About mesibo

mesibo was born out of a simple frustration: no real-time communication platform existed that was truly scalable, highly available, secure, and developer friendly.

Many open-source platforms built on scripting engines could not scale efficiently or meet the performance, reliability, and security requirements of production deployments.

Commercial platforms existed, but most not only locked developers into proprietary cloud services and charged exorbitant fees, they also had questionable pricing models that charge developers for services with little or no infrastructure cost — such as peer-to-peer voice and video calls that consume no server bandwidth. Lack of real control over data was another major concern.

There was a need for a platform built for scalability, production deployment, and developer simplicity. That is how mesibo was born — designed to scale, simple to integrate, flexible to deploy, and affordable to run.

Unlike platforms that lock developers into proprietary cloud services, mesibo can run on mesibo Cloud or be fully self-hosted on your own infrastructure with the same APIs and features.

mesibo is free for developers, non-commercial projects, research, and educational institutions — possibly the only real-time communication platform offering full-featured access without restrictive licensing or artificial limitations. Even for commercial usage, mesibo charges only a nominal fee to help cover infrastructure and development costs, and does not charge for features that do not incur infrastructure costs for mesibo.

A significant portion of the mesibo codebase has already been open-sourced, with the long-term goal of making mesibo fully open source.

Built from the ground up for low latency, reliability, and scalability, mesibo today powers over 14,000 apps worldwide — from startups to Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, banks, and telemedicine providers — serving more than 100 million users globally.