Balancy vs Ondara Game Services

Balancy is a LiveOps and monetization platform for games, centralizing events, offers, progression, and personalization. Its LiveOps tools include in-game events, scheduled push campaigns, a calendar dashboard, player segmentation, and A/B testing. The monetization engine supports tailored shops, special offers, offer sequences, payment validation, and ad management. A CMS provides content building, remote configuration, code generation, data validation, cloud storage, environments, and versioning. Visual scripting lets product teams create personalized flows, dynamic offers, segmentation, and onboarding without code. Balancy lists connections to BI and MMP tools, plus Unity, TypeScript, Cocos, Steam, Nutaku, and an API. Deployment can use SDK integration or self-hosting. Android, iOS, web, and API platforms are listed. A free CMS plan is available. Studio costs $499 a month plus DAU rates; Publisher costs $999 a month plus $39 per seat and DAU rates.

Ondara Game Services is a game backend platform for remote configuration, economy features, cloud saves and loot tables. It is available through Ondara’s cloud or as self-hosted software. Authentication includes guest accounts and custom JWT authentication with session management; cloud saves synchronize progress across devices and handle conflicts. Economy tools cover virtual currencies, inventories, stores, bundles, promotions and transaction history. The platform also validates App Store and Google Play purchase receipts and grants entitlements. Developers can connect through a Unity SDK, REST API and webhooks. Self-hosting supports Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure or bare metal, and includes PostgreSQL and Redis. The Free plan includes 5,000 monthly active users, 1 GB storage and one project. Pro costs $99 a month and Business costs $349 a month; the pricing note says paid plans start from $60/mo. Ondara describes the product as early access and its hosted service as an open beta.