Free plan for realtime collaboration (presence, broadcast, storage, comments, notifications): unlimited monthly active users, 10 concurrent connections per room, 3,000 collaboration minutes and 3M storage updates a month, 1 GB of room data and 512 MB of files. Usage limits are hard caps that pause a feature until next month. No card needed; fair use rules limit Free to non-commercial projects.
Verified ·Oct 15, 2026
Free allowance
What the free plan includes, as the provider states it.
- monthly active users
- Unlimited
- Each unique userId counts once a month, however long it stays connected. The fair use guidelines expect Free projects to average up to 100 connections per user a month.
- active rooms / month
- 500
- Rooms used in a calendar month; a room usually maps to one document. The Free plan page lists 500, and the Pro plan page names unlimited rooms as something Pro adds, but the pricing page and limits page show unlimited on every plan.
- concurrent connections per room
- 10
- Each browser tab is one connection. Once a room is full, further users can't join and their client gets error 4005, while people already inside carry on. Connections across a whole project are unlimited.
- anonymous connections / month
- 3K
- Listed as monthly anonymous connections, the same figure as on Pro and Team; the pages checked don't define an anonymous connection.
- realtime collaboration minutes / month
- 3K min
- Counted only while two or more people or agents are in the same room, one minute per connected user per minute. A room with no presence updates, cursor movement or other activity goes inactive after 10 seconds and stops counting.
- realtime data storage updates / month
- 3M
- Each change written to stored data counts as one update.
- realtime data stored
- 1 GB
- All realtime data currently stored in your rooms. It is a running total that doesn't reset monthly and grows as content is added.
- realtime data stored per room
- 10 MB
- file storage
- 512 MB
- max file upload size
- 50 MB
- broadcast event message size
- 32 MB
- A technical limit that applies on every plan.
- comments created / month
- 200
- Counts comments created each month; comments already stored have no cap.
- custom notifications / month
- 200
- Notifications you trigger from your own code; collaboration notifications are unlimited.
- projects
- 10
- dashboard seats
- 3
- version history
- 24 h
- event log retention
- 24 h
Before you rely on it
Read with the default assumptions: a project that may grow and may make money.
- Breaking: The free plan is for non-commercial use
The fine print
Each verdict links to the quote it rests on.
- Free for
- As long as you stay within the limits
- At the limit
- Anything over the limit is refused until the next period
- Spending cap
- Built in: usage stops at the free limit
- Idle projects
- No pause rule documentedLiveblocks' terms reserve the right to terminate accounts that are inactive for an extended period, without giving a period; the clause covers all accounts, not only Free. Otherwise room data persists until the room is deleted.
- Data retention
- No deletion rule documented
- Card at sign-up
- Not required
- Identity check
- An email address
- Commercial use
- Not allowed on the free planLiveblocks' fair use guidelines limit Free to non-commercial, personal projects, and every environment of a commercial product, including development and testing, needs a paid plan. Its pricing FAQ contradicts this, saying commercial apps can ship on Free while the Liveblocks watermark stays visible.
- Mainland China
- Not verified
- Sign-up regions
- No restrictions documented
- Quotas apply per
- Organization
Alternatives
Other free plans for the same need, ranked by the same neutral rules.
Changes
- New
Changed: Liveblocks Free added to the catalog
- Oct 15, 2026
- Awaiting review
- Free