# Pusher Channels vs Supabase Realtime

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Pusher Channels

| Attribute | Pusher Channels | Supabase Realtime |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 56.2 (62% (medium)) | 50.5 (13% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | Pusher Channels provides cloud-based WebSocket infrastructure that allows developers to build real-time features such as live dashboards, presence awareness, and collaborative editing without managing underlying network complexity. | A real-time service that synchronizes application state across clients, enabling database change notifications, user presence tracking, and low-latency message broadcasting for collaborative applications. |
| features.capabilities | - | `{"presence":true,"deployment":"cloud-hosted"}` |
| integrations.count | 2 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Librato"},{"name":"Datadog"}]` | - |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"GB","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Sandbox","summary":"Free","features":["Standard support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"messages_per_day":"200k","concurrent_connections":"100"}},{"free":false,"name":"Startup","summary":"$49/month","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"messages_per_day":"1 million","concurrent_connections":"500"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$99/month","features":["Monitoring integrations"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"messages_per_day":"4 million"}},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"$299/month","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":299,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"messages_per_day":"10 million"}},{"free":false,"name":"Premium","summary":"$499/month","features":["Premium support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":499,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"messages_per_day":"20 million","concurrent_connections":"10,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Growth","summary":"$699/month","features":["Annual price discount"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":699,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"messages_per_day":"40 million","concurrent_connections":"15,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Plus","summary":"$899/month","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":899,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"messages_per_day":"60 million","concurrent_connections":"20,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Growth Plus","summary":"$1,199/month","features":["Premium customer support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":1199,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"messages_per_day":"90 million","concurrent_connections":"30,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Custom plan","Outstanding uptime","Top-tier support"],"description":"For applications requiring 10+ million concurrent connections and 100+ billion messages","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Priority Support","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":3000,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $49/month for Startup plan. Free Sandbox tier available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pusher.com/channels/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T18:23:22.878Z","startingPrice":{"amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | - |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | mid | - |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":49,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |

## Capabilities (Realtime Messaging Infra)

| Capability | Pusher Channels | Supabase Realtime |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Presence | - | ✓ |
| Message history replay | - | - |
| Delivery guarantee | - | - |
| Global edge network | - | - |
| Scaling model | - | - |
| Offline reconnect catchup | - | - |
| Push notification bridge | - | - |
| Auth model | - | - |
| Self hostable | - | - |
| Mqtt support | - | - |
| Deployment | - | Cloud hosted |
| Pricing model | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:13:53.728Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*