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Pusher pricing
Pusher publishes 4 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 $49/month
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Pusher 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandbox | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Startup | $49/month | 2 | +$49/month, 2 more features |
| Pro | $99/month | 2 | +$50/month, 2 more features |
| Business | $299/month | 3 | +$200/month, 3 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.
Sandbox
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 200k messages/day, 100 concurrent connections, standard support.
Startup
$49/monthOver Sandbox, this tier adds:
- 1M messages/day
- 500 concurrent connections
Pro
$99/monthOver Startup, this tier adds:
- 4M messages/day
- 2,000 concurrent connections
Business
$299/monthOver Pro, this tier adds:
- 10M messages/day
- 5,000 concurrent connections
- Premium support
Where Pusher stops being free
Sandbox, Free
- 200k messages/day
- 100 concurrent connections
- Standard support
Startup, $49/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 1M messages/day
- 500 concurrent connections
What the product covers
The full Pusher 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
- Pub/sub channels
- Presence channels
- 24/7 monitoring
- Priority support
integration
- Client libraries
- Webhooks
People bring Pusher in for adding live chat to a web or mobile app, showing realtime presence of online users, pushing live notifications or dashboard updates, building collaborative features without managing websocket servers. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Pusher are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Pusher
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: 4 tiers between Free and $299/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.
Pusher runs on web, ios, android, api, and is published by Pusher. The full record is on the Pusher review.
Pusher pricing questions
- How much does Pusher cost?
- Pusher publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Sandbox up to $299/month for Business. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Pusher have a free plan?
- Yes. The Sandbox tier costs nothing and covers 200k messages/day, 100 concurrent connections, standard support. Paying starts at $49/month for Startup.
- What is the difference between Sandbox and Startup on Pusher?
- Startup costs $49/month against Free, and adds 1m messages/day, 500 concurrent connections.
- Is the Business plan on Pusher worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 10m messages/day, 5,000 concurrent connections, premium support. It costs $299/month against $49/month for Startup. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with Pusher?
- The record lists 6 features across 2 areas: core, integration. In practice it is brought in for adding live chat to a web or mobile app, showing realtime presence of online users, pushing live notifications or dashboard updates.
- Does Pusher charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 Pusher 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 Pusher against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Pusher to make a useful price comparison.