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Pricing FAQs

How does pricing work in Liveblocks?

Each plan includes a monthly credit allowance you spend across all features. Credits reset at the start of each billing cycle and don't roll over. Pro includes $30 of credits, and Team plans start with $600 of credits. Once you've used your credits, additional usage on Pro and Team is billed at metered rates. Free hits hard limits per feature instead.

For full per-metric rates and worked examples, see our plans.

What counts as a realtime collaboration minute?

Realtime collaboration minutes measure time when two or more people or agents are in the same room together. Each connected user-minute counts. Two users in a room for 5 minutes is 10 collaboration minutes, billed at $0.002 per minute.

Solo sessions cost $0. If only one person or agent is in a room, it is not billed.

What counts as connected?

A user counts as connected when they have an open connection to a room—for example, after joining with RoomProvider or enterRoom. Each browser tab is one connection.

When does billing pause?

If no one is using the room (no presence updates, cursor movement, or other activity), the room becomes inactive after 10 seconds. Collaboration minutes stop accumulating until someone interacts again.

Do background tabs count?

By default, Liveblocks keeps connections open in background tabs, so those users still count as connected. To disconnect inactive background tabs automatically, set backgroundKeepAliveTimeout on your client.

Where can I see collaboration minutes?

Your dashboard usage page shows collaboration minutes at the workspace level. Each project overview page shows collaboration minutes over time for that project. Per-user and per-room breakdowns are not available in the dashboard today.

Which Liveblocks plan should I choose?

Liveblocks offers four plans to support developers and teams of all sizes:

  • Free: Personal projects and prototyping
  • Pro: Indie devs and small teams shipping commercial apps
  • Team: Teams that need SSO, SOC 2, and more than 3 seats
  • Enterprise: Larger orgs needing volume discounts, multi-region hosting, and custom terms

Compare features in detail: Free, Pro, Team, Enterprise.

What comes with my Liveblocks subscription?

Every plan includes the full platform: Presence, Storage, Comments, Custom Notifications, Feeds, AI Copilots, the dashboard, SDKs, and APIs. What changes between plans is your monthly credit allowance, seat count, and the security and support features you get. After you've used your credits, you keep using Liveblocks. Pro and Team are charged for overage at the same metered rates. Free plans hit hard limits per feature.

For a full plan-by-plan breakdown, see the plans docs.

Can I try Liveblocks before paying for it?

Yes. The Free plan is permanently free, no credit card required. You can build, test, and even ship commercial apps on Free as long as the Liveblocks watermark stays visible. To remove the watermark and unlock overage, upgrade to Pro at $30 per month. Get started for free.

Are there discounts for startups, nonprofits, or students?

We offer a discount for early-stage startups. Learn more and apply.

What happens when I run out of Liveblocks credits?

On Free, you'll hit hard limits per metric and the affected feature pauses until your credits reset. On Pro and Team, additional usage is billed at metered rates with no markup. We send automated email alerts as you approach your limits.

See usage limits for full details.

How do I track and control my Liveblocks spending?

The usage page in your dashboard shows real-time usage broken down by metric, current credit consumption, and projected month-end spend. We also send automated email alerts as you approach your limits. For predictable spend, your monthly credits give you a fixed ceiling unless you allow overage, and annual Team plans lock in a fixed monthly cost while saving two months compared with monthly billing.

Can I pay by invoice instead of credit card?

Yes, on Enterprise plans. Contact sales to set this up.

Does Liveblocks support multi-region hosting?

Yes, on Enterprise. We currently support EU and US, with more coming. Reach out to sales to discuss upgrading to an Enterprise plan.

How secure and reliable is Liveblocks?

We run on edge infrastructure, monitored on our status page. We're SOC 2 and HIPAA compliant, and GDPR-compliant with a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) available on request. Enterprise plans support data residency in specific regions. For more, see our security page and data storage docs.

What is a monthly active room?

Monthly active rooms represents the number of rooms that have been used within a given month. Rooms are identified by their roomId.

Specifically, a room counts as active when any of these occur:

  • A user connects on the front-end.
  • A comment is added or modified.
  • A document is updated. Any of the following: Storage, Tiptap, BlockNote, Lexical, Yjs.
  • An attachment is uploaded.

If a room contains content from the previous month, it is not active until it is used in the current month. For example, if a text document is created in January, it is not active in February until a user connects to the document or updates its content.

What is a monthly active user?

Monthly active users represents the number of users that have used any Liveblocks features within a given month. Users are identified by the userId property provided in your authentication endpoint. This userId generally comes from your database or your authentication provider.

One unique userId corresponds to one user, no matter how long they connect for. For example, a user that connects for 5 minutes on 2 different days is counted as 1 MAU, and a user that connects 8 hours a day for a month is also counted as 1 MAU. This applies so long as usage falls under our Fair Use Policy.

What's a connection?

A connection occurs when a user opens a web page containing a Liveblocks room. Each tab counts as one connection, which means that a user with two open tabs has two connections. A room is joined when using RoomProvider in React or enterRoom in JavaScript. Liveblocks connections are analogous to WebSocket connections, representing a realtime link to our server.

What's a room?

A room is the virtual space where people collaborate. For most products, a room corresponds to a document.

What's a simultaneous connection per room?

A simultaneous connection per room is when a user or multiple users are connected to the same Liveblocks room at the same time. Learn more about handling simultaneous room connection limits in our guide about joining rooms at maximum capacity.

What's a simultaneous connection per project?

A simultaneous connection per project is when a user or multiple users are connected to the same project at the same time.

How is realtime data storage calculated?

Realtime data storage is a cumulative calculation that represents all realtime data that is currently stored in your rooms. It does not reset monthly, and the total usage will continue to accrue over time as you add more content and data. You can monitor your usage at any time in the dashboard.

What happens when limits are reached?

Liveblocks returns a different error for each limit that a user might reach. That way, you can decide how to best handle those cases in your product.

Do you count monthly active rooms during testing?

Yes, if test users connect to a room during automated testing, the room will be counted as a monthly active room. To prevent hitting limits during testing, you may want to provide a set of reusable roomIds.

How do I remove the “Powered by Liveblocks” badge?

By default, Liveblocks displays a “Powered by Liveblocks” badge in your application. You need a paid plan to remove the badge. To remove it, follow these steps:

  1. In the Liveblocks dashboard, navigate to your team’s settings.
  2. Under General, toggle the option to remove “Powered by Liveblocks” branding.

If you’d instead like to adjust the position of the badge, set the badgeLocation property.