brainCloud vs GameRanger
brainCloud
getbraincloud.comGameRanger
gameranger.comSide by side
| Figure | brainCloud | GameRanger |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $5/mo | $1.66/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 15 | 3 |
| Spec score · Game Matchmaking Software | 9.3 (#2) | 8.1 (#16) |
| Company | LinkedIn describes brainCloud as a privately held software-development company founded in 2011, headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, with 51–200 employees. | GameRanger Pty Ltd is located in Perth, Australia. |
| Headquarters | Ottawa, Canada | Perth, Australia |
| Support | The maker lists free best-effort developer support through chat and forums, with paid support options that add response commitments and guidance. | Support options include getting-started help, FAQs, password recovery, game-problem help, and discussion forums. |
Plans
brainCloud
- Developer supportFree
- DevelopmentFree
- DevelopmentFree
- Development Plus$5 a month
- Lite$15 a month
- Lite$15 a month
- Lite Plus$25 a month
- Standard$30 a month
- Standard$30 a month
- Standard Plus$50 a month
In their own words
brainCloud
brainCloud is a cloud-based backend-as-a-service platform for games, apps, and other digital services. It provides cloud data, multiplayer, leaderboards, tournaments, push notifications, chat, in-app purchases, inventory management, analytics, and Cloud Code. Client libraries are listed for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, and web JavaScript, with Unity and Unreal support. Named multiplayer technologies include AWS GameLift, Unity Netcode, and Unreal Engine Networking; developers can also use Edgegap game-server orchestration from the developer portal. The free Development plan costs nothing and is limited to 100 daily active users and 1,000 accounts; it includes one million free API calls, 100 MB of storage, and 1 GB of transfers, but no live in-app purchases. Lite costs $15 a month and Standard costs $30 a month. Paid subscriptions include a base API-call allotment, with additional use charged by consumption. Private licenses provide managed instances in a customer's cloud environment.
GameRanger
GameRanger has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.