Realtime · facts read November 7, 2026
Liveblocks
Hosted realtime collaboration: rooms, presence, shared state, comments. Rooms, presence and shared state for collaborative boards and documents, with React hooks.
- Free plan
- Free: unlimited monthly active users, 500 monthly active rooms, 10 simultaneous connections per room, 3,000 realtime collaboration minutes.
- Paid from
- Pro: $25/month billed annually.
- Monthly cost at 1,000 users
- $0/month Free covers 500 monthly active rooms and unlimited users; Pro is $25/month billed annually beyond that.
- Free plan allows commercial use
- Not stated
- Open source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
Source: Liveblocks pricing, read November 7, 2026. Prices change; check the vendor's page before you commit.
Best for
- Collaborative boards, whiteboards and documents
- Presence and live cursors
- React apps
Watch out for
- The free plan allows 10 simultaneous connections per room and 500 monthly active rooms.
How Cuely scores Liveblocks
The published scores, from −3 to +3, that decide when Cuely picks it. Method
- +3realtime features. Rooms, presence and conflict-free shared state are the product.
- +1Next.js or React. React hooks and Next.js examples.
- +1sells to businesses (organizations, roles, SSO). A room per team session maps well onto team tools.
- −1traffic comes in viral spikes. Built for rooms of collaborators (10 at once per room on Free), not one broadcast to a crowd.