API Management · pricing
Liveblocks pricing
Liveblocks publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $30/month
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Liveblocks plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Pro | $30/month | 4 | +$30/month, 3 more features |
| Team | $600/month | 4 | +$570/month, 4 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 10 projects, 3 dashboard seats, 10 simultaneous connections per room, 3,000 collaboration minutes.
Pro
$30/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- $30 monthly credits
- Removes Liveblocks branding
- 30-day version history
Team
$600/monthOver Pro, this tier adds:
- SSO and SOC 2
- 10 dashboard seats
- 50 connections/room
- 90-day version history
Where Liveblocks stops being free
Free, Free
- 10 projects
- 3 dashboard seats
- 10 simultaneous connections per room
- 3,000 collaboration minutes
Pro, $30/month
The first thing you pay for:
- $30 monthly credits
- Removes Liveblocks branding
- 30-day version history
What the product covers
The full Liveblocks feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
core
- Realtime presence and cursors
- Comments
- Version history
- Custom notifications
security
- SSO and SOC 2
integration
- Management API
People bring Liveblocks in for adding live cursors and presence to a collaborative editor, building threaded comments on documents or designs, sending realtime notifications tied to collaborative actions, restoring previous versions of collaborative content. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Liveblocks are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in API Management
Across the 4 api management tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $73.5/month. Liveblocks starts at $30/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liveblocks (this page) | Free, then $30/month | freemium | - | |
| Treblle | $233/month | subscription | - | vs Liveblocks |
| Stainless | Free | freemium | - | vs Liveblocks |
| Pusher | Free, then $49/month | freemium | - | vs Liveblocks |
| PubNub | Free, then $98/month | freemium | - | vs Liveblocks |
| Moesif | Free | usage-based | - | vs Liveblocks |
| Kong Gateway | Free | freemium | - | vs Liveblocks |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Liveblocks badges page.
Before you pay for Liveblocks
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $600/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Liveblocks runs on web, api, and is published by Liveblocks. The full record is on the Liveblocks review, and the rest of the category is under best api management tools.
Liveblocks pricing questions
- How much does Liveblocks cost?
- Liveblocks publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $600/month for Team. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Liveblocks have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 10 projects, 3 dashboard seats, 10 simultaneous connections per room. Paying starts at $30/month for Pro.
- What is the difference between Free and Pro on Liveblocks?
- Pro costs $30/month against Free, and adds $30 monthly credits, removes liveblocks branding, 30-day version history.
- Is the Team plan on Liveblocks worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is sso and soc 2, 10 dashboard seats, 50 connections/room, 90-day version history. It costs $600/month against $30/month for Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Liveblocks expensive for a api management tool?
- It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 4 api management tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $73.5/month; Liveblocks starts at $30/month.
- Which api management tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 7 api management tools listed alongside Liveblocks have a free tier: Stainless, Pusher, PubNub, Moesif, Kong Gateway.
- What am I actually paying for with Liveblocks?
- The record lists 6 features across 3 areas: core, security, integration. In practice it is brought in for adding live cursors and presence to a collaborative editor, building threaded comments on documents or designs, sending realtime notifications tied to collaborative actions.
- Does Liveblocks charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Liveblocks prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Liveblocks against before paying?
- The closest api management tools in this directory are Treblle, Stainless, Pusher, PubNub. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Liveblocks covering price, platforms and features.