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    Ably Realtime

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    Ably is the definitive realtime experience platform. We power more WebSocket connections than any other pub/sub platform, serving over a billion devices monthly. Businesses trust us with their critical applications like chat, notifications and broadcast - reliably, securely and at serious scale.

    Overview

    Ably is the definitive realtime experience platform. We power more WebSocket connections than any other pub/sub platform, serving over a billion devices monthly. Businesses like HubSpot, NASCAR and Webflow trust us to power their critical applications - reliably, securely and at serious scale.

    Ably products place composable realtime in the hands of developers. Simple APIs and SDKs for every tech stack, enable the creation of a host of live experiences - including chat, collaboration, notifications, broadcast and fan engagement. All powered by our scalable infrastructure.

    Highlights

    • Over 1.5B connected devices and 2T+ API operations handled each month. Our infrastructure is elastic, highly-available, and built to handle extreme scale.
    • Data streamed at sub-50ms global median latencies providing predictability in uncertain operating conditions.
    • 5+ years since our last outage and 99.999999% message survivability. Ably ensures redundancy at a regional and global level, to preserve continuity of service.

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    Pricing is based on contract duration. You pay upfront or in installments according to your contract terms with the vendor. This entitles you to a specified quantity of use for the contract duration. If you choose not to renew or replace your contract before it ends, access to these entitlements will expire.

    1-month contract (6)

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    Dimension
    Description
    Cost/month
    Bootstrap
    100 connections & channels, 3 mil msgs/month, 16KiB max msg size
    $0.00
    Micro
    500 connections & channels, 10 mil msgs/month, 64KiB max msg size
    $55.00
    Small
    1,000 connections & channels, 30 mil msgs/month, 64KiB max msg size
    $89.00
    Medium
    2,500 connections & channels, 100 mil msgs/month, 64KiB max msg size
    $199.00
    Large connections+
    25,000 connections & channels, 200 mil msgs/month, 64KiB max msg size
    $799.00
    Large messages+
    10,000 connections & channels, 600 mil msgs/month, 64KiB max msg size
    $999.00

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    Human Resources

    We use Ably Realtime for all of our all of our WebSocket needs

    Reviewed on Jan 27, 2025
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Ease of integration, reliability, and great support.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    Had to get the quotas correct for our usage which took some tweaking, but after that, it was smooth sailing.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Ably's WebSocket support is top notch and allows us to focus on solving the business needs instead of maintaining and scaling a WebSocket layer in our infrastructure.
    Events Services

    It just works

    Reviewed on Jan 21, 2025
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Ably makes realtime messaging really easy. Building and hosting this ourselves (across the globe) would be a nightmare.

    Uptime has been almost 100% since we started using Ably in 2016.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    It's not exactly dirt-cheap, but I guess that's the price to pay for 100s of millions of messages we need to send every month.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Real-time messaging without having to build anything
    Shardool D.

    Engineering Manger

    Reviewed on Jan 15, 2025
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Seamless way in which it handles scale. We have a lot of spiky request but the reliability of Ably is what sets them apart.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    Overall the cost factor is a bit for us considering we are startup in growing face but the overal experience makes it worth it.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    We use ably to help restaurants stay on top of their online orders received from various food aggregators.
    Daniel B.

    Excellent performance, feature set, value, and developer support

    Reviewed on Jan 07, 2025
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Our product provides real-time reproduction of keystrokes from one client's keyboard to the displays of all others. For our end-users, who rely on our product as their primary means of communication on a continual basis, the most important feature of Ably is its incredible speed and reliability across many geographies. For our developers, the most important feature of Ably has been its ease of integration into many mobile platforms and servers (iOS, web, linux) using many different programming languages (Swift, Javascript, Go).

    The Ably SDKs are well documented and easy to use, and the implementation behaves exactly as expected from the docs. We have been delighted with the support provided by the Ably team, who are available seemingly day and night. And the few times we've had questions in their off hours, the Ably community on Discord has been very helpful.

    Last but certainly not least, we were able to develop our entire app and test it with users in production environments before we ever committed to a paid contract with Ably. This allowed us to fully explore the platform without the time pressure of a "free trial period." As an open-source provider on a shoestring budget, this set Ably well apart from other providers we looked at.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    Our only complaint has been the lack of a comprehensive glossary/index to all the SDK docs. There is an incredible wealth of documentation available, but because of the specialized vocabulary, it's not always easy to know what to search for. Luckily, the Ably support team - which chats with you in real time when you submit a question - is always able to point you in the right direction.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Our product services the non-verbal community, enabling users who can't speak to participate in spoken conversations by typing their part and having their typing show up in real time on the devices of speaking participants. Our most critical business need is for every single keystroke to appear instantly (and reliably) on the screens of multiple participants spread over many geographies. Ably excels at this kind of realtime delivery of small packets of information. Without this speed and reliability, our users could not communicate effectively.
    Alexander K.

    An awesome technolgy which help us to connect to our user.

    Reviewed on Jan 05, 2025
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    It has a great feature that makes it easier for us to send real-time messages and stay connected to specific users without conflicting with other customers. Ably also provides support for multiple programming languages, making it easy to use both on the backend server and in frontend applications. Additionally, Ably has a responsive customer service team that helps us with support and answers any questions when we encounter issues.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    One aspect I think will be helpful for us in the future is the reporting feature, which allows us to see if messages have been delivered to a specific channel in real time. Since, sometimes it's struggle to make sure if all the message has been delivered properly from the server into the front end.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Maintaining communication between the frontend and backend is a crucial requirement, and Ably helps us achieve that. It provides an easy way to send messages to the frontend, specifically targeting certain users. Additionally, Ably supports sending push notifications, which are compatible with both Android and iOS platforms.
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