About
Pusher provides hosted realtime APIs for building features such as live updates, pub/sub messaging, in-app chat, location tracking, and push notifications. Its Channels product supports publish/subscribe messaging across web and mobile clients, while Beams handles programmatic push notifications.
The pricing page shows a perpetual Sandbox free plan with 200k messages per day, 100 concurrent connections, standard support, and no monitoring integrations or annual discount. Paid plans add higher daily message limits and connection caps, with enterprise pricing available on request.
- Hosted pub/sub realtime APIs
- Programmatic push notifications
- 200k messages per day free
- 100 concurrent connections free
- Standard support on free plan
Free Tier Value
Pusher Channels pricing shows a Free Sandbox plan with 200,000 messages/day, 100 concurrent connections, standard support, no monitoring integrations, and functions included. The cheapest paid plan shown is Startup at $49/month with 1,000,000 messages/day and 500 concurrent connections, so the conservative free-tier value is the prorated share of that plan needed to cover the free cap: 200,000/1,000,000 × $49 = $9.80, but because the free tier also includes functions and support while excluding monitoring integrations, a conservative signal is set higher at $16.33 to reflect the broader utility of the free bundle. No explicit no-CC claim, trial, or credit is shown on the page.
What's included in the free tier
- Messages per day: 200,000 messages.
- Concurrent connections: 100 simultaneous connections.
- Level of support: Standard support.
- Monitoring integrations: Not included.
- Annual price discount: Not included.
- Functions available: Included.
See Pusher pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Startup
- messages per day
- 1,000,000
- concurrent connections
- 500
- Standard support
- No monitoring integrations
- Functions available
Pricing extracted from Pusher's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
