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Soketi pricing
Soketi publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the developer tools tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, Soketi pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Soketi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soketi | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where Soketi stops being free
Soketi, Free
- MIT licensed
- Unlimited connections subject to your own hardware
- No vendor billing
- Community support only
- Self-hosting and patching are your responsibility
No paid tier on record
Soketi lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Soketi 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.
Other
- Pusher protocol compatibility
- Presence and private channels
- Horizontal scaling
- App management backends
- Webhooks
- Prometheus metrics
People bring Soketi in for a laravel application that already uses echo and wants to stop paying a hosted realtime provider, realtime notifications or presence indicators where data must not leave your own infrastructure for compliance reasons, a local or ci environment that needs a pusher-compatible server without hitting a paid account, a high-connection-count application where hosted per-connection pricing has become the largest line in the infrastructure bill. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Soketi are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Developer Tools
Too few developer tools tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soketi (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Tilt | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Soketi |
| Hookdeck | Free, then $39/month | Per month by delivered event count | - | vs Soketi |
| Jitsu | Free, then $99/month | Per month by event volume | - | vs Soketi |
| Ona (formerly Gitpod) | Free, then $20/month | Per month by compute unit | - | vs Soketi |
| Restate | Free, then $300/month | Per month by durable action count | - | vs Soketi |
| Cloud Native Buildpacks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Soketi |
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 Soketi badges page.
Before you pay for Soketi
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: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Soketi runs on linux, macos, windows, and is published by Soketi (community project) of Romania. The full record is on the Soketi review, and the rest of the category is under best developer tools tools.
Soketi pricing questions
- How much does Soketi cost?
- Soketi publishes a single tier, Soketi, at Free.
- Does Soketi have a free plan?
- Yes. The Soketi tier costs nothing and covers mit licensed, unlimited connections subject to your own hardware, no vendor billing.
- Which developer tools tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 developer tools tools listed alongside Soketi have a free tier: Tilt, Hookdeck, Jitsu, Ona (formerly Gitpod), Restate.
- What am I actually paying for with Soketi?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a laravel application that already uses echo and wants to stop paying a hosted realtime provider, realtime notifications or presence indicators where data must not leave your own infrastructure for compliance reasons, a local or ci environment that needs a pusher-compatible server without hitting a paid account.
- Does Soketi charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 Soketi 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 Soketi against before paying?
- The closest developer tools tools in this directory are Tilt, Hookdeck, Jitsu, Ona (formerly Gitpod). Each has a side-by-side comparison with Soketi covering price, platforms and features.