Changelog
Usage-Based Pricing Update
Today we're excited to announce updates to Rivet's pricing model, moving to a more transparent and flexible usage-based system. This change allows developers to better scale their applications while only paying for what they use.
Key Changes
- Pay-as-you-go Model: Only pay for the resources your actors actually consume down to the millisecond
- Simplified Metrics: Clear pricing based on:
- Runtime
- Bandwidth
- Storage
- Free Tier: Generous free tier for developers and small projects with $5/monthly credit
- No upfront commitments: Scale up or down as needed
Pricing Details
Our new pricing structure is designed to be straightforward and predictable:
- Compute: Actors come with 128MB of memory and cost $0.00000000163/millisecond or $4.29/month
- Bandwidth: 10GB for each Actor pooled, $0.05/GB thereafter
- Storage: 1GB + $0.20/GB month
- Storage Writes: 1M + $1.00/million
- Storage Reads: 1M + $0.20/million
For more details about our pricing, visit our pricing page.
Questions?
If you have any questions about the new pricing model, feel free to reach out to us on Discord or support.
Rivet Inspector Launch
Today we are launching Rivet Actor Inspector to help developers view and inspect Rivet Actors. See and edit things like:
- State
- Logs
- Configuration
- Connections
Rivet Actors Launch
Today we are launching Rivet Actors to help developers build and scale realtime applications. They come with a lot of features like:
- State
- Events
- Remote Procedure Calls
- Run at the edge
- Open-source
- Self-hostable
Learn more: Rivet Actors Documentation
Modules Library Launch
Today we are launching the Modules Library to add features to your game or existing backend.
- Modular design to pick and choose features without full adoption.
- Each module includes high-quality & well-documented SDKs for Godot, Unity, and TypeScript.
- Write and share your own modules with the community.
Check them out: https://rivet.gg/modules
Godot editor plugin no longer requires sign in, plus template improvements
Godot plugin 2.3.0 comes with a handful of improvements for developers setting up a fresh Rivet project.
- No longer required to sign in to plugin
- Latest game version is pulled from the Rivet Builds API using the
currenttag (previously would use the most recent build deployed from the current machine) - Template now includes a region selector
- Template now shows: status, transport, lobby ID, lobby tags, & find error
- Setup now shows loading indicator while initial SDK is generating
Godot plugin now features a simplified Develop tab and an easier to navigate plugin UI
With our v2.2.0 release of the Godot plugin, we've focused on building the most intuitive multiplayer experience possible:
- A new Develop tab that merges in the old Deploy tab in to one.
- The Develop tab is vastly more intuitive to use by better indicating how the selected environment impacts Play & Deploy.
- We've also reworked how the plugin interfaces with the Rivet Hub by providing links inline to jump to places like the Server Logs and Build List right where you need it.
- You'll also notice we've put the hub & docs links in a much more accessible location.
In addition to that, we've overhauled a number of internal functionality to run fast & reliably across all platforms.
Rivet Editor & Rivet Modules integrated deeply with the plugins, plus auto-generated SDKs
The Rivet Godot plugin v2.1.0 includes:
- Rivet Editor which allows for easy customizatin of Rivet Modules.
- A new Modules tab that lista all installed modules for easy access to documentation & customization.
- Drastically simplified the setup experience by removing the need to manually generate the Rivet SDK. It's now generated automatically when you change the Rivet config.
Godot plugin now supports local development, Rivet Modules, Setup tab, and refreshed UI
The Rivet Godot plugin v2.0.0 features a fully revamped plugin experience:
- Develop locally without complicated environment switching between remote & local.
- Get started with the setup tab to get your game running & deployed in under a minute.
- Rivet Modules are available in the engine itself.
- Use the
RivetMultiplayerManagerclass to easily set your multipayer game with a fraction of the code. - Features a completely rewritten UI to navigate Rivet's multiplayer functionality more fluidly.
Polished CLI, new API libraries, and more
New JavaScript/TypeScript API library, published OpenAPI spec, published new CLI, cloud version configs are now easier to write with game mode
Added
- New JavaScript/TypeScript API library
- Published Rivet OpenAPI specification
- Published new CLI with simple setup with rivet init and simple deploying with rivet deploy
- Cloud version configs are now easier to write with game mode- & matchmaker-level overrides for properties
- Cloud tokens can be programmatically created through the device linking API
Changed
- Hub URL moved to hub.rivet.gg
Fixed
- Job logs would sometimes not load
- Occasional "game mode not unique" error when writing game mode config
Resizing & compression for user images
Avatars are automatically compressed and resized to improve load times, parameters can now be passed to the avatar request to specify custom sizes
Identities
Added
- Avatars are automatically compressed and resized to improve load times
- Parameters can now be passed to the avatar request to specify custom sizes
Changed
- Increase max user avatar, game logo, and game banner upload sizes
Developer Dashboard
Changed
- Updated recommend game logo and banner image sizes
Colyseus Arena End of Life: Migrating to Rivet & Official Colyseus Plugin
Colyseus Arena was shut down on March 31st. Use the new Rivet plugin to seamlessly migrate to Rivet.
Sadly, Colyseus Arena was shut down with 48 hours notice to developers. (Deadline of March 31st.) For those that aren't familiar, Colyseus Arena was a managed hosting service for the open source Colyseus JavaScript multiplayer framework.
Colyseus Arena has a lot of rich multiplayer games running on it, so we threw together an official Rivet plugin for Colyseus developers to keep their games up and running.
The Rivet plugins for Colyseus are linked below:
If you are migrating a game to Rivet, please join our Discord so we can help you accelerate the process!
We hope that people continue to build games with the open source Colyseus framework in the future and that Rivet helps keep building multiplayer games accessible.
- Updated February 7th 2024: Removed information about closed beta. Rivet is now open to the public!
Custom domain SSL, more captchas, friend requests, and more
Custom SSL certificates is now provided for custom domains, Cloudflare Turnstile can now be used for matchmaker captcha, registration emails sent to users now match the style of the game they're coming from
Matchmaker
Added
- Cloudflare Turnstile can now be used for matchmaker captchas which can be faster and more accurate than Hcaptcha
- Matchmaker endpoints will mock the configured regions with fake servers when using development tokens
CDN
Added
- Custom SSL certificates and automatic DDoS protection is now provided for custom domains
- Custom domains now require a verification process
Identities
Added
- Registration emails sent to users now match the style of the game they're coming from
- Recent followers endpoint shows identities who recently followed the current identity, useful for building a "friend request" system
- Identity followers and following can be listed
- Identity profiles include follower and following count
Changed
- Searching for users is now blazing fast
Fixed
- Users now go offline within 60 seconds if the client does not explicitly change the status when the user leave
- Improved performance of identity-related GET endpoints
- Identities sometimes wrongly showed as following the current identity
Groups
Added
- Identities can be kicked from groups
- Identities can be banned from groups
- Group join requests can be listed from a separate endpoint with pagination
- Group members can be listed from a separate endpoint with pagination
Changed
- Searching for groups is now blazing fast
Deprecated
- rivet.group#GroupProfile$join_requests
- rivet.group#GroupProfile$members
Developer Dashboard
Added
- Versions are now grouped in to folders by month
Misc
Changed
- Improved upload speeds for uploads with 10,000+ files, such as large CDN sites