Yes, Pusher has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes Messages per day: 200,000 messages and Concurrent connections: 100 simultaneous connections. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $49/mo, and no credit card is required to sign up.
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
This free tier is a genuinely usable sandbox: it includes 200k messages per day and 100 concurrent connections, plus standard support, and it does not appear to require a credit card to sign up. The cheapest paid plan is Startup at $49/month with 1 million messages per day and 500 connections, so the free offer is roughly 20% of that plan’s practical capacity and is worth about $49/month.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- 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 million
- concurrent connections
- 500
- support level
- Standard
- Messages per day: 1 million
- Concurrent connections: 500
- Level of support: Standard
- Monitoring integrations
- Annual price discount
- Functions available
Pro
- messages per day
- 4 million
- concurrent connections
- 2,000
- support level
- Standard
- Messages per day: 4 million
- Concurrent connections: 2,000
- Level of support: Standard
- Monitoring integrations
- Annual price discount
- Functions available
Business
- messages per day
- 10 million
- concurrent connections
- 5,000
- support level
- Premium
- Messages per day: 10 million
- Concurrent connections: 5,000
- Level of support: Premium
- Monitoring integrations
- Annual price discount
- Functions available
Premium
- messages per day
- 20 million
- concurrent connections
- 10,000
- support level
- Premium
- Messages per day: 20 million
- Concurrent connections: 10,000
- Level of support: Premium
- Monitoring integrations
- Annual price discount
- Functions available
Growth
- messages per day
- 40 million
- concurrent connections
- 15,000
- support level
- Premium
- Messages per day: 40 million
- Concurrent connections: 15,000
- Level of support: Premium
- Monitoring integrations
- Annual price discount
- Functions available
Plus
- messages per day
- 60 million
- concurrent connections
- 20,000
- support level
- Premium
- Messages per day: 60 million
- Concurrent connections: 20,000
- Level of support: Premium
- Monitoring integrations
- Annual price discount
- Functions available
Pricing extracted from Pusher's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Pusher free forever?
Yes. Pusher has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
Does Pusher require a credit card?
No. You can start on Pusher's free tier without entering card details.
What happens when you exceed Pusher's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Pusher's cheapest paid plan is Startup at $49 / month.
What is Pusher's free tier worth?
Pusher's free tier is worth about $49 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 71/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
