OneSignal alternatives, priced at 1,000 and 10,000 monthly active users.

OneSignal and Pushwoosh meter people: the bill is the number of monthly active users, whatever you send them. Knock and MagicBell count every message or delivery, Courier counts sends, and Notifly counts the workflow event that starts a notification. To put them on one table, the page assumes a product that sends each active user four notifications a month on one channel, so 1,000 MAU means 4,000 sends and 10,000 MAU means 40,000. Send more per user and the per-message vendors get dearer while the MAU vendors do not; send less and the reverse.

Prices are the vendors' published self-serve list prices in US dollars, checked on November 8, 2026 at the pages linked in each section. Enterprise plans have no published price and are left out. Delivery fees from the email, SMS and push providers you connect are separate on the platforms that use them, and are not included.

Notifly is hosted notification infrastructure with one API for email, SMS, mobile and web push, in-app inbox and chat, a visual workflow editor with digest, delay and throttle steps, and the team features on an ordinary paid plan. It meters trigger events, not people: subscribers are unlimited on every plan, and one workflow run is one event however many channels it reaches. The Free plan includes 10,000 events a month with no card, Pro is $19 a month for 50,000 events, and Team is $149 a month for 500,000 with role-based access control, translations, custom environments and unlimited members. See pricing.

Pick it when your audience is large but each person hears from you a few times a month, or when push is one channel of a workflow that also sends email, SMS, chat and in-app. Look elsewhere when you want a marketing team's campaign tooling, such as journeys, A/B tests and segment builders, on top of delivery; Notifly is infrastructure your product triggers.

Knock is a hosted notification API for product teams with a workflow editor, an in-app feed and an in-app guides product. It bills per message: 10,000 messages a month on Free, then Starter at $250 a month for 50,000 messages and $0.005 for each one after that, with SAML SSO, SCIM, custom roles and translations on Enterprise (knock.app/pricing). Unlimited team members on every plan.

Pick it when you want a polished developer-first workflow product with in-app guides from the same vendor and seats are not a constraint. Look elsewhere when the jump from $0 to $250 is too steep for your volume, or you need roles and translations without an Enterprise contract. See Notifly vs Knock and the Knock alternatives round-up.

Courier is a notification API with a visual template designer, a free Developer plan of 10,000 sends a month and a Business plan at $0.005 per send with no platform fee (courier.com/pricing). A send is one notification to one recipient across whatever channels it reaches, including push through your own FCM, APNs or Expo credentials. Role-based access control and the audit trail are listed under Enterprise.

Pick it when your volume is modest and non-engineers own the templates. Look elsewhere when you pass about 50,000 sends a month, where $0.005 a send is $250, or when you need roles below Enterprise. See Notifly vs Courier and Courier pricing in 2026.

MagicBell is an in-app notification inbox with mobile and web push, email and Slack delivery behind it, strongest as a drop-in inbox for React, Svelte, Preact and Web Components. Its Builder plan is $0 for 1,000 deliveries a month, and its next plan, Startup, is $249 a month for 50,000 deliveries, then $0.0025 each (magicbell.com/pricing).

Pick it when the in-app inbox is the product and push is a companion to it. Look elsewhere when you send more than 1,000 deliveries a month but far fewer than 50,000: there is no plan between $0 and $249. See Notifly vs MagicBell.

Pushwoosh is the closest like-for-like OneSignal alternative on this page: a push-first customer engagement platform with mobile and web push, in-app messages, email, SMS and WhatsApp, billed by monthly active users. It is free up to 1,000 MAU; the Push-only plan is $7 per 1,000 MAU a month and the Omnichannel plan is $13 per 1,000 MAU, with 20 email sends per MAU included and $1.50 per 1,000 after that (pushwoosh.com/pricing).

Pick it when you want OneSignal's shape of product, campaigns to a consumer app audience, at a lower per-MAU rate. Look elsewhere when the audience is large and lightly messaged, since the MAU meter has the same shape as OneSignal's, or when the job is product-triggered workflows across your own providers.

Firebase Cloud Messaging is Google's push delivery service for Android, iOS and the web, listed as no-cost on both Firebase's Spark and Blaze plans (firebase.google.com/pricing). It is not a platform: there are no workflows, templates, preferences, an inbox or analytics beyond delivery reports, and you write and operate the code that decides who gets what, when. Most of the platforms on this page, Notifly included, send their Android push through FCM; the FCM integration guide shows how it connects.

Pick it when push is the only channel, your backend already knows what to send, and you are comfortable owning retries, token hygiene and a 4,096-byte payload limit yourself (see push notification limits). Look elsewhere when you want in-app messaging, email or SMS alongside push, or any workflow logic you do not have to build.

Four notifications per active user per month on one channel: 4,000 sends at 1,000 MAU, 40,000 at 10,000 MAU. Published self-serve prices, read on November 8, 2026; provider delivery fees not included.

The OneSignal figure is the Growth calculator's own arithmetic for mobile MAU only, with no web push subscribers and under 20,000 email sends (onesignal.com/pricing). Add web push at $0.004 a subscriber, or email past 20,000 sends at $1.50 per 1,000, and it rises from there.

OneSignal is a marketing team's tool as much as an engineer's: journeys, A/B testing, segments, a template editor and analytics for push and in-app campaigns come with the platform, and when each user hears from you many times a month the MAU meter is cheaper than any per-message vendor on this page. It also includes 20,000 email sends on Growth where the others leave email to your provider. If campaign tooling and a high per-user send rate describe your product, OneSignal or Pushwoosh is the honest recommendation, and the Notifly vs OneSignal page says so in more detail.