Pusher
Powering realtime experiences for mobile and web
- Also known as
- pusher
What is Pusher?
Bi-directional hosted APIs for building scalable realtime features and programmatic push notifications. Flexible, scalable messaging infrastructure for web and mobile applications.
Pusher pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $49/month. Free Sandbox tier. Annual discounts available.
Sandbox
Free- messages_per_day
- 200k
- concurrent_connections
- 100
- Standard support
- 24/7 platform monitoring
Startup
- messages_per_day
- 1M
- concurrent_connections
- 500
- Standard support
- 24/7 platform monitoring
Pro
- messages_per_day
- 4M
- concurrent_connections
- 2000
- Standard support
- 24/7 platform monitoring
Business
- messages_per_day
- 10M
- concurrent_connections
- 5000
- Premium support
- 24/7 platform monitoring
- Target 24 hours response
Premium
- messages_per_day
- 20M
- concurrent_connections
- 10000
- Premium support
- 24/7 platform monitoring
- Target 24 hours response
Growth
Contact sales- messages_per_day
- 40M
- concurrent_connections
- 15000
- Premium support
- 24/7 platform monitoring
- Target 24 hours response
Plus
Contact sales- messages_per_day
- 60M
- concurrent_connections
- 20000
- Premium support
- 24/7 platform monitoring
- Target 24 hours response
Growth Plus
Contact sales- messages_per_day
- 90M
- concurrent_connections
- 30000
- Premium support
- 24/7 platform monitoring
- Target 24 hours response
Enterprise
Contact salesWhat Pusher does
The capabilities that matter for communication apis, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- SMS
- -
- Voice
- -
- -
- RCS
- -
- Transactional email
- -
- Video / real-time
- -
- In-app chat
- ✓
- Verify / OTP / 2FA
- -
- Two-way messaging
- ✓
- Geographic coverage
- Global
- Email deliverability tools
- -
- Published per-unit pricing
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
Pusher alternatives
Other communication apis we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- AgoraReal-Time Engagement & Conversational AI Platformlow · 48%
- NovuThe communication infrastructure for agents and productsmedium · 64%
- DailyRealtime voice, video, and AI for developersmedium · 62%
- StreamScalable Chat, Video & Activity Feed APIs and SDKsmedium · 62%
- Plivomedium · 62%
- BirdCommunications infrastructure your AI agents operatelow · 30%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Pusher, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 45 | 22.00 | 990.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 58 | 12.00 | 693.8 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 8.00 | 400.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 16.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.