App42 Cloud API vs CheddaBoards

App42 Cloud API is a REST-based backend toolkit for developers building applications. It provides JSON and XML interfaces and more than 20 modules with over 400 APIs, including user and session management, storage, recommendations, messaging, gaming, and geospatial services. Analytics cover API calls, storage, installations, user activity, push messages, and custom event funnels; social tracking can include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or App42 Single Sign-On users. Cloud Code lets developers run server-side logic, combine services, create APIs, and schedule code. Gaming features include global and social leaderboards. SDKs are listed for Android, iOS, Windows and other platforms, but downloading them requires email registration. A free plan is available. Medium starts at $85 a month billed yearly and includes 15 Million API Calls, 15 GB bandwidth, 15 GB storage, and 50 leaderboards. Free, Medium, and Large plans list Best Effort uptime; Enterprise lists Committed SLAs. ShepHertz, the maker, was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in India.

CheddaBoards is a free, open-source backend for games that need server-validated leaderboards, achievements, shared player profiles and authentication. Leaderboards can reset daily, weekly or monthly, with monthly and custom intervals available. Submission checks include per-game score caps, play-session duration, streak limits and server-side rules. The maker notes that determined users can reverse-engineer the public API or use bots that imitate realistic pacing, so additional protections are recommended for ranked or prize-based PvP. Players may begin anonymously and later link accounts through Google or Apple sign-in with a short code. Drop-in SDKs support Godot and Unity, while a REST API serves other engines that can make HTTP requests. Listed engine coverage also includes Unreal, GameMaker, Construct, native mobile, web and custom engines. Developers can delete scores or remove players from boards, with a deletion log, and record in-game events through API calls. The MIT-licensed backend and SDKs can be self-hosted on the Internet Computer. The Free plan costs nothing and includes three games per account, unlimited players and no per-player fees.