Yes, Liveblocks has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes up to 500 monthly active rooms, 1,000 custom notification events included, and 256 MB realtime data storage included. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $25/mo, and no credit card is required to sign up.
About
Liveblocks is a realtime infrastructure platform for multiplayer apps and collaborative AI workflows. It provides hosted primitives for presence, broadcast events, synced storage, feeds, and threads, along with pre-built collaboration features such as multiplayer editing, comments, notifications, and AI copilots.
The service is aimed at developers building products that need concurrent edits, shared state, and low-latency collaboration. The pricing page lists a Free plan with up to 500 monthly active rooms, 256 MB realtime data storage, 1,000 monthly custom notifications, 50 MB max file upload size, 24 hours of event log retention, and 10 projects, with development and production environments included.
- 500 monthly active rooms
- 256 MB realtime data storage
- 1,000 monthly custom notifications
- 50 MB max file uploads
- 24-hour event log retention
- 10 included projects
- Development and production environments
- Presence, storage, feeds, and threads primitives
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable and does not require a credit card, but it is still capped on several core usage limits. The closest paid plan is Pro at $25/month billed annually, and the free allowance covers the same core feature set with smaller quotas, so it is worth about the full Pro entry price but not more.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Up to 500 monthly active rooms.
- Realtime infrastructure included.
- Collaboration features included.
- Pre-built components included.
- Unlimited monthly active users.
- Unlimited comments stored.
- Unlimited collaboration notifications.
- Unlimited in-app, email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, web push, and webhook notification channels.
- 1,000 custom notification events included.
- 256 MB realtime data storage included.
- 24-hour event log retention.
- 10 projects included.
- Development and Production environments included.
- 3 standard dashboard seats included.
- 512 MB file storage included.
- 50 MB maximum file upload size.
- Community support included.
- GitHub and Google OAuth sign-in included.
- Multi-factor authentication included.
- Team-level role-based access control included.
- 24-hour event log retention included.
See Liveblocks pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Pro
- realtime collaboration minutes
- $0.002 per minute
- realtime data storage updates
- $1 per 1M updates
- realtime data stored
- $0.15 per GB
- simultaneous connections per room
- 10
- version history
- 30 days
- comments created
- $0.01 per comment
- Everything in Free, plus
- Remove Liveblocks branding
- AI Copilots re-index interval
Team
- realtime collaboration minutes
- $0.002 per minute
- realtime data storage updates
- $1 per 1M updates
- realtime data stored
- $0.15 per GB
- simultaneous connections per room
- 50
- version history
- 90 days
- comments created
- $0.01 per comment
- Everything in Pro, plus
- Extended version history
- Higher webhook event frequency
- More simultaneous connections
- Public/private comments
Enterprise
- simultaneous connections per room
- 100
- version history
- Custom
- dashboard seats
- Custom
- event log retention
- Custom
- support SLA
- Custom
- file upload size
- 500 GB
- Everything in Team, plus
- Volume discounts
- Multi-region hosting
- Management API
- SCIM & directory sync
- Advanced permissions
- Advanced support
Pricing extracted from Liveblocks's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Liveblocks free forever?
Yes. Liveblocks has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
Does Liveblocks require a credit card?
No. You can start on Liveblocks's free tier without entering card details.
What happens when you exceed Liveblocks's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Liveblocks's cheapest paid plan is Pro at $25 / month.
What is Liveblocks's free tier worth?
Liveblocks's free tier is worth about $25 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 66/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
