GameRanger vs Metaplay
GameRanger
gameranger.com
Metaplay
metaplay.ioSide by side
| Figure | GameRanger | Metaplay |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $1.66/mo | €195/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 | 3 | 17 |
| Spec score · Game Matchmaking Software | 8.1 (#16) | 9.0 (#6) |
| Company | GameRanger Pty Ltd is located in Perth, Australia. | Metaplay says it is based in Finland and was founded in 2019; its contact page lists its office in Helsinki. |
| Founded | 1999 | LinkedIn lists Metaplay as founded in 2019. |
| Headquarters | Perth, Australia | Helsinki, Finland |
| Support | Support options include getting-started help, FAQs, password recovery, game-problem help, and discussion forums. | The pricing page offers community Discord support, weekday engineer support tiers, and a critical incident add-on with 24/7 availability and a one-hour response SLA. |
Plans
Metaplay
- Community supportFree
- Community SupportFree
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Starter€195 a month
- Starter€195 a month
- Pre-launch€995 a month
- Pre-Launch€995 a month
- Standard support€1,500 a month
- Standard Support€1,500 a month
In their own words
GameRanger
GameRanger has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Metaplay
Metaplay is a backend platform for building and operating live-service games. It uses a server-authoritative C# game server with a Unity client library and shared client-server logic. Its LiveOps dashboard includes player segmentation, A/B testing, over-the-air configuration updates, events, economy management, and player support tools. The SDK also includes guilds, social features, leaderboards, leagues, and asynchronous matchmaking; synchronous matchmaking is in active development. Hosting choices include managed Metaplay Cloud, customer AWS infrastructure, another Kubernetes cluster, or on-premises deployment. The platform supports Unity games on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and WebGL, with Unity 2020.3 LTS and later. The free plan provides the full SDK and a local server for local development. Starter costs €195 a month. Managed Metaplay Cloud supports single-region deployments; multi-region deployments are supported on self-hosted infrastructure.