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Pusher Channels pricing and limits

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pusher.com/channels · Realtime and websockets
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Hosted websockets sold as fixed plan tiers with pre-built ceilings rather than a usage meter.

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Entry paid plan$49 a month for Startup, which buys 1 million messages a day and 500 concurrent connections. Nothing is metered on top — the plan is the ceiling and the whole bill.
Free tierYes
CategoryRealtime and websockets

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Pusher Channels pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
$49 a month for Startup, which buys 1 million messages a day and 500 concurrent connections source ↗
Pricing model
Fixed plan tiers with pre-built ceilings and no usage metering at all — $49, $99, $299, $499, $699, $899 and $1,199 a month, each raising… source ↗
What the free plan includes
200,000 messages a day and 100 concurrent connections on the Sandbox plan, with standard support source ↗

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01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

A bill that cannot surprise you. Fixed tiers with pre-built ceilings and no usage metering at all, so $49 buys a million messages a day and 500 connections and that is the whole invoice.

Consider something else if…

Traffic is spiky. The ceilings are daily rather than monthly, so one busy day can hit a limit a monthly allowance would have absorbed — and exceeding a plan rate-limits you rather than billing you.

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Pusher Channels pricing

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Free tierYes
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Kind of free offerFree tier
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What the free plan includes200,000 messages a day and 100 concurrent connections on the Sandbox plan, with standard support. A daily message ceiling rather than a monthly one, which is the harder limit to plan around.
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Entry paid plan$49 a month for Startup, which buys 1 million messages a day and 500 concurrent connections. Nothing is metered on top — the plan is the ceiling and the whole bill.
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Pricing modelFixed plan tiers with pre-built ceilings and no usage metering at all — $49, $99, $299, $499, $699, $899 and $1,199 a month, each raising the daily message count and the concurrent connection count together. The page sells this as spending control, and the trade is explicit: you are rate-limited rather than invoiced when you exceed a plan.
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Observability

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Events included200,000 messages a day free, rising to 1 million at $49, 4 million at $99, 10 million at $299 and 20 million at $499. Counted per day rather than per month, so a single busy day can hit a ceiling a monthly figure would have absorbed.
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Queues

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Concurrency100 concurrent connections free, 500 at $49, 2,000 at $99, 5,000 at $299 and 10,000 at $499. The ceiling moves only when the plan does.
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Support

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Support on entry paid planStandard support up to the $99 Pro plan and Premium support from $299 Business upward. Support level is a plan attribute here rather than an add-on.
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Compliance

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ISO 27001Our security program, management system, controls and the implementation of those are audited at least twice per year by an independent and qualified third party, evidenced by the valid ISO27001:2013 certificate.
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  • Security | Pusher ↗

    “Our security program, management system, controls and the implementation of those are audited at least twice per year by an independent and qualified third party, evidenced by the valid ISO27001:2013 certificate.”

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Pusher Channels pricing questions

How much does Pusher Channels cost?

$49 a month for Startup, which buys 1 million messages a day and 500 concurrent connections. Nothing is metered on top — the plan is the ceiling and the whole bill.

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How does Pusher Channels charge?

Fixed plan tiers with pre-built ceilings and no usage metering at all — $49, $99, $299, $499, $699, $899 and $1,199 a month, each raising the daily message count and the concurrent connection count together. The page sells this as spending control, and the trade is explicit: you are rate-limited rather than invoiced when you exceed a plan.

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Does Pusher Channels have a free tier?

Yes. 200,000 messages a day and 100 concurrent connections on the Sandbox plan, with standard support. A daily message ceiling rather than a monthly one, which is the harder limit to plan around.

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