brainCloud vs LightLeaderboard
brainCloud
getbraincloud.com
LightLeaderboard
leaderboard.goproso.comSide by side
| Figure | brainCloud | LightLeaderboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $5/mo | $19/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 15 | 2 |
| Spec score · Game Leaderboard Software | 9.4 (#2) | 7.7 (#25) |
| Analytics | Analytics includes a DAU dashboard, sales-at-a-glance views and event data streaming. | The analytics dashboard tracks active players, score submissions, top countries, and rank changes. |
| Integrations | Documented integrations include Amazon GameLift, Kafka, SAML, Segment, SendGrid, Slack and WebPurify. | The maker lists examples or guides for Kaboom.js, Phaser, PixiJS, Godot, Unity, and Unreal, alongside raw REST access. |
| Security | The security overview describes a shared responsibility model in which brainCloud covers public platform infrastructure, availability, and platform security controls while customers secure their applications and integrations. | The service supports HMAC-SHA256 score signing, per-key rate limits, and score bounds; its documentation says API keys and score secrets should stay server-side. |
| Support | The maker lists free best-effort developer support through chat and forums, with paid support options that add response commitments and guidance. | Priority support is listed as a Pro plan feature. |
| What it does | brainCloud is a hosted backend service for games, applications and other connected products, combining APIs, SDKs and a browser design and debugging portal. | LightLeaderboard provides real-time global leaderboards for games through a REST API. |
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.
LightLeaderboard
LightLeaderboard has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.