Alternatives

Products that do what Socketo does

Pusher-compatible, serverless WebSockets for developers.

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OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust▲500
I've been working on this for some time now, starting with vm2, then deno-core for 2 years, and recently rewrote it on rusty_v8 with Claude's help. OpenWorkers lets you run untrusted JS in V8 isolates on your own infrastructure. Same DX as Cloudflare Workers, no vendor lock-in. What works today: fetch, KV, Postgres bindings, S3/R2, cron scheduling, crypto.subtle. Self-hosting is a single docker-compose file + Postgres. Would love feedback on the architecture and what feature you'd want next.
Jan 2026 · openworkers.com
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DriftDB – an open source WebSocket backend for real-time apps▲367
Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…
2023 · driftdb.com
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SocketCluster.io – flexible open-source real-time server with pub/sub▲217
2016 · socketcluster.io
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Pusher Push Notifications API▲435
Send push notifications programmatically at scale
2016
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Socketify.py: Http/Https and WebSockets servers for PyPy3 and Python3▲194
2023 · github.com
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Vask – Pusher-compatible WebSockets on Cloudflare, no fan-out fees▲6
Howdy HN, Ashley here. Most of my projects use realtime, but the jump from 'free' to 'paid' on existing platforms stressed me out, and I didn’t want to self-host soketi or sockudo. So I built Vask, a websocket platform built on top of Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, KV storage, and analytics engine, so I can get sort-of infinitely scalable, low latency, and low-cost websockets. I noticed that ‘fan-out’ is pretty cheap with Cloudflare, so Vask can bill per message sent rather than message received (no fan-out cost), which is great for certain workloads, and quite different to existing…
May 2026 · vask.dev
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soketi▲161
Your self-hosted, open-source WebSockets server
2022
8AU
A Unixy approach to WebSockets▲421
2015 · websocketd.com
9
SocketCluster▲93
A scalable realtime engine for Node.js
2015
10
MagicPush▲249
Easy and affordable push notifications for web-apps
2024
11
CTO.ai 2.0▲204
A smarter workflow for Kubernetes & Cloud Native apps
2021
12
Push Chat▲113
Your decentralized, uncensorable & web3-native chat solution
2023
13
Push.js▲236
Cross-browser solution for JavaScript desktop notifications
2016
14RY
Run your own Push/Pull service for free using node.js + socket.io▲37
2012 · github.com
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Pusha▲135
Send push notifications from your desktop or web application
2018
16
Kyno for Cloudflare▲114
Cloudflare management made simple, right from your phone
Oct 2025
17
Pusher Beams▲165
Hosted API for devs to deliver transactional notifications
2018
18
Fanout▲98
Your API stack. Now with realtime push.
2015
19PA
Pushpin – A new way to build realtime HTTP and WebSocket services▲114
2015 · pushpin.org
20
Pusher Chatkit▲114
Developer-driven chat done simply.
2017
21K0
Kafka 0.8.0 on Cloudflare Workers▲148
2022 · github.com
22
OrbStack▲170
Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS
2023
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WebsocketD▲82
WebSockets are easy now
2015
24PA
Pxy – A Go server that proxies websocket livestreams to RTMP servers▲133
2020 · github.com

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