Pricing trends for Messaging: 11 tracked pricing changes across 27 vendors. Direction: prices rising.

Messaging Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

27
Vendors
2%
of All Tracked Changes
2
At-Risk Vendors
reduced 5 restructured 2 rebranded 2 increased 1 model change 1

Pricing Change Timeline

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 ↗
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 ↗
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 ↗
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 Google Cloud Pub/Sub discovered 2026-09-03 · effective date unknown medium
The Always Free tier of 10 GiB messages/month still exists, but it only applies to the Message Delivery Basic SKU. Throughput costs for BigQuery and Cloud Storage subscriptions, as well as import topics, are not free even within the first 10 GiB. 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 effective 2026-04-13 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 effective 2026-04-13 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 effective 2026-04-13 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 NGS effective 2026-04-13 low
Now Synadia Cloud at synadia.com/cloud We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Synadia NGS's rating.
rebranded Pingram.io effective 2026-04-13 low
Rebranded from NotificationAPI to Pingram We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Pingram.io's rating.

We hold one more record filed under this category that is 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.

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