Hibira vs Soketi
Soketi is an open-source, self-hosted Pusher-protocol server. What you take on by running it, and what a hosted service does instead.
Soketi is an open-source WebSocket server that speaks the Pusher protocol, which you host yourself. Hibira speaks the same protocol as a hosted service, so the client and server code is the same for both.
At a glance
| Soketi | Hibira | |
|---|---|---|
| Who runs it | You | Hibira |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Hosted service; SDKs are open source |
| Cost | Free software, plus servers and time | Free plan, then from $35/month |
| Scaling | Redis or NATS adapter and a load balancer, set up by you | Handled by Hibira |
| Maintenance | The project README notes infrequent updates and support | Run and monitored by Hibira, with a public status page |
| Push notifications | Not included | Included (Beams-compatible API) |
Soketi details are from its GitHub repository, checked on 2026-10-24.
What self-hosting asks of you
Running any WebSocket server yourself means keeping the process up, terminating TLS, raising open-file limits, sharing state between servers once you have more than one, and being alerted when it fails. It is ordinary operations work, but it never ends, and it falls on whoever is on call.
When Soketi is the better fit
- You already run infrastructure and want no third party in the data path.
- Your traffic is in one place and modest.
- You are comfortable maintaining an open-source server whose update pace may be slow.
When Hibira is the better fit
- You want the Pusher protocol without running the server.
- You want a dashboard, debug console, webhooks and push notifications around it.
- Your users are in East and Southeast Asia.
Switching between them is configuration: point your Pusher libraries at the other host. See the integration guides.
Soketi is a trademark of its owner.