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$49 is the monthly prepay toward your usage. Any additional usage results in extra costs. See details.*
PubNub Chat
- Included
- Monthly Active Users
- Features
- Direct and Group Chats
- User Presence
- Unread Message Counts
- Typing Indicators
- Read Receipts
- Message Reactions
- Mobile Push Notifications
- Access Controls
- Encryption
- Unlimited Concurrent Connections
- Unlimited Channels
- Message Storage
- PubNub Functions
- GDPR Compliance
- HIPAA Compliance
- Included
- Monthly Active Users
- Features
- Direct and Group Chats
- User Presence
- Unread Message Counts
- Typing Indicators
- Read Receipts
- Message Reactions
- Mobile Push Notifications
- Access Controls
- Encryption
- Unlimited Concurrent Connections
- Unlimited Channels
- Message Storage
- PubNub Functions
- GDPR Compliance
- HIPAA Compliance
- Let’s talk to find the best pricing plan for you.
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
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- Yes
Add a premium support plan
- Included
- Monthly Active Users
- Features
- Direct and Group Chats
- User Presence
- Unread Message Counts
- Typing Indicators
- Read Receipts
- Message Reactions
- Mobile Push Notifications
- Access Controls
- Encryption
- Unlimited Concurrent Connections
- Unlimited Channels
- Message Storage
- PubNub Functions
- GDPR Compliance
- HIPAA Compliance
- 1,500
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
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- Yes
- $8/GB per month after 30 days.
- No
- No
- No
Add a premium support plan
Add a premium support plan
Realtime Communication Platform
- Unlimited concurrent connections
- Unlimited channels
- Unlimited devices
- < 100ms worldwide latency
- Volume-based discounts
- Annual prepay options
- Personalized services
- 99.999% SLA
- GDPR Compliance
- HIPAA Compliance
- Unlimited concurrent connections
- Unlimited channels
- Unlimited devices
- < 100ms worldwide latency
- Volume-based discounts
- Annual prepay options
- Personalized services
- 99.999% SLA
- GDPR Compliance
- HIPAA Compliance
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
Add a premium support plan
- Unlimited concurrent connections
- Unlimited channels
- Unlimited devices
- < 100ms worldwide latency
- Volume-based discounts
- Annual prepay options
- Personalized services
- 99.999% SLA
- GDPR Compliance
- HIPAA Compliance
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- No
- No
- No
- No
- No
- No
- No
Add a premium support plan
Add a premium support plan
Common Questions, Answered.
For how long can I use the Realtime Communication Platform Free Plan? ¶
As long as you stay within the limits of the Free Plan (1 million Transactions or Functions Executions, and 1 GB of message storage per calendar month), you can use it for as long as you need to. It is intended for testing and development purposes – once your application reaches production, you will need to upgrade to a paid account. The number of Transactions, Functions Executions, and Storage reset at the beginning of each calendar month.
What are the Realtime Communication Platform transactions? How are they measured? ¶
Transactions are API requests that are made to the PubNub network. When you make an API call to PubNub, we count that as a transaction.
Each transaction can consist of up to a 2048 byte payload. Since payloads up to 32KB are supported, larger transactions are counted as multiple transactions, where the payload is divided into 2048 bytes buckets.
Transactions may be designated as either replicated, edge, message action, or signal. Learn more about our transaction classification.
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How we Calculate Price?
Monthly Active User
A Monthly Active User (MAU) is a unique user at least once to PubNub in one calendar month.
Messages
A message consist of a request to send or receive content, in realtime or from history.
Message Limit
There is a soft limit to the max number of messages you can use per month (500 times the number of MAUs). If you need more messages talk to sales to switch to the transaction-based pricing model.
How we Calculate Price?
Monthly Active User
A Monthly Active User (MAU) is a unique user at least once to PubNub in one calendar month.
Messages
A message consist of a request to send or receive content, in realtime or from history.
Message Limit
There is a soft limit to the max number of messages you can use per month (500 times the number of MAUs). If you need more messages talk to sales to switch to the transaction-based pricing model.
PubNub Chat Pricing – Details
The chat pricing plans based on Monthly Active Users (MAUs) are only available for customers building chat applications using PubNub APIs. Please refer to our transaction plans if you are using PubNub for other use cases.
- TRANSACTION
- COST
- DEFINITION
Overage for Monthly Active Users
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Starter plan: $0.050 / user
If you exceed the Monthly Active User limit in your plan, an overage fee will be charged per MAU over the limit of included users. Please contact sales to switch to a custom plan.
Monthly Transactions
$0.00003
The total number of transactions per month included in the plan is 3,000 multiplied by the number of MAUs. For example, 1,000 MAUs include 3 million transactions. The total number of transactions is the sum of the usage of all transaction types (replicated, edge, message-actions, signals). If you exceed the number of included transactions in the plan, an overage fee will be charged per transaction over the limit. If you need more transactions, please contact sales to switch to a custom plan.
Learn more about Transactions
Functions Executions
$0.000025
Are counted for each execution of a PubNub Function. Use Functions to add profanity filtering, spam control, language translation on messages or to integrate with third-party services.
Learn more about Functions.
Message Storage
$8 / GB
Store and retrieve past messages with simple APIs for accessing historical data with EU/US-only storage options. Messages are stored for free for up to 30 days.
Learn more about Data Persistence.
Pay per transaction - Details
Transactions are measured as payloads of 2KB or less . For payloads up to 32KB multiply the number of Transactions by units of 2KB (e.g. an 8KB payload would incur 4 Transactions).
- Transaction
- Costs/unit
- Definition
Replicated Transaction
- $0.000075
API calls that result in information replicating across multiple PubNub Points-of-Presence (PoP), such as publishing a message
Learn more about Replicated Transaction.
Edge Transaction
- $0.000020
API calls that interact with a single PubNub PoP, such as receiving a published message via a Subscribe API call
Learn more about Edge Transaction.
Message Action Transaction
- $0.000015
API calls that add, remove or get actions on PubNub messages
Learn more about Message Action Transaction.
Signal Transaction
- $0.000005
API calls that send Signal messages part of a high-volume stream of payloads (each up to 30 bytes) intended to inform or instruct an application
Learn more about Signal Transaction.
Functions Execution
- $0.000025
Are counted for each execution of a PubNub Function.
Learn more about Functions.
Data Persistence GB
- $8
API calls that store data into PubNub, such as Storage & Playback, the Key/Value store, and others.
Learn more about Data Persistence.