Data Persistence

Depending on enabled features and your app's keyset configuration in the Admin Portal, PubNub may store and charge you for persisting certain types of data.

Data replication

To provide low retrieval latencies, PubNub replicates all data on across different PubNub’s points of presence (POPs), except for Metadata and File Sharing that are only stored in a single region.

Messages

PubNub may store message and message actions data.

Item	Description
Price	8$/GB/month
API calls that persist data	publish() addMessageAction()
Data persistence configuration	Enable/disable Message Persistence in Admin Portal Change retention in Admin Portal (1 day, 7 days, 30 days, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, or Unlimited). Call the deleteMessages() or removeMessageAction() methods. Use the storeInHistory or ttl parameters of the publish() method. Contact support@pubnub.com to remove old data or change existing keysets' retention period.

Permissions

Access Manager v2 stores the mapping of authorization keys with its permission sets. Access Manager v3 stores only the tokens that are revoked.

Item	Description
Price	8$/GB/month
API calls that persist data	v2 grant() v3 revokeToken()
Data persistence configuration	Enable/disable Access Manager in Admin Portal v3 - Enable/disable revoke for Access Manager v3 in Admin Portal v2 - Remove permissions on a resource with the v2 grant() method. Contact support@pubnub.com to remove your Access Manager data.

Access Manager v3 tokens

Active tokens obtained by the v3 grantToken() method aren't persisted.

Metadata

PubNub stores metadata about your application's users and channels, and their membership associations.

Item	Description
Price	8$/GB/month
API calls that persist data	setUserMetadata() setChannelMetadata() setChannelMemberships() setChannelMembers()
Data persistence configuration	removeUserMetadata() removeChannelMetadata() removeChannelMemberships() removeChannelMembers()

K/V store

PubNub stores Functions as key-value pairs.

Item	Description
Price	8$/GB/month
API calls that persist data	set() setitem()
Data persistence configuration	Set TTL

Channel groups

PubNub stores channel groups as key-value pairs.

Item	Description
Price	8$/GB/month
API calls that persist data	addChannels()
Data persistence configuration	removeChannels() deleteGroup() Contact support@pubnub.com to remove all channel group data.

Push

PubNub stores the associations between mobile devices tokens and PubNub channel names.

Item	Description
Price	8$/GB/month
API calls that persist data	addChannels()
Data persistence configuration	removeChannels() deleteDevice() Contact support@pubnub.com to remove all registered devices.

File Sharing

PubNub stores previously uploaded files.

Item	Description
Price	No additional charge
API calls that persist data	sendFile()
Data persistence configuration	deleteFile() Contact support@pubnub.com to remove all files.

For more details on pricing models, refer to the Pricing page.