Pricing

Yes. We offer a Free tier for trial and proof of concept purposes. The Free tier allows you to connect up to 100 Daily Active Devices and try out any and all add-on features at no charge. For trial projects, this should be more than enough to get you up and running. Our Free tier also includes our Basic Support. Included in your free access are 1M messages and 1M BLOCKS executions. If you need additional messages, upgrade to the Growth tier starting at $49/month. Click here to get started today.

No – access to all the Data Stream Network features, such as Storage & Playback, BLOCKS, Presence, etc. is included in all plans. All features can be activated through the Administrator Dashboard. You pay just for any additional usage generated by using that feature. For example, enabling Presence will generate additional messages containing the presence events, or sending messages to trigger BLOCKS will generate execution charges.

Access to BLOCKS is included in all plans, along with 1M free executions. After that you pay for what you use. The following charges apply to your usage beyond the included allotment for your tier.

 

Executions Each time your code is triggered is called an execution, and will generate a usage charge.	$9 / million
KV Store Reads & XHR request/response Read operations made to the Key/Value store, e.g. get, getCounter, and usage of the XHR module in BLOCKS are counted and charged for.	$5 / million
KV Store Writes Write operations made to the Key/Value store in BLOCKS, e.g. set, incrCounter are counted and charged for.	$21 / million

When your application takes off and you grow beyond the Scale plan, our Large Scale transaction tier is there for you, with unlimited devices and a pay-as-you-go transaction model. You will be upgraded automatically from the Scale to the Large Scale transaction based model as you grow beyond the 20,000 device limit. After that, devices are not charged for, you receive unlimited free devices. Click here to contact us and learn more.

Daily Active Devices are measured as the number of unique UUIDs (universally unique identifiers) that connect to the PubNub network within each 24-hour period between 00:00:00 UTC and 23:59:59 UTC. This number is not correlated to DAU, MAU, concurrency or other metrics generated by other 3rd party analytics engines, and is not expected to match for several reasons. You can set a unique UUID via the PubNub client SDK.

PubNub will automatically upgrade your account to the next applicable Service Tier if you exceed your current Service Tier limits more than two (2) times in a calendar month, or by more than 10% at least once within a calendar month. This change will stay in effect unless the customer specifically requests an account change. Charges for the current month will be prorated and reflected in the next invoice. These changes will be communicated automatically by email to your billing contact.

The PubNub Administrative Dashboard gives you access to all of your usage metrics. These metrics are updated at least once per day so you should be able to get an accurate snapshot of your current monthly and historical usage. Simply login to the Administrative Dashboard, select your app or key, and then click the Usage option on the left.

Send as many messages as you like without upgrading your tier. Messages that exceed the included amount are charged a flat rate of $2.50/million. Additional BLOCKS executions are available at $9/million.

The Storage & Playback feature is free to use like all other features. You can choose the storage retention duration you want, including “forever” – the only variable for pricing is the total amount of data stored. The following amount of storage is included with each tier:

Starter – 2 GB

Pilot – 5 GB

Launch – 15 GB

Scale – 30 GB

Large Scale – 50 GB

At any usage tier, storage used in excess of the amount purchased will be billed in increments of 10 GB for $99 each.

Messages up to 32K in size can be sent through PubNub with or without TLS encryption.

PubNub accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover cards. For customers on Large Scale plans, we also accept wire and ACH payments.

If you have any additional questions that aren’t answered here, please contact PubNub support.