{
  "slug": "partykit",
  "name": "PartyKit",
  "url": "https://www.partykit.io",
  "cat": "rt",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "WebSocket rooms on Cloudflare edge",
  "price": "Individual free: deploy to PartyKit cloud, up to 10 live projects, room storage cleared every 24 hours. Commercial free: deploy to your own Cloudflare account with unlimited projects and custom domains, paying only Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects usage",
  "tier": "free",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Open-source framework for stateful realtime servers built on Cloudflare Durable Objects. Each 'party' is a server-side class owning a room of WebSocket clients, so presence, chat, cursors and Yjs sync take a few dozen lines. PartyKit announced it was joining Cloudflare in April 2024.",
  "why": "You want a multiplayer backend without operating one. <code>npx partykit dev</code> gives a local room server in seconds, and deploying to your own Cloudflare account keeps the bill at raw Workers prices instead of a per-message meter.",
  "warn": "Since the Cloudflare acquisition, momentum has shifted toward Cloudflare's own Durable Objects and Agents SDK — treat PartyKit as a convenience layer that may fold into the platform. Free-tier room storage is wiped every 24 hours, so it is not durable.",
  "install": "npm create partykit@latest",
  "category": {
    "key": "rt",
    "name": "Realtime, comments & collab",
    "desc": "Live updates, comment systems, video, community.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://www.partykit.io/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T18:09:22.039+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}