--- title: Azure Notification Hubs Reviews meta_title: 'Azure Notification Hubs Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 15 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Azure Notification Hubs works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 15 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-07' parent_category: name: Customer Service url: https://www.g2.com/categories/customer-service --- # Azure Notification Hubs Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Proactive Notification Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/proactive-notification) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 15 ## About Azure Notification Hubs Azure Notification Hubs is a massively scalable mobile push notification engine for quickly sending millions of notifications to iOS, Android, Windows, or Kindle devices, working with APNs (Apple Push Notification service), GCM (Google Cloud Messaging), WNS (Windows Push Notification Service), MPNS (Microsoft Push Notification Service), and more. ## Azure Notification Hubs Reviews ### 1. Azure Notifications Hub **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** Azure notifications has helped widely for the MDM services and this is because it is different from bus services. **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** It is not so focused on high value enterprise messaging. **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has the push notification service ehich helps to broadcast on a larger level of mobile service or for some orher platforms. ### 2. Azure Notification Hubs - Push Notifications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** I love using Azure Notification Hub because I am able to send push notifications or messages from any backend or cloud to any mobile device such as Android and iOS. It is easy to use, very secure, easy to enable and integrate. We use this platform to send thousands of consultants notifications if we make changes to their accounts or if there is an event or important message. We can use a single API call to easily broadcast and push messages to thousands of users in our system. **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** Sometimes there are delays in integration. However, if you are having issues with the platform there is a user guide or help tips on how to use the software. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Notification Hubs:** I highly recommend this platform because it is easy to use, secure and helpful in your day to day business. You can use this platform to improve the user's experience and understand their behaviours. You can send massive amounts of notifications to millions of users without sending out emails. **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Azure Notification Hubs to send notifications to our clients and consultants on many different platforms such as Windows, Android, iOS, etc without sending emails. If our company makes changes to the user's accounts, they are notified of the updated features. You can even broadcast the notification to the clients and consultants simultaneously. It also provides us has a company with a variety to send push notifications in different languages across different regions. ### 3. For anything requiring real time communication **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Godfred B. | Dynamics Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** It offers real-time communication even on an average internet speed and costs less. **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** Configuration is cumbersome, especially when setting it for Xamarin, which requires a different setup for the various platforms involved. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Notification Hubs:** You should go ahead and use it. Setting it up may involve you doing a bunct of reading, but afterward, it is easy to use. **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** My organization wanted a chat feature, which I used azure notification hubs. It was cost effective for us ### 4. Very Good and massively scalable push notification system. Easy to enable and integrate. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shagun R. | Cloud Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** Reach to all the major platforms, Massively scalable platform, and easy to integrate and use. When we use azure for our solution to develop on the cloud and our application needs to perform some activities from the application like sending the notification to the desired user, or also when we need to integrate our on-premises application and infra to use the notification service, you can go for azure notification hubs. It will provide you reach to all the major os that are there and you can easily integrate and use the service to get your notification to deliver to your clients. When we talk about the pricing of this service we will be getting a free tire in which we will get 1M push notification as well as 500 active devices. Also cross-platform push and Telemetry of your notifications. After that, you will be having 2 more tiers, Basic and Standard and the Limits will increase as with prizing **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** No dislikes for this service because it is easy to use and works fine for what it has created. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Notification Hubs:** Yes I would definitely recommend this to people out there for their notification service requirements. **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sending mobile notifications to users with different platforms. Also, It is compliant with different compliance regulators like ISO, HIPPA. In addition to the features, the Azure notification service resides in a logical partition in the azure account that is called resource groups and also you need to create a notification hub namespace first, and then you can create your hub. ### 5. Works nicely, but the web portal is missing some essential features **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** Setup is simple, and the web interface is clean **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** The web portal lacks a lot of features that are available through the API. For instance, there is no way to browse registrations or tags, making it extremely difficult to know what devices are registered or delete those registrations if needed. **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to send push notifications to mobile devices ### 6. Great push notification system which is also easy to implement. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saifali K. | Professional Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** It's effortless to implement push notifications to your apps to various device platforms with the help of Azure Notification Hubs. It is also easy to set up and even easier to integrate into your applications. **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** A bit pricy compared to other competitors, that is the only downside according to me. **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to send notifications to different clients based on operating systems (e.g., IOS, Android, and Windows). This feature notifies users of new app updates. If you want to update a new updated version of the app available in the app store, you can immediately inform the user. ### 7. Azure Notification Hubs: Push Notification System **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** Easy integration with all the platforms and devices like android, ios and web. Using Azure to deploy our application to the cloud, it's very useful to send push notifications to different devices for different actions. Helps us to interact with the users more easily. We can easily broadcast our push to millions of users with a single API call. Define our push notification according to region, language and customer **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** For first time users, they have to go through the documentation and try to learn how to use it, that is a little trickier part. **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** To send the push notifications across different devices and different regions, customers, we are using a notification hub. It provides us with a variety to send push notification in different languages across different regions. ### 8. Push Notifications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul A. | Azure Architect - Associate Director , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** It became very easy nowadays to develop apps and publish with the cloud. applications like notification hub adding really value to your product. Azure notification hub helping in my case for push notification purpose. **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** Have found some delay bit tricky while integration. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Notification Hubs:** This is PaaS service can really add value to your application and get some data about user behavior. **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** With azure notification hub, we are improving user experience and also understanding user behavior ### 9. Jared K Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** This software can integrate with lots of different API's and send notifications to my apple and android devices **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** You need to use a Microsoft account. I could not figure out how to use a different account **Recommendations to others considering Azure Notification Hubs:** Having better documentation to customize to my various configurations. Better support resources would help. **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can send out mass notifications to devices without sending out emails ### 10. Make push notification less complex to send from back-end. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krishan K. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** azure push notification makes push notification on any device less complex. You can easily integrate azure push notification at your back-end. You can create channels and send notification to particular channel simultaneously. It uses the platform notification system to send the notification. Its increase the app engagement. You can send push notification platform specific like for ios, android and windows. Its very reliable software to use. **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** I don't dislike any thing about azure notification even it is cheaper than sending test messages. But those who use this software very first time they have to do some hard work to learn little about azure cloud platform how it function and how they manage push notification for better understanding. To understand complete functionality of this software is little complex. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Notification Hubs:** If you want, your code look clean and compact. I will suggest you to use azure push notification. I am using it form last one year. After using it i have decided it for push notification azure is best. Learn about new technologies and integrate them in your code is always fun. And second thing is that its from Microsoft which is reputed organization which guaranty robustness and data integrity. I am using its service in back-end. I am recommend to all the software developers around the world to consider this software for notification. There are many platform from where you can learn about its interrelation. **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using azure notification, send push notification to various customers based on their operating system like ios, android and windows. Using this feature we inform the user about new update of the application. You can broadcast the notification to number of users simultaneously. Using azure you can manage push notification feature in very less code and your code will look clean. You can send notification to user immediately if you want to send an update about new updated version of application available on app store. ### 11. Azure is the best **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** For Testing purpose it is very helpful in my projects **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** Sometimes the Azure is not opening properly **Recommendations to others considering Azure Notification Hubs:** Please use the Azure Notification Hubs, it is very helpful in you day to day business **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Because push notifications depend on third-party Platform Notification Systems such as Apple's Push Notification Service (APNs) and Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) ### 12. Great program and easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** I like that this program make sure that you have all your notifications in one location so it’s easy to know exactly what you need to get done and how to prioritize your items **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** What are you don’t like about this program is that there is a learning curve but the user guides are really helpful when learning how to use this application **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** It’s really helped me with time management and knowing what to prioritize and meet deadlines set by my business partners ### 13. Fantastic tool backed up by great support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** Easy to use and even easier initial setup. Support is amazing as well. **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** May be a bit higher priced than the competitors but you get what you pay for. **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Notification Hubs really help when with your cloud notification needs. ### 14. Azure Notification Hubs-RS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rabish S. | Assistant Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** easy way to configure notfication and alerts based system **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** need more connection to multiple third party system **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** alerts based system making ### 15. Amazing service for using with Hybrid devices and platforms. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** AYUSH V. | Intern, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Notification Hubs?** Same service applies to Android , iOS and Kindle. Can't be easier and amazing. Really liked the UI and REST API. Recommended for all app sizes and SOA's. **What do you dislike about Azure Notification Hubs?** Nothing as such to dislike. It do what it says. Easy to use and open pricing. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Notification Hubs:** Amazing tool for Notification to multi platform applications. Using with best practices is always good. **What problems is Azure Notification Hubs solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily scale up notification services to large number of user instantly. REST and SDK is pretty easy. Works smoothly on all platforms. ## Azure Notification Hubs Discussions - [The tool is really great.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/49705-l-outils-est-vraiment-formidable) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Any Problems ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/49783-any-problems) - 1 comment - [View Azure Notification Hubs pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-notification-hubs/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-10+12%3A44%3A44+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=11ddf7b1-100e-4ab6-97ac-db0d82f37b63&secure%5Btoken%5D=f3c03a32f3059e6a7c20c634b2d5522c7f66a9551e00df6713f3f152cb191344&format=llm_user) ## Azure Notification Hubs Features **Messaging Channels** - SMS Messaging - Email - Voice Messaging - Two way messaging **Administration** - Scheduling - Triggered Notifications - Segmentation - Integrations ## Top Azure Notification Hubs Alternatives - [OneSignal](https://www.g2.com/products/onesignal/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (1,192 reviews) - [DialMyCalls](https://www.g2.com/products/dialmycalls/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (979 reviews) - [Genesys Cloud CX](https://www.g2.com/products/genesys-cloud-cx/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (1,466 reviews)