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PubNub pricing

Realtime messaging priced only by monthly active users: messages, connections and channels are included.

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Every plan below was checked against PubNub's own pages on . Prices in USD.

Plans

Free

Free

At the limit
Needs an upgrade past the limit
Limits
  • Monthly active users: 200 users a month200 monthly active users (or 1M transactions)
  • Free forever with no card, for testing and prototypes.

Source: pubnub.com · checked

Starter

$98.00/month

At the limit
Needs an upgrade past the limit
Limits
  • Monthly active users: 1,000 users a month1,000 monthly active users
  • $98 a month for up to 1,000 monthly active users, with 6 months of message history.

Source: pubnub.com · checked

Platform Pro

$143/month

At the limit
Bills for extra usage
Limits
  • Monthly active users: 50K users a monthUp to 50,000 MAU; above that is custom pricing
Usage pricing
  • Monthly active users: $0.044 per user (up to 9,250 users)
  • Monthly active users: $0.0385 per user (above 10K users, up to 50K users)
  • PubNub's formula: up to 10,000 MAU, ($130 + $0.04 per MAU) × 1.1, capped at $550; from 10,000 to 50,000, ($500 + $0.035 per extra MAU) × 1.1.
  • PubNub's own examples round up to the nearest $10 (for example $190 at 1,000 MAU).

Source: pubnub.com · checked

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