PubNub Chat
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free Plan | Forever free; no credit card required · 200 MAU or 1M transactions · 1GB storage (7 days) · up to 1M transactions monthly · 5 test Serverless Functions | Free |
| Starter Plan | $98/month · 1,000 MAU included · up to 6 months data storage · 30 Serverless Functions · Insights · BizOps Workspace add-on | $98 a month |
| Pro Plan | Custom pricing; contact sales · Custom MAU packages · significant volume discounts · unlimited data storage · advanced analytics and monitoring · up to 99.999% uptime SLA | On request |
As pubnub.com lists them, read 30 Sept 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from PubNub Chat's own pages
- Chat modes
- The SDK supports 1:1, group, and large-scale chat use cases. · pubnub.com, 30 Sept 2026
- Company background
- PubNub says it was founded in 2012 and lists its San Francisco office at 95 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, California 94103. · pubnub.com, 30 Sept 2026
- Founded
- 2012 · pubnub.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Free allowance
- The pricing page describes the free plan as up to 200 MAU or 1 million transactions, with 1GB of storage for 7 days. · pubnub.com, 30 Sept 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United States · pubnub.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Integrations
- PubNub's integrations page lists pre-built connections including Amazon Lex, Amazon Comprehend, Agora, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Polly, Amazon SQS, and Amazon Translate. · pubnub.com, 30 Sept 2026
- Messaging features
- Listed features include message delivery, online/offline status, unread counts, typing indicators, read receipts, reactions, edits and deletes, threads, forwarding, quoted and pinned messages, and @mentions. · pubnub.com, 30 Sept 2026
- Moderation
- The product page lists flagging messages or users and rate limiting, and says chat can be moderated through a no-code BizOps Workspace interface. · pubnub.com, 30 Sept 2026
- Notable limits
- PubNub's SDK documentation says several libraries and components, including Android SDK and React Chat Components, are no longer officially supported. · pubnub.com, 30 Sept 2026
- Purpose
- PubNub Chat SDK lets developers add custom real-time chat to mobile, game, or web experiences without managing complex infrastructure. · pubnub.com, 30 Sept 2026
- Push notifications
- Chat SDK includes mobile push notifications. · pubnub.com, 30 Sept 2026
- SDK availability
- PubNub documents Chat SDKs as higher-level chat-focused APIs and lists SDK resources for JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Unity, and REST API among others. · pubnub.com, 30 Sept 2026
- Security and compliance
- PubNub says its platform supports GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, and ISO 27001, with data residency controls, audit logs, and access controls. · pubnub.com, 30 Sept 2026
- Support
- The pricing page says all plans include standard support and lists email and chat support with a 1–2 day guaranteed response time in its support options. · pubnub.com, 30 Sept 2026
- Use cases
- The page gives telehealth, customer service, driver-passenger, multiplayer game, online community, webinar Q&A, classroom, live-streaming, and fan-engagement chat as examples. · pubnub.com, 30 Sept 2026
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