Instant is for building real-time and offline-enabled applications. We make it easy to build collaborative products like Notion or Figma.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Pusher Alternatives
Apps similar to Pusher include Supabase, which is open source with a free version. Other options are PocketBase, TrailBase, Firebase and Sockudo. You're spoiled for choice with Backend as a Service like Pusher: we list more than 25 alternatives for Mac, Linux, the web, Windows and self-hosting.
Alternatives list
23 deepstream.io alternativesdeepstream.io is a clusterable realtime server that handles persistent tcp and websocket connections. It offers data-sync, pub/sub and request/response. It's available for Linux, Mac and Windows and comes with clients in JS, Java and many others.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
Scaledrone is a realtime messaging service and platform. Send live updates, create chatrooms and collaborative tools.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
Sweden
EU
JBoss is Red Hats Java EE 5-compliant (soon Java EE 6-compliant) application server. It is, as with Red Hat itself, dual-licensed either as open source (community edition) or commercially (enterprise edition).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
The Jetty Web Server provides a HTTP server and Servlet container capable of serving static and dynamic contend either from a standalone or embedded instantiations.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Scalable pub/sub platform offers developers secure, low-latency, enterprise-grade realtime messaging, built-in features for GPS tracking, event updates, and automatic failover, delivering billions of messages daily to users across industries on a global edge network.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
United Kingdom
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- iPad
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
United States
MongooseIM is aimed at large, complex enterprise level projects, where real-time communication is critical for business success. It provides high availability, ease of deployment, development and reliability in production.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
Real-time communication service for connecting online devices. Infrastructure and APIs for IoT, gaming, apps and real-time web.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- Self-Hosted
- United Kingdom
Simperium is a service for developers to move data everywhere it's needed, instantly and automatically.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
Scalable & Fast API for building social networks, activity feeds, news feeds and activity streams. Aggregated feeds, ranked feeds, analytics and personalization all help you improve your app's engagement, retention and conversion.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- United States
With Stream’s chat react components, SDKs, and UI kits, product teams can unleash chat on web, or as a mobile app, with just a few lines of code. Maximize development bandwidth with Stream’s flexible backend messaging API and front-end components.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- United States
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