Eventeer vs Pusher
Pusher Channels is a publish/subscribe service for realtime features in apps. Eventeer is an event hub: it ingests webhooks and device traffic, stores events, and streams them to clients. Pick by whether you build app features or move events.
Last reviewed: November 2026. Based on Pusher's public site and documentation, linked under Sources.
At a glance
| Capability | Eventeer | Pusher |
|---|---|---|
| Browser and client streams | Yes: Clients subscribe over WebSocket; live frames are at-most-once; reconnect with since to replay. | Yes: Core product: apps subscribe to named channels and bind to events; client libraries for web, mobile and more. |
| Presence | Not offered or not documented: Not offered. | Yes: Presence channels show who is subscribed. |
| Client-to-client events | Not offered or not documented: Streams carry events from your listeners, devices and sources, not client messages. | Yes: Client events on private and presence channels, limited to 10 messages per second per client. |
| Inbound webhooks | Yes: Listener URLs with token or HMAC auth and Idempotency-Key dedupe. | Not offered or not documented: Channels sends webhooks about channel activity; it is not documented as a webhook receiver. |
| Outbound webhooks | Yes: Destinations, HMAC-SHA256 signed, 8 retries over about 24 hours, delivery log. | Partial: Webhooks for channel, presence and client events; retried with exponential backoff for 5 minutes on non-2xx. |
| Device WebSockets | Yes: Ack per event, online status, last seen, downlink messages. | Partial: WebSocket connections from apps and devices; libraries cover IoT environments. |
| Outbound WebSocket sources | Yes: Eventeer dials out to a wss:// URL. | Not offered or not documented: Not described in Pusher's docs. |
| Event storage and replay | Yes: Stored 7, 30 or 90 days by plan; browse, filter, replay. | Not offered or not documented: Not covered in the pages reviewed. |
| Metrics and dashboards | Yes: Metrics on a JSON field plus dashboards. | Partial: Dashboard shows connections, publishes and subscriptions; export to Datadog or Librato. |
| Alerts | Yes: Threshold or quiet-for-N-minutes, email or webhook. | Not offered or not documented: Not covered in the pages reviewed. |
| Pricing model | Monthly plans with included volume, usage-based overage and a spend cap. | See Pusher's own pricing page. |
When to choose Eventeer
- Your events originate outside the browser: provider webhooks, device telemetry or a third-party WebSocket feed. You want them stored and replayable.
- You want a signed, retried delivery path to your backend, plus metrics and alerts on the traffic.
- You need to push messages down to specific devices and see which are online.
When to choose Pusher
- You are building features like chat, live cursors or multiplayer, where users are connected to each other. Presence channels and client events exist for that.
- You want maintained client libraries for web, mobile and many server languages around a pub/sub model.
Migrating
Eventeer streams are fed by events entering the hub, so move the server-triggered part of your Pusher use. Presence and client events have no equivalent.
- List the channels your server publishes to and the event names clients bind to.
- Create a listener, or use the REST API at
/api/v1, to get those events into Eventeer, then create a stream for each channel. - Replace the Pusher client subscription with a WebSocket connection to the stream, using
sincewhen it reconnects. - Run both in parallel while you compare what clients receive, then remove the Pusher publish calls.
Other options
Comparing more than these two? Alternatives to Pusher covers the other options, and there are guides for Ably and PubNub too.
Sources
Every statement about Pusher on this page comes from these pages, last reviewed November 2026. Check them for current details.
Move your server-side events to Eventeer
Create your organization and a listener now. Choose a plan when you are ready to send traffic.