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DeployPulse vs hot-updater

Run your own OTA stack, or have it fully managed? Here's the tradeoff.

hot-updater is an open-source over-the-air update server you host yourself. DeployPulse is a managed service. The trade is the familiar one: hot-updater has no licence cost but you run the storage, the CDN, the database and the upgrades, while DeployPulse's Starter plan is $20/month for 50,000 monthly active users with none of that to operate. They also differ on the SDK, because DeployPulse is compatible with react-native-code-push and hot-updater uses its own client, so moving an existing CodePush app to hot-updater means changing the SDK rather than a server URL.

Last updated: September 28, 2026

Feature comparison

FeatureDeployPulsehot-updater
Vendor-operated hosting✓✗
Open sourceCLI✓
CodePush SDK compatible✓✗
Old + new architecture✓✓
Expo CNG (bare workflow)✓✓
Expo Updates v1 protocol✓✗
Gradual / staged rollouts✓✓
Server-side rollback on error-rate spike✓✗
Code signing (RS256)✓✓
Version adoption curve✓✗
Per-country geo analytics✓✗
Managed CDN + signed URLs✓Bring your own
Usage & billing dashboard✓✗
Paid support / SLAEnterpriseNot offered
Cost$20/mo · 50K MAUFree + infra
Cost at 1M MAU$500/moYour infra bill
Egress included1 TBYour own CDN
Scoped API keys✓Not documented
Self-hostableComing soon✓

Common questions

hot-updater is an open-source OTA library that you self-host on your own infrastructure: your storage, CDN, and database. DeployPulse is a managed service, so there is nothing to provision, monitor, or scale. Feature-wise the two overlap more than the licence difference suggests, since hot-updater has staged rollouts, code signing and its own automatic rollback. What DeployPulse adds is fleet-wide error-rate monitoring that reverts a release on a threshold, per-country analytics, a paid support channel, and drop-in compatibility with the CodePush SDK.

Self-hosting gives you full control and no licence cost, but you own the uptime, CDN, storage, security, and maintenance. A managed service like DeployPulse makes sense when you'd rather ship features than run OTA infrastructure, or when you want error-rate-triggered rollback, per-country analytics and a support channel without assembling them.

Yes. DeployPulse is a drop-in replacement for the Microsoft CodePush service. Apps using react-native-code-push switch by changing a server URL and deployment key, with no SDK migration and no application code changes. It also supports Expo apps via the Expo Updates v1 protocol.

Yes. DeployPulse monitors the error rate on every new OTA release and automatically rolls back to the previous stable release when the error rate crosses a configurable threshold, checked on a 5-minute interval, then notifies you by email.

Self-hosting is on our roadmap and coming soon, for teams that want the control of running their own instance with the convenience of DeployPulse's tooling. Until then, the fully managed service lets you get started with no infrastructure overhead.
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  1. Install the CLI

    One command works with your existing react-native-code-push.

    npm i -g @deploypulseio/dpctl

  2. Connect your app

    Log in and link a project. Your deployment keys drop straight in.

  3. Ship an update

    Push OTA and it's live worldwide in seconds, with no app-store review.