DeployPulse vs Bitrise

Both are hosted, CodePush-compatible OTA services that work with the react-native-code-push SDK and with any CI system. The difference is the growth path. Bitrise is free up to 100,000 monthly active users, then jumps to $294 per month for 250,000, and caps bundle storage at 5 GiB on the free tier and 25 GiB on every paid tier. DeployPulse fills the range between free and $294 with $20, $50 and $100 plans, costs less than half as much as Bitrise at the same user count past the free tier, and never meters storage. DeployPulse also implements the Expo Updates v1 protocol alongside CodePush.

Bitrise's Basic tier is genuinely free up to 100,000 monthly active users, and no CodePush plan, free or paid, requires a Bitrise CI subscription. It is a real free tier, not a trial. It does come with limits that are easy to miss: 5,000 GiB of monthly data transfer and, more restrictively, 5 GiB of bundle storage across your apps and retained release history. The next step up is $294 per month for 250,000 users.

At the same user count DeployPulse costs less than half as much: $100/month against $294 at 250,000 MAU, $250 against $572 at 500,000, and $500 against $1,111 at 1,000,000. Two things to check against your own numbers. First, the two count users differently: Bitrise counts users who download an update in the month, DeployPulse counts every device that checks for or downloads one. For an app that ships every month the counts are close; for one that rarely ships, DeployPulse's is higher. Second, Bitrise includes more bandwidth per user, roughly 50 MB against 16 to 20 MB on DeployPulse, so an app that ships large bundles very often should compare its own measured egress. DeployPulse bills bandwidth past the allowance at $0.01 per GB and never cuts a paid plan off.

Bitrise's free tier is larger and worth taking seriously at that size. What tends to decide it is where you are heading. If you expect to pass 100,000 users, the next step on Bitrise is $294 per month, while DeployPulse is $50 at 150,000 users and $100 at 300,000, so the move you make at growth costs a fraction as much. Storage matters too: Bitrise's 5 GiB cap covers your bundles and retained release history across all apps, which a team with several apps can reach well before 100,000 users. DeployPulse never meters storage, and adds auto-rollback on error-rate spikes and per-country analytics.

Yes. Like Bitrise CodePush, DeployPulse works with react-native-code-push by changing a server URL and deployment key, with no SDK migration and no application code changes. DeployPulse also supports Expo apps via the Expo Updates v1 protocol.