Pubnub Plans Pricing
PubNub bills primarily by Monthly Active Users (MAU). Free supports 200 MAU or 1M transactions; Starter is $98/month for 1,000 MAU; Pro starts at custom-priced 5,000 MAU ($370/mo) and scales linearly (10K = $550, 25K = $1,130). All features (messages, channels, storage within tier) are included; PubNub does not charge separately for peak concurrent connections, message volume, or bandwidth.
Pubnub Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for PubNub on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 6 plans, covering freemium, subscription, and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Free, Starter, Pro 5K, Pro 10K, Pro 25K, and 1 more.
Tagged areas include Realtime and Plans.
Plans
$0/month - 200 MAU or 1M transactions, 1GB storage (7 days).
- Best for testing and prototypes
- 7-day storage retention
$98/month - 1,000 MAU, up to 6 months data storage.
- 6-month storage retention
$370/month - 5,000 MAU.
- Unlimited storage
$550/month - 10,000 MAU.
- Unlimited storage
$1,130/month - 25,000 MAU.
- Unlimited storage
Custom pricing for 100,000+ MAU; volume discounts.
- Volume discount
- Dedicated SLA