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Anthropic API vs Pusher

API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning
vs. Realtime pub/sub WebSocket Channels + programmatic push (Beams)

Anthropic website ↗Pusher website ↗

Pricing tiers

Anthropic API

Opus 4.7 — usage
Input $5 / output $25 / cache-write $6.25 / cache-read $0.50 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Sonnet 4.6 — usage
Input $3 / output $15 / cache-write $3.75 / cache-read $0.30 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Haiku 4.5 — usage
Input $1 / output $5 / cache-write $1.25 / cache-read $0.10 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Anthropic website ↗

Pusher

Beams: Sandbox
Free. 1K subscribers.
$0 base (usage-based)
Channels: Sandbox
Free. 100 concurrent conns, 200K msg/day.
$0 base (usage-based)
Beams: Startup
$29/mo. 10K subscribers.
$29/mo
Channels: Startup
$49/mo. 500 concurrent conns, 1M msg/day.
$49/mo
Channels: Pro
$99/mo. 2K concurrent conns, 4M msg/day.
$99/mo
Beams: Pro
$99/mo. 50K subscribers.
$99/mo
Beams: Business
$199/mo. 115K subscribers.
$199/mo
Channels: Business
$299/mo. 5K concurrent, 10M msg/day.
$299/mo
Beams: Premium
$399/mo. 250K subscribers.
$399/mo
Channels: Premium
$499/mo. 10K concurrent, 20M msg/day.
$499/mo
Channels: Growth
$699/mo. 15K concurrent, 40M msg/day.
$699/mo
Channels: Plus
$899/mo. 20K concurrent, 60M msg/day.
$899/mo
Channels: Growth Plus
$1,199/mo. 30K concurrent, 90M msg/day.
$1199/mo
Channels: Enterprise
Custom. 10M+ concurrent, 100B+ msg/day. SLA, dedicated support.
Custom
Pusher website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing opus-4-7 on Anthropic API vs be-sandbox on Pusher.

MetricAnthropic APIPusher
discount batch50 % off—
subscribers—1000 subscribers

Features

Anthropic API · 0 features

    Pusher · 11 features

    • Beams — Push notifications for iOS/Android/Web with device interest groups.
    • Beams Authenticated Users — Target users by auth user ID across devices.
    • Channels — WebSocket pub/sub — realtime events, live updates, notifications.
    • Channels Webhooks — Receive server-side notifications of channel activity.
    • Client Events — Publish events from clients directly (triggered from browser).
    • Debug Console — Live channel debugging dashboard.
    • Encrypted Channels — End-to-end encrypted messages.
    • Global Clusters — US, EU, AP-Southeast, etc. Pick nearest region.
    • Presence Channels — Track who is online in a channel.
    • Private Channels — Auth-required channels with server-signed tokens.
    • Stats — Connection / message dashboards.

    Developer interfaces

    KindAnthropic APIPusher
    CLIClaude Code CLI—
    SDKGo SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)Pusher Beams Android, Pusher Beams iOS, Pusher Beams Web SDK, pusher-http-go, pusher-http-java, pusher-http-php, pusher-js (client), pusher (Node), pusher (Python), pusher (Ruby), PusherSwift, pusher-websocket-java (Android)
    RESTAWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)Beams Publish API, Pusher HTTP API
    OTHER—Channels Webhooks, Pusher WebSocket
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