Price comparisons

Summary

For startups and small businesses

For medium and large businesses

A more detailed breakdown of the pricing can be found below:

For startups and small businesses

Assumptions:

• 1500 monthly active users
• 300 monthly unique users
• 1KB event size (avg)
• Publishing 1 million events per month
• Consuming 5 million events per month
• Storing events for 1 month

Exoquic Startup Plan

Egress: 5 million events * 1KB * $1/GB = $5

Ingress: 1 million events * 1KB * $0.5/GB = $0.5

Storage: 1 million events * 1KB * $0.5/GB = $0.5

Note: Client side subscription caching is assumed to be disabled. Enable it to reduce the egress cost significantly.

Total: $6

Supabase

Service fee: $25/month

Storage(Database): $0.125 (8GB free, then $0.125/GB/month)

Messages: $2.5 (5 Million events free, then $2.5/million)

Total: ~$28

PubNub

Service fee: $98/month

Additional MAU cost: $75 (500 non-free MAU)

Additional transaction cost: $215 (5M additional transactions over 1M transactions)

Message persistence fee: $8 ($8/GB/month)

Note: These calculations are excluding costs such as the Access Manager v2, Metadata storage, channel groups and K/V store because it makes the pricing calculation more complex.

Total: $396

Pusher

Service fee: $49/month

Note: Does not support message retention.

Total: $49

Ably

Service fee: $29/month

Messages: $2.5/million * 6 million events = $15

Storage: $2.5/million * 1 million events = $2.5

Note: These calculations are excluding costs such as connection minutes and channel minutes because it makes the pricing calculation more complex.

Total: $44

For medium and large businesses

Assumptions:

• 2KB event size (avg)
• Published 2.5 billion events for the month
• Consumed 10 billion events for the month
• Stored all events for the month

Exoquic Enterprise Plan

Egress: 10 billion events * 2KB * $0.12/GB = $2400

Ingress: 2.5 billion events * 2KB * $0.025/GB = $125

Storage: 2.5 billion events * 2KB * $0.03/GB = $150

Note: Client side subscription caching is assumed to be disabled. Enable it to reduce the egress cost significantly.

Total: $2,675

Ably

Service fee: $399/month

Messages: 12.5 billion messages * $1.85/million(avg) = $23125

Event storage: 2.5 billion messages * $2.05/million(avg) = $5125

Note: These calculations are excluding costs for connection minutes and channel minutes because it makes the pricing calculation more complex.

Total: $28,649 (Excl. connection minutes and channel minutes)

Supabase

Service fee: $599/month

Storage(Database): $0.125/GB/month * 2.5 billion events * 2KB = $625

Messages: 12.5 billion events * $2.5/million = $31,250

Total: $32,494