CometChat

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Communication & Voice Unclaimed · our research only We found: Free plan; paid from $239 🔎 2 cost-trap flags
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Our pricing checkRead on their own pricing page, 17 Aug 2026
Cost-trap flags🧮 Usage-metered 🧩 Add-ons extra 🆓 Free tier
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Our pricing check · re-verified 2026-08-17 against CometChat's own machine-readable…Build is free for development: all features, up to 100 users and 25 concurrent connections, n…
What will cost you money if you skim itThe pricing cliff is the honest headline: from a 100-MAU free tier straight to ~$239/mo is a brutal jump for an early-stage app, and users report plan structures changing under them.

Cost-trap flags — each with its evidence

🧮 Usage-metered — Credits, overages or percentage fees on top of the subscription
“On overage CometChat charges $0.10 per extra MAU (falling at higher tiers) or $1 per extra concurrent connection — and where both are exceeded it bil…”
🧩 Add-ons extra — Key features are paid add-ons on top of the plan
“Messages and storage are unlimited on every plan, and message retention is 6 months across the board, extendable at extra cost.”
🆓 Free tier — A genuinely free plan or version exists
“The pricing cliff is the honest headline: from a 100-MAU free tier straight to ~$239/mo is a brutal jump for an early-stage app, and users report pla…”

Genuinely good for

product teams that want proven in-app text/voice/video chat with SDKs for every major framework, without building messaging infrastructure themselves

Skip it if

your app is pre-revenue with growing users (the free-to-paid cliff will hit mid-growth), or chat is peripheral enough that a support widget covers it

The honest comparisonStream or Sendbird — the premium chat-SDK peers — all three are MAU-priced; compare at YOUR projected MAU including overages, not at the entry tier

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