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Notification infrastructure

The instant it happens, your users know.

Elaan is the notification layer for real-time products: in-app inbox, email, and push from one API, streamed live to open sessions over a single connection. Multi-tenant, white-label, and yours to self-host.

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Self-hostable Multi-tenant Real-time by default
Inbox Live
    One API, every channel In-app inbox Email Mobile & web push Real-time (SSE)
    On the roadmap SMS Slack WhatsApp Microsoft Teams Discord Telegram Webhooks

    How it works

    Trigger one event. Elaan does the fan-out.

    Fire a single call when something happens. Elaan resolves each recipient's channel preferences, renders your templates with their brand, and delivers to every enabled channel. One broken channel never blocks the rest.

    # one call, from your backend
POST https://api.elaan.io/v1/notifications
Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…

{
  "notification_type_key": "order_shipped",
  "external_id": "user_42",
  "variables": { "order_id": "A1234" }
}

← 202 { "event_id": "evt_01H…" }
    01
    ResolveLook up the contact and which channels they've opted into.
    02
    RenderFill your template's {{ variables }} with their brand and attributes.
    03
    Deliver & streamSend to inbox, email, and push, then stream the in-app one live to their open session.

    What you get

    Everything a notification layer needs. Nothing you have to run yourself.

    Real-time inbox

    Users see notifications the instant they land, streamed over one SSE connection. No polling, no refresh.

    Multi-channel fan-out

    One trigger reaches in-app, email, and push. Each channel fails independently, so one bad template never blocks delivery.

    Per-user preferences

    Every contact decides what they get, per channel and per notification type. Elaan honors it on every send.

    Templates & branding

    Author once with variables; brand per tenant. One template renders correctly for every customer and recipient.

    Bring your own transport

    Send through your SMTP, SES, SendGrid or Mailgun, and your Expo or FCM project. Your deliverability, your reputation.

    Self-host in one command

    The same image runs our cloud and your own servers. docker compose up. Your data, your infrastructure.

    Real-time inbox

    No polling

    Notifications are streamed to open tabs over a single SSE connection, so the browser never polls for updates.

    • One connection per user. A single stream carries every notification, and it scales to thousands of concurrent listeners on modest hardware.
    • Durable by default. Live is best-effort on top of a stored inbox. Reconnect and nothing is ever lost.
    • Drop-in on the frontend. Mint a scoped token, open the stream, render. The same token drives the REST inbox too.

    Built for platforms

    Multi-tenant to the core. Yours to run anywhere.

    Whether you serve ten customers or ten thousand, every tenant is isolated and every message is branded. Run it on our cloud, or pull the image and run the whole stack yourself.

    White-label

    Every tenant, isolated and branded

    Strict per-tenant scoping on every read and write, a default brand per tenant, and per-brand template overrides, so notifications always look like they came from your customer, not from us.

    Self-host

    The same image, on your servers

    One Docker Compose brings up the API, the workers, and Postgres, with the console served in-process. Config flags, not code forks, select the profile. Run docker compose -f compose.onprem.yaml up and you're live.

    Pricing

    Start free. Scale when you do.

    Priced by your active audience, not per message — send as much as you want. Talk to us for large scale or on-premise.

    Free
    $0/ month

    For side projects and trying Elaan out.

    • 1,000 active contacts / month
    • Unlimited notifications
    • Real-time in-app inbox, email & push
    • 1 brand
    • Bring your own transports
    • Community support
    Start free
    Most popular
    Pro
    $29/ month

    For production apps that need real-time.

    • Everything in Free, plus:
    • 10,000 active contacts / month
    • Up to 3 brands & templates
    • Bring your own transports
    • Email support
    Start building
    Business
    $99/ month

    For platforms and white-label use.

    • Everything in Pro, plus:
    • 50,000 active contacts / month
    • Unlimited brands
    • Custom domain (your own endpoint)
    • Priority support
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    Scale
    Custom

    For large audiences and enterprise needs.

    • Everything in Business, plus:
    • 100k+ active contacts
    • Higher rate limits
    • Custom SLAs
    • Priority support & onboarding
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    On-premise

    Prefer to run it yourself? Self-host the whole stack.

    Single-tenant, on your own infrastructure, with your data never leaving your network. Unlimited volume, every channel and the real-time inbox, SSO, custom SLAs, and dedicated support. Priced per deployment.

    Contact support

    No credit card to start. An “active contact” is a unique recipient you notify in a month; extras billed per 1,000. Non-profit and startup discounts available.

    Contact

    Talk to us about on-premise.

    Planning a self-hosted deployment, or need a plan sized to your volume? Tell us what you're building and we'll get back to you.

    Every on-premise install comes with hands-on setup help and a direct line to the people who build Elaan. We usually reply within one business day.

    Self-hosting guide Read the docs

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    Get started

    Ship notifications, not notification plumbing.

    Wire one endpoint today. Add channels, preferences, and real-time as you grow, and the API stays the same.

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