Our take
Pick Liveblocks if product teams who will stay on Free $0 (3,000 collab minutes, 200 comments, Liveblocks watermark, no card) while they drop Comments on a canvas, then buy Pro at $30/month ($30 credits, branding off) when they ship. Pick Novu if product teams who will stay on Free $0 (10k workflow runs, 20 workflows, no card) while they drop in Inbox, then buy Pro at $30/month when they need 30k runs, 7-day
realtime collab kit for people and agents
notification inbox + workflow desk
Best for
Liveblocks Rooms you start at $0 (hard caps) or Pro at $30
Novu Workflow runs you start at $0 / 10k
Free plan
Liveblocks $0 · no card. Hard caps: 3,000 collab minutes, 200 comments, 3M storage updates, 1 GB realtime data, 512 MB files, 200 custom notification events. 10 projects. 3 seats. 10 connections/room. 24-hour version history. Liveblocks branding required. Feature pauses at the cap
Novu $0 · /month. No card. 10,000 workflow runs/mo. All channels (email, in-app, SMS, chat, push). US + EU residency. Up to 20 workflows. 2 environments (Dev + Prod). Activity feed 24 hours. Up to 3 team members
Lowest paid
Liveblocks Pro $30/mo yearly
Novu Pro $30/mo
Coding agent
Liveblocks Sync
Novu Novu Connect
Watch out
Liveblocks Free pauses at each meter cap
Novu Free keeps the activity feed for 24 hours
Last checked
Liveblocks 2026-10-22 · liveblocks.io/pricing
Novu 2026-10-22 · novu.co/pricing
product teams who will stay on Free $0 (3,000 collab minutes, 200 comments, Liveblocks watermark, no card) while they drop Comments on a canvas, then buy Pro at $30/month ($30 credits, branding off) when they ship.
Read the Liveblocks pageproduct teams who will stay on Free $0 (10k workflow runs, 20 workflows, no card) while they drop in Inbox, then buy Pro at $30/month when they need 30k runs, 7-day retention, and the email editor.
Read the Novu page