The best mobile push notification services of 2026

OneSignal lets you send a first push without paying or talking to sales. The free plan covers mobile push and in-app messages for up to 1,000 monthly active users, web push to as many as 10,000 subscribers per send, and 10,000 emails a month. It has SDKs for native iOS and Android plus Flutter, React Native, Expo and Unity, so most app stacks are covered.

The Growth plan is month to month. It starts at a $19 platform fee, then adds $0.012 for each mobile monthly active user and $0.004 for each web push subscriber, which works out to $12 for every 1,000 active app users. Email comes with 20,000 free sends a month and costs $1.50 per 1,000 after that. OneSignal takes payment in US dollars only.

Watch the limits on automation. The free plan allows 3 active automated flows and 6 audience segments, and Growth raises that to only 5 flows and 10 segments. Professional (20 of each) and Enterprise (unlimited) are annual contracts with prices you get from sales. A team that plans to run dozens of automated campaigns will reach the contract tiers sooner than the headline price suggests.

Pick OneSignal if you want to get push working this week and pay nothing until your audience grows past 1,000 active users.

Pushwoosh charges by monthly active user with no platform fee. Your project is free while it stays within 1,000 monthly active users, and the free tier still includes unlimited push and in-app impressions and 20,000 email sends a month. Past 1,000 users you pay $13 per 1,000 on the Omnichannel plan, which adds email, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE and Kakao Talk to push.

If push is all you need, the Push only plan costs $7 per 1,000 monthly active users and covers mobile push, web push and in-app messages. Pushwoosh calls this a limited offer available until December 31, with your price locked for 24 months after you sign up. Once an estimate passes $3,000 a month, Pushwoosh moves you to custom billing with a dedicated manager and an SLA. WhatsApp and SMS messages are billed by the providers on top.

Pushwoosh reaches a long list of platforms: iOS, Android, Fire OS and Huawei devices, the Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari browsers, and Windows and macOS. It has SDKs for Cordova, Flutter, React Native, Expo, Unity, OutSystems and .NET MAUI. Customers in Europe have their data held in a German data center.

The pricing page shows prices with a dollar sign but does not name the currency, so confirm it at checkout. Pick Pushwoosh if you expect tens of thousands of active users and want the bill to stay predictable.

Amazon Simple Notification Service is the cheapest way on this list to deliver a large number of pushes. The SNS pricing page lists a free tier of 1 million mobile push notifications, and after that the rate in the US East (N. Virginia) region is $0.50 per million. AWS bills each 64KB of delivered data as one delivery, which only matters if you send large payloads.

SNS passes your messages to the delivery services the phones already use: Apple Push Notification service for iOS and macOS, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Amazon Device Messaging, Baidu Cloud Push and Windows Push Notification Services. You register your app's credentials with SNS, create an endpoint for each device token, then publish to that endpoint or to a topic that many devices subscribe to.

That setup is the price of the low rate. The SNS documentation describes sending through API calls and topics, so the targeting, scheduling and reporting a marketer expects are left for your developers to build. SNS suits order updates, security codes, chat alerts and other messages your own code triggers. It is a poor fit for a marketing team that wants to write a campaign, pick a segment and press send.

Pick Amazon SNS if your product already runs on AWS and the people sending notifications are engineers.

Pusher Beams is a push API for developers who want a simple bill. Instead of charging per send or per active user, Beams sells plans by subscriber count: Sandbox is free for 1,000 subscribers, Startup is $29 a month for 10,000, Pro is $99 for 50,000, Business is $199 for 115,000 and Premium is $399 for 250,000. Business and Premium come with premium support.

Beams sends native notifications to iOS, Android and the web. Device Interests let you broadcast to every device that subscribed to a topic, such as a sports team or a price alert. Authenticated Users ties notifications to a signed-in user, so a message reaches every device that person uses and nobody else. Delivery and open tracking, reports and webhooks show you what happened after you sent.

Pusher has been part of MessageBird since November 2020. Beams has no campaign editor or automated flows in the way OneSignal or Braze do, so it fits apps where your code decides when to notify someone. The pricing page shows plans in dollars without naming the currency.

Pick Pusher Beams if you already use Pusher Channels for realtime features, or if you want a fixed monthly cost you can read straight off the pricing page.

CleverTap combines product analytics with push, in-app and other messages, so the team that studies user behavior can act on it in the same tool. Segments update in real time from what people do in your app, and campaigns can be tested and measured without exporting data to another product.

CleverTap is one of the few engagement platforms in this group to publish a starting price. The Core plan is $85 a month plus taxes and add-ons, and billing starts after a 30-day trial. The pricing page lets you choose a monthly active user band from up to 5,000 to more than 100,000, and its FAQ says pricing depends on your monthly active users or data points. Pro and the top plan need a demo with sales, and that top plan keeps 10 years of customer history against 3 years on Core and Pro.

CleverTap's AI features, which it calls CleverAI, draft on-brand content on Core and add automated segmentation, send-time and channel choice on Pro. Each plan comes with a set number of AI tokens.

Pick CleverTap if you run a consumer app with a few thousand active users or more, want analytics and messaging in one place, and can try it for a month before you pay.

Braze is built for companies where push is one part of a much larger messaging program. Every edition includes cross-channel messaging (email, push, SMS, MMS, RCS and WhatsApp), multi-step campaign automation, the Braze data platform and its BrazeAI features. Security controls such as single sign-on, two-factor sign-in and granular permissions come on every tier.

There are four editions. Go is aimed at early-stage growth teams. Select adds more orchestration and user provisioning, Pro adds predictive AI, AI recommendations and message prioritization, and Enterprise adds advanced experimentation with the BrazeAI Agent Console. Braze publishes no prices. It scales each contract to your monthly active users and includes profiles, an allotment of action credits and customer experience services.

Braze says it has no free plan, though its pricing page links to a free trial. Expect a sales process, a contract and real implementation work before your first campaign. A small app that only needs to send a weekly push will pay for far more than it uses.

Pick Braze if you have a dedicated lifecycle marketing team, millions of users and campaigns that move between push, email and messaging apps.

Airship says it sent the first commercial push notification, and its platform now covers push notifications, SMS, RCS, MMS, email and mobile wallet passes, plus in-app and web experiences.

Airship looks past the message itself. Its site puts app store optimization, unified opt-ins and personalized onboarding under customer acquisition, which matters if your problem is getting people to install the app and allow notifications in the first place. Multi-step campaigns, real-time segmentation, testing and attribution reports cover the rest of the lifecycle.

Airship sells two products. The Airship Experience Platform is the full suite with strategic services for onboarding and training. Airship Essentials is a self-service, no-code option for growth teams building app and web experiences. Neither has a published price, and the site mentions no free trial; onboarding starts with a live demo.

Pick Airship if your app's growth depends on opt-in rates and onboarding as much as on the messages you send afterward, and you are ready for a quote.

WebEngage runs push and web push from the same segments and automated flows as WhatsApp, SMS, RCS and email. That suits consumer businesses whose customers answer a WhatsApp message more readily than an email, which is why it was in the earlier version of this guide and still earns a place now.

The SDK list is wide. WebEngage's developer docs cover native Android and iOS, Cordova, React Native, Flutter, Ionic Capacitor and Expo, plus websites, AMP pages and a Smart TV integration under the Android guide. Its Unity package works on iOS only. A REST API lets your backend send events and users.

You connect your own SMS, WhatsApp, RCS and email providers, so message costs from those providers sit on top of the WebEngage fee and your developers have more setup to do than with OneSignal. WebEngage's website blocked our checks on November 4, 2026, so we could not confirm its prices, free plan or trial; plan on a conversation with sales.

Pick WebEngage if WhatsApp and SMS are central to how you reach customers and you want push in the same tool.