UTD Channels

Realtime channels & events fully Pusher-compatible

Ship live features in minutes with public, private and presence channels plus event webhooks. Wire-compatible with Pusher, so your existing SDKs just work — change the host and go.

Same SDKs, one host change — no code rewrite

Capabilities

Every realtime pattern, one protocol

Public, private and presence channels — same API surface Pusher developers already know.

Public channels

Open broadcast channels for live scores, feeds, dashboards and any data every client can receive.

Instant broadcastNo auth neededUnlimited subscribers

Private channels

Authenticated channels for per-user data — your server signs the subscription so only authorized clients join.

Server-signed authClient eventsPer-user isolation

Presence channels

Know exactly who's online: member lists, join/leave events and live member counts out of the box.

Who's onlineMember added/removedLive member count

Global network

Servers in 200+ countries

Powered by the global UTD Cloud network, our servers sit close to your users in 200+ countries — near-zero latency and a 200ms max round-trip.

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Why UTD Channels

Drop-in compatible, built to scale

Everything Pusher developers expect — on cheaper, Google-backed infrastructure with no lock-in.

Pusher wire-compatible

Keep pusher-js, Laravel Echo and pusher-http-* — point them at UTD and everything works.

Byte-for-byte Query API

The REST Channel Query API (list, status, users) is identical to Pusher's — no client changes.

Public, private & presence

All three channel types with server-signed auth and full presence state.

Event webhooks

Get channel_occupied / channel_vacated and member_added / member_removed pushed to your server.

Horizontal scale

Scales out across a Redis cluster to handle high fan-out and large connection counts.

Full tenant isolation

Every app is fully isolated — no shared state, no noisy neighbors.

No auto-renew, free tier

A subscription never renews silently — it ends with an alert and a download. Start on the free tier.

Runs on Google Cloud

Built entirely on Google Cloud for global reach and reliability.

Coming soon

In development

Push notifications for Channels

Web Push and Device Interests are on the way — send targeted notifications from the same Channels app. Currently in development.

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