Photon Engine · Pricing Plans

Photonengine Plans Pricing

Photon prices its multiplayer backend (Fusion, Quantum, Realtime, PUN, Voice, Chat) by peak Concurrent Users (CCU) rather than requests, bandwidth, or DAU/MAU. Each product (Fusion, Quantum, Realtime, Voice, Chat) has its own CCU-tiered plan on the Photon Dashboard; tiers below are representative and were last confirmed via Photon's public pricing blog posts. The live pricing pages (photonengine.com//pricing) sit behind a bot/CDN challenge (Gcore) that blocked automated verification during this review - reconcile against the live dashboard before relying on exact figures.

Photonengine Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Photon Engine on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.

It defines 6 plans, covering free, flat, usage, and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Free (100 CCU), Plus (200 CCU), Growth (500 CCU), Growth (2,000 CCU), Premium Cloud (2,000+ CCU), and 1 more.

Tagged areas include Gaming, Multiplayer, Realtime, CCU, and Plans.

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Plans

Free (100 CCU) free

Free forever tier for one application, applicable to Fusion, Quantum, Realtime, or PUN. Roughly 100 concurrent users maps to an estimated 40,000 MAU. Cannot be combined with a paid CCU plan and cannot be downgraded once activated; only one app per studio may use it.

Concurrent Users (concurrent_users · realtime) Free USD
Plus (200 CCU) flat

Combines a paid 100 CCU Plus package with the 100 CCU free tier for a total of 200 CCU, billed annually. Roughly 200 CCU maps to an estimated 4,000 DAU / 80,000 MAU.

Plus Annual Plan (subscription · year) $95 per year USD
Growth (500 CCU) flat

Mid-tier public cloud plan bundling a traffic allowance; annual commitment discounts are available (two months free on a 1-year commitment for 500/1,000/2,000 CCU tiers).

Growth 500 CCU (subscription · month) $125 per month (includes ~1.5 TB traffic) USD
Growth (2,000 CCU) flat

Top public-cloud self-serve tier before moving to per-CCU Premium Cloud pricing.

Growth 2,000 CCU (subscription · month) $500 per month (includes ~6 TB traffic) USD
Premium Cloud (2,000+ CCU) usage

Beyond 2,000 CCU, Photon migrates titles to a per-CCU Premium Cloud rate that adds DDoS protection and SLA support.

Premium Cloud CCU (concurrent_users · month) $0.50 per CCU per month (approximate; reconcile with sales) USD
Enterprise Cloud enterprise

Dedicated / self-hosted or hybrid deployment tier for the largest titles, with negotiated terms, guaranteed service levels, and dedicated infrastructure. Seamless migration between Public, Premium, and Enterprise Cloud without service interruption. Contact Photon sales.

Enterprise Agreement (contract · year) contact sales USD

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