Photon Engine
Under review· 8Real-time multiplayer game backend with cloud hosting for concurrent user management, matchmaking, and networking.
Photon Engine has 7 plans: a free plan, paid plans from $580/month and custom pricing for larger teams. We last read its pricing page on 16 October 2026. We have not recorded a price change.
Photon Engine plans and prices
Development
$0
- Connected users (CCU) — 20
- Traffic per month — Limited to 60.0 GB
- Applications — For Development Only
- CCU Burst — Capped at 20 CCU - no CCU Burst
Launch 100
monthlyCustom
Contact for pricing
- Connected Users — 100
- Suitable for MAU — ˜ 40 k
- Traffic Limit — 0.3 TB
- Capped CCU — 100
Launch 500
monthlyCustom
Contact for pricing
- Concurrent users — 500 CCU
- Traffic — 1.5 TB/month
- Suitable MAU — ~200K
- CCU burst included
Launch 1000
monthlyCustom
Contact for pricing
- Connected Users — 1,000
- Suitable for MAU — ˜ 400 k
- Traffic Limit — 3.0 TB
- CCU Burst — null
Launch 2000
monthlyCustom
Contact for pricing
- Connected Users — 2,000
- Suitable for MAU — ˜ 800 k
- Traffic Limit — 6.0 TB
- CCU Burst — null
Premium Cloud
monthly$580/mo
- overage$0.05($0.05 per additional GB (Europe / Canada, East / RU / RUE / USA, East / USA, West))
- overage$0.1($0.10 per additional GB (Asia / Australia / China / India / Japan / South Africa / South America / South Korea / Turkey / United Arab Emirates))
- Automatically Adapts to Your Usage for up to 50,000 CCU
- Connected Users at the Same Time — 2,000
- Traffic per Peak CCU per Month — 3.0 GB
- Usage-Based CCU Auto-Scaling
- CCU Burst for CCU > 50k
- DDoS Protected by Default
- Applications — For Games Only
- Suitable for MAU — up to ≈ 20m
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- Additional GB (Europe / Canada, East / RU / RUE / USA, East / USA, West) — $0.05
- Additional GB (Asia / Australia / China / India / Japan / South Africa / South America / South Korea / Turkey / United Arab Emirates) — $0.10
Enterprise Cloud
Custom
- Dedicated, Managed Cloud Environment — null
- Unlimited CCU Titles — null
- Guaranteed service levels — null
- Priority Operations Support — null
- Dedicated Servers — null
- Server Authoritative Logic via Plug-Ins — null
- Premium Dashboard and Counters — null
- Multi-layered DDoS Protection — null
Price history
Last 4 recorded changes
| Date | Plan | Change | Old | New | Δ% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 2026 | Enterprise Cloud | New plan | — | — | — |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Premium Cloud | New plan | — | $580 | — |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Launch 2000 | New plan | — | — | — |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Launch 1000 | New plan | — | — | — |
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