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European Push Notifications Alternatives

Ten European push notification services, verified against each vendor's own legal notice, terms and pricing page. Web push, mobile push and transactional delivery — with the hosting named where the vendor names it, and marked unpublished where it does not.

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10 European Push Notifications

Batch

Paris engagement platform that names OVH as its host in its own legal notice

France Quote only
Hosted at OVH, RoubaixFive channels incl. web and mobile pushAround 100 staff in France

WonderPush

The clearest price list in European push: €1 per thousand subscribers, per month

France From €1/month per 1,000 subscribers
Linear per-1,000 pricingEuropean user data stored in Europe14-day trial, no card

Notificare

Rotterdam multichannel engagement with push, geofencing and mobile wallet

Netherlands Quote only
Push, in-app, email, SMS, walletLocation-based campaignsDutch B.V., KvK 56141475

PushPushGo

Kraków web push with published plans and OVH named as the server provider

Poland From €49/month for 35,000 subscribers
OVH serversPublished plan prices€549 mobile push setup fee

Pushpad

One plan, unlimited notifications, unlimited sites — web push without a sales call

Italy €100/month + €0.002 per subscriber
Single plan, no tiersDigitalOcean EU data centresOne month free, no card

Xtremepush

Dublin engagement platform with a built-in CDP, heavily used by iGaming operators

Ireland Quote only
Built-in customer data platformEleven channelsOffices in Dublin, London, New York, São Paulo

Pusher Beams

A transactional push API with ISO 27001 infrastructure and a free sandbox

United Kingdom Free to 1,000 subscribers, then from $29/month
ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certifiedFree Sandbox planOwned by Bird, Amsterdam

Frizbit

Barcelona retargeting for ecommerce and travel, across push, email, SMS and WhatsApp

Spain Quote only
Ecommerce and travel focusFour channels plus recommendationsOne-month trial with setup

Gravitec.net

A free tier up to 10,000 subscribers, from a Polish company with Ukrainian roots

Poland Free to 10,000 subscribers, Fix $20/month
Free plan with vendor brandingAzure and AWS, mainly EUAffiliates in Ukraine and Estonia

Notix

Free to 30,000 subscribers, from a Cyprus adtech group that will also monetise your list

Cyprus Free to 30,000 subscribers, then $1 per 1,000
Cyprus entity, Cyprus lawFree up to 30,000 subscribersOptional ad monetisation plan

Key takeaways

  • Batch ranks #1 among the European push notification services in this directory, because Batch is the only one that both names its host in its own legal notice — OVH in Roubaix — and states in its privacy policy that personal data are stored in the European Union.
  • No tool in this category is open source. There is no European self-hostable OneSignal: the open projects that exist, such as ntfy and Gotify, publish no company or jurisdiction, so if self-hosting is a hard requirement this category cannot meet it.
  • Four of the ten publish no price at all — Batch, Notificare, Xtremepush and Frizbit all quote on request — while WonderPush at €1 per 1,000 subscribers per month and Pushpad at €100 a month plus €0.002 per subscriber are the two you can budget from a web page.
  • Switching to a European provider does not remove Google or Apple from the delivery path. Android notifications still go through Firebase Cloud Messaging and iOS through APNs; what changes is who holds the subscriber database and under which law. Only web push avoids Google entirely.
  • Pusher Beams is the only one here with a named security certification, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, and it is also the only one that does not publish where its instances are hosted — a reminder that certification and residency are separate questions.
  • Three tools have a genuine free tier: Notix to 30,000 subscribers, Gravitec to 10,000, Pusher Beams to 1,000. Gravitec brands every free notification and Notix funds its free tier by inserting advertising, so neither is free in the way a trial is free.

A European push notification service is software that manages notification subscribers, segments them and delivers messages to browsers and mobile apps, built by a company established in Europe and contracting under European law, so that the subscriber list, the behavioural data attached to it and the campaign history stay under European jurisdiction — even though the last hop onto an Android or iOS device still runs through Google and Apple.

European push notifications compared

European push notifications compared on position, country, entry price and best use
PositionToolEstablishedEntry priceBest for
#1 Batch France Quote only — no public price list, sales contact required CRM teams that need push as one channel and need the hosting written down
#2 WonderPush France €1 per month per 1,000 subscribers, rising €1 for every further 1,000; monthly budget cap available Teams that want to know the price before they talk to anyone
#3 Notificare Netherlands Quote only — pricing is behind a request form Dutch and Benelux brands wanting push, geofencing and mobile wallet in one platform
#4 PushPushGo Poland Basic €49/month for 35,000 subscribers (€59 after six months), Pro €109 (€149 after six months); Business and Enterprise on quote; €549 one-off mobile push implementation Publishers and ecommerce sites in Central Europe that want a printed price
#5 Pushpad Italy €100 per month plus €0.002 per subscriber, unlimited notifications and unlimited websites; volume discounts above 2 million subscribers Developers who want web push with one plan, one price and no sales call
#6 Xtremepush Ireland Quote only — no pricing page on the site iGaming operators and high-volume brands needing a CDP behind the push
#7 Pusher Beams United Kingdom Sandbox free for 1,000 subscribers, Startup $29/month for 10,000, Pro $99 for 50,000, Business $199 for 115,000, Premium $399 for 250,000 Developers sending transactional notifications who need certified infrastructure
#8 Frizbit Spain Quote only — demo request required Ecommerce and travel brands running cart and booking abandonment campaigns
#9 Gravitec.net Poland Free up to 10,000 subscribers notified (with a "Powered by Gravitec.net" line), Fix $20/month up to 20,000, Business on quote Sites testing whether web push is worth a budget line at all
#10 Notix Cyprus Free up to 30,000 subscribers, Basic from $30/month ($1 per 1,000) up to 150,000, Enterprise on quote; a monetisation plan costs nothing in exchange for carrying advertising Publishers who would rather be paid for their notifications than pay for them

Every European push notification reviewed

#1 Batch

Paris, France Founded 2015 Quote only — no public price list, sales contact required

Best for: CRM teams that need push as one channel and need the hosting written down

  • Operating company. IMEDIAPP SA (RCS 525 279 600, VAT FR92525279600)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. European Union, on OVH (2 rue Kellermann, Roubaix, France), named as host in the legal notice
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Airship, Braze, OneSignal, CleverTap

Batch is the European engagement platform that answers the question this directory exists to ask. Its legal notice names IMEDIAPP SA at 43 rue Beaubourg in Paris, registered under 525 279 600, and names OVH in Roubaix as its host. Its privacy policy states that personal data are stored in the European Union with a host subject to European data protection regulation. Two separate documents, one specific French supplier — no other tool in this category produces both.

The product is a full customer engagement platform rather than a push API: mobile push, web push, in-app messages, email and SMS orchestrated from unified customer data, with campaign automation across acquisition, monetisation and retention. Around 100 people work on it from Paris, Lyon and Lille, with commercial coverage in the UK and the DACH region, and the company describes itself as the only European and sovereign offering in its market.

The cost of that positioning is that you cannot find out what it costs. Batch publishes no pricing of any kind and routes every enquiry to a demo with a CRM specialist, which means a discovery call before you know whether the product fits your budget. It also publishes no security certification — no ISO 27001, no SOC 2 — so the sovereignty case rests on jurisdiction and named hosting rather than on an audited standard.

What Batch does well

  • Host named in the legal notice: OVH, Roubaix, a French company
  • Privacy policy commits to storage within the European Union
  • Five channels — mobile push, web push, in-app, email, SMS — in one platform
  • French company of around 100 people, with offices in Paris, Lyon and Lille
  • Registration and VAT numbers published, so the entity is verifiable

Where Batch falls short

  • No published pricing at all; every enquiry goes through a sales call
  • No security certification published — no ISO 27001, no SOC 2
  • No free plan and no self-serve trial
  • Android and iOS delivery still runs through Firebase Cloud Messaging and APNs

Standout feature. Named host in the legal notice: Batch is the only tool in this category that identifies its infrastructure provider by company and street address, rather than saying "EU-hosted" and leaving it there.

#2 WonderPush

Paris, France €1 per month per 1,000 subscribers, rising €1 for every further 1,000; monthly budget cap available 14-day free trial, no credit card required

Best for: Teams that want to know the price before they talk to anyone

  • Operating company. WonderPush (no registration number published)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. Europe — "European user data is stored in Europe"; no country or provider named
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. OneSignal, PushEngage, Firebase Cloud Messaging

WonderPush is the price list this category otherwise lacks. €1 a month for the first 1,000 subscribers, €2 for 2,000, €3 for 3,000, and €1 more for every further thousand — linear, with no tier cliff, and with a monthly budget cap you set yourself so a viral week cannot produce a surprise invoice. A 14-day trial runs without a credit card, and proforma VAT invoices come as standard.

The company is at 19 avenue d'Italie in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, its terms are governed by French law with Paris courts holding jurisdiction, and it names four founders on its about page.

It states that European user data is stored in Europe and is explicit about GDPR, with ready-made tools for subscriber privacy management. Coverage is broad for the price: web push across browsers, iOS and Android SDKs, a management API, and documented integrations for WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Cordova, Ionic and Google Tag Manager.

What WonderPush does not publish is as notable as what it does.

There is no registration number in the terms or the privacy policy — only a name and an address — no founding year, no named hosting provider or country beyond "Europe", no security certification, and a sub-processor list that names only PayPal for card processing. For a small team buying a €5-a-month service that is proportionate; for a regulated buyer who has to evidence where data sits, it is not enough and will need a DPA.

What WonderPush does well

  • Clearest pricing in the category: €1 per 1,000 subscribers per month, linear
  • Self-set monthly budget cap, so cost cannot run away
  • 14-day trial with no credit card, and proforma VAT invoices
  • Web, iOS and Android with a management API and CMS integrations
  • French law and Paris jurisdiction stated in the terms

Where WonderPush falls short

  • No company registration number published anywhere on the site
  • Hosting stated only as "Europe" — no country, no provider named
  • No security certification and a sub-processor list naming only PayPal
  • No free tier, only a 14-day trial
  • Smaller product than the engagement platforms: no email, SMS or CDP

Standout feature. Linear per-thousand pricing with a budget cap: WonderPush is the only service here where you can calculate next month's bill exactly and put a ceiling on it yourself.

#3 Notificare

Rotterdam, Netherlands Quote only — pricing is behind a request form

Best for: Dutch and Benelux brands wanting push, geofencing and mobile wallet in one platform

  • Operating company. Notificare B.V. (Chamber of Commerce 56141475)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Netherlands)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. OneSignal, Airship, Braze

Notificare is the most complete multichannel product on this page that is not sold as an enterprise CDP. Its terms name Notificare B.V. at Marconistraat 16 in Rotterdam, registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under 56141475 — a clean, verifiable Dutch entity. The platform covers push notifications, in-app messaging, email, SMS and mobile wallet passes, with marketing automation, location-based targeting and analytics layered on top, and it sells into retail, hospitality, entertainment, mobility and sport.

The location and wallet features are what set it apart. Geofenced and beacon-triggered campaigns plus Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes are a combination most push vendors do not attempt, and they suit the physical-retail and stadium cases the company targets. The copyright notice on its own site runs from 2013, so the product has been in market for over a decade.

The gap is disclosure. Notificare publishes a security page and a privacy policy, and neither names a data centre, a country, a cloud provider or a single sub-processor beyond an unnamed payment provider. No certification is claimed.

Pricing sits behind a request form with no indicative figure, and there is no trial or free tier. For a buyer whose requirement is "Dutch company, Dutch law", that is satisfied and documented; for a buyer whose requirement is "prove where the data is", it will take a DPA negotiation.

What Notificare does well

  • Dutch B.V. with Chamber of Commerce number published in the terms
  • Push, in-app, email, SMS and mobile wallet passes in one platform
  • Geofencing and beacon-triggered location campaigns, rare in this category
  • In market since at least 2013 per its own copyright notice
  • Serves physical-retail, hospitality and stadium cases most push tools ignore

Where Notificare falls short

  • No hosting location published anywhere — no country, provider or data centre
  • No sub-processor list beyond an unnamed payment provider
  • No security certification claimed
  • Pricing behind a request form, with no trial or free tier

Standout feature. Wallet passes plus geofencing: Notificare is the only tool in this category that combines push with Apple and Google Wallet and with beacon-triggered campaigns in one product.

#4 PushPushGo

Kraków, Poland Founded 2017 Basic €49/month for 35,000 subscribers (€59 after six months), Pro €109 (€149 after six months); Business and Enterprise on quote; €549 one-off mobile push implementation 14-day trial, no credit card required

Best for: Publishers and ecommerce sites in Central Europe that want a printed price

  • Operating company. PushPushGo sp. z o.o. (KRS 0000688693, NIP 6751601766)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Poland)
  • Where the data sits. OVH named as server provider on the GDPR page; the data-centre country is not published
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. OneSignal, PushEngage, iZooto

PushPushGo is the Polish web push specialist, run by PushPushGo sp. z o.o. from Quattro Business Park in Kraków, KRS 0000688693, founded in 2017. It is one of only two tools here that both publish full company registration details and a plan-by-plan price list: Basic at €49 a month for 35,000 subscribers on one channel, Pro at €109 for two channels, with Business at 100,000 subscribers and Enterprise unlimited on quote. A 14-day trial runs without a card.

The GDPR page is unusually forthcoming for this category. It names OVH as the server provider, lists sub-processors by name — Stripe, PayPal, PayU, ING Bank, Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, Mixpanel, Mailerlite, CookieHub, Ycode — and publishes a named data protection officer with a direct address. That level of disclosure is the exception, not the rule, among the ten.

Two things should be read carefully before signing. The advertised €49 and €109 are introductory: they rise to €59 and €149 after six months, so the real annual cost is higher than the headline.

And mobile push is not included in the plan — implementing it is a €549 one-off fee, with onboarding sessions at €229 each after the trial. Business and Enterprise contracts also require three months' notice to terminate. None of this is hidden, but it makes PushPushGo the most expensive published option here once the first year is totalled.

What PushPushGo does well

  • Full company registration published: KRS, NIP and REGON numbers
  • Plan prices published, with a 14-day trial and no card required
  • OVH named as server provider and sub-processors listed by name
  • Named data protection officer with a direct contact address
  • Founded 2017, with a documented Kraków office address

Where PushPushGo falls short

  • Headline prices rise after six months — €49 becomes €59, €109 becomes €149
  • €549 one-off fee to implement mobile push, plus €229 per onboarding session
  • OVH is named but the data-centre country is not
  • Business and Enterprise plans need three months' termination notice
  • No free tier and no security certification

Standout feature. Named sub-processors and a named DPO: PushPushGo publishes the supplier list and the data protection officer's address, which most of this category treats as information for the DPA stage.

#5 Pushpad

Crevoladossola, Italy Founded 2017 €100 per month plus €0.002 per subscriber, unlimited notifications and unlimited websites; volume discounts above 2 million subscribers One month free, no payment method required

Best for: Developers who want web push with one plan, one price and no sales call

  • Operating company. AbstractBrain srls (VAT 02516920036)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Italy)
  • Where the data sits. Europe, on DigitalOcean — an American company — in its European data centres
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. OneSignal, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Pushwoosh

Pushpad is the simplest commercial proposition in this category: one plan, €100 a month plus €0.002 per subscriber, with unlimited notifications, unlimited websites, a full API with client libraries, scheduled sends, user targeting, analytics, team collaboration and a 99.9% uptime SLA. There are no tiers to outgrow, no feature gates and no upsell — just a base fee and a per-subscriber line, with volume discounts above two million subscribers. The free month needs no payment method at all.

It is run by AbstractBrain srls, founded in 2017, from Crevoladossola in the province of Verbania in northern Italy, VAT 02516920036. The same company runs Cuber, BuonMenu and Newsletter.page, so Pushpad is one product in a small portfolio rather than a venture-funded single bet — which cuts both ways, but does mean the pricing is designed to be sustainable rather than to buy market share.

The security page is honest in a way that is worth rewarding: it names DigitalOcean as the infrastructure provider and describes European data centres, isolated private networks, enforced HTTPS, a web application firewall and DDoS protection.

DigitalOcean is an American company, so this is European ownership on American infrastructure — stated plainly rather than hidden, which is the right way to do it, but a fact that matters if your requirement is that no US-controlled entity holds the data. Pushpad itself claims no certification, and the product is web push only.

What Pushpad does well

  • One plan, one price: €100/month plus €0.002 per subscriber, no tiers
  • Unlimited notifications and unlimited websites on that plan
  • One month free with no payment method required
  • Infrastructure named openly: DigitalOcean, European data centres
  • 99.9% uptime SLA and a documented API with client libraries

Where Pushpad falls short

  • Runs on DigitalOcean, a US company, so European ownership sits on US infrastructure
  • Web push only — no native iOS or Android SDK
  • No free tier after the first month, and the €100 base is steep for a small list
  • No security certification of its own
  • Small company running four products, so support depth is limited

Standout feature. A single price with no tiers: Pushpad is the only tool here where adding a feature, a website or a million notifications does not change the plan you are on.

#6 Xtremepush

Dublin, Ireland Quote only — no pricing page on the site

Best for: iGaming operators and high-volume brands needing a CDP behind the push

  • Operating company. Xtremepush Limited
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Ireland)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Braze, Airship, Iterable

Xtremepush is the most capable platform in this category and the least forthcoming about how it works.

Xtremepush Limited operates from 34-37 Clarendon Street in Dublin, with offices in London, New York and São Paulo, and sells an omnichannel engagement platform with a built-in customer data platform: mobile push and inbox, web push and inbox, in-app messages, onsite messages, inline content, email, SMS, microsites, ad retargeting and a real-time sports feed, orchestrated together. More than 250 brands use it, and the customer logos on its own site are overwhelmingly iGaming operators.

It has been buying capability rather than building it all. Thunderbite brought gamification and loyalty, and the acquisition of the US loyalty platform Scrimmage in January 2024 brought a loyalty engine and its CEO as head of loyalty product. In October 2024 the company took €12m in debt financing from AshGrove Capital, alongside relationships with the private equity firms Grafton Capital and Bettor Capital — so it is independent but leveraged, and European-backed.

The disclosure is thin for a platform of this size. There is no pricing page, no security page, and no statement anywhere on the public site about where customer data is hosted.

An ISO badge appears in the footer without naming which standard, which is weaker than naming none. The privacy policy gives the registered address but no company number. For an operator whose compliance team will negotiate a DPA anyway, none of that is fatal; for a self-serve buyer it is a wall.

What Xtremepush does well

  • Eleven channels orchestrated from a built-in customer data platform
  • Real-time sports feeds and loyalty engine, built for iGaming
  • More than 250 brands, with offices in Dublin, London, New York and São Paulo
  • Irish company, so EU jurisdiction and GDPR apply to the contract
  • European-backed and independent, with €12m of financing raised in 2024

Where Xtremepush falls short

  • No hosting location published anywhere on the site
  • ISO badge in the footer with no standard named — not a verifiable claim
  • No pricing page, no trial, no free tier
  • No company registration number in the privacy policy
  • Heavily oriented to iGaming; a poor fit for a small ecommerce or media team

Standout feature. A customer data platform in the box: Xtremepush is the only tool here where segmentation runs on a built-in CDP rather than on whatever attributes you pushed into the notification tool.

#7 Pusher Beams

London, United Kingdom Sandbox free for 1,000 subscribers, Startup $29/month for 10,000, Pro $99 for 50,000, Business $199 for 115,000, Premium $399 for 250,000 Free Sandbox plan for 1,000 subscribers

Best for: Developers sending transactional notifications who need certified infrastructure

  • Operating company. Pusher Limited, registered in England and Wales no. 07489873, part of Bird (MessageBird)
  • Jurisdiction. UK (England and Wales), under Bird in the Netherlands
  • Where the data sits. Not published for Beams; Pusher runs public clusters in nine locations and the cluster is chosen when an app is created
  • Independent checks. ISO/IEC 27001:2013 on Pusher infrastructure and products
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Firebase Cloud Messaging, OneSignal, Amazon SNS

Pusher Beams is a cross-platform push API built for transactional delivery — the ETA, the two-factor code, the trade execution, the match alert — rather than for marketing campaigns. Pricing is published and self-serve: a free Sandbox for 1,000 subscribers, then $29 a month for 10,000, $99 for 50,000, $199 for 115,000 with premium support, and $399 for 250,000. You can integrate, test and launch without speaking to anyone.

The entity is Pusher Limited, registered in England and Wales under 07489873, operating from 3 More London Riverside in London, and part of MessageBird — now Bird — since November 2020, which puts the group parent in Amsterdam. Its terms and privacy policy are now served from Bird's legal pages. Pusher states that its infrastructure and associated products are ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified, which makes it the only tool in this category with a named, audited security standard.

The residency answer is incomplete, and that is the honest caveat. Pusher describes public clusters in nine locations with the cluster chosen when an app is created, and advises customers with country-border requirements to pick accordingly — but it does not publish where Beams instances specifically run or list the regions by name.

It is also the least European-feeling option here in ownership terms: a UK entity under a Dutch parent, post-Brexit, so UK data protection law rather than GDPR governs the contracting entity. And Beams is deliberately narrow: no segmentation engine, no email or SMS, no campaign builder.

What Pusher Beams does well

  • ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified infrastructure — the only named certification here
  • Published self-serve pricing from a free 1,000-subscriber Sandbox to $399/month
  • Built for transactional delivery, with iOS, Android and web SDKs
  • UK entity with a company number, under Bird in Amsterdam
  • Integrate and launch without a sales conversation

Where Pusher Beams falls short

  • Does not publish where Beams instances are hosted
  • UK jurisdiction post-Brexit, not EU — UK GDPR governs the contracting entity
  • No segmentation, campaign builder, email or SMS — transactional only
  • Pricing in dollars, and tiers jump sharply between 10,000 and 50,000 subscribers
  • Pusher has been part of a group that has changed direction more than once since 2020

Standout feature. The only named certification in the category: Pusher publishes ISO/IEC 27001:2013 on its infrastructure, where the other nine publish nothing or an unlabelled badge.

#8 Frizbit

Barcelona, Spain Founded 2018 Quote only — demo request required One-month free trial including one-day integration and campaign setup

Best for: Ecommerce and travel brands running cart and booking abandonment campaigns

  • Operating company. Frizbit Technology S.L. (VAT B67242875)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Spain), Barcelona courts
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. OneSignal, Insider, Klaviyo web push

Frizbit is the retargeting specialist of this category. It was ideated in Istanbul in 2016 as a side project and incorporated as Frizbit Technology S.L. in Barcelona in 2018, VAT B67242875, at Calle de la Llacuna 162; its terms are governed by Spanish law with Barcelona courts holding jurisdiction, and it keeps offices in both Barcelona and Istanbul.

The product is narrower than the general engagement platforms and better aimed for it: behavioural data collection, segmentation on what visitors actually did, AI-driven product recommendations, and hyper-personalised messages delivered over web push, email, SMS and WhatsApp.

The use cases it sells against are cart abandonment, browse abandonment and booking abandonment for ecommerce and travel — a specific commercial problem with a measurable answer, rather than a general-purpose messaging tool. The trial is generous in effort rather than length: one month free including a one-day integration and campaign setup.

Verification runs out quickly after the entity. The privacy policy says only that Frizbit has contracted hosting and webmail with specialised providers, without naming one or stating a country, and names no sub-processors. No certification is claimed. Pricing is quote-only with a demo request in the way. It is also the smallest company of the ten by public evidence, with no employee count published and a leadership page rather than a team page.

What Frizbit does well

  • Spanish S.L. with VAT number, Spanish law and Barcelona jurisdiction
  • Built specifically for cart, browse and booking abandonment
  • Web push, email, SMS and WhatsApp in one retargeting flow
  • AI product recommendations included rather than sold separately
  • One-month trial that includes integration and campaign setup

Where Frizbit falls short

  • Hosting provider and country not disclosed anywhere, and no sub-processors named
  • Quote-only pricing behind a demo request
  • No security certification claimed
  • Narrow by design — a poor fit outside ecommerce and travel
  • Part of the team is in Istanbul, outside the EU

Standout feature. Abandonment retargeting as the whole product: Frizbit is the only tool here built around recovering a specific lost transaction rather than around sending campaigns.

#9 Gravitec.net

Warsaw, Poland Founded 2016 Free up to 10,000 subscribers notified (with a "Powered by Gravitec.net" line), Fix $20/month up to 20,000, Business on quote Free plan rather than a trial

Best for: Sites testing whether web push is worth a budget line at all

  • Operating company. GRAVITEC POLSKA Sp. z o.o. (reg. 383495111), with Gravitec Ukraine LLC and Crosschain OU named as partner companies
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Poland), though the terms name "the laws of Europe" rather than a country
  • Where the data sits. Servers "mainly in the territory of the European Union", on Microsoft Azure and AWS
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. OneSignal, PushEngage, Truepush

Gravitec.net is the free-tier option with a real product behind it. The free plan covers up to 10,000 subscribers notified, with unlimited subscriber collection, unlimited websites, unlimited notifications and five automations a day — enough to run a genuine programme rather than a demo.

The paid Fix plan is $20 a month for 20,000 subscribers with unlimited users and automations, and Business is on quote. Founded in 2016, it reports 15,000 companies, 42,704 websites and 120 million subscribers on its platform.

The corporate structure needs reading carefully. The privacy policy names GRAVITEC POLSKA Sp. z o.o. at ul. Niedzielna 34 in Warsaw, registration 383495111, and also names Gravitec Ukraine LLC and Crosschain OU as operating entities.

The terms of use say the agreement is with "Gravitec.net, represented by Gravitec Ukraine LLC and partner companies", governed by "the laws of Europe" — which is not a jurisdiction. There is a documented Polish company; which entity actually contracts with you is less clear than at any other vendor here.

Hosting is stated more precisely than the jurisdiction. Servers are "mainly in the territory of the European Union" on Microsoft Azure and AWS, with APNs, FCM and Mozilla autopush named as delivery infrastructure and Viber and Telegram as additional channels. Two American hyperscalers and the word "mainly" are both worth a question. The free plan also stamps "Powered by Gravitec.net" on every notification, which for a brand-facing channel is a real cost rather than a cosmetic one.

What Gravitec.net does well

  • Free plan up to 10,000 subscribers notified, with unlimited websites and notifications
  • Fix plan at $20/month for 20,000 subscribers with unlimited users
  • Polish company registered in Warsaw, with registration number published
  • Hosting named: Microsoft Azure and AWS, mainly in the EU
  • Viber and Telegram as delivery channels alongside web and app push

Where Gravitec.net falls short

  • Terms name "the laws of Europe" rather than a country, with the Ukrainian entity as contracting party
  • Three entities across Poland, Ukraine and Estonia, and it is unclear which one you contract with
  • Runs on two American hyperscalers, and only "mainly" in the EU
  • Free plan brands every notification with "Powered by Gravitec.net"
  • No security certification and no named data protection officer

Standout feature. A 10,000-subscriber free tier: Gravitec gives away more capacity than any other European push service, which makes it the cheapest way to find out whether push works for your audience.

#10 Notix

Limassol, Cyprus Free up to 30,000 subscribers, Basic from $30/month ($1 per 1,000) up to 150,000, Enterprise on quote; a monetisation plan costs nothing in exchange for carrying advertising Free plan rather than a trial

Best for: Publishers who would rather be paid for their notifications than pay for them

  • Operating company. Samoukale Enterprises Limited (reg. HE 339224), part of AdTech Holding
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Cyprus), Cyprus law and Cyprus courts
  • Where the data sits. Within the EEA per the privacy policy, which also permits transfers to the Isle of Man; no data centre or provider named
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. OneSignal, PushEngage, Webpushr

Notix inverts the pricing model of this category. The free plan runs to 30,000 subscribers with unlimited notifications and every feature included; Basic starts at $30 a month for 150,000 subscribers at $1 per 1,000; and the monetisation plan costs nothing at unlimited subscribers because Notix inserts brand-safe advertising into your notifications and shares the revenue. For a publisher with a large list and no budget, that is the most generous offer here by a distance.

The entity is documented properly. The terms and privacy policy both name Samoukale Enterprises Limited, registration HE 339224, at Zinonos Rossidi 11 in Limassol, Cyprus, with the agreement governed by Cyprus law and Cyprus courts holding exclusive jurisdiction.

The privacy policy states that offices, facilities, subcontractors and third parties are within the EEA, while permitting transfers to the Isle of Man under its adequacy decision. Cyprus is an EU member state, so this is EU jurisdiction with EU law and a named registration number.

What you are buying is shaped by who owns it. Notix is part of AdTech Holding, the Cyprus advertising group, and the product is positioned for webmasters, affiliates and media agencies — audience re-engagement rather than CRM.

That explains both the generosity and the limits: no email, no SMS, no customer data platform, no enterprise integrations, and a monetisation model that puts third-party advertising in a channel your subscribers believe belongs to you. The free tier is not a loss leader; it is inventory acquisition.

What Notix does well

  • Free up to 30,000 subscribers with all features and unlimited notifications
  • Cyprus entity with registration number, Cyprus law and Cyprus courts named in the terms
  • Privacy policy states offices, subcontractors and facilities are within the EEA
  • Web push, in-app push, desktop and mobile in one service
  • Monetisation plan turns a large list into revenue instead of a bill

Where Notix falls short

  • Owned by an advertising group, and the free monetisation plan puts third-party ads in your notifications
  • No data centre or hosting provider named, and transfers to the Isle of Man are permitted
  • Built for webmasters and affiliates, not for CRM — no email, SMS or CDP
  • No security certification and no founding year published
  • Enterprise pricing above 150,000 subscribers is quote-only

Standout feature. The only one that will pay you: Notix's monetisation plan is free at unlimited volume because it sells advertising in your notifications — a trade no other European push service offers, and one to make deliberately.

Can a European push service actually keep Google out of the loop?

For web push, yes, and this is the part most vendors undersell.

Web push on Chrome, Firefox and Edge runs over the W3C Web Push protocol with VAPID keys, and Safari does the same on macOS and on iOS 16.4 and later for installed web apps. No Google account, no Firebase project, no Play Services. A publisher who only needs browser notifications can run Pushpad, PushPushGo, Gravitec, Notix or WonderPush and have no American company in the delivery path at all beyond the browser vendor itself.

For native mobile apps, no. Android delivery requires Firebase Cloud Messaging credentials and iOS delivery requires an APNs key, and every provider on this page uploads yours and sends on your behalf.

Batch, Notificare, Xtremepush, WonderPush and Pusher Beams all work this way because there is no alternative route onto the device that Google and Apple permit. Anyone claiming a Google-free Android push product is either shipping their own always-on socket — which Android's background limits punish — or is not telling you the whole thing.

What the European provider changes is the layer that actually holds data about people: the subscriber table, the device tokens joined to user identifiers, the segmentation attributes, the open and click history, the A/B test results. That is the database a subject access request lands on and the one a foreign disclosure order would reach. Moving it from San Mateo to Roubaix is a real change even though the last hop is unchanged.

The practical test when evaluating: ask the vendor which of your data it sends to FCM and APNs. The correct answer is the device token and the notification payload, nothing else. If profile attributes or segment membership travel with it, the separation you paid for is not there.

Why do four of these ten refuse to publish a price?

Because they sell to a buyer who was never going to self-serve. Batch, Notificare, Xtremepush and Frizbit are engagement platforms rather than push APIs: the deal includes onboarding, data integration, sometimes a customer data platform, and the contract value varies by an order of magnitude depending on volume and channels. That is a defensible reason to quote, and every large competitor — Braze, Airship, Iterable — does the same.

It is still a cost to you, and it is worth naming. A quote-only vendor means a discovery call before you know whether the product is in your budget, an annual commitment rather than a monthly one, and a price that depends on how well you negotiate. For a team of three deciding on a Tuesday afternoon, that is a week of calendar time to answer a question a price page would have answered in ten seconds.

The six that do publish split into two shapes. Linear per-subscriber pricing — WonderPush at €1 per 1,000, Notix at $1 per 1,000, Pushpad at €0.002 per subscriber on top of a €100 base — scales predictably and has no cliff. Tiered pricing — PushPushGo at €49 for 35,000, Pusher Beams at $29 for 10,000 then $99 for 50,000 — is cheaper inside a tier and punishing just above one. Model your actual list against both before choosing.

Watch for the fees that sit outside the plan. PushPushGo charges €549 to implement mobile push and €229 per onboarding session after the trial. That is not hidden — it is printed on the pricing page — but it doubles the first-year cost of the cheapest plan.

What does "EU-hosted" mean when the vendor will not name the data centre?

Very little on its own, which is why this directory reports residency as the vendor words it rather than as a badge. Batch is the strongest here: its legal notice names OVH at 2 rue Kellermann in Roubaix, and its privacy policy states that personal data are stored in the European Union with a host subject to European data protection regulation. Two independent statements from the vendor, one of them naming a specific French company.

The middle ground is European ownership on American infrastructure, and it is legitimate as long as it is stated. Pushpad runs on DigitalOcean in European data centres and says so on its security page.

Gravitec runs on Microsoft Azure and AWS with servers "mainly" in the EU. Both are American clouds under European contracts, so the CLOUD Act question does not disappear — it moves from the vendor to the vendor's supplier. The word "mainly" in Gravitec's policy is doing real work and should be asked about.

The weakest position is silence. Notificare, Xtremepush and Frizbit publish no hosting location anywhere on their public sites, and Pusher does not publish where Beams instances run even though its infrastructure is ISO 27001 certified.

These are real European companies with real European jurisdiction over the contract — that part is documented — but if the physical location of the subscriber database is a compliance requirement for you, it has to come out of a DPA negotiation rather than off a web page.

A useful rule: the contract jurisdiction and the hosting location are separate questions with separate answers, and a vendor that answers one confidently is not thereby answering the other. Ask for both in writing, and take a sub-processor list rather than a sentence.

Push service or full engagement platform — which are you actually buying?

The split runs straight down this category. Pushpad, WonderPush, Gravitec, Notix and Pusher Beams send notifications and stop: you integrate a snippet or an SDK, you pay by subscriber count, and the whole evaluation takes an afternoon. Batch, Notificare, Xtremepush and Frizbit orchestrate push alongside email, SMS, in-app messaging and — for Xtremepush — a customer data platform, loyalty engine and ad retargeting.

The platforms win when push is one channel in a lifecycle and the same segment has to receive an email on Tuesday and a push on Thursday without being counted twice. They lose badly when push is the whole requirement: you pay for a CDP you will not populate and a channel mix you will not use, and you wait for an implementation that the narrow tools do not need.

There is also a middle case that trips people up: transactional versus marketing push. A delivery ETA, a two-factor code, a trade execution and a match alert are transactional — they need latency and reliability, not segmentation. Pusher Beams is built for exactly that and prices for it. Sending transactional notifications through a marketing platform works, but you are paying for targeting infrastructure to deliver a message that has an audience of one.

If you cannot decide, count how many notifications in your next quarter would go to a segment rather than to a named user. Below about a fifth, buy the push service; above it, the platform will pay for itself in campaign time.

What should you check before you migrate an existing subscriber list?

Web push subscriptions are not portable in the way an email list is. A browser subscription is bound to the VAPID key pair that created it and to the service worker on your origin.

If the outgoing vendor generated the keys and will not export the private key, every subscriber has to re-opt-in — and in practice most never see the prompt again, so lists routinely lose the majority of their value in a migration. Ask both vendors about VAPID key export before signing, not after.

Mobile is easier and harder in different places. Device tokens for FCM and APNs are tied to your app and your credentials, not to the vendor, so they transfer; what does not transfer cleanly is the mapping between tokens and your user identifiers, plus all the behavioural attributes built up over years. Export that as CSV or via API while the old contract is still live.

Check what the vendor keeps after termination, and for how long. None of the ten publishes a standard deletion window prominently, which means it is a DPA question in every case. Under GDPR you have the right, but exercising it on a service that holds tens of millions of tokens takes a written instruction and a confirmation, so get the process named in the contract.

Finally, plan the double-send window. Running both providers in parallel during a cutover means subscribers on both lists get two copies of every campaign, which is the fastest way to train an audience to turn notifications off. Stagger by segment, not by date.

How we selected and ranked these 10 tools

Every tool on this page is in the European Purpose directory, which means the operating company is established in Europe and we have verified that from the company register or the vendor's own legal notice rather than from a marketing page. Tools headquartered outside Europe are not eligible, however good they are.

  1. Feature verification (weight: 40%). We check each capability against the vendor's own documentation and product pages, and record what the tool does rather than what the category is assumed to include.
  2. Ease of adoption (weight: 30%). Integrations, published API access, trial availability and how much configuration stands between signing and a usable result.
  3. Value and transparency (weight: 30%). Published pricing counts in a vendor's favour; quote-only pricing is recorded as quote-only rather than estimated. We weigh what a buyer gets for the entry price, not the headline feature count.
  4. Editorial review. Three people touch every page: one writes it, a second edits it, and a third checks the compliance and pricing claims against the vendor's documentation. The three weights above decide the order; a position is a ranking against the other European tools in this category, not an absolute score.

Vendor-reported outcomes — ROI figures, margin uplift, time saved — are labelled as vendor claims wherever they appear on this page. We have not audited them, and neither has anyone else who quotes them. Read our full editorial process for how pages are re-verified.

Frequently asked questions

Batch holds #1 among the European push notification services in this directory, because Batch is the only one that names its host in its own legal notice — OVH in Roubaix — and separately states in its privacy policy that personal data are stored in the European Union.

The right answer still depends on the job: WonderPush when you want a price you can read, Pushpad when web push is the whole requirement, Pusher Beams for transactional delivery, Xtremepush for iGaming and high-volume operators, and Notix or Gravitec when the budget is zero.

Notix is free up to 30,000 subscribers with all features included, and offers a monetisation plan that is free at any volume in exchange for carrying brand-safe advertising in your notifications.

Gravitec.net is free up to 10,000 subscribers notified, with unlimited websites and one user, but adds a "Powered by Gravitec.net" line to every message. Pusher Beams has a free Sandbox plan for 1,000 subscribers. Everyone else runs a trial instead: WonderPush and PushPushGo 14 days, Pushpad a full month with no payment method, Frizbit one month including setup.

Not a direct replacement, because FCM is the transport Google requires for Android delivery and no third party can bypass it. What European services replace is the layer above: subscriber storage, segmentation, scheduling and analytics.

Pusher Beams is the closest in shape to FCM as a developer-facing API, with a free sandbox for 1,000 subscribers and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification on its infrastructure. For web push specifically there is a genuine Google-free path — Pushpad, PushPushGo, Gravitec, Notix and WonderPush all deliver over the W3C Web Push protocol with VAPID keys and need no Firebase project.

Not from this list. None of the ten is open source and none offers an on-premise deployment, which makes push notifications the weakest category on this site for self-hosting.

The open-source options that exist — ntfy, Gotify, UnifiedPush — are either projects without a company behind them or do not publish a jurisdiction, so they cannot be verified against the standard applied here. If self-hosting is non-negotiable, you are choosing between unverified open-source projects and hosted vendors, not between self-hosted European products.

Pusher Beams is the only one here with a named certification: Pusher states that its infrastructure and associated products are ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified. Xtremepush displays an unlabelled ISO badge in its site footer without naming the standard, which is not the same thing. The other eight publish no security certification at all. Pushpad describes its provider's data centres as certified, which is DigitalOcean's certification rather than Pushpad's.

For small lists, WonderPush at €1 per month per 1,000 subscribers, rising linearly — 5,000 subscribers costs €5 a month. Notix is free to 30,000 and then $1 per 1,000, which makes it the cheapest at mid volume.

Pushpad is the cheapest at large volume because the €100 monthly base plus €0.002 per subscriber has no tier jumps: 500,000 subscribers is €1,100 a month with unlimited notifications and unlimited websites. PushPushGo is the most expensive published option, at €49 a month for 35,000 subscribers plus a €549 one-off fee for mobile push.

Batch: in the European Union, at OVH in Roubaix, named in the legal notice. PushPushGo: at OVH, with the country not published. Pushpad: on DigitalOcean, an American company, in European data centres. Gravitec: on Microsoft Azure and AWS, "mainly" in the EU.

WonderPush: in Europe, with no provider or country named. Notix: within the EEA per its privacy policy, which also permits transfers to the Isle of Man. Notificare, Xtremepush and Frizbit publish no hosting location, and Pusher does not publish where Beams instances run.

Batch, Notificare, Xtremepush, WonderPush, Frizbit and Pusher Beams all cover iOS and Android alongside web. PushPushGo covers mobile too but charges a €549 one-off implementation fee for it. Pushpad, Gravitec and Notix are web-push-first: Notix adds in-app push, but a team building a native iOS and Android app should start from the first group. Remember that mobile support in every case means the vendor sends through your own FCM and APNs credentials.

Three fit the publisher case specifically. PushPushGo in Kraków is built around news and ecommerce web push with published plans starting at €49 a month.

Gravitec.net runs a free tier to 10,000 subscribers and $20 a month to 20,000, which suits a site testing whether push is worth a budget line. Notix is free to 30,000 and will pay you instead of charging you if you accept advertising in your notifications — which is the right trade for some publishers and completely wrong for others, since your subscribers then see messages you did not write.

Both are quote-only engagement platforms with push as one channel, and the difference is where they come from. Batch is French, around 100 people across Paris, Lyon and Lille, and positions itself on European sovereignty — its legal notice names OVH and its privacy policy commits to EU storage.

Xtremepush is Irish, with offices in Dublin, London, New York and São Paulo, and is built around a customer data platform, a loyalty engine acquired with Scrimmage in 2024, and real-time sports feeds; its customer base is heavily iGaming. Xtremepush is the more capable platform; Batch is the one with the documented hosting.