Is Rollup or Soketi better?

Neither clearly leads. Rollup starts at Free and Soketi at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Rollup or Soketi?

Rollup starts at Free and Soketi at Free.

Does Rollup or Soketi run on more platforms?

Both run on Linux, macOS, Windows, so platform support will not decide this one for you.

Can I use Rollup for free?

Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.

What is Rollup best used for?

Rollup is most often used for publishing a javascript library in several module formats, builds where output size and cleanliness matter more than build speed, producing es module output for consumers who will bundle it themselves. Of those, publishing a javascript library in several module formats and builds where output size and cleanliness matter more than build speed are not what Soketi is typically brought in for.

What can Rollup do that Soketi cannot?

Rollup covers Tree shaking, Clean output, Multiple output formats, Plugin API. Soketi covers Pusher protocol compatibility, Presence and private channels, Horizontal scaling, App management backends.

Web Development · head to head

Rollup vs Soketi

Rollup

Web Development

JavaScript module bundler built for libraries

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

Soketi

Developer Tools

Self-hosted, Pusher-compatible WebSockets server with a stalled maintenance record

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Rollup slower than the Go and Rust bundlers that followed it, since it is written in JavaScript; Soketi maintenance has effectively stalled: the maintainer has said time is severely limited, releases are infrequent, and the community has been discussing whether the project is abandoned, which means security fixes may not arrive.
They diverge on capability: Rollup covers Tree shaking, Soketi covers Pusher protocol compatibility.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Rollup and Soketi actually diverge.

Attributes where Rollup and Soketi differ
Attribute	Rollup	Soketi
Category	Web Development	Developer Tools

Identical on both: starting price (Free), pricing model (Open source, no licence fee), free tier (Yes), platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows), user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Rollup

Tree shaking
Clean output
Multiple output formats
Plugin API

Only in Soketi

Pusher protocol compatibility
Presence and private channels
Horizontal scaling
App management backends
Webhooks
Prometheus metrics

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Rollup

Publishing a JavaScript library in several module formatsnot Soketi
Builds where output size and cleanliness matter more than build speednot Soketi
Producing ES module output for consumers who will bundle it themselvesnot Soketi

Soketi

A Laravel application that already uses Echo and wants to stop paying a hosted realtime providernot Rollup
Realtime notifications or presence indicators where data must not leave your own infrastructure for compliance reasonsnot Rollup
A local or CI environment that needs a Pusher-compatible server without hitting a paid accountnot Rollup
A high-connection-count application where hosted per-connection pricing has become the largest line in the infrastructure billnot Rollup

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Rollup

Slower than the Go and Rust bundlers that followed it, since it is written in JavaScript
Application concerns like dev servers and hot reloading are not its job, so app builds need Vite on top
Configuration for non-trivial applications gets verbose compared with tools that assume more

Soketi

Maintenance has effectively stalled: the maintainer has said time is severely limited, releases are infrequent, and the community has been discussing whether the project is abandoned, which means security fixes may not arrive.
Dependency drift on Node and uWebSockets.js will eventually force you to fork or migrate, and that cost is unbudgeted at the point you adopt it.
There is no commercial support to buy, so a production incident at three in the morning is entirely your problem with no escalation path.
Scaling beyond a single node needs Redis and careful configuration, and getting presence channels correct across nodes is a genuine source of subtle bugs.
It implements the Pusher protocol rather than tracking it, so any protocol feature Pusher adds later will not appear, and the compatibility guarantee slowly decays.

Pricing, plan by plan

Rollup

Free

RollupFree
- Full functionality
- Commercial use permitted
- Community support

Soketi

Free

SoketiFree
- MIT licensed
- Unlimited connections subject to your own hardware
- No vendor billing

Which should you pick?

Choose Rollup if

You need tree shaking.
You want to start without paying.
You work on Linux, macOS, Windows.
You also want clean output.

Rollup review

Choose Soketi if

You need pusher protocol compatibility.
You want to start without paying.
You work on Linux, macOS, Windows.
You also want presence and private channels.

Soketi review

Questions people ask

Is Rollup or Soketi better?: Neither clearly leads. Rollup starts at Free and Soketi at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Rollup or Soketi?: Rollup starts at Free and Soketi at Free.
Does Rollup or Soketi run on more platforms?: Both run on Linux, macOS, Windows, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
Can I use Rollup for free?: Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.
What is Rollup best used for?: Rollup is most often used for publishing a javascript library in several module formats, builds where output size and cleanliness matter more than build speed, producing es module output for consumers who will bundle it themselves. Of those, publishing a javascript library in several module formats and builds where output size and cleanliness matter more than build speed are not what Soketi is typically brought in for.
What can Rollup do that Soketi cannot?: Rollup covers Tree shaking, Clean output, Multiple output formats, Plugin API. Soketi covers Pusher protocol compatibility, Presence and private channels, Horizontal scaling, App management backends.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Rollup: Is Rollup free?

Yes, open source under the MIT licence.

Soketi: Is Soketi still maintained?

Barely. The maintainer has stated that available time is very limited and releases have been sparse; treat it as community-maintained.

Rollup: Rollup or webpack?

Rollup is the usual choice for libraries thanks to cleaner output and better tree shaking. webpack remains stronger for complex applications with heavy asset handling.

Soketi: Do I need to change my client code?

No. Pusher client SDKs and Laravel Echo work by changing the host, port and credentials.

Rollup: Do I need Rollup if I use Vite?

Not directly. Vite uses Rollup for production builds, so you already benefit from it.

Soketi: What does it cost?

Nothing in licence fees. It is MIT licensed; you pay for the server it runs on.

Soketi: What are people moving to?

Laravel Reverb for Laravel applications, and Sockudo, a Rust reimplementation, for others.

Rollup vs Soketi

Rollup

Soketi

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Rollup

Only in Soketi

What people use each for

Rollup

Soketi

Where each one falls short

Rollup

Soketi

Pricing, plan by plan

Rollup

Soketi

Which should you pick?

Choose Rollup if

Choose Soketi if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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