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 differences are structural. Bitrise gives a much larger free tier at 100,000 monthly active users, but caps bundle storage at 5 GiB there and 25 GiB on paid tiers, and its first paid step is $294 per month. DeployPulse never meters storage, costs roughly half to a third as much at matched usage, and fills the range between free and $294 with $20, $50 and $100 tiers. 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 their FAQ states it does not require a paid Bitrise CI plan. 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.

At matched monthly active users DeployPulse is consistently cheaper: $100/month against $294 at 250,000 MAU, $250 against $572 at 500,000, and $500 against $1,111 at 1,000,000. Bitrise includes more bandwidth headroom per user, roughly 50 MB per MAU against 10 to 17 MB on DeployPulse, so an app that ships very frequent updates to every user should compare against its own measured egress rather than the headline tiers.

Bitrise's free tier is larger and worth taking seriously at that size. The things that tend to decide it are storage and headroom: Bitrise's 5 GiB storage cap covers your bundles and retained release history across all apps, which a team with several apps can reach well before 100,000 users, and the next step up is $294 per month rather than a gradual increase. DeployPulse charges $20 at 50,000 MAU and $50 at 150,000, 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.