SharePush vs OneSignal for web push
Both bill web push by subscriber and let you send as much as you like. OneSignal covers many channels for apps and websites. SharePush does web push only, built for sites that publish every day.
Updated · By the SharePush team. Full disclosure: we make SharePush, so every figure below links to its source.
Short answer
Choose OneSignal if you need mobile app push, email, SMS and in-app messages from one tool, or Journeys across all of them. It is the broader platform, and the web push part is solid.
Choose SharePush if web push is the channel that matters and you publish often: live campaigns that update in place from the composer, interest scores per topic from real clicks, and RSS feeds that send on a schedule without Zapier.
At a glance
| Feature | SharePush | OneSignal |
|---|---|---|
| Channels | Web push | Mobile push, web push, email, SMS, RCS, in-app, Live Activities |
| Free plan | Up to 10,000 active subscribers, 1 site | Free plan with a cap of 10,000 subscribers per send |
| Web push billed by | Active subscribers, in steps from 25k to 500k | $19 a month platform fee plus $0.004 per web push subscriber (Growth) |
| Sends | Unlimited | Unlimited for web push |
| Updating a shown notification | Live campaigns: send once, up to 4 updates from the composer or the API | Possible through the API with a web push topic |
| Interest targeting | 0-100 score per topic from clicks, target by threshold | Segments and data tags you set (6 segments on Free, 10 on Growth) |
| RSS to push | Built in: queue, time slots, dedup across feeds | Through Zapier, or on publish with the WordPress plugin |
| A/B tests | Included | 2 variants on Free and Growth, up to 10 on Professional |
| Opt-in prompt funnel | Saw prompt, clicked Allow, granted, subscribed, with the reason for each drop, on every plan | Its docs suggest Google Analytics to check that the prompt showed. Denied prompts are not counted, and the subscription changes chart needs a paid plan |
| After the click | Viewed: the reader reached your page and the script tied the visit to the campaign, on every plan | Clicks on Free. Custom conversion metrics from your own events need a paid plan |
| MCP server | Business and Enterprise | Listed on every plan |
| Company | Second Breakfast, Rome, Italy | Offices in San Mateo, New York and London |
Pricing compared
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25,000 subscribers
- SharePush
- See pricing
- OneSignal
- $119 a month
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100,000 subscribers
- SharePush
- See pricing
- OneSignal
- $419 a month
OneSignal figures are its Growth plan list price: the $19 platform fee plus $0.004 per web push subscriber, as shown on its pricing page. Your own quote may differ. SharePush figures are our current monthly list prices, with unlimited sends. Both sides change: check the SharePush pricing and the sources below.
Where OneSignal is the better choice
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More channels
Mobile app push, email, SMS, RCS, in-app messages and iOS Live Activities sit next to web push, with Journeys across them.
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Built for apps
If most of your audience is in an iOS or Android app, OneSignal's mobile SDKs cover it and SharePush does not.
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Size and ecosystem
A large integrations directory and a long track record with app publishers.
Where SharePush is the better choice
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Live campaigns in the composer
Updating a notification in place is a campaign type with its own report, not an API parameter to remember on each send.
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Interest from behaviour
Every click moves a 0-100 score per topic, so audiences come from what readers read, not from tags you maintain by hand.
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RSS without Zapier
Feeds, an editable queue, your own time slots and dedup across feeds are part of the product.
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One price list for web push
Plans are steps of active subscribers. Going over never refuses a send: reach scales down until you upgrade.
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Full reports on the Free plan
Free has the same reports as the paid plans: delivered, clicked, closed and viewed for every send, and the opt-in prompt step by step, with the reason each visitor dropped off.
Switching from OneSignal
A subscriber list cannot be exported from OneSignal and imported elsewhere: each subscription only works with the keys of the tool that created it. But the browser remembers that a reader allowed notifications from your site, whichever tool asked. With migration mode on, SharePush moves every returning reader over on their next visit, without a new prompt.
Replace the OneSignal script with SharePush's and turn on migration mode. Readers who never come back to your site stay on the OneSignal list. You can keep sending from OneSignal while readers move: once a reader is moved, OneSignal can no longer reach them, so nobody gets the same story twice.
The install takes two files: how to add web push. Every step of the switch is in the migration guide.
How we compared
Every OneSignal figure comes from its own public pricing page and documentation, read on . We did not use a paid OneSignal account. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
- Pricing onesignal.com Plans, the Growth web push price, the Free plan per-send cap, A/B variants, segments and data tags per plan.
- What's changing on OneSignal's Free plan onesignal.com The 1,000 MAU limit on mobile push and in-app messages from October 1, 2026. Web push is not part of it.
- Custom event storage documentation.onesignal.com Custom Event ingestion is not available on the Free plan.
- Conversion metrics documentation.onesignal.com Default metrics on every plan. Custom metrics from custom events need a paid plan.
- Subscription trends documentation.onesignal.com The subscription status changes chart needs a paid plan. Visitors who deny the prompt are not counted.
- Google Analytics documentation.onesignal.com The permissionPromptDisplay event, to check whether the opt-in prompt was shown.
- Push notification (Create message API) documentation.onesignal.com The web_push_topic parameter that replaces an earlier web notification.
- Integrate your tech stack with Zapier onesignal.com RSS feeds connected to OneSignal through Zapier.
- WordPress plugin setup for web push documentation.onesignal.com Sending a push when a WordPress post is published.
- OneSignal MCP Server documentation.onesignal.com OneSignal's MCP server for AI clients.
- About us onesignal.com Office locations.
SharePush vs OneSignal, answered.
It depends on your audience and plan. Both bill web push by subscriber with unlimited sends. The table above compares list prices at 25,000 and 100,000 subscribers, worked out from both pricing pages.
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