# Liveblocks

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/realtime/liveblocks/

Collaboration infrastructure billed in monthly credits, aimed at multiplayer and human-AI collaborative features.

## Who it suits

Building collaboration rather than transport — presence, comments, version history and pre-built components, with $30 of monthly credits on a $25 plan so the balance exceeds the fee.

Consider something else if You want a plain websocket. This is collaboration infrastructure with opinions about what you are building, and the free plan advertises credits without naming the amount, so the allowance cannot be sized before signing up.

## iScore

72 / 100 (80% interval 59–84), rank 2 of 4 in realtime — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every realtime peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/realtime/liveblocks/alternatives/

- Price: 82 (76–88), weight 45%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Capacity and limits: 50 (17–83), weight 36%, 0 of 1 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: concurrency_limit
- Evidence: 90 (90–90), weight 18%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://liveblocks.io/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Kind of free offer: Free tier ([source](https://liveblocks.io/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- What the free plan includes: A monthly credit allowance, plus the realtime infrastructure, collaboration features and pre-built components. The page says "free monthly credits" without naming the amount, so the size of the allowance is not sourced from here. ([source](https://liveblocks.io/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Credit card to start: No ([source](https://liveblocks.io/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Entry paid plan: $25 a month billed annually for Pro, which carries $30 of monthly credits — so the plan returns more credit than it costs. Team is $500 a month with $600 of credits, the same shape at twenty times the size. ([source](https://liveblocks.io/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: Credits, not units. A plan buys a monthly credit balance — $30 on Pro, $600 on Team — spent against whatever the product consumes, and the credit figure exceeds the plan price in both cases. Higher tiers also raise simultaneous connections and webhook event frequency rather than only the balance. ([source](https://liveblocks.io/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

## Compared with

- [Liveblocks vs Ably](https://inetgeek.com/compare/ably-vs-liveblocks/)
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- [Liveblocks vs PubNub](https://inetgeek.com/compare/pubnub-vs-liveblocks/)