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Is Apple Push notification using APNS free of cost?

We are planning to develop the push notification service for a telecom operator. But I haven't got any information whether the APNS push service is free of cost or should we make any payment?

My questions are,

  1. Should I pay for using the APNS push service?
  2. If operator want to sent push notification to millions of subscribers, should we pay to Apple or is it absolutely free? If not free, please share the URL where payment details are available.
  3. Is there any limit for the number of notification sent or the number of subscribers?
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PassionatedDeveloper Avatar asked Jul 22 '13 03:07

PassionatedDeveloper


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2 Answers

Apple does not charge a separate fee for utilizing the push notification service.

Your only cost is a server that will be sending the push notifications to Apple. There are third-parties that provide this servers and there is a fee for that.

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bbarnhart Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 08:09

bbarnhart


Answer for your question 1,2 and 3 is: Apple doesn't charge you for APNS - but you have to maintain a server for pushing.

Try these third parties for pushing,

  • PushWizard, a free and unlimited push service.

It can send 250 million push messages / hour and PushWizard is free for unlimited devices, while other services can be very expensive if you have more, than 1 million users to reach at least ONCE per month.

  • Monopush, which provides a RESTful API and a lot of free push alerts up-front to handle the server infrastructure for you.

You need just copy and paste a few line codes to inside of your application and then magic will be started. After that you can start to watch, analyze, categorize your clients and you can send push messages to them as well as resource messages.

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Mumthezir VP Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 10:09

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