Real-time collaboration APIs for multiplayer apps.
What is Liveblocks?
Liveblocks is developed by a remote team specializing in real-time collaboration infrastructure, founded by developers with extensive experience in live multiplayer experiences. The core technology is not a singular AI model but a sophisticated real-time architecture built on WebSockets and Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs). This ensures reliable, low-latency synchronization of application state, such as cursor positions, document edits, and presence indicators, without conflicts. Key capabilities include granular room management, customizable presence systems, and built-in commenting and notifications. It primarily targets developers building collaborative applications like design tools (e.g., Figma), interactive whiteboards, and project dashboards. By handling the complex backend for real-time features, Liveblocks significantly accelerates development and reduces operational overhead, allowing teams to integrate collaborative workflows directly into their products. For developers evaluating similar infrastructure tools, a comparison with other real-time solutions like **https://ai-plaza.io/ai/ably** may be useful. The technical approach of CRDTs for state synchronization is well-documented in computer science literature, as referenced by organizations like the Internet Engineering Task Force in their discussion on data consistency models.
Key Findings
- Real-time Collaboration: Enables multiple users to edit and interact simultaneously within shared applications and documents.
- Presence Awareness: Shows live cursors, avatars, and names of all active participants in a collaborative workspace instantly.
- Conflict-free Synchronization: Automatically resolves edit conflicts using CRDTs for seamless, predictable data merging without manual intervention.
- Offline Support: Allows users to continue editing locally and syncs changes automatically upon reconnecting to the internet.
- Scalable Infrastructure: Handles from small teams to massive deployments with reliable, low-latency global performance at scale.
- Comprehensive APIs: Provides flexible SDKs and REST APIs for JavaScript, React, and other modern frameworks easily.
- Enterprise Security: Offers robust authentication, granular room permissions, and full data encryption for complete compliance and safety.
- Customizable Components: Delivers pre-built UI kits like comments and reactions to accelerate your own product development.
- Detailed History: Maintains a full, queryable audit trail of all changes and events within any collaborative room.
- Instant Notifications: Pushes real-time updates to clients for presence, comments, and data changes immediately and reliably.
Who is it for?
Project Manager
- Real-time project dashboards
- Agile stand-up coordination
- Client milestone reviews
- Resource allocation tracking
- Risk log collaboration
Designer
- Live design critique sessions
- Interactive client presentations
- Cross-team component library
- Real-time brainstorming whiteboard
- User testing observation sync
Startup Founder
- Investor deck collaboration
- Live cap table management
- Product roadmap alignment
- Competitive analysis sync
- All-hands meeting engagement
Pricing
Free @ $0/mo
- Collaboration infrastructure
- Ready-made features
- Pre-built components
- Up to 500 monthly active rooms
Pro @ $30/mo
- Everything in Free
- Remove Liveblocks branding
- Unlimited version history add-on
- 500 monthly active rooms included
Team @ $600/mo
- Everything in Pro
- SOC 2
- SSO SAML
- HIPAA add-on
- Private Slack channel
- 500 monthly active rooms included
Enterprise @ Custom/one-time
- Everything in Pro
- Multi-region hosting
- Management API
- SCIM & directory sync
- Advanced permissions
- Advanced support