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Realtime collaboration infrastructure for building multiplayer features
Overview
Liveblocks is a realtime collaboration infrastructure platform that gives developers APIs and pre-built components for adding multiplayer features to applications, including live cursors, presence, comments, and version history. It offers a credit-based pricing model with a free tier for small projects and Pro, Team, and Enterprise plans that include monthly credits covering collaboration minutes, comments, and storage, with metered overage billed at published rates.
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Ably: Ably offers lower-level realtime pub/sub infrastructure that can be used to build similar collaborative features.
Pusher: Pusher provides realtime channel infrastructure that can support presence and collaboration use cases with simpler pricing tiers.
Pricing
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Free
Free
Pro
$30 /mo
Team
$600 /mo
Capabilities
Realtime presence and cursors
Show live user presence and cursor positions in a shared document
Comments
Add threaded comments to collaborative documents
Version history
Track and restore previous versions of collaborative content
Custom notifications
Send realtime notifications tied to collaboration events
SSO and SOC 2
Enterprise-grade security and single sign-on on Team and Enterprise plans
Management API
Programmatically manage rooms and permissions at scale
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Liveblocks offers a Free plan with hard usage caps, a Pro plan at $30/month ($25/month billed annually) including $30 in monthly credits, a Team plan from $600/month, and custom Enterprise pricing.
SourceYes, the Free plan includes 10 projects, 3 dashboard seats, 10 simultaneous connections per room, 3,000 collaboration minutes, 200 comments, and 1GB of realtime data storage, with features pausing once a cap is hit.
SourcePaid plans include monthly credits covering collaboration minutes, comments, and storage; usage beyond the credit is billed at metered rates such as $0.002 per collaboration minute and $0.01 per comment, with credits resetting each billing cycle without rollover.
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