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Activity Feeds & Chat Messaging

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Activity Feeds & Chat Messaging

PubNub

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  • Free tier: Unlimited channels, 100 max devices, 1 million messages/month, support
  • Pros: Send and receive messages and signals to any device in under 0.25 seconds worldwide. 70+ Realtime SDKs. Wonderful docs, and dashboard. Add on features such as BLOCKS (Serverless compute for building and scaling realtime applications.), Presence, Storage, Push Notifications, Analytics, and Access Management.

Pusher

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  • Free tier: Unlimited channels, 100 max connections, 200,000 messages a day, support
  • Pros: Send messages from your server and subscribe to them in real-time from any client (Android, iOS, JavaScript, etc.) at massive scale (Pub/Sub). Great documentation, intuitive client libraries, and a powerful dashboard for testing, debugging, and analytics. Libraries available for various languages.

Stream

Pricing page (Chat)
Pricing page (Activity Feeds)

  • Free tier: 2k MAU on Chat / 9 million feed updates/month for Feeds with the Maker Account
  • Pros: REST API + SDK Support for major languages and frameworks. Highly scalable infrastructure that powers experiences for over a billion users.
  • Limitations: The Maker Account is limited to companies with five or less team members, less than $10k in monthly revenue and have taken less than $100k in funding.