessage basic features, including conversations, one-on-one chat, group chats, message sending and receiving, editing and recalling messages, push notifications, signing mechanism, and system conversation callbacks.
- Developer plan includes up to 500 daily active users for LeanMessage, with no adjustment allowed.
- Developer plan does not include permission management.
- Developer plan does not include blacklisting.
- Developer plan includes 6 months of message history storage, with no adjustment allowed.
- Developer plan does not include keyword filtering.
- Developer plan includes 30K REST API requests per day, shared across LeanStorage, Push Notifications, and other services.
- Developer plan includes Push Notifications basic features.
- Developer plan does not include Firebase Cloud Messaging.
- Developer plan uses Standard line for Apple devices.
- Developer plan uses Standard queue for processing.
- Developer plan includes 60 push notification QPM.
- Developer plan includes 10K push notifications per day for free.
- Developer plan limits valid devices to active devices in the past 3 months.
- Developer plan includes 30K REST API requests per day for Push Notifications, shared across LeanStorage, LeanMessage, and other services.
- Developer plan includes up to 20 concurrent users for LeanCloud Play multiplayer games.
- Developer plan includes 1 GB free traffic quota per day for LeanCloud Play multiplayer games.
- Developer plan includes 10K requests per day for Leaderboard.
- Developer plan includes 10K free records for Leaderboard, with overage billed at $0.001 per 1K records per day.
- Trial plan includes 1 free compute unit for Client Engine.
- Trial plan includes 1 GB free daily traffic quota for Client Engine.
- Trial plan has auto hibernation enabled.
- Trial plan does not include auto scale.
- Trial plan does not include load balance.
- Trial plan does not include a free staging environment.
See LeanCloud pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Developer
- API requests/day
- 30K
- threads
- 3
- full-text search queries/day
- 10K
- LiveQuery subscriptions/day
- 100
- LiveQuery messages/day
- 5K
- storage space
- 1 GB
- 30K API requests/day shared across services
- 3 threads
- 10K full-text search queries/day
- 100 LiveQuery subscriptions/day
- 5K LiveQuery messages/day
- 1 GB storage space
- LeanMessage basic features
- Push Notifications basic features
Business
- minimum daily charge
- $5/day
- threads
- Up to 200
- API requests
- $0.04/1K
- push notifications/day
- Free up to 1M
- QPM
- Free up to 600/minute
- LeanMessage DAU
- $1/1K active users
- Pay as you go
- Higher limits than Developer
- Auto backup supported
- Up to 200 threads
- Dedicated APNs for Apple devices
- High-priority queue for push
- FCM supported
- Permission management and blacklisting supported
Enterprise
- pricing
- Contract price
- threads
- Contract price
- API requests
- Contract price
- storage space
- Contract price
- Custom deployment and capacity
- Standalone or private clusters
- Tailored pricing
- Higher or custom limits
- Enterprise support
Pricing extracted from LeanCloud's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
