# Amazon SNS vs Expo Push Notifications (slim)

> Amazon SNS scores 72.8 (BB) to Expo Push Notifications's 58.8 (C) for push notifications. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Amazon SNS scores 72.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Expo Push Notifications's 58.8 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Expo Push Notifications leads on payments & pricing. Both do push notifications.

- Amazon SNS: BB 72.8, rank #99 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-sns.min.md
- Expo Push Notifications: C 58.8, rank #571 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/expo-push-notifications.min.md
- Amazon SNS, good for Teams already on AWS that want cheap push, SMS and plain-text email alerts or fan-out to queues and functions under IAM and CloudTrail. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 65; Schema & documentation, 83 against 60; Security & auth, 89 against 48; Transparency & trust, 83 against 68. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Expo Push Notifications, good for An agent that must push to an app already built with Expo, at no cost and with one call for both platforms. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 35.

| Category | Amazon SNS | Expo Push Notifications |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 60 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 89 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 83 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon SNS | Expo Push Notifications |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Expo |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://sns.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://exp.host/--/api/v2/push/send` |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |
| Price for push notifications | $0. per message | free |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. The AWS SDKs and the AWS Labs MCP server are Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Expo's terms of service. The Node.js server SDK is MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-08-24 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2025-05-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2025-10-21 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 6.5M npm/wk | 1k stars, 1.3M npm/wk |