Pusher

Hosted APIs for adding realtime features like live chat, notifications, and data sync to web and mobile apps

pusher.com

Verified API available Works with n8n ~4k monthly visits

Quick facts
What is it	Hosted APIs for adding realtime features like live chat, notifications, and data sync to web and mobile apps
Pricing	Paid — from $49/mo
Free tier	Yes
Platform	API
API	Yes
Works with	n8n
Best for	building live chat applications, creating realtime dashboards with live data
Domain registered	1997

Data updated Aug. 1, 2026

What does Pusher do?

Pusher provides hosted APIs that enable developers to add realtime functionality to web and mobile applications. The core service handles the complex infrastructure required for maintaining persistent connections between clients and servers, allowing data to flow instantly in both directions. This means when something changes on your server, all connected clients receive the update immediately without needing to refresh or poll for changes.

The platform offers two main products: Channels for general realtime messaging and Beams for programmatic push notifications. Channels uses a publish-subscribe model where developers can create channels for different types of data and clients subscribe to relevant channels. Beams handles the complexity of delivering push notifications to iOS and Android devices through APNs and FCM. Pusher provides SDKs for multiple programming languages including JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, and Swift, making integration straightforward.

This tool is particularly valuable for developers building collaborative applications, live data dashboards, gaming platforms, or any application where instant data synchronization is important. Teams working on chat applications, live sports updates, financial trading platforms, or realtime analytics dashboards will find Pusher eliminates the need to build and maintain complex WebSocket infrastructure themselves.

Non-AI Developer Tools — Other

#developer tools#messaging#mobile development#push notifications#web development#websockets

Key features

What makes it stand out

Bi-directional messaging for instant data updates between clients and servers

Scalable infrastructure that handles connection management and message routing

Multi-language SDKs for easy integration with various programming languages

Programmatic push notifications for iOS and Android devices

Pub/sub channels for organizing realtime data streams

Who is Pusher for?

Who benefits most from this tool

building live chat applications

creating realtime dashboards with live data

adding push notifications to mobile apps

Pricing

Free tier available — start without a credit card

Sandbox

Free

200,000 messages per day
100 concurrent connections
Functions available
Standard support

Startup

$49.0/month

1,000,000 messages per day
500 concurrent connections
Functions available
Standard support

Pro

$99.0/month

4,000,000 messages per day
2,000 concurrent connections
Functions available
Standard support
Monitoring integrations

Business

$299.0/month

10,000,000 messages per day
5,000 concurrent connections
Functions available
Premium support
Monitoring integrations

Premium

$499.0/month

20,000,000 messages per day
10,000 concurrent connections
Functions available
Premium support
Monitoring integrations

Trust & presence

Search presence Top 10k site

Domain Domain registered 1997

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