Introducing WebSockets for Laravel Cloud: Managed Real-time Powered by Reverb

We're excited to announce the immediate availability of WebSockets for Laravel Cloud, the simplest way to integrate powerful real-time features into your applications.

These new WebSockets for Laravel Cloud are fully managed WebSocket clusters, powered by our acclaimed Laravel Reverb technology. This means you can add real-time communication capabilities to your applications in as little as 10 seconds, and at a cost up to 50% less than many alternative third-party solutions.

Setting up your cluster is straightforward: simply choose the number of concurrent connections you need. For applications requiring multiple connections, you can efficiently split your capacity across different applications, ensuring optimal resource utilization and cost savings.

Sign up for Laravel Cloud today to seamlessly integrate Laravel Reverb-powered WebSocket clusters into your apps in mere seconds.

The Power of Laravel Reverb, Now Fully Managed

Real-time features are no longer a luxury; they are critical for enhancing user activation, retention, and engagement. The immediate feedback provided by live chats, instant notifications, or dynamic dashboards creates an undeniable "magic of now" experience for users.

However, the journey of building, scaling, and maintaining the underlying WebSocket infrastructure is anything but magical. It's often a painful, time-consuming, and complex endeavor that diverts valuable development resources from core feature building.

The Laravel community has embraced Laravel Reverb, the open-source, high-performance WebSocket server we launched almost two years ago. Reverb quickly became the preferred choice for Laravel developers looking to implement real-time functionalities.

Despite Reverb's capabilities as an OSS package, its hosting and scaling still required developers to manage their own servers or depend on separate third-party services.

Since the launch of Laravel Cloud earlier this year, support for managed Reverb has emerged as the single most requested feature from our Cloud customers. We've heard countless inquiries: "What's the ETA for Reverb in Cloud?", "Do you support Reverb?", and, a personal favorite, "Reverb when?".

With WebSockets for Laravel Cloud, offering a fully managed Reverb cluster natively integrated into your Laravel Cloud experience, the answer is finally: Reverb now.

Simple Setup, Simple Scaling

Embodying Laravel Cloud's "it just works" philosophy, we've designed the process of creating WebSocket clusters to be as effortless as possible.

When configuring your cluster, you specify the desired number of concurrent connections. This allocated capacity can then be intelligently divided among multiple applications, allowing each to share a portion of these connections for highly cost-effective resource management.

The moment you integrate a WebSocket application into your Laravel environment, Cloud automatically populates all necessary environment variables. There's no need to manually look up API keys, configure endpoints, or manage separate third-party vendors and their billing.

It simply works.

See WebSockets for Laravel Cloud in action and explore the code we used to build our demo app on GitHub.

Predictable Pricing

Simplicity extends beyond an intuitive UI, automatic variable population, and hands-off deployments.

It also encompasses clear and predictable pricing. We've made the pricing for our Laravel Reverb-powered WebSocket clusters incredibly straightforward:

You only pay for your maximum concurrent connections. Each concurrent connections tier includes a generous allowance of millions of messages. That's all.

There are no complex equations, no additional base plans, and no confusion over cost-per-million-messages, minutes, or channels.

This simple, predictable model is designed to provide an incredibly low barrier to entry. In fact, our solution is up to 50% more cost-effective than some leading competitors. Our goal is to empower you to focus on building innovative features, not on complex cost calculations.

Get Started with WebSockets for Laravel Cloud

WebSockets for Laravel Cloud liberates you from the burdens of manually setting up another service or the complexities of managing third-party vendors. Instead, it unifies another critical piece of your application architecture seamlessly within Laravel Cloud.

This launch represents a significant stride towards our mission: enabling developers to deploy to production rapidly, eliminate the hassles of infrastructure management, and enjoy an unparalleled developer experience every step of the way.

We build for developers who ship.

Start integrating WebSockets for Laravel Cloud into your projects today.

Want to learn more?

• See WebSockets for Laravel Cloud in action
• Check the code we used to build our demo app on GitHub