pusher.com
Pusher
Who runs Pusher, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Realtime messaging APIs alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- PubNub
Measured from Pusher’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Pusher01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Pusher
Pusher pusher.com
Simple, scalable and reliable. Hosted realtime APIs loved by developers and trusted by giants. Build live dashboards, notifications, geotracking, chat and more.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Pusher 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
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Pusher’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Pusher
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Pusher, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Build, manage, & optimize real-time apps at scale | PubNub
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!
Very close - 02
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 - 03
Liveblocks | Realtime and sync for the agentic web
Liveblocks provides the infrastructure to handle concurrent edits on shared data, so people and AI agents can collaborate without breaking your app.
Very close - 04
Pushy - Lightning-Fast & Highly-Reliable Push Notifications
Pushy is a reliable push notification gateway for time-sensitive, mission-critical apps.
Very close - 05
The AI customer experience platform for enterprise | Sendbird
Engage your customers and improve customer loyalty with an AI customer experience platform trusted by enterprises worldwide.
Very close - 06
Stream: Chat, Video, Feeds & Moderation APIs and SDKs
Stream provides APIs and SDKs for in-app chat, video calling, livestreaming, activity feeds and AI moderation. Trusted by 2,000+ apps. Start free.
Very close - 07
In-app Chat SDK & API For Messaging And Calling - CometChat
In-app chat, voice, and video calling for web and mobile. UI kits, SDKs, and APIs for React, iOS, Android, Flutter, and more. Start free.
Very close - 08
ZEGO即构科技 - 帮助全球企业即刻构建语音视频通讯能力
ZEGO即构科技致力于为全球企业提供语音视频通讯能力,为各类实时互动场景提供技术支持和服务。开发者通过调用SDK & API,4行代码,30分钟便可在应用内构建出高质量的实时音视频业务。
Very close - 09
Socket.IO
JavaScript library for realtime web applications
Very close - 10
Customer Experience Platform | Airship
Airship is the only mobile-first customer experience platform that delivers measurable results through AI-powered, unified cross-channel experiences.
Very close - 11
Real-Time Engagement & Conversational AI Platform | Agora
Build ultra-low latency voice, video, chat, and voice AI experiences for meaningful human-to-human and human-to-AI conversations, with flexible APIs and no-code & low-code tools.
Very close - 12
Mapbox | Maps, Navigation, Search, and Data
APIs and SDKs for AI-powered maps, location search, turn-by-turn navigation, and geospatial data in mobile or web apps. Get started for free.
Very close - 13
Customer Engagement Platform for Email, Push… - OneSignal
The world's leader for mobile push notifications, web push, SMS, email and in-app messaging. Trusted by 2 million+ businesses to send 12 billion+ messages per…
Very close - 14
Telegram Messenger
Fast. Secure. Powerful.
Very close - 15
Communications for developers — Bird
Deliver transactional notifications, run marketing broadcasts, and handle two-way customer replies across Email, SMS, WhatsApp, Apple Messages, and Voice with Bird's REST API, SDKs, CLI, and MCP server.
Very close - 16
One platform to connect | Zoom
Modernize workflows with Zoom's trusted collaboration tools: including video meetings, Zoom Chat, VoIP phone, webinars, whiteboard, contact center, and events.
Very close - 17
SMS Messaging, Voice, Email, Video & Verification APIs | Sinch
Unlock meaningful conversations across the customer journey with programmable SMS, voice, email, video, & verification APIs!
Very close - 18
Appwrite · The open-source cloud for developers and agents
Appwrite is an open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. The open-source cloud for agents and developers.
Very close - 19
ReadMe · Developer-friendly API documentation
ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.
Very close - 20
Buffer: Social media management for everyone
Use Buffer to manage your social media so that you can create and share your content everywhere, consistently. Try our forever free plan or upgrade for more.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Pusher’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Pusher 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 Pusher 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 · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Pusher’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
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:mail.zendesk.com ip4:23.249.208.0/20 ip4:23.251.224.0/…
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=253833e5bcf2b01078e766d5469218189714e895451634a97…
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: -TqXepeLlcSoKVRlZ36_FIiop3oeEPFLjKJg68h9I0G1BKxx8N7QlA==
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.27.5
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-703.awsdns-23.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=vd7utsg0to48
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: jwI7PUfsfRwYM53d07lRhnl4D1JJfEUrk9JXvtmH180
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on pusher.com 11/20
- Stripe 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on pusher.com 9/20
- Zendesk 8/20
- Apple Business · not on pusher.com 7/20
- OneTrust · not on pusher.com 7/20
- HubSpot · not on pusher.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- React 6/20
- Atlassian · not on pusher.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on pusher.com 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on pusher.com 6/20
- Next.js · not on pusher.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on pusher.com 5/20