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brainCloud vs Photon Engine

A side-by-side look at brainCloud and Photon Engine. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

brainCloud

brainCloud

Gaming Software

brainCloud is a cloud-based backend platform designed for game developers. It provides services like authentication, data storage, analytics, social features, and more to help developers build online games without needing to handle server infrastructure.

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Photon Engine

Photon Engine

Gaming Software

Photon Engine is a proprietary multiplayer game development platform that provides a real-time multiplayer game backend and networking engine. It handles hosting, networking, matchmaking, lag compensation and has out-of-the-box support for different platforms.

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