What is Five Minute Chat and what does it offer?

Five Minute Chat is a **globally available chat service**, primarily aimed at Unity3D developers, designed for **quick implementation**, taking less than five minutes to set up in your game or application. It offers a robust backend for chat, eliminating the need for developers to build and maintain their own always-on online services for chat functionality.

Who develops Five Minute Chat and what is their mission?

Five Minute Chat is developed by **fiveminutes.io**. Their mission is to allow developers to **focus on core game and app development** by taking care of the complexities of building, maintaining, and hosting a scalable, high-performance cloud service for chat. A short presentation is available in out [about us](https://fiveminutes.io/about) pages.

What platforms and engines does Five Minute Chat officially support?

Officially, Five Minute Chat **supports Unity** builds targeting Windows, Android, iOS, and WebGL. More platforms will be coming in the future. However, its **public API is open** for anyone to use, meaning you can integrate chat functionality into projects on non-officially supported platforms as well.

All systems operational

A zero-effort backend for Game and App teams

Q: Is Five Minute Chat free to use, and what's included in the Free Plan?

Yes, Five Minute Chat is available for **free download from the Unity Asset Store**. It also offers a **Free Plan** that costs $0.00 forever and includes 1 GB of monthly bandwidth (suitable for up to ~25 CCU) and 25 peak Concurrent Users (CCU). This free tier comes with a generous number of channels, unlimited chat messages, direct messages (DMs), status updates, all web dashboard features, and basic moderation features through the web dashboard.

Chat, leaderboards and remote config — including A/B experiments — in one place. Build your proof of concept in minutes and scale effortlessly on a global infrastructure that just works.

Quickstart Video Documentation

Chat Leaderboards Remote config & experiments

[GUILD] Ironwake / ch.general

PING 24ms ● 247 online

>> WORLD BOSS spawned in Ashen Hollow

[20:14] Lv87 MAGE Aria: anyone up for a raid in 5?

[21:14] Lv92 CLRC Kobo: im in — bringing the healer

[22:14] Lv78 ROGU Mika: voice on, channel just hit 200 watching 🔥

>> Zen [JP] joined party · auto-translate ON

[23:14] Lv81 WARR Zen: Let's go! ⟵ 行こう!

Kobo is typing…

/party invite Sanshiro

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Built for Everyone

It doesn't matter who you are

Whether you're a studio scaling up or an indie developer just starting out, we've got you covered.

For Organizations

Studios & Enterprises

Build scalable communication infrastructure with enterprise-grade features. Our headless SDK and transparent SLAs give you complete control and peace of mind.

✓ Headless SDK Architecture for custom UX
✓ Transparent 99.9%+ SLAs
✓ Always enterprise-grade security
✓ Support at your fingertips

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For Individuals

Creators & Indies

Get your community up and running in minutes. Our simple API and turnkey integration let you focus on what matters: building great games and apps.

✓ Instant setup, no infrastructure needed
✓ Simple, example UIs to get started
✓ Developer-friendly API & extensive documentation
✓ Grow your community organically

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Three services, one platform

Everything your live game or app needs

FiveMinutes is becoming a full backend for game and app teams. Start with chat, then layer on competitive features and live configuration without new vendors.

Chat

Persistent channels, DMs, presence, moderation and webhooks — all with a headless SDK that drops into Unity, web, or any platform that speaks HTTPS.

Global edge delivery
Discord moderation bot
AI translations & support

Leaderboards

Rank users across any scoring rule you can describe: best score, incremental, decremental, or set. Reset hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or all-time.

Multiple scoring operators
Automatic cycle resets
Server & client writes

Remote config & experiments

Tune settings, roll out features gradually, and run A/B tests from the dashboard. Change values in seconds without shipping a client build.

Feature flags & overrides
A/B variant targeting
Real-time delivery

Loved by Creators & Teams Worldwide

Here's what some of our amazing users have to say about Five Minute Chat.

Really amazing system, it works out of the box and I couldn't be happier with it. The developer is also very responsive and will assist you in discord if you need help!

Resurge Games

Developer, Founder

I've been using it for almost a year now and it's working incredibly well for our community. The support team is fantastic and always responsive to feedback.

IEP

Ilia Esmaili Poor

Founder, Esyverse

What an amazing platform! The infrastructure just works, and the support is beyond expectations. Highly recommend to anyone building multiplayer experiences.

Gregory Smith

Producer, Indie Game Studio

Security

Safe, secure, and goblin-proof.

No need to worry about hackers or snoops — user messages are locked up tight with industry-standard encryption.

From the moment a client connects until the session ends, every byte exchanged with our services is protected both in flight and at rest.

Discord bot

AI moderation

Translations

Live alerts

Moderation

Your chat, your rules.

Take control with our Discord bot integration and advanced AI moderation tools. Block bad actors and act as the gatekeeper to your community with confidence.

Discord integration

Get notified of conduct reports and act on them from inside Discord.

AI assistance

Automatically assess and surface user misconduct with powerful language tooling. Opt-in, of course!

Translations

On-the-fly and on-demand — integrated into both the service and moderation tools.

Whether you're building a multiplayer game, a mobile dating app, or a web based collaborative workspace, our services are designed to enhance communication and collaboration without the burden ending up on you. We take care of the hassle of building, maintaining and running communication infrastructure, and you can focus on the core of your business.

Weekly arena

Live

# User Score

1 Vexryn 50,000

2 Aurelia_M 48,920

3 night.owl 47,105

4 PixelPope · you 45,330

5 Ashen Circle 44,010

Increment · higher is better

Resets every Monday at 00:00 UTC

Leaderboards

Compete without the boilerplate.

Add rankings to any feature in minutes. Define how scores combine, when cycles reset, and whether clients or your server submit results — then let the service handle ranking and history.

Flexible scoring rules

Best, increment, decrement, or set. Mix ascending and descending sorts per board.

Automatic cycles

Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or all-time — each cycle keeps its own history.

Trust but verify

Choose client-authoritative writes for quick prototypes or server-authoritative writes for competitive integrity.

Read the leaderboard docs

Remote config & experiments

Tune your game or app after it ships.

Change values from the dashboard and push them to users in real time. Run A/B experiments on segments, measure outcomes, and roll winners out to everyone without waiting for app-store approval.

Feature flags

Ship code hidden behind flags, then enable it for everyone or a targeted segment when you're ready.

A/B experiments

Split users into variants, compare behavior, and pick the winner with live metrics.

Override groups

Give beta testers, creators, or specific regions their own configuration without forking your build.

Read the remote config docs

Boss difficulty tuning

Running

level_complete

Success metric

48,210

Exposures

Variants

boss_damage_multiplier Result

Control 1.0

38.0%

50% traffic

Variant A 1.2 Leading

42.5%

50% traffic

Configuration entries 5 keys

new_matchmaking_v2 On-off · Server-only

false

holiday_event_2026 On-off · Public

false

welcome_message Text · Public

Welcome aboard!

Insights

Know exactly how your community engages.

Every application ships with a built-in analytics dashboard. Track chat usage, leaderboard engagement, experiment conversion, active users, bandwidth, and peak concurrency — so your dev team can plan capacity, spot trends, and prove ROI without bolting on a third-party tool.

Active users (DAU / MAU)

Day-over-day and month-over-month comparisons in one view.

Bandwidth & cost visibility

See exactly how much you're moving; no surprise bills.

Concurrent users (CCU)

Hourly peak & average against your plan limit, so you scale before you saturate.

See it in action

DAU

4,518

Today

Daily active users

Peak 11,145 30-day VIEW DETAILS ›

MAU

25,166

This month

Monthly active users

Peak 69,763 12-mo VIEW DETAILS ›

Data from May 31 – 9 days ago

CCU OK

Usage included up to 1,000 CCU

1,000 800 600 400 200 0

Limit: 1000 CCU →

00:00 03:00 06:00 09:00 12:00 15:00 18:00 21:00 00:00

Feature highlight

Everything you need to ship live games and apps

Advanced Moderation Bot features

Add our Discord moderation bot to your server, for smooth interaction with your community: Features include automated message screening, support ticket management & moderation tools

AI support agents

Augment your support requests management with a first-line AI chat bot, drastically shortening time-to-feedback for your users

Leaderboards

Rank users across flexible scoring rules and reset cycles. Support competitive features without building your own ranking service.

On-Demand message translation

Translate any message on demand - in the application or through moderation features

Remote config & A/B tests

Tune values, ship feature flags, and run experiments from the dashboard. Update live games and apps without a client build.

Support tickets

Allow users to send support tickets directly to your team, and interact with them using the moderation bot or through the web dashboard

Text to speech

Generate speech from text messages on demand, allowing your users to break free from text-only communication

Whisper Delivery Tracking

Allows for developers to configure the service to keep track of delivery of whispers (private user-to-user messages) and acting on non-delivery after a timeout period through a webhook call

Pay only for what you need

Global

Cloud-driven, available worldwide.

Let your service-disruption worries drift away. Our services are always available, easily scalable, and ready to weather any storm. Updates are automatic and never disrupt your workday.

No downtime for our services means more downtime for you. Feel free to review our status history — we dare say it's quite excellent.

Service status

Frequently asked questions

Five Minute Chat addresses the significant effort and time typically required to implement and maintain a chat function in games and apps. It removes the burden of developing, hosting, and maintaining a scalable, high-performance cloud service, which is often the only feature in many games requiring an always-on, online backend. This allows developers to quickly integrate chat without worrying about infrastructure.

Yes, Five Minute Chat is available for free download from the Unity Asset Store. It also offers a Free Plan that costs $0.00 forever and includes 1 GB of monthly bandwidth (suitable for up to ~25 CCU) and 25 peak Concurrent Users (CCU).

This free tier comes with a generous number of channels, unlimited chat messages, direct messages (DMs), status updates, all web dashboard features, and basic moderation features through the web dashboard.

Ship anywhere

Unity

Officially supported on Unity targeting Windows, Android, iOS, and WebGL. Grab our asset from the Unity Asset Store and start shipping.

Unity Asset Store

npm packages

Build web experiences with our public npm packages — contracts, chat client, and support client are all production-ready.

Demo on GitHub

Open API

Our public API is open for anyone to use — add chat, rankings, and live configuration to projects on any platform you can reach with HTTPS.

Read the docs

Ready to try in five minutes. Built for the long haul.

Spin up your first channel, leaderboard, or experiment today and see why teams trust us with their live games and apps.

Open dashboard Read the docs