FiveMinutes
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A zero-effort chat service for Game and App teams

Build your proof of concept in minutes, customize with ease, and scale effortlessly on a global infrastructure that just works.

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[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 CCU 🔥
>> Zen [JP] joined party · auto-translate ON
[23:14] Lv81 WARR Zen: Let's go! ⟵ 行こう!
Kobo is typing…
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/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

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

Testimonials

Loved by Creators & Teams Worldwide

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

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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!

RG

Resurge Games

Developer, Founder

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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

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

GS

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.

Feature highlight

Everything you need to ship chat

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

On-Demand message translation

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

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

Pricing

Pay only for what you need

Free plan

$ 0 00

What's included:

  • Up to 100k MAU
  • 1 000 persistent channels
  • Unlimited chat messages
  • Unlimited DMs
  • Status updates (push)
  • Discord moderator bot
  • Message translations
  • Text-to-speech
  • Advanced Moderation
  • Support tickets
  • DM delivery tracking
  • AI support agents

Monthly commitment

$ 0
00 per month

10 GB

0 / 10

100 GB

-5%
0 / 10

1 TB

-10%
0 / 25
Get started

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Yearly commitment

$ 0
00 per month
for 12 months or more

10 GB

0 / 10

100 GB

-5%
0 / 10

1 TB

-10%
0 / 25
Get started

Enterprise

Custom Cluster

Contact us

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

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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.
Five Minute Chat is developed by fiveminutes.io. Their mission is to allow developers to focus on core game 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 pages.
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.
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.
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.

Supported platforms

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 magic to projects on non-officially supported platforms too.

Read the docs

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

Spin up your first channel today and see why teams trust us with their community.

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