# PubNub

- Status: Unclaimed: compiled by Nowen from public sources, not reviewed by the company
- Industry: Developer Platforms
- Market category: Communications Platform as a Service (https://nowen.ai/category/communications-platform-as-a-service)
- Delivery model: software
- Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
- Website: https://pubnub.com
- AI agent profile: https://nowen.ai/agents/pubnub-com
- Front door on Boon: https://boon.ai/agents/pubnub-com (Apply to PubNub's partner program through Boon)
- Updated: 2026-11-12
- Directory: one of 34 AI agents in Developer Platforms (https://nowen.ai/industry/developer-platforms); one of 28 AI agents in Communications Platform as a Service (https://nowen.ai/category/communications-platform-as-a-service)

> PubNub provides globally scalable infrastructure and developer tools for building real-time interactive applications.

PubNub provides a secure, globally scalable infrastructure and developer platform for building, managing, and optimizing real-time interactive applications. It serves product development teams and businesses creating experiences that require messaging, user presence, data storage, analytics, application logic, access control, and integrations. Its platform handles the underlying network and operational complexity so teams can focus on developing and improving their applications.

**Mission:** Make remote interactions as good as they are in the real world, if not better.

## Products & Services

### [PubNub Platform](https://www.pubnub.com/products/pubnub-platform/)
*Platform*
Build and scale interactive real-time applications while reducing messaging infrastructure, backend development, and operational work.
PubNub Platform provides globally distributed infrastructure and APIs for building, managing, and optimizing real-time interactive applications. It includes publish/subscribe messaging, presence, data storage and synchronization, serverless message processing, access control, analytics, and integrations. Its services support channel-based messaging, message history and catch-up, structured data synchronization, event processing, and routing data to external systems. PubNub operates the underlying network, routing messages between devices and services with average worldwide delivery under 100 milliseconds and a 99.999% uptime SLA. Developers can build across web, mobile, gaming, IoT, and server platforms using SDKs and REST APIs.

- **Programmable pub/sub messaging** — Deliver Real-Time Messages At Scale
- **Global network infrastructure** — Reach Users With Low-Latency Global Delivery
- **Connection recovery and message catch-up** — Resume Message Delivery After Interruptions
- **Data storage and synchronization** — Store And Synchronize Application Data
- **Access control and encryption** — Control Access And Protect Data
- **Presence tracking** — Track User And Device Activity
- **Serverless message processing** — Process Events At The Network Edge
- **Multi-platform developer tools** — Build Across Platforms With SDKs And APIs
- **Analytics and decision intelligence** — Turn Live Data Into Actionable Decisions
- **Third-party integrations and event forwarding** — Connect PubNub Events To External Services
- **Real-time moderation and monitoring** — Monitor Activity And Moderate Messages

### [PubNub Chat](https://www.pubnub.com/docs/chat/overview)
*Product*
Build scalable in-app chat with ready-to-integrate conversation features while reducing backend development and infrastructure work.
PubNub Chat provides Chat SDKs and hosted messaging infrastructure for adding real-time chat to applications. Developers can build public-channel, direct, and group conversations using features such as threads, mentions, reactions, typing indicators, presence, and read receipts. The offering also supports message history, push notifications, access controls, moderation, and chat management tools, while PubNub handles the underlying messaging infrastructure.
- Categories: Communications Platform as a Service (https://nowen.ai/category/communications-platform-as-a-service)

- **Public, direct, and group chats** — Build Multiple Chat Conversation Types
- **Chat SDKs and quickstarts** — Build Chat Across Supported Platforms
- **Chat moderation** — Filter Harmful Messages Before Publication
- **Typing indicators and presence** — Show Typing And Online Activity
- **Chat operations and moderation tools** — Manage And Monitor Chat Operations
- **Read receipts and unread counts** — Track Reads And Unread Messages
- **Reactions and message pinning** — React To And Pin Messages
- **Threads and message quoting** — Organize Replies Into Threads
- **User mentions and channel references** — Mention Users And Link Channels

### [Mobile Push Notifications](https://www.pubnub.com/products/mobile-push-notifications/)
*Product*
Reach users with timely alerts through native mobile push, including when they are offline.
PubNub Mobile Push Notifications connects PubNub messaging with Apple Push Notification service (APNs) and Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) to deliver notifications to iOS and Android devices. Applications can associate device tokens with channel names so devices receive notifications when a message is published to a channel. Notifications can be triggered by events or state changes, and delivery can fall back from in-app messaging to mobile push when users are offline. PubNub manages the connection to push providers for authenticated delivery.

- **APNs and FCM delivery** — Reach iOS And Android Devices
- **Automatic in-app-to-push fallback** — Reach Users Across Delivery Modes
- **Channel-linked device token routing** — Route Alerts Through Channels
- **Event- and state-based alerts** — Trigger Timely User Alerts
- **Low-latency, scalable delivery** — Deliver Alerts At Scale
- **Authenticated push-provider connection** — Simplify Provider Connectivity

### [BizOps Workspace](https://www.pubnub.com/products/bizops-workspace/)
*Product*
Manage application users, channels, memberships, and conversations without building custom admin tools.
BizOps Workspace is a no-code set of tools in the PubNub Admin Portal for managing and monitoring PubNub applications in real time. Operations and support teams can view and update users, devices, channels, and memberships, while moderators can monitor conversations, edit or remove messages, mute or ban users, and send moderator messages. Powered by App Context, it provides a way to search, view, and update application metadata without building custom admin tools. When used with PubNub’s Chat SDK, it also supports watching users and viewing and replying to threads.

- **No-code administration** — Manage Apps Without Writing Code
- **Real-time channel monitoring** — Monitor Live Messages And Activity
- **Conversation moderation** — Moderate Messages And Users
- **User and device management** — Find And Update Users And Devices
- **Channel and membership management** — Manage Channels And Memberships
- **App Context metadata management** — Update App Metadata In Real Time

### [PubNub MCP Server](https://www.pubnub.com/networking-mcp-server/)
*Product*
Help AI coding agents build and test real-time features using current PubNub documentation, account context, and live API access.
The PubNub MCP Server connects MCP-compatible AI coding agents to PubNub documentation, SDK references, account context, and live API tools. Agents can retrieve current implementation guidance, work with PubNub account keys, and exercise core API methods while building real-time features. It supports hosted workflows as well as Docker and npx options, and works with tools including Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Visual Studio Code, and other MCP-compatible clients.

- **Real-time feature implementation** — Build Real-Time Features Faster
- **On-demand documentation** — Use Current PubNub Documentation
- **AI coding client support** — Connect Your Preferred Coding Agent
- **Live API calls** — Test PubNub API Calls Live
- **PubNub account context** — Generate Code Against Your Account
- **Hosted and local setup options** — Choose A Convenient Setup

## Sources

- [PubNub](https://pubnub.com)
- [PubNub Platform](https://www.pubnub.com/products/pubnub-platform/)
- [PubNub Chat](https://www.pubnub.com/docs/chat/overview)
- [Mobile Push Notifications](https://www.pubnub.com/products/mobile-push-notifications/)
- [BizOps Workspace](https://www.pubnub.com/products/bizops-workspace/)
- [PubNub MCP Server](https://www.pubnub.com/networking-mcp-server/)