The world's biggest pub/sub network is now

The complete real-time developer platform

Scale

3 Trillion

Real-time API calls per month

Speed

< 30ms

Global delivery, regardless of concurrency

Stability

99.999%

SLA provided for all customers

Compliance

100%

GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, IS0 27001 + more

2000+ Global industry leaders rely on PubNub infrastructure for

Faster Development

Build with PubNub APIs to launch and scale quickly

Always faster, always better value, and way easier to scale using than building it from scratch

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Lower Risk

Monitor your app, manage your users and devices

Manage and moderate users and content, detect usage patterns and device locations, debug effectively

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Increased Growth

Improve engagement and accelerate monetization

The real-time way to experiment in production, monetize without mystery, and rapidly hit goals

Simple Pub/Sub API Solution

Leverage the power of PubNub's network infrastructure to send and receive your first message in 20 seconds

30+ SDKs

Build for any tech stack

Full suite of purpose-built real-time APIs, SDKs, and integrations for backend, server-side, and client-side

Wide range of pre-built features accessed via our portal: App context, Access Manager, Functions, Events & Actions, and more

Build your app, not infrastructure

Powering real-time apps for any purpose, scale, or complexity

Leverage the power of Pub/Sub to stream data, connect users, or control and monitor devices.

Scalable edge messaging

Scalable edge messaging

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Live audience engagement

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Encrypted real-time chat

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Building gaming Communities

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Geolocation and GPS tracking

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Multi-user collaboration

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Infrastructure that scales with you

The PubNub building blocks for scalable real-time apps

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Real-time apps with less than 200 MAUs will always be free, forever, with no credit card required.

No Credit Card Required

Every PubNub SDK

200 MAUs Per Month

Every PubNub Feature

Access to 100+ Integrations

Pricing Made Easy

Pay-as-you-go or work with our team to build out custom pricing based on the unique scaling needs of your app or system

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See who's using PubNub to solve the toughest real-time challenges

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Helping connect 50 million teachers and families with ClassDojo

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Smashing world records for virtual audience size with Kiswe

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Transforming global sports broadcasting with DAZN

Expand your app with integrations

1-click implementation, code environment perfection; connecting your real-time app to over 50 3rd party APIs and software

OpenAI

OpenAI

Quickly and easily add AI to any real-time application

RingCentral

RingCentral

Leverage SMS notification fall-backs to your mobile app's capabilities

Vonage

Vonage

Combine voice and video with your PubNub solution

New release

PubNub Chat SDK

Tailored specifically to chat with easy-to-use methods that focus on features you build, not PubNub APIs and infrastructure.


Offers new chat options like quotes, mentions, channel references, threads, anti-spam configuration, or read receipts, etc


The fastest way to build a fully encrypted, feature-rich chat app quickly.


Platform, backend, framework, and UI-agnostic so you can build both client-side and server-side chat apps or integrate with any open-source UI framework

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Users

Detect users’ online status, mention them in conversations, and moderate their content.

Moderation

Moderate messages for profanity and spam. Flag messages, ban or mute users

Integrations & AI

Monitor content and images, add on-the-fly translation, AI chatbots, GIFs and sticker libraries

Manage Messages

Forward, quote, or pin messages, add read receipts, unread counts, and typing indicators

Channels

Create direct 1:1 conversations or group chats, managing participants as needed.

Reactions

Empower chat users to use Emoji Reactions to chat messages

Files

Quickly add the ability to share images, files, and documents to one or many other chat users

Push Notifications

Integrate mobile devices with 3rd party push services (FCM or APNs) to trigger push notifications

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