We are planning to develop the push notification service for a telecom operator. But I haven't got any information whether the APNS push service is free of cost or should we make any payment?
我们计划为电信运营商开发推送通知服务。但我没有得到任何信息APNS推送服务是免费的还是我们应该付款？
My questions are,
我的问题是，
- Should I pay for using the APNS push service?
- 我应该支付使用APNS推送服务的费用吗？
- If operator want to sent push notification to millions of subscribers, should we pay to Apple or is it absolutely free? If not free, please share the URL where payment details are available.
- 如果运营商希望向数百万用户发送推送通知，我们应该向Apple支付还是完全免费？如果不是免费的，请分享可提供付款详情的网址。
- Is there any limit for the number of notification sent or the number of subscribers?
- 发送的通知数量或订阅者数量是否有限制？
Please help to get answer for these questions.
请帮助解答这些问题。
5 个解决方案
#1
32
Apple does not charge a separate fee for utilizing the push notification service.
Apple不会就使用推送通知服务收取单独的费用。
Your only cost is a server that will be sending the push notifications to Apple. There are third-parties that provide this servers and there is a fee for that.
您唯一的成本是将向Apple发送推送通知的服务器。有第三方提供此服务器，并收取费用。
#2
18
Answer for your question 1,2 and 3 is: Apple doesn't charge you for APNS - but you have to maintain a server for pushing.
问题1,2和3的答案是：Apple不会向您收取APNS费用 - 但您必须维护服务器以进行推送。
Try these third parties for pushing,
试试这些第三方推送，
- PushWizard (https://pushwizard.com), a free and unlimited push service.
- PushWizard（https://pushwizard.com），一种免费且无限制的推送服务。
It can send 250 million push messages / hour and PushWizard is free for unlimited devices, while other services can be very expensive if you have more, than 1 million users to reach at least ONCE per month.
它可以每小时发送2.5亿推送消息，PushWizard可以免费使用无限设备，而如果你有超过100万用户每月至少达到ONCE，其他服务可能会非常昂贵。
- Monopush (http://www.monopush.com), which provides a RESTful API and a lot of free push alerts up-front to handle the server infrastructure for you.
- Monopush（http://www.monopush.com），提供RESTful API和大量免费推送警报，为您处理服务器基础架构。
You need just copy and paste a few line codes to inside of your application and then magic will be started. After that you can start to watch, analyze, categorize your clients and you can send push messages to them as well as resource messages.
您只需将几行代码复制并粘贴到应用程序内部，然后启动魔术。之后，您可以开始观察，分析和分类您的客户，您可以向他们发送推送消息以及资源消息。
#3
7
Plz refer the following
Plz参考以下内容
-
APNS is a free service. However, you need to maintain a server to send Push Messages.
APNS是一项免费服务。但是，您需要维护服务器以发送推送消息。
Apple Local and Push Notification Programming Guide
Apple本地和推送通知编程指南
-
There are many online servers which provide you free push services [for limited pushes/users/devices]. They do have plans depending upon the needs of client. Following are the few ones:
有许多在线服务器为您提供免费推送服务[限制推送/用户/设备]。他们的确有计划取决于客户的需求。以下是少数几个：
a.
ParseParse not available anymore. It is now acquired by Facebook. Read More Here一个。 Parse Parse不再可用。它现在被Facebook收购。在这里阅读更多
b. PushWizard
湾PushWizard
c. Xtify
C。 Xtify
d. SetUp your own push server - this tutroial comprise of complete end to end steps of how to send push messages to iOS Devices.
d。 SetUp您自己的推送服务器 - 此tutroial包含如何将推送消息发送到iOS设备的完整端到端步骤。
Hope this helps !!!
希望这可以帮助 ！！！
#4
7
As mentioned above, Apple does not charge for the APNS However, you need to maintain a 3rd party server for that, and sending notifications to millions of devices would require a lot of work from you. There are some very good industrial solutions for iOS push notifications service that use APNS:
如上所述，Apple不对APNS收费但是，您需要为此维护第三方服务器，向数百万台设备发送通知需要您进行大量工作。对于使用APNS的iOS推送通知服务，有一些非常好的工业解决方案：
- PushApps - free for 1M notifications per month, and unlimited notifications for 19.99 per month - here is the documentation
- PushApps - 每月免费提供1M通知，每月19.99无限通知 - 这是文档
- Urban Airship - free up to 1M notifications per month, afterwards you are charged per 1000 notifications
- Urban Airship - 每月免费提供1M次通知，之后每1000次通知收费
- PushWoosh - free for 1M devices, premium plans are from 39 EURO
- PushWoosh - 免费提供1M设备，优惠计划为39欧元
Diclaimer - I work in PushApps and also use their product in my applications for over a year now.
Diclaimer - 我在PushApps工作，并且在我的应用程序中使用他们的产品已有一年多了。
#5
2
Although push notifications are usually send from 'servers', it is not necessary to own a server or to pay a service. Instead it is also possible to send pushes from your personal computer or mobile device. Especially for testing purposes, this is very useful. Try:
虽然推送通知通常是从“服务器”发送的，但是没有必要拥有服务器或支付服务。相反，它也可以从您的个人计算机或移动设备发送推送。特别是出于测试目的，这非常有用。尝试：
- NWPusher
- NWPusher
- APNS-Pusher
- APNS推进器
#1
32
Apple does not charge a separate fee for utilizing the push notification service.
Apple不会就使用推送通知服务收取单独的费用。
Your only cost is a server that will be sending the push notifications to Apple. There are third-parties that provide this servers and there is a fee for that.
您唯一的成本是将向Apple发送推送通知的服务器。有第三方提供此服务器，并收取费用。
#2
18
Answer for your question 1,2 and 3 is: Apple doesn't charge you for APNS - but you have to maintain a server for pushing.
问题1,2和3的答案是：Apple不会向您收取APNS费用 - 但您必须维护服务器以进行推送。
Try these third parties for pushing,
试试这些第三方推送，
- PushWizard (https://pushwizard.com), a free and unlimited push service.
- PushWizard（https://pushwizard.com），一种免费且无限制的推送服务。
It can send 250 million push messages / hour and PushWizard is free for unlimited devices, while other services can be very expensive if you have more, than 1 million users to reach at least ONCE per month.
它可以每小时发送2.5亿推送消息，PushWizard可以免费使用无限设备，而如果你有超过100万用户每月至少达到ONCE，其他服务可能会非常昂贵。
- Monopush (http://www.monopush.com), which provides a RESTful API and a lot of free push alerts up-front to handle the server infrastructure for you.
- Monopush（http://www.monopush.com），提供RESTful API和大量免费推送警报，为您处理服务器基础架构。
You need just copy and paste a few line codes to inside of your application and then magic will be started. After that you can start to watch, analyze, categorize your clients and you can send push messages to them as well as resource messages.
您只需将几行代码复制并粘贴到应用程序内部，然后启动魔术。之后，您可以开始观察，分析和分类您的客户，您可以向他们发送推送消息以及资源消息。
#3
7
Plz refer the following
Plz参考以下内容
-
APNS is a free service. However, you need to maintain a server to send Push Messages.
APNS是一项免费服务。但是，您需要维护服务器以发送推送消息。
Apple Local and Push Notification Programming Guide
Apple本地和推送通知编程指南
-
There are many online servers which provide you free push services [for limited pushes/users/devices]. They do have plans depending upon the needs of client. Following are the few ones:
有许多在线服务器为您提供免费推送服务[限制推送/用户/设备]。他们的确有计划取决于客户的需求。以下是少数几个：
a.
ParseParse not available anymore. It is now acquired by Facebook. Read More Here一个。 Parse Parse不再可用。它现在被Facebook收购。在这里阅读更多
b. PushWizard
湾PushWizard
c. Xtify
C。 Xtify
d. SetUp your own push server - this tutroial comprise of complete end to end steps of how to send push messages to iOS Devices.
d。 SetUp您自己的推送服务器 - 此tutroial包含如何将推送消息发送到iOS设备的完整端到端步骤。
Hope this helps !!!
希望这可以帮助 ！！！
#4
7
As mentioned above, Apple does not charge for the APNS However, you need to maintain a 3rd party server for that, and sending notifications to millions of devices would require a lot of work from you. There are some very good industrial solutions for iOS push notifications service that use APNS:
如上所述，Apple不对APNS收费但是，您需要为此维护第三方服务器，向数百万台设备发送通知需要您进行大量工作。对于使用APNS的iOS推送通知服务，有一些非常好的工业解决方案：
- PushApps - free for 1M notifications per month, and unlimited notifications for 19.99 per month - here is the documentation
- PushApps - 每月免费提供1M通知，每月19.99无限通知 - 这是文档
- Urban Airship - free up to 1M notifications per month, afterwards you are charged per 1000 notifications
- Urban Airship - 每月免费提供1M次通知，之后每1000次通知收费
- PushWoosh - free for 1M devices, premium plans are from 39 EURO
- PushWoosh - 免费提供1M设备，优惠计划为39欧元
Diclaimer - I work in PushApps and also use their product in my applications for over a year now.
Diclaimer - 我在PushApps工作，并且在我的应用程序中使用他们的产品已有一年多了。
#5
2
Although push notifications are usually send from 'servers', it is not necessary to own a server or to pay a service. Instead it is also possible to send pushes from your personal computer or mobile device. Especially for testing purposes, this is very useful. Try:
虽然推送通知通常是从“服务器”发送的，但是没有必要拥有服务器或支付服务。相反，它也可以从您的个人计算机或移动设备发送推送。特别是出于测试目的，这非常有用。尝试：
- NWPusher
- NWPusher
- APNS-Pusher
- APNS推进器