Pricing trends for Messaging: 12 tracked pricing changes across 27 vendors. Direction: prices rising.

Messaging Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

27
Vendors
3%
of All Tracked Changes
3
At-Risk Vendors
reduced 6 restructured 2 rebranded 2 increased 1 model change 1

Pricing Change Timeline

Every record we hold is listed here, newest first. A record is never removed from this list, so a vendor named here stays named here whatever its verdict does afterwards.

reduced Svix discovered 2026-09-27 · effective date unknown medium
Svix cut its Free plan from 200 to 50 messages a second and from 30-day to 7-day payload retention, and moved the 99.9% uptime SLA to a new Basic plan from $20 a month. Free's 50,000 messages a month, beyond which messages were billed, now reads "Up to 50k messages per month". The pricing page changed between the Internet Archive's 2026-09-14 capture and our read on 2026-09-27. Source ↗
reduced OneSignal discovered 2026-09-25 · effective date unknown high
The free tier now has limits on monthly active users for mobile push notifications (up to 1,000) and web push notifications (max 10,000 subscribers per send). Email sends are limited to 10,000/month. Source ↗
reduced synadia.com discovered 2026-09-13 · effective date unknown high
The free tier now has limits of 2 Accounts, 10 Connections, 2 Leaf Nodes, 1 MiB Message Size, 10 GiB Network Data, and 5 GiB Storage. Previously 50 active connections and 5GB of data per month. Source ↗
increased Svix discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown low
The free tier now has a limit of 200 messages/second instead of 50 messages/second. Source ↗
reduced CloudAMQP discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown high
The Little Lemur tier now has 10,000 queued messages instead of 1M messages/month, and the message quota is 1M messages/month instead of being unlimited. Source ↗
model change Cloudflare Queues discovered 2026-09-05 · effective date unknown high
The free tier now offers 10,000 operations/day, and the paid tier offers 1,000,000 operations/month. Message retention on the free tier is 24 hours (non-configurable), while the paid tier offers 4 days default, configurable up to 14 days. The pricing model is now based on operations (64KB chunks of data written, read, or deleted) with additional costs per million operations beyond the included allowance. Source ↗
reduced OneSignal discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown medium
The free tier now has different limits. While mobile push is still unlimited, the web push limit is now 10,000 subscribers per *send* (previously just 10K subscribers), and email is now 10,000 free sends/month (previously 100/day). Source ↗
reduced Pocket Alert discovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknown low
Now limited to 50 daily messages, 1 device, 1 application We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Pocket Alert's rating.
restructured PubNub discovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknown low
Switched from 1M transactions/month to 200 MAU model We hold no source for this record, so it does not set PubNub's rating.
restructured OneSignal discovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknown low
Email changed from 100/day to 10K/month We hold no source for this record, so it does not set OneSignal's rating.
rebranded synadia.com discovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknown low
Now Synadia Cloud at synadia.com/cloud We hold no source for this record, so it does not set synadia.com's rating.
rebranded Pingram.io discovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknown low
Rebranded from NotificationAPI to Pingram We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Pingram.io's rating.

We hold 2 more records filed under this category that are not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.

At-Risk Vendors

All 3 of the 27 vendors we list in this category that carry one. A vendor is named here for as long as a demotion is in force against it: a one-off pricing event, recorded against a source we cite, whose date falls in the last 180 days — or a standing condition, also cited, such as a free tier withdrawn or a product retired, which does not expire with time. A demotion can lift with nothing about the vendor having changed, and that happens on the day the vendor's newest qualifying event passes 180 days.

Stable Picks

All 12 of the 27 vendors we list in this category that qualify, not a selection of them. A vendor is named here for as long as no demotion is in force against it and we hold no change record for it dated in the last 90 days — any record, including ones the timeline above does not count. A vendor can join this section on a day we recorded nothing about it, when the later of those two clocks runs out: 90 days after its newest record, or the day the demotion against it lapses. It leaves on the day we file a new record, or the day we can no longer vouch for the terms we list.

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