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What is Pusher Channels?

Pusher Channels is a powerful API designed to seamlessly integrate real-time capabilities into your applications, enhancing features such as dashboards, gaming, collaborative editing, and live mapping. By incorporating Pusher's managed WebSocket connection, developers can simplify their tech stack and deliver the engaging functionalities that users now expect in both web and mobile experiences. With just a single API call, Channels keeps you informed about any system changes, instantly triggering a WebSocket Update that lets you refresh the user interface in real-time. This service operates effectively regardless of your location or the number of connections you manage, delivering billions of messages every month to various platforms, including browsers, mobile devices, and IoT solutions through an event-driven API. Pusher takes charge of the complexities of real-time infrastructure, offering a reliable and cost-efficient solution compared to the challenges of building and maintaining systems in-house. This allows developers to concentrate on enhancing their products without the burden of infrastructure management. Ultimately, Pusher Channels empowers teams to innovate and create engaging user experiences with minimal hassle.

What is PubNub?

PubNub is a real-time application development platform that provides managed messaging infrastructure, APIs, and software development kits for building interactive digital experiences. The platform uses a publish/subscribe architecture to distribute messages and events between applications, users, connected devices, and backend services. Its globally distributed network enables low-latency communication without requiring developers to manage dedicated messaging servers or complex networking infrastructure. PubNub supports real-time messaging for chat applications, multiplayer games, collaborative workspaces, live streaming interactions, and customer engagement platforms. Its Presence API monitors user and device connectivity, providing information about online status, channel occupancy, and connection events. Message Persistence stores published messages for later retrieval, allowing applications to display conversation histories and recover missed information after reconnection. App Context provides structured storage for user profiles, channel metadata, and membership information while distributing updates to connected clients. PubNub Functions enables developers to execute serverless JavaScript logic for message validation, filtering, transformation, and other event-driven operations. The platform includes access management, encryption, mobile push notifications, file sharing, and message actions for implementing secure interactive features. Its analytics and event processing capabilities support application monitoring, user activity analysis, and integrations with external services through webhooks, Kafka, and AWS technologies. PubNub offers more than 50 SDKs and development integrations, supporting applications in industries such as gaming, ecommerce, transportation, healthcare, media, and connected device management.

Media

Media

Integrations Supported

Pipedream

Integrations Supported

Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Kinesis
Autymate
Azure AI Bot Service
ChatGPT
Clarifai
Cloudinary
Falkonry
GIPHY
Gupshup
IBM Watson
IBM Watson Language Translator
Mapbox
React
RingCentral RingEX
Sift
TypeScript
Vonage Video API
Wolfram Alpha

API Availability

API Availability

Has API

Pricing Information

$49
Channels allows you to scale to suit your needs; starting with a free sandbox plan so you can try the product out, and with priced plans which follow you through startup, business, growth and premium phases as your product scales.
There are also bespoke pricing options for those who are ready to scale past their limits, or require custom technical support or dedicated clusters.
Free Version

Pricing Information

$98/month
Free Version
Free Trial Offered?

Supported Platforms

SaaS
Android
iPhone
iPad
Windows
Mac

Supported Platforms

SaaS
Android
iPhone
iPad

Customer Service / Support

Standard Support
24 Hour Support
Web-Based Support

Customer Service / Support

24 Hour Support
Web-Based Support

Training Options

Documentation Hub

Training Options

Documentation Hub
Webinars

Company Facts

Organization Name

Pusher

Company Location

United Kingdom

Company Website

pusher.com/channels

Company Facts

Organization Name

PubNub

Date Founded

2010

Company Location

United States

Company Website

pubnub.com

Categories and Features

Application Development

Access Controls/Permissions
Collaboration Tools
Mobile Development
Software Development
Web App Development

Communication APIs

Not specified

Mobile App Development

Access Controls / Permissions
Collaboration Tools
For Consumer Apps
For Enterprise Apps
Multiple Apps from Same Base
Reporting / Analytics

Categories and Features

Application Development

Access Controls/Permissions
Debugging
Mobile Development
Reporting/Analytics
Web App Development

Chat SDK & API

Not specified

Communication APIs

Not specified

Event Brokers

Not specified

Game Development

Not specified

IoT

Application Development

Serverless

API Proxy
Developer Tooling
Reporting / Analytics
Serverless Computing
Storage

Webhook

Not specified

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