Unity Networking Solutions (Free)

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1	Last Updated 2023/10/07
2	Networking Solutions for Unity sorted by last update date
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4	Free (may contain paid features)
5	Paid (subscription or one-time)
6	Unknown or Unchecked
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8	Products Updated Within 3 Months	Notes
9		These products have been updated within the past 3 months.
10	Fish-Net: Networking Evolved	Supports physics and rollback. Source available, limitless personal/commercial use. Non-standard license.
11	Netcode for GameObjects (was: MLAPI)	Open source. Unity's official solution.
12	Netcode for Entities	Not (yet) recommended for production use
13	Mirror Networking	Open source.
14	Photon Fusion	High-end state transfer networking SDK by the team of Quantum and PUN.
15	Riptide Networking	Open source, not in Unity Asset Store
16	Rason Networking	Open source, based on LiteNetLib
17	Networking and Serialization Tools (TNet 3)	Little information could be found
18	Photon Quantum	Specializes in deterministic games, not in Unity Asset Store
19	Photon Realtime	Unclear how USPs compare to Fusion's, not in Unity Asset Store
20	FM Network 2.0	Low-level
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22	Products Updated Between 3-12 months	Notes
23		These products have been updated between 3-12 months ago. Their current status is unknown to us.
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27		These products have not been updated for more than a year or have been deprecated, and are no longer tracked by this sheet.
28	SmartFoxServer	Not a Unity specific solution, has been around for > 10 years. Asset has been removed from the asset store but other related assets still exist.
29	Colyseus	Open source.
30	DarkRift2	Open source, low-level.
31	Photon PUN2+	No more features, but still long-term supported, recommended to use Fusion instead
32	Photon PUN2 - FREE	No more features, but still long-term supported, recommended to use Fusion instead
33	FigNet	Low level, not Unity component driven. Paid transports.
34	Network Framework base on LLAPI	Last release Oct 17
35	Master Server Framework	Last release Jun 17, is now: Master Server Toolkit (see above)
36	EasyNetwork	First and only release Jun 17
37	Storm Unity Networking	Feb-Apr 17 lifecycle
38	Plus Networking - Play Games Services	Last updated Mar 16, Google Play only (?)
39	Simple Multiplayer Kit	Deprecated, last update Nov 15, based on Raknet
40	UNet	Unity's legacy networking
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46	Removed \|REDACTED\| networking solution for participating in unacceptable marketing practices.
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