Hive Matchmaking vs Metaplay
Hive Matchmaking
developers.hiveplatform.ai
Metaplay
metaplay.ioSide by side
| Figure | Hive Matchmaking | Metaplay |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | €195/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 17 |
| Spec score · Game Matchmaking Software | 7.8 (#21) | 9.0 (#6) |
| Headquarters | Seoul, South Korea | Helsinki, Finland |
| Support | The platform offers a dedicated technical support team, with email support on the On-Demand Plan and direct technical support on Enterprise. | 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
Hive Matchmaking
- Trial PlanFree
- Enterprise PlanPriced on request
- On-Demand PlanPrice not published
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
Hive Matchmaking
Hive Matchmaking 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.