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PubNub
Who runs PubNub, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Realtime messaging API alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Ably
Measured from PubNub’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit PubNub01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs PubNub
PubNub pubnub.com
Power your real-time app with PubNub - the world's largest pub/sub network. Scale to 3 trillion API calls/month, with <30ms global delivery. Start building now!
Wikidata: Python library
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What PubNub tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 15 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to PubNub
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to PubNub, thumbs down if it isn’t.
5 of the 60 sites closest to PubNub match.
- 01
Ably | Realtime platform for chat, AI and live apps at scale
Ably is the realtime platform built for scale and reliability. Power live chat, messaging, collaborative apps, and AI experiences that never drop.
Very close - 02
Slack | AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools
Boost productivity and save time with Slack — the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.
Very close - 03
Mintlify - The documentation platform for agents
Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents.
Very close - 04
GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering
Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.
Very close - 05
Push your ideas to the web | Netlify
Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles PubNub’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones PubNub uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what PubNub adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 69 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to PubNub’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=691e9c7d912c05377a672e33492412b1e24bbc112c4bbe349…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-chi-kmdw8640041-CHI, cache-ber1080028-BER
- Hosting
- Netlify header x-nf-request-id: 01M6NQSHJJ0TSMGSGQGNG72AMK
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube.com/embed/
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- NS1 NS dns3.p01.nsone.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=bP5kNAhWWmWSSQwQ
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=HAV0DdFrnLUqX_rElt-qy46djfIXvl0vWWSpv…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: ArwFoyb7cydmFrAxPmImA0ZMQD2Ka1VcBFuwM4J0iUk
- Miro TXT miro-verification=7c67e5328b2f01fb1af656edb5127fcf6dd66339
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-d5PNiNyvluxxd25eRvQfQvn6
- Yandex Webmaster meta yandex-verification: 7655cf9b8c32273d
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on pubnub.com 10/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on pubnub.com 9/20
- HubSpot · not on pubnub.com 8/20
- Zendesk · not on pubnub.com 8/20
- Apple Business 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on pubnub.com 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on pubnub.com 6/20
- React 6/20
- Stripe 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on pubnub.com 6/20
- Atlassian · not on pubnub.com 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on pubnub.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on pubnub.com 5/20
- OneTrust 5/20