A zero-effort chat service for Game and App teams

Q: 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.

Q: 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 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://preprod.fiveminutes.io/about) pages.

Q: 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.

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.

Build your PoC in minutes, customize with ease, and scale effortlessly with our global infrastructure.

Quickstart Video Documentation

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.

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Headless SDK Architecture for custom UX
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Transparent 99.9%+ SLAs
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Always enterprise-grade security
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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.

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Instant setup, no infrastructure needed
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Simple, example UIs to get started
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Developer-friendly API & extensive documentation
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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.

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

Safe, Secure, and Goblin-proof.

No need to worry about hackers or snoops - users' messages are locked up tight using industry-standard encryption methods.

From the moment a client connects until the session is over, any data exchanged with our services are protected both in flight and at rest

Your chat, your rules!

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

Keep up with what matters in your chat rooms, react only to what's relevant in your efforts to safeguard your users, even before they reach out.

Thanks to on-demand and automatic translations, you can moderate conversations in most languages, even if you don't speak them.

Moderation tools

Discord Integration
Get notified of user conduct reports
Manage and action them within Discord

AI Assistance

Automatically assess and report user misconduct
Leverage powerful language translation features

Translations

Translations on-the-fly and on demand
Integrates seamlessly in the service and in 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 burdon ending up on you. We take care of the hassle of building, maintainting and running communication infrastructure, and you can focus on the core of your business

Feature highlight

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

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

Cloud-driven, and available Worldwide.

Let your service disruption worries drift away...

Our services are always available, easily scalable, and able to weather any storm. And the best part? Updates are automatic and don't disrupt your workday.

No downtime for our services means more downtime for you!

Feel free to review our service status history. We dare say, it's quite excellent.

Service status

Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

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

Unity

We officially support Unity, with the aim to make implementation as quick and painless as possible.

Ready to get started with Unity?

Grab our asset from the Unity Asset Store.

NPM packages

We offer web based implementation support via our packages in the public npm registries

@fiveminutes-io/five-minute-chat-contracts - Core contracts library for web applications
@fiveminutes-io/chat-client - Support library for all basic chat features
@fiveminutes-io/support-client - Support library for support ticket features

Ready to go build your web experience?

Check out our demo React project on Github!

Good news!

We're happy to share that our public API is open for anyone to use. This means you can still add some chat magic to your projects with FiveMinute Chat, even on non-officially supported platforms.

Need some help? No worries.

Refer to our documentation to get started, or head over to our discord server and we'll help you out.