Photon alternative

What Photon is

Photon (Exit Games) offers hosted realtime networking — Photon Realtime, PUN, Fusion and Quantum — with a strong Unity ecosystem and a pricing model based on peak concurrent users (CCU). It is proven at large scale and has deep engine integrations.

Side by side

Checked September 2026 against public documentation. Tell us if something changed: contact@lannetech.ae.

Choose Photon if…

• You are building a large Unity title and want Photon Fusion or Quantum's deterministic netcode.
• You need very high CCU with an enterprise contract.

Choose Multiplayer API if…

• You ship browser games, or several small games, and want one flat bill.
• You want accounts, leaderboards and validated state in the same API, not separate products.
• An AI agent is writing your integration.

Moving from Photon: what maps to what

• Rooms and lobbies → mp.quickmatch({ mode, meta }) joins or creates in one call; custom room properties become free-form, filterable meta.
• RaiseEvent for positions → room.send() on the direct channel: peer-to-peer, zero server cost.
• Room and player custom properties → shared state (room.set, room.mine), with declarative rules that bound what each client may write.
• Master client → the room host, with automatic, deterministic migration: listen to room.on('host', …).
• Separate auth, leaderboard and economy services → built in: guest accounts, leaderboards with daily/weekly/monthly windows, inventory granted with the secret key.

The concepts are covered in full in the documentation and in llms-full.txt, which a coding agent can use to do the port for you.

Try it in one call

curl -X POST https://multiplayerapi.com/v1/games \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"name":"My Game","preset":"realtime_arena"}'

Returns a public key, a secret key and a sandbox with 2 live rooms for 24 hours. No account, no card.