🆚 PubNub vs. Pusher
- 📈 Pusher is four times more popular than PubNub.
- 🌍 Pusher is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Push notification platform
Push notification platform
About
PubNub is a fully managed, globally distributed real-time communication platform that provides APIs for developers to build real-time web, mobile, and IoT apps.
Pusher is a platform that allows developers to build applications with different real-time needs such as push notifications and pub/sub messaging.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
London, United Kingdom
Pricing
Free version ✔️Up to 200 MAU
Starter$98/month
ProCustom
Free version ✔️Sandbox, up to 1,000 subscribers
Startup
(10,000 subscribers)$29/month
(10,000 subscribers)$29/month
Pro
(50,000 subscribers)$99/month
(50,000 subscribers)$99/month
Business
(115,000 subscribers)$199/month
(115,000 subscribers)$199/month
Premium
(250,000 subscribers)$399/month
(250,000 subscribers)$399/month
Categories
Push Notifications › Rank #19
Push Notifications › Rank #7
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Pusher platform is 4 times more popular than PubNub.
Total websites
Market share
Push Notifications
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Pusher is more popular than PubNub in all countries.
United States
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
Switzerland
Norway
Canada
Brazil
France
Awards
- 🔥 15th most popular in the United States in the Push Notifications category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Norway in the Push Notifications category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Push Notifications category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Switzerland in the Push Notifications category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Push Notifications category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Push Notifications category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Pusher is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while PubNub is more commonly used on health sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Real Estate
Public Information
Health
Internet Services
Travel
Education/Reference
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

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