Snapshot
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- Pusher provides hosted, bi-directional APIs that let developers add real-time features to web and mobile apps without building their own messaging infrastructure.
More detail
- Its Channels product delivers publish/subscribe messaging over WebSockets with HTTP fallbacks, and its Beams product handles programmatic push notifications to iOS, Android and web browsers.
- Best for
- Web and mobile development teams that need live dashboards, chat, presence, notifications or location tracking and want to buy managed real-time infrastructure with broad SDK coverage rather than build it.
- Pricing
- Metered subscription plans, not a one-off license.
More detail
- Channels tiers run from a free Sandbox (200k messages/day, 100 concurrent connections) through Startup at $49/month, Pro at $99/month, Business at $299/month, Premium at $499/month, Growth at $699/month, Plus at $899/month and Growth Plus at $1,199/
- Main limitation
- Teams that need persistent data storage, data residency outside the nine published cluster locations, or security reviews on non-Enterprise plans
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- also a poor fit where published per-message payloads must exceed 10 kB.
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About
- Pusher provides hosted, bi-directional APIs that let developers add real-time features to web and mobile apps without building their own messaging infrastructure.
- Its Channels product delivers publish/subscribe messaging over WebSockets with HTTP fallbacks, and its Beams product handles programmatic push notifications to iOS, Android and web browsers.
What it helps with
- Building and maintaining scalable real-time messaging infrastructure is time-consuming and expensive, so teams buy it ho
- Sudden traffic spikes require engineering complexity that customers report not having to build themselves with Pusher.
- WebSocket support is unreliable behind some proxies and firewalls, so automatic HTTP fallbacks are needed for client com
- Delivering push notifications consistently across iOS, Android and web requires separate vendor integrations that Beams
- Coordinating online/offline presence and live user lists across apps is handled through presence channels rather than cu
Capabilities
A practical view of what is available and where limitations apply.
| Offering | Available | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Managed WebSocket pub/sub | Yes | Hosted Channels publish/subscribe with WebSocket delivery and HTTP fallbacks. |
| Channel types | Yes | Public, private (authenticated), end-to-end encrypted, presence and cache channels are documented. |
| Presence and online status | Yes | Presence channels expose online/offline user lists for collaboration features. |
| Programmatic push notifications | Yes | Beams sends broadcast and targeted notifications to iOS, Android and web via APNs and FCM. |
| Persistent data storage | No | Data passing through the APIs is ephemeral; cache channel values are in-memory only and expire after 30 minutes. |
| Payload size | Limited | Published event data must be under 10 kB per publish call. |
| Data residency choice | Limited | Public clusters exist in nine locations; dedicated clusters only on request to some Enterprise customers. |
| Security review availability | Limited | Reviews are limited to Enterprise plans with a security engagement; penetration test attestations require an NDA. |
| Observability export | Yes | Dashboard metrics can be exported to Datadog or Librato and activity is visible via webhooks and API. |
| Independent review evidence | Unknown | No third-party review sources are included in the supplied evidence pack. |
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