Prompt
I'm unhappy with Novu for high-volume notifications
Latest observation
If Novu isn’t meeting your needs for high-volume notifications, you’re probably running into one or more of these issues:
- throughput / rate limits
- cost at scale
- queueing and retry behavior
- template/rendering overhead
- operational complexity
- provider fanout and observability gaps
A few alternatives, depending on what you need:
If you want a managed notification platform
- Courier – strong multi-channel notification workflows, good developer experience
- Knock – good for in-app + email/push notification orchestration
- OneSignal – best if push/mobile is a major channel
- Braze / Customer.io – better for lifecycle marketing than pure infra notifications
If you want to build it yourself with more control
- AWS SNS + SQS + Lambda/Step Functions – good for very high volume and low cost
- Kafka + workers + provider APIs – if you need maximum control and can operate the stack
- Temporal – great for durable notification workflows and retries
- BullMQ / Redis queues – simpler if you’re on Node and volume is moderate-to-high
If your main pain is email volume
- SendGrid, Postmark, Amazon SES, Mailgun
Pair with your own queue/worker system for better control.
If you need in-app notifications at scale
- Build your own event pipeline and persist notifications in your DB
- Use websockets/SSE only for live delivery, not as the source of truth
If you want, I can help you narrow this down based on:
- channels you send to
- monthly notification volume
- latency needs
- whether you want managed vs self-hosted
- your current stack
If you share those, I can recommend a more specific replacement.
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