# Notifly vs OneSignal

Canonical page: https://notifly.io/compare/onesignal
Claims last checked: 2026-11-08
Verified November 8, 2026 by the Notifly team. Every claim about OneSignal links the page it was read from, and this date is the day those pages were last read.

OneSignal pricing as of November 8, 2026: Free up to 1,000 MAU, Growth from $19/mo plus $0.012 per MAU. Notifly, a OneSignal alternative, bills on events.

OneSignal's free plan caps mobile push and in-app at 1,000 MAU from Sept–Oct 2026. Notifly meters events, not people — subscribers are unlimited on every plan.

## Pricing side by side

| Feature | Notifly | OneSignal (Free and Growth) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free plan | $0 forever — 10,000 events/month, every channel | $0/month — every channel, unlimited mobile push and in-app up to 1,000 MAU | https://onesignal.com/pricing |
| Free-plan audience limit | None — unlimited subscribers | Mobile push and in-app stop 24 hours after crossing 1,000 MAU (from Sept 1 / Oct 1, 2026) | https://documentation.onesignal.com/docs/en/billing-faq |
| First paid plan | Pro — $19/month, 50,000 events | Growth — from $19/month, month to month | https://onesignal.com/pricing |
| What the bill scales with | Events you trigger; audience size adds nothing | $0.012 per mobile MAU, $0.004 per web push subscriber, $1.50 per 1,000 emails past 20,000 | https://onesignal.com/pricing |
| Worked example | Team — $149/month covers 500,000 events, however many users | 10,000 mobile MAU is $139/month on Growth, per its calculator | https://onesignal.com/pricing#calculator |
| Larger accounts | Enterprise for SSO and SCIM, or volume above Team | Professional and Enterprise: custom annual contracts | https://onesignal.com/pricing |

## Features side by side

| Feature | Notifly | OneSignal (Free and Growth) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pricing model | Flat plan, metered on events sent | Growth from $19/month, plus $0.012 per mobile-push MAU | https://onesignal.com/pricing |
| Free-plan mobile push | Included — 10,000 events/month | Stops sending 24 hours after crossing 1,000 MAU (Sept/Oct 2026) | https://documentation.onesignal.com/docs/en/billing-faq |
| Audience metering | None — unlimited subscribers on every plan | Org-wide MAU across all apps: a trailing 30 days for the free-plan limit, the billing cycle for billing | https://documentation.onesignal.com/docs/en/billing-faq |
| Mobile push (FCM / APNs) | Included | Included |  |
| Web push (VAPID) | Included | Max 10,000 subscribers per send on Free; $0.004 per web push subscriber on Growth | https://onesignal.com/pricing |
| Email | Every plan, inside the same event meter | 10,000 sends/month on Free; Growth includes 20,000, then $1.50 per 1,000 | https://onesignal.com/pricing |
| SMS | Every plan, through your own SMS provider | Available on Free and Growth; volume-based discounts on Professional and Enterprise | https://onesignal.com/pricing |
| Email providers | Your own provider, billed by them — Notifly doesn't resell sends | OneSignal Email by default, or your own SendGrid, Mailgun or Mandrill | https://documentation.onesignal.com/docs/en/email-setup |
| SMS providers | Your own provider, billed by them | Your own Twilio, or OneSignal-managed SMS, which its docs recommend above 5,000 SMS a month | https://documentation.onesignal.com/docs/en/sms-setup |
| Journeys / workflow automations | 20 workflows free, unlimited on Team; digest, delay, throttle | 3 active Journeys on Free, 5 on Growth | https://onesignal.com/pricing |
| Activity history | 24h free, 7 days Pro, 90 days Team | Up to 30 days of reporting history on Free | https://onesignal.com/pricing |

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Notifly a good OneSignal alternative?

For an engineering team wiring notifications into a product, yes: Notifly bills a flat plan on the events you trigger, never on how many people use your app, and it covers mobile push, web push, email, SMS, chat and an in-app inbox from one workflow engine. For a marketing team that wants campaign tooling and A/B testing, OneSignal is the more complete product, and this page says so below.

### Which OneSignal competitors and alternatives does Notifly compare itself with?

Notifly is one of several OneSignal alternatives, and the compare hub holds the same kind of sourced comparison for Novu, Knock, Courier, SuprSend and MagicBell. What sets Notifly apart here is the meter: one workflow trigger is one event however many channels it reaches, and the number of subscribers never changes the plan.

### How much does OneSignal cost?

As of November 8, 2026, OneSignal's pricing page lists four plans: Free at $0 a month, Growth from $19 a month billed month to month, and Professional and Enterprise at custom prices on annual contracts. Growth adds usage to its $19 platform fee: $0.012 per mobile monthly active user, $0.004 per web push subscriber, and $1.50 per 1,000 emails after 20,000 free sends a month. SMS and RCS are available on Free and Growth, with volume-based discounts on Professional and Enterprise. Notifly's plans are flat and never count users: Free is $0 forever for 10,000 events per month, Pro is $19/month for 50,000 events per month and Team is $149/month for 500,000 events per month.

### What does OneSignal's free plan include?

As of November 8, 2026, OneSignal's pricing page lists a free plan at $0 a month with every channel on it: unlimited mobile push notifications, in-app messages and Live Activities sessions for organizations with up to 1,000 monthly active users, web push to at most 10,000 subscribers per send, 10,000 email sends a month, and SMS and RCS. It allows 3 active Journeys, 6 audience segments and 6 data tags, keeps up to 30 days of reporting history and 48 hours of audit logs, and offers the Admin user permission only.

### What happens to a OneSignal free plan above 1,000 monthly active users?

According to OneSignal's billing FAQ, free-plan organizations must stay under 1,000 monthly active users to send mobile push and in-app messages — from September 1, 2026 for new customers and October 1, 2026 for existing ones. Crossing the limit starts a 24-hour window to upgrade before those two channels stop; web push, email and SMS keep sending. The count is combined across every app in the organization over a trailing 30 days, and Journeys with push or in-app steps skip sending to mobile subscriptions while you are over the limit.

### How does OneSignal's pricing scale as an app grows?

OneSignal's paid plans add a variable usage fee to a fixed platform fee. As of November 8, 2026, Growth starts at $19 a month, month to month, plus $0.012 per mobile monthly active user with in-app messages included, $0.004 per web push subscriber, and $1.50 per 1,000 emails after the first 20,000 a month; the Growth cost calculator on its pricing page puts 10,000 mobile monthly active users at $139 a month. Professional and Enterprise are custom annual contracts with volume-based pricing, and its billing FAQ asks organizations with over 50,000 MAU to contact its sales team for volume-based discounts on an annual plan. Notifly's plans do not move with audience size: Free is $0 forever for 10,000 events per month, Pro is $19/month for 50,000 events per month and Team is $149/month for 500,000 events per month, with unlimited subscribers on every plan.

### Does OneSignal have a free trial?

As of November 8, 2026, neither OneSignal's pricing page nor its billing FAQ lists a time-limited trial. The pricing page describes the $0 Free plan as the one for companies that want to try out OneSignal before choosing a paid plan, and Growth is month to month: you can downgrade to Free from the dashboard at any time, effective at the end of the billing period. Notifly also starts you on a free plan with no card, and its pricing page adds a trial of the paid tier: Try Pro free for 14 days whenever you’re ready, no card needed.

### How much does OneSignal charge for email?

As of November 8, 2026, OneSignal's Free plan includes 10,000 email sends a month. Growth includes 20,000 sends a month and then charges $1.50 per 1,000, and its billing FAQ caps self-serve plans at 500,000 emails a month unless you contact OneSignal. Professional and Enterprise price email on custom contracts. Notifly charges nothing per email: it sends through the email provider you connect and pay directly, and a workflow trigger counts as one event on your plan whichever channels it reaches.

### How does Notifly price push notifications?

By events, not audience. One workflow trigger is one event however many channels it reaches, and subscribers are unlimited on every plan. The free plan includes 10,000 events a month, Pro is $19 a month for 50,000, and Team is $149 a month for 500,000 with roles and translations. Push delivery itself goes through your own FCM and APNs credentials, so there is no per-device fee on top.

### How do you migrate mobile push off OneSignal?

Notifly speaks FCM and APNs directly — you bring the same Firebase service account and APNs key you already use, register device tokens against subscribers via the API or the Capacitor and web-push SDKs, and trigger from one workflow engine that also covers email, SMS, chat, and the in-app inbox. Your bill then tracks how many notifications you send, not how many people opened your app that month.

### Can I keep OneSignal while I move?

Yes. OneSignal is one of Notifly's push provider integrations, so you can move workflows, templates and triggers to Notifly first while OneSignal keeps delivering push, then switch the push step to FCM and APNs directly once device tokens are registered. Bear in mind that while OneSignal is still delivering, its own plan limits still apply to those sends.

### Does Notifly cover email and SMS as well as push?

Yes, all five channels are on every plan, including Free: email, SMS, mobile and web push, chat and the in-app inbox, across 70+ provider integrations. OneSignal can send through your own SendGrid, Mailgun, Mandrill or Twilio account too, though its docs keep multiple senders, suppression lists and custom sending domains to OneSignal's own email service. The difference is that Notifly doesn't resell sends: every email and SMS goes through a provider you connect and pay directly, and our plan meters only the events you trigger.

### What does OneSignal do that Notifly doesn't?

Honesty cuts both ways: OneSignal is a large, mature platform with polished campaign and marketing tooling, A/B testing, and a support organization sized to match. Notifly is a smaller product aimed at engineering teams wiring notifications into a codebase — the workflow engine, the API, and the in-app inbox are the product, and the free plan keeps activity history for 24 hours where OneSignal's keeps up to 30 days. If you want a marketing suite rather than notification infrastructure, OneSignal is the better fit.

### Do I need to talk to sales to switch?

No. Start free, no card needed; try Pro free for 14 days whenever you’re ready, and upgrade to Pro or Team from the dashboard. Write to sales@notifly.io only if you need Enterprise single sign-on and SCIM, or volumes above the Team plan's 500,000 events a month.

## Pricing breakdown

- OneSignal pricing: https://notifly.io/compare/onesignal/pricing (markdown: https://notifly.io/compare/onesignal/pricing.md) — What OneSignal costs in 2026: the free plan and its 1,000 MAU cap, Growth at $19 plus $0.012 per mobile MAU, worked bills at 1,000 to 100,000 MAU, and Notifly's flat plans beside them.

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