Pubnub.com
Pubnub provides real-time messaging APIs and infrastructure for building chat, notifications, and live collaboration features. · Pubnub · Messaging
Overview
Pubnub offers a developer-friendly platform for integrating real-time messaging, notifications, and collaboration features into web and mobile applications with minimal setup.
Good fit
Use Pubnub when you need reliable, scalable real-time messaging for chat, notifications, or live collaboration with minimal infrastructure management.
- real-time chat
- notifications
- collaboration tools
Not a fit
Avoid if you need on-premise deployment, strict data residency, or require more than 200 MAUs or 1M transactions without upgrading.
- self-hosting required
- strict compliance
- high-volume free usage
Quickstart · 5 steps
- Sign up for a free Pubnub account.
- Create a new app and obtain publish/subscribe keys.
- Install the Pubnub SDK for your platform.
- Initialize the SDK with your keys.
- Send and receive messages using the SDK.
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