Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Socketo

Pusher-compatible, serverless WebSockets for developers.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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   Sockudo▲14

   High-performance Pusher alternative in Rust

   2025 · its alternatives →

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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 · its alternatives →

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   SocketCluster.io – flexible open-source real-time server with pub/sub▲217

   Scalable open source pub/sub SDK with support for RPC, JWT authentication and Kubernetes — optimized for async/await

   2016 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →

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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 · its alternatives →

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   Run your own Push/Pull service for free using node.js + socket.io▲37

   301 Moved to http://github.com/daraosn/mustekala. Contribute to daraosn/node-puller development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Pushpin – A new way to build realtime HTTP and WebSocket services▲114

   Reverse proxy for realtime APIs.

   2015 · pushpin.org · its alternatives →

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   Pusher Push Notifications API▲441

   Send push notifications programmatically at scale

   2016 · pusher.com · its alternatives →

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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 · its alternatives →

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   Pusher Channels▲68

   Build scalable realtime infrastructure for your apps

   2018 · pusher.com · its alternatives →

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    Socketify.py: Http/Https and WebSockets servers for PyPy3 and Python3▲194

    Bringing Http/Https and WebSockets High Performance servers for PyPy3 and Python3 - cirospaciari/socketify.py

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    soketi▲161

    Your self-hosted, open-source WebSockets server

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Mio▲216

    Powering seamless communication between workplace chat apps.

    2018 · m.io · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Easy Webserver for Node.js, Python, PHP, with Free SSL▲123

    Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids - caprover/README.md at master · caprover/caprover

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    SocketCluster▲93

    A scalable realtime engine for Node.js

    2015 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →

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    MagicPush▲249

    Easy and affordable push notifications for web-apps

    2024 · getmagicpush.com · its alternatives →

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    Deepstream.io – open-source real-time server with pub/sub and data sync▲301

    A realtime server for the modern web

    2016 · deepstream.io · its alternatives →

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    CTO.ai 2.0▲204

    A smarter workflow for Kubernetes & Cloud Native apps

    2021 · cto.ai · its alternatives →

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    Push Chat▲113

    Your decentralized, uncensorable & web3-native chat solution

    2023 · app.push.org · its alternatives →

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    Pushpin, a reverse proxy for real-time web services▲49

    A proxy server for adding push to your API, used at the core of Fastly's Fanout service - fastly/pushpin

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Pusha▲135

    Send push notifications from your desktop or web application

    2018 · haaretz.co.com · its alternatives →

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    Vialer-js – Open-source WebRTC communication platform▲127

    Pluggable WebRTC softphone and communication platform. - vialer/vialer-js

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kyno for Cloudflare▲114

    Cloudflare management made simple, right from your phone

    2025 · kyno.dev · its alternatives →

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    Pusher Beams▲165

    Hosted API for devs to deliver transactional notifications

    2018 · pusher.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Fanout▲98

    Your API stack. Now with realtime push.

    2015 · fastly.com · its alternatives →

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