How to Migrate from Hathora - Edgegap Game Server Hosting & Orchestration
Hathora, launched in 2022, initially targeted multiplayer games for its compute orchestration solution.
In March 2026, Hathora has confirmed their pivot to AI to multiple clients, and they will not be moving forward with their gaming solution.
Siddharth Dhulipalla, CEO of Hathora, confirmed on LinkedIn on February 10, 2026, that Hathora was moving ahead with a "pivot" away from gaming to "voice AI," noting it felt "more like a continuation" given how "similar voice AI" was to gaming.
Current Hathora clients may face the need, or desire, to migrate to another game server orchestration platform.
Edgegap is a container-based, multicloud game server orchestration platform with 8+ years of operation focused entirely on multiplayer game.
Edgegap has thousands of studios using its matchmaking, cloud, and bare-metal orchestration platform to deploy game servers for millions of users. AAA clients include KRAFTON, Starbreeze AB (PAYDAY franchise), Halfbrick Studios, Sinn Studios, AONIC, and Megabits Publishing. Indie successes include Drift.io by Slipstream Games (top-10 on CrazyGames) and WOLF Qanawat, the #1 MENA-region app on App Store and Play Store.
Edgegap’s modern orchestration deploys game server, just in-time and on demand, to its regionless network of 615+ edge locations worldwide. Which delivers 58% average latency reduction vs. public cloud for multiplayer games, the ability to scale to 14 million concurrent users (“CCU”) in 60 minutes, and 99.99% availability thanks to a multicloud orchestration across 17+ providers.
Additionally, Edgegap offers hybrid orchestration of persistent servers using bare metal hardware. This “fleet management” of persistent servers optimizes server costs by optimizing deployments to the fleet’s compute hardware and lower egress fees and scales to cloud for traffic spike. It replaces Hathora's "Elastic Metal" orchestration and is ideal for games with live traffic to minimize costs or games with persistent instances such as social games and MMOs.
How to Migrate from Hathora to Edgegap
Hathora, like Edgegap, is a container-based orchestration platform, which facilitates the migration process.
If you are looking to migrate your multiplayer game from Hathora to Edgegap's game server hosting & orchestration, the following simple steps will get you running in no time.
Before getting started, we expect that:
You currently use Hathora, and;
You currently have a working server build.
If not, here's our guide for Unreal Engine and Unity which will get your server running in 5-20 minutes.
Step 1: Identify & Replace Hathora Features
Review and identify services and features you currently use in Hathora to be replaced with Edgegap equivalents.
Hathora - Feature | Edgegap - Feature |
|---|---|
Authentication | Optionally, add fine-grained access controls: |
Hosting CLI | No CLI required! Use our Dashboard or automate builds with API. |
Create a Build | Try our quickstart tools - Unity / Unreal Engine. |
Hathora Lobbies |
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Fleet | Private Fleets with Persistence and Cloud Overflow. Optionally add later on, or default to Match-Bound cloud. |
Eager Caching (Pro, Enterprise) - 3 seconds deployments | Active Caching (Pay as you Go) - 0.5 second deployments |
Ping Service (Regions) | Ping Beacons (automated in engine-specific SDKs) |
Telemetry (Analytics) |
Step 2: Backend Integration
The next step is to ensure your backend integration functions with Edgegap's orchestration.
Fortunately, Edgegap's platform has clear and simple integration references for all services previously supported by Hathora, namely:
Pragma (see: joint case study)
Alongside custom backends
Edgegap has additional integration path, including but not limited to, BrainCloud, Loot Locker, Invokation Games, XSOLLA backend, Network Next, and more.
Step 3: (Optional) Setting up Fleets
Edgegap also offers an optional feature, similar to Hathora’s fleets, with Edgegap’s “Private Fleet” of persistent servers with the ability to burst to cloud servers. Discover our Fleet Manager for persistent servers.
Hathora vs Edgegap - Comparison
The following is a quick “head-to-head” comparison between Hathora and Edgegap.
Here is our in-depth comparison of Hathora vs Edgegap for more details across products, performance, security, price and more.
| Hathora | Edgegap |
|---|---|---|
Hosting & Orchestration Type | Container-based game server orchestration using a room-based deployment mechanism. Requires manual configuration and charges hourly usage. Does not offer a public-facing platform; requires contacting sales and contractually hiring Hathora engineers for paid tiers. | Modern, multicloud, just-in-time orchestration. No fleet pre-configuration. Servers deploy from cold start on demand and you only pay for compute actually used. |
Network & Infrastructure | Limited to 14 regions worldwide, with 5 of 14 locations (35%) in the USA. No regionless deployment; game servers are distributed across its listed regions. | 615+ locations across 17+ cloud and bare metal providers. All available on-demand, no region selection required. |
Pricing Model | Per-region, fleet-based billing. Idle capacity is charged, IPv4 addresses cost extra, and a 30–40% price increase is expected in 2026. | Single worldwide price, pay-per-use, 100% compute utilization. IPv4 included. Multicloud routing minimizes cost automatically. |
Integrations & SDKs | Unity plugin (last updated March 2025) and Unreal guide (requires building from Source). No samples for Mirror Networking, Fish-Networking, or NGO. Integration process requires paid engineering support. | Native plugins for Unity and Unreal. Additional integrations for Mirror, Photon Fusion, PlayFab, Nakama, Epic Online Services, and more. |
Scalability | Scalability data is not publicly disclosed. Known server scaling issues at launch of high-profile game Spectre Divide impacted player retention. | 40 deployments/second sustained for 60 min, reaching 14M CCU. Instant, regionless scale with 99.99% uptime. |
Documentation & Support | Documentation and logging for server logs and system metrics. Business-hours support for Pro tier; 24/7 priority support only for Enterprise tier. DDoS protection locked behind Enterprise tier. | Full docs, video tutorials, and biweekly platform releases. Active community with engine and tool creator endorsements. |
Written by
the Edgegap Team
