Beebotte vs Socket.IO

	Beebotte	Socket.IO
Time to "hello world" Reviewed by 3+ independent developers Ratings were given based on the average amount of time it takes to sign up to a new account and publish the first message.	4 / 5 5 = <30 min 4 = 30 min - 1 h 3 = 1-2 h 2 = 2-4 h 1 = 4+ h View code example	4 / 5 5 = <30 min 4 = 30 min - 1 h 3 = 1-2 h 2 = 2-4 h 1 = 4+ h View code example
Demos / Tutorials A selection of online demos and tutorials so you can test and see the code in action. Explore Ably's tutorials for our pub/sub messaging platform	Quick start guide Connect Sigfox Data to Beebotte Tracking device Geolocation Beebotte View more Beebotte demos & tutorials	Getting started with Socket.IO Whiteboard demo Build a realtime database with Socket.IO and MongoDB
Documentation Reviewed by 3+ independent developers Explore Ably's documentation for our pub/sub messaging platform	4.50 / 5 Getting started guides / 5 Information architecture and developer journey / 5 API reference documentation / 5 Readability, design and navigation / 5 Quality of code / 5 Breadth and quality of tutorials / 5 Beebotte documentation provides a comprehensive set of tutorials and demos for different use cases. There's a quick start guide, an API playground, tutorials, demos, and libraries showing a detailed API reference for each SDK cross-linked to GitHub’s page for quick installation. The information architecture and navigation experience are quite impressive, and most things are explained clearly in the documentation. The quality of the code is pretty great. The readability, design, and navigation are mostly good as well.	4 / 5 Getting started guides / 5 Information architecture and developer journey / 5 API reference documentation / 5 Readability, design and navigation / 5 Quality of code / 5 Breadth and quality of tutorials / 5 "Much like the solution, the documentation is pretty lightweight. You have an excellent getting started guide that requires no prior Socket.IO or Node.js knowledge. There are tens of code snippets throughout the docs, which is fantastic. There are almost no tutorials (not official ones), but you do have a chat and a whiteboard demo that you can grab from GitHub. The quality of writing is good enough. Most of the time, things are clear. Navigating between documentation, demos, and the API reference is quite annoying. They could have done a better job linking these sections and having them displayed in a common ToC. Although lightweight and generally clear, the documentation seems to have some holes in it, based on the number of GitHub and Stack Overflow questions about Socket.IO."
Dashboard or dev console Reviewed by 3+ independent developers Sign up for free and explore Ably's pub/sub messaging platform	5 / 5 Ease of use / 5 Stats and reports / 5 Functionality / 5 Beebotte provides a console (an integrated development interface with a collection of tools) that is intuitive to use. It allows you to write, read, publish, and manage data. It’s very easy to use once you get the hang of it, but you need to successfully register with Beebotte and obtain your API and secret keys in your account setting page to get started. There’s a nice section on the dashboard called Beerules that allows you to create a rule to evaluate messages published into Beebotte. There’s a monthly usage section that displays your daily and monthly (in vs. out) message stats. The console covers the core tools you need to configure, manage, and test your real-time data pipeline, allowing you to subscribe to a channel resource, and publish data. The account usage section provides stats and reports on message usages.	1 / 5 Ease of use / 5 Stats and reports / 5 Functionality / 5 "Socket.IO does not provide a developer console or dashboard."
SDKs Note: Only official SDKs were taken into account. Explore Ably's 25+ SDKs for our pub/sub messaging platform	6 SDKs Including: JavaScript Node.js Python	1 official Socket.IO server implementation (Node.js), and 4 official client implementations (JavaScript, Java, C++, Swift) Note that there are also several community-made server and client implementations in other languages, such as Python, .NET, and Golang.
API structure Reviewed by 3+ independent developers	5 / 5 API consistency across SDKs / 5 Well structured / 5 Intuitive / 5 Simple / 5 The Beebotte APIs are consistent and intuitive to use. The Beebotte REST APIs are available in many programming languages to help you get started, while a JavaScript client library (using WebSocket) allows you to integrate Beebotte with web application with ease. The APIs are well-structured and pretty easy to use once you take your time to go through the API reference.	5 / 5 API consistency across SDKs / 5 Well structured / 5 Intuitive / 5 Simple / 5 "Socket.IO has a simple JavaScript-based API interface that has intuitive naming conventions. The API reference documentation is very detailed, with each resource described in detail, and with numerous code examples throughout. It’s easy to get started with both the Server and the Client APIs."

Beebotte

Socket.IO

Getting started and developer experience

Time to "hello world"

Reviewed by 3+ independent developers

Ratings were given based on the average amount of time it takes to sign up to a new account and publish the first message.

4 / 5

5 = <30 min
4 = 30 min - 1 h
3 = 1-2 h
2 = 2-4 h
1 = 4+ h

View code example

4 / 5

5 = <30 min
4 = 30 min - 1 h
3 = 1-2 h
2 = 2-4 h
1 = 4+ h

View code example

Demos / Tutorials

A selection of online demos and tutorials so you can test and see the code in action.

Explore Ably's tutorials for our pub/sub messaging platform

Quick start guide

Connect Sigfox Data to Beebotte

Documentation

Reviewed by 3+ independent developers

Explore Ably's documentation for our pub/sub messaging platform

4.50 / 5

Getting started guides / 5

Information architecture and developer journey / 5

API reference documentation / 5

Readability, design and navigation / 5

Quality of code / 5

Breadth and quality of tutorials / 5

Beebotte documentation provides a comprehensive set of tutorials and demos for different use cases. There's a quick start guide, an API playground, tutorials, demos, and libraries showing a detailed API reference for each SDK cross-linked to GitHub’s page for quick installation.

The information architecture and navigation experience are quite impressive, and most things are explained clearly in the documentation. The quality of the code is pretty great. The readability, design, and navigation are mostly good as well.

4 / 5

Getting started guides / 5

Information architecture and developer journey / 5

API reference documentation / 5

Readability, design and navigation / 5

Quality of code / 5

Breadth and quality of tutorials / 5

"Much like the solution, the documentation is pretty lightweight. You have an excellent getting started guide that requires no prior Socket.IO or Node.js knowledge. There are tens of code snippets throughout the docs, which is fantastic. There are almost no tutorials (not official ones), but you do have a chat and a whiteboard demo that you can grab from GitHub. The quality of writing is good enough. Most of the time, things are clear. Navigating between documentation, demos, and the API reference is quite annoying. They could have done a better job linking these sections and having them displayed in a common ToC. Although lightweight and generally clear, the documentation seems to have some holes in it, based on the number of GitHub and Stack Overflow questions about Socket.IO."

Dashboard or dev console

Reviewed by 3+ independent developers

5 / 5

Ease of use / 5

Stats and reports / 5

Functionality / 5

Beebotte provides a console (an integrated development interface with a collection of tools) that is intuitive to use. It allows you to write, read, publish, and manage data. It’s very easy to use once you get the hang of it, but you need to successfully register with Beebotte and obtain your API and secret keys in your account setting page to get started. There’s a nice section on the dashboard called Beerules that allows you to create a rule to evaluate messages published into Beebotte. There’s a monthly usage section that displays your daily and monthly (in vs. out) message stats.

The console covers the core tools you need to configure, manage, and test your real-time data pipeline, allowing you to subscribe to a channel resource, and publish data. The account usage section provides stats and reports on message usages.

1 / 5

Ease of use / 5

Stats and reports / 5

Functionality / 5

"Socket.IO does not provide a developer console or dashboard."

SDKs

Note: Only official SDKs were taken into account.

Explore Ably's 25+ SDKs for our pub/sub messaging platform

6 SDKs

Including:

JavaScript
Node.js
Python

1 official Socket.IO server implementation (Node.js), and 4 official client implementations (JavaScript, Java, C++, Swift)

Note that there are also several community-made server and client implementations in other languages, such as Python, .NET, and Golang.

API structure

Reviewed by 3+ independent developers

5 / 5

API consistency across SDKs / 5

Well structured / 5

Intuitive / 5

Simple / 5

The Beebotte APIs are consistent and intuitive to use. The Beebotte REST APIs are available in many programming languages to help you get started, while a JavaScript client library (using WebSocket) allows you to integrate Beebotte with web application with ease. The APIs are well-structured and pretty easy to use once you take your time to go through the API reference.

5 / 5

API consistency across SDKs / 5

Well structured / 5

Intuitive / 5

Simple / 5

"Socket.IO has a simple JavaScript-based API interface that has intuitive naming conventions. The API reference documentation is very detailed, with each resource described in detail, and with numerous code examples throughout. It’s easy to get started with both the Server and the Client APIs."

Beebotte	Socket.IO
// Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Beebotte <[email protected]> // This program is published under the MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // This code uses the Beebotte API, you must have an account. // You can register here: http://beebotte.com/register ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// var mqtt = require('mqtt') client = mqtt.connect('mqtt://mqtt.beebotte.com', //Authenticate with your channel token, {username: 'token:YOUR_CHANNEL_TOKEN', password: ''} //alternatively, you can authenticate with your SECRET KEY //{username: 'YOUR_SECRET_KEY', password: ''} ); client.on('message', function (topic, message) { console.log(topic + ' ' + message); }); client.subscribe('mychannel/myresource'); setInterval(function() { client.publish('mychannel/myresource', 'Hello World'); }, 1000 /* 1 second */);	var app = require('express')(); var http = require('http').Server(app); var io = require('socket.io')(http); app.get('/', function(req, res) { res.sendfile('index.html'); }); //Broadcasting events var clients = 0; io.on('connection', function(socket) { clients++; io.sockets.emit('broadcast',{ description: clients + ' clients connected!'}); socket.on('disconnect', function () { clients--; io.sockets.emit('broadcast',{ description: clients + ' clients connected!'}); }); }); http.listen(3000, function() { console.log('listening on localhost:3000'); }); //Handling broadcast events on the client side <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Hello world</title> </head> <script src = "/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script> <script> var socket = io(); socket.on('broadcast',function(data) { document.body.innerHTML = ''; document.write(data.description); }); </script> <body>Hello world</body> </html>

Beebotte

Socket.IO

"Hello world" code example

// Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Beebotte <[email protected]>
// This program is published under the MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
 
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// This code uses the Beebotte API, you must have an account.
// You can register here: http://beebotte.com/register
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

var mqtt = require('mqtt')

client =  mqtt.connect('mqtt://mqtt.beebotte.com',
  //Authenticate with your channel token, 
  {username: 'token:YOUR_CHANNEL_TOKEN', password: ''} 

  //alternatively, you can authenticate with your SECRET KEY 
  //{username: 'YOUR_SECRET_KEY', password: ''} 
);

client.on('message', function (topic, message) {
  console.log(topic + '   ' + message);
});

client.subscribe('mychannel/myresource');

setInterval(function() {
  client.publish('mychannel/myresource', 'Hello World');
}, 1000 /* 1 second */);

var app = require('express')();
var http = require('http').Server(app);
var io = require('socket.io')(http);

app.get('/', function(req, res) {
   res.sendfile('index.html');
});

//Broadcasting events
var clients = 0;
io.on('connection', function(socket) {
   clients++;
   io.sockets.emit('broadcast',{ description: clients + ' clients connected!'});
   socket.on('disconnect', function () {
      clients--;
      io.sockets.emit('broadcast',{ description: clients + ' clients connected!'});
   });
});

http.listen(3000, function() {
   console.log('listening on localhost:3000');
});

//Handling broadcast events on the client side
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Hello world</title>
   </head>
   <script src = "/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
   <script>
      var socket = io();
      socket.on('broadcast',function(data) {
         document.body.innerHTML = '';
         document.write(data.description);
      });
   </script>
   <body>Hello world</body>
</html>

	Beebotte	Socket.IO
Pub/Sub messaging Pub/Sub is a design pattern that lets any number of publishers (producers) push messages to channels (also known as topics). Multiple subscribers (consumers) can subscribe to a channel to consume published messages. Explore Ably's pub/sub messaging implementation		Limited You can use the rooms feature to broadcast events to a subset of clients, but this applies exclusively to the server-side (i.e. clients don’t have access to the list of rooms it has joined). You can also use a Redis adapter to broadcast events to clients through the Redis pub/sub mechanism.
Message queues A message queue is a form of asynchronous service-to-service communication. Messages are stored on a queue until they are processed. Note that each message is only consumed by one subscriber (consumer). Explore Ably's message queues implementation	Limited Beebotte only stores data of a persistent message into its resources database for future read requests. Beebotte will not store data related to transient messages.
Presence Presence enables you to track the online and offline status of devices and end-users in real time and to store their state. Essential for chat apps and multiplayer games. Explore Ably's presence implementation
Message history Message history provides a means to retrieve previously published messages. For this to be possible, message data must be stored (persisted) somewhere. Explore Ably's message history implementation	Limited Message retention duration is limited to the Beebotte’s plan you choose. The maximum message retention duration for the Beebotte’s XS (free) plan is 3 months, it’s 12 months for the Small plan, while the Medium and Large plans offer unlimited message history.
Connection state recovery (stream resume) In the case of unreliable network conditions, clients may suddenly disconnect.Connection state recovery ensures that when they reconnect, the data stream resumes exactly where it left off. Explore Ably' s connection state recovery implementation
Guaranteed message ordering Ordering ensures that messages are delivered to consumers in the same order that producers publish them. Explore Ably' s guaranteed message ordering implementation
Exactly-once semantics Exactly-once is a system-wide data integrity guarantee that ensures each message is delivered to consumers exactly-once. Explore Ably' s idempotent publishing implementation
Message delta compression Message delta compression enables you to only send the changes from the previous message to subscribers each time there’s an update, instead of the entire message. Useful for use cases where there is a significant degree of similarity between successive messages. Explore Ably' s message delta compression implementation
Native push notifications Native push notifications can be used to deliver messages even when clients are offline. Useful for geolocation updates or news alerts. Explore Ably's push notifications implementation	Limited Beebotte only supports native push notifications via its BeeRule FCM Action
Webhooks Webhooks provide a mechanism to get messages and other types of events (such as clients entering or leaving channels) pushed to your servers over HTTP. Explore Ably's webhooks implementation	Limited You have to set a rule to perform this action (webhook) using Beebotte BeeRules
Serverless functions A serverless function is essentially an isolated, single-purpose piece of code that is only executed when it’ triggered by an event. For example, you can use serverless functions to send a welcome message to clients when they become present on chat channels. Note that serverless functions are usually fully managed by cloud vendors. Explore Ably's serverless functions implementation	Limited Can only trigger serverless functions on IFTTT. Does not support other platforms, such as Google Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda, or Microsoft Azure Functions.
Built-in integrations Which popular services & systems are Beebotte and Socket.IO integrated with? Explore Ably's library of integrations	Webhooks Custom IFTTT Zapier Serverless functions AWS Lambda Cloudflare Workers Google Cloud Functions Microsoft Azure Functions Streaming Apache Kafka Apache Pulsar Amazon Kinesis Amazon SQS RabbitMQ AMQP	Webhooks Custom IFTTT Zapier Serverless functions AWS Lambda Cloudflare Workers Google Cloud Functions Microsoft Azure Functions Streaming Apache Kafka Apache Pulsar Amazon Kinesis Amazon SQS RabbitMQ AMQP
Known limits and constraints Find out practical limits, such as the maximum message size, or the maximum number of concurrent connections. Explore the practical limits of the Ably pub/sub messaging platform	Publisher throughput Unknown Maximum message size 16 KB for Inbound Messages Maximum number of channels Unlimited Maximum number of topics Unknown Maximum number of connections Unknown	Throughput Unknown Maximum message size Unknown, but the default is 1 MB Maximum number of topics N/A Maximum number of concurrent connections Unknown

Beebotte

Socket.IO

Realtime features

Pub/Sub messaging

Pub/Sub is a design pattern that lets any number of publishers (producers) push messages to channels (also known as topics). Multiple subscribers (consumers) can subscribe to a channel to consume published messages.

Explore Ably's pub/sub messaging implementation

Limited

You can use the rooms feature to broadcast events to a subset of clients, but this applies exclusively to the server-side (i.e. clients don’t have access to the list of rooms it has joined).

You can also use a Redis adapter to broadcast events to clients through the Redis pub/sub mechanism.

Message queues

A message queue is a form of asynchronous service-to-service communication. Messages are stored on a queue until they are processed. Note that each message is only consumed by one subscriber (consumer).

Explore Ably's message queues implementation

Limited

Beebotte only stores data of a persistent message into its resources database for future read requests. Beebotte will not store data related to transient messages.

Presence

Presence enables you to track the online and offline status of devices and end-users in real time and to store their state. Essential for chat apps and multiplayer games.

Explore Ably's presence implementation

Message history

Message history provides a means to retrieve previously published messages. For this to be possible, message data must be stored (persisted) somewhere.

Explore Ably's message history implementation

Limited

Message retention duration is limited to the Beebotte’s plan you choose.

The maximum message retention duration for the Beebotte’s XS (free) plan is 3 months, it’s 12 months for the Small plan, while the Medium and Large plans offer unlimited message history.

Connection state recovery (stream resume)

In the case of unreliable network conditions, clients may suddenly disconnect.Connection state recovery ensures that when they reconnect, the data stream resumes exactly where it left off.

Explore Ably' s connection state recovery implementation

Guaranteed message ordering

Ordering ensures that messages are delivered to consumers in the same order that producers publish them.

Explore Ably' s guaranteed message ordering implementation

Exactly-once semantics

Exactly-once is a system-wide data integrity guarantee that ensures each message is delivered to consumers exactly-once.

Explore Ably' s idempotent publishing implementation

Message delta compression

Message delta compression enables you to only send the changes from the previous message to subscribers each time there’s an update, instead of the entire message. Useful for use cases where there is a significant degree of similarity between successive messages.

Explore Ably' s message delta compression implementation

Native push notifications

Native push notifications can be used to deliver messages even when clients are offline. Useful for geolocation updates or news alerts.

Explore Ably's push notifications implementation

Limited

Beebotte only supports native push notifications via its BeeRule FCM Action

Webhooks

Webhooks provide a mechanism to get messages and other types of events (such as clients entering or leaving channels) pushed to your servers over HTTP.

Explore Ably's webhooks implementation

Limited

You have to set a rule to perform this action (webhook) using Beebotte BeeRules

Serverless functions

A serverless function is essentially an isolated, single-purpose piece of code that is only executed when it’ triggered by an event. For example, you can use serverless functions to send a welcome message to clients when they become present on chat channels.

Note that serverless functions are usually fully managed by cloud vendors.

Explore Ably's serverless functions implementation

Limited

Can only trigger serverless functions on IFTTT. Does not support other platforms, such as Google Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda, or Microsoft Azure Functions.

Built-in integrations

Which popular services & systems are Beebotte and Socket.IO integrated with?

Explore Ably's library of integrations

Webhooks

Custom
IFTTT
Zapier

Serverless functions

AWS Lambda
Cloudflare Workers
Google Cloud Functions
Microsoft Azure Functions

Streaming

Apache Kafka
Apache Pulsar
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon SQS
RabbitMQ
AMQP

Webhooks

Custom
IFTTT
Zapier

Serverless functions

AWS Lambda
Cloudflare Workers
Google Cloud Functions
Microsoft Azure Functions

Streaming

Apache Kafka
Apache Pulsar
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon SQS
RabbitMQ
AMQP

Known limits and constraints

Find out practical limits, such as the maximum message size, or the maximum number of concurrent connections.

Explore the practical limits of the Ably pub/sub messaging platform

Publisher throughput

Unknown

Maximum message size

16 KB for Inbound Messages

Maximum number of channels

Unlimited

Maximum number of topics

Unknown

Maximum number of connections

Unknown

Throughput

Unknown

Maximum message size

Unknown, but the default is 1 MB

Maximum number of topics

N/A

Maximum number of concurrent connections

Unknown

Supported development platforms, languages, open protocols and cloud models
Development platforms & operating systems Which popular development platforms and operating systems do Beebotte and Socket.IO support via official SDKs? Explore the development platforms supported by Ably	Android Java / JVM iOS macOS iPadOS tvOS watchOS Mono .NET	Android Java / JVM iOS macOS iPadOS tvOS watchOS Mono .NET
Languages Which popular programming languages do Beebotte and Socket.IO support via offical SDKs? Explore the programming languages supported by Ably	JavaScript Node.js TypeScript Java Objective-C Swift Go PHP Python Ruby Flutter Clojure Scala	JavaScript Node.js TypeScript Java Objective-C Swift Go PHP Python Ruby Flutter Clojure Scala
Open protocols Which popular open protocols do Beebotte and Socket.IO support? Explore the open protocols supported by Ably	WebSocket HTTP AMQP MQTT STOMP SSE Webhooks	WebSocket HTTP AMQP MQTT STOMP SSE Webhooks
Cloud models Which popular cloud models do Beebotte and Socket.IO support?	Self-hosted Cloud-managed Serverless Globally-distributed	Self-hosted Cloud-managed Serverless Globally-distributed

Global and reliable edge service
Edge messaging network with latency-based routing Latency-based routing ensures that clients are always routed to the nearest datacenter and point of presence. Explore Ably's routing mechanism that mitigates network and DNS issues		N/A
Multi-region data replication (message durability) Multi-region data replication (storage) protects against single points of failure and ensures message data durability. Learn how Ably ensures message durability	Unknown	N/A
Uptime SLAs Here’s what the most common SLAs amount to in terms of downtime over a calendar year: 99.999% SLA = 5m 15s downtime per year 99.99% SLA = 52m 35s downtime per year 99.95% SLA = 4h 22m 58s downtime per year 99.9% SLA = 8h 45m 56s downtime per year 99% SLA = 3d 15h 39m 29s downtime per year Source: https://uptime.is/	99.9% uptime	N/A
Quality of Service What QoS guarantees do Beebotte and Socket.IO provide natively? Explore Ably's availability and uptime guarantees for our pub/sub messaging platform	Multi-region data replication (storage) Exactly-once semantics Guaranteed message ordering Connection state recovery (stream resume)	Multi-region data replication (storage) Exactly-once semantics Guaranteed message ordering Connection state recovery (stream resume)

Security
API key authentication The simplest way to authenticate. Involves using private API keys that you can usually create and edit via a dashboard. Recommended to be used server-side, as private API keys shouldn’t be shared with untrusted parties. Explore Ably's implementation of API key authentication		N/A
Token-based authentication Which popular token-based authentication mechanisms do Beebotte and Socket.IO support? Note that token-based authentication is usually the recommended strategy on the client-side as it provides more fine-grained access control and limits the risk of credentials being compromised. Explore Ably's implementation of token-based authentication	Ephemeral tokens JWTs	Ephemeral tokens JWTs
Configurable rules and permissions Which types of configurable rules and permissions do Beebotte and Socket.IO support? Explore Ably's configurable rules and permissions	API keys rules and permissions Operation rules and permissions Admin rights	API keys rules and permissions Operation rules and permissions Admin rights
Message encryption Which types of message encryption do Beebotte and Socket.IO support? Explore Ably's message encryption mechanisms	Encrypted at rest Encrypted in transit Message payload encryption	Encrypted at rest Encrypted in transit Message payload encryption
Formal certifications Which formal certifications are Beebotte and Socket.IO compliant with? Explore Ably's security and compliance for our pub/sub messaging platform	SOC 2 TYPE I SOC 2 Type II HIPAA EU GDPR	SOC 2 TYPE I SOC 2 Type II HIPAA EU GDPR

Pricing & Support
Free package What do the free packages offered by Beebotte and Socket.IO consist of? Explore Ably's free package for our pub/sub messaging platform	Not bad The free plan includes 50,000 daily messages, 5,000 persistent messages per day, unlimited channels, 3 months message history, access to all major features and basic supports, and SSL encryption.	Socket.IO is a free & open-source solution.
Pricing model How are the Beebotte and Socket.IO pricing models calculated? Explore Ably's pricing model for our pub/sub messaging platform	Beebotte pricing model is plan-based and calculated per month. There are three different paid plans: - $10/month for the Small plan: this covers unlimited channels, 200,000 messages per day, 15,000 persistent messages per day, 12 months history, and SSL encryption. - $30/month for the Medium plan: this covers unlimited channels, 1,000,000 messages per day, 50,000 persistent messages per day, unlimited history, and SSL encryption. - $120/month for the Large plan: this covers unlimited channels, 5,000,000 messages per day, 200,000 persistent messages per day, unlimited history, and SSL encryption. Find out more about Beebotte pricing	N/A
Enterprise package What benefits do the Beebotte and Socket.IO enterprise packages offer? Explore Ably's enterprise package for our pub/sub messaging platform	There is no specific Beebotte enterprise package.	N/A
Community Reviewed by 3+ independent developers Explore Ably's community support channel for our pub/sub messaging platform	1 / 5 Presence on multiple channels / 5 Size and activity / 5 Beebotte community is essentially non-existent. There’s a very small number of posts and only one follower on GitHub. The number of repos is very small as is the number of forks and stars. No presence on Slack, Discource, StackOverflow, or Gitter, either.	5 / 5 Presence on multiple channels / 5 Size and activity / 5 "Socket.IO is the most popular open-source WebSocket solution. It has a large and very active community. Client SDKs in several different languages? All of them community-made. Troubleshooting and support questions? The community will sort you out, almost always. As you’d expect, Stack Overflow and GitHub are very busy, with tens of thousands of questions, views, and responses about all things Socket.IO."
Support What types of support options and response times do Beebotte and Socket.IO offer? Explore Ably's support options for our pub/sub messaging platform	General Support Options Email, technical documentation, Community support (LinkedIn or Twitter) Response time < 24 hours for general queries	General support options Technical documentation, Slack, Stack Overflow, GitHub. Enterprise support N/A Response time N/A

Pricing & Support

Free package

What do the free packages offered by Beebotte and Socket.IO consist of?

Explore Ably's free package for our pub/sub messaging platform

Not bad

The free plan includes 50,000 daily messages, 5,000 persistent messages per day, unlimited channels, 3 months message history, access to all major features and basic supports, and SSL encryption.

Socket.IO is a free & open-source solution.

Pricing model

How are the Beebotte and Socket.IO pricing models calculated?

Explore Ably's pricing model for our pub/sub messaging platform

Beebotte pricing model is plan-based and calculated per month. There are three different paid plans:

- $10/month for the Small plan: this covers unlimited channels, 200,000 messages per day, 15,000 persistent messages per day, 12 months history, and SSL encryption.

- $30/month for the Medium plan: this covers unlimited channels, 1,000,000 messages per day, 50,000 persistent messages per day, unlimited history, and SSL encryption.

- $120/month for the Large plan: this covers unlimited channels, 5,000,000 messages per day, 200,000 persistent messages per day, unlimited history, and SSL encryption.

Find out more about Beebotte pricing

N/A

Enterprise package

What benefits do the Beebotte and Socket.IO enterprise packages offer?

Explore Ably's enterprise package for our pub/sub messaging platform

There is no specific Beebotte enterprise package.

N/A

Community

Reviewed by 3+ independent developers

Explore Ably's community support channel for our pub/sub messaging platform

1 / 5

Presence on multiple channels / 5

Size and activity / 5

Beebotte community is essentially non-existent. There’s a very small number of posts and only one follower on GitHub. The number of repos is very small as is the number of forks and stars. No presence on Slack, Discource, StackOverflow, or Gitter, either.

5 / 5

Presence on multiple channels / 5

Size and activity / 5

"Socket.IO is the most popular open-source WebSocket solution. It has a large and very active community. Client SDKs in several different languages? All of them community-made. Troubleshooting and support questions? The community will sort you out, almost always. As you’d expect, Stack Overflow and GitHub are very busy, with tens of thousands of questions, views, and responses about all things Socket.IO."

Support

What types of support options and response times do Beebotte and Socket.IO offer?

Explore Ably's support options for our pub/sub messaging platform

General Support Options

Email, technical documentation, Community support (LinkedIn or Twitter)

Response time

< 24 hours for general queries

General support options

Technical documentation, Slack, Stack Overflow, GitHub.

Enterprise support

N/A

Response time

N/A

Disclaimer: The information presented for Beebotte was last updated on 28 February 2021 and on 7 June 2024 for Socket.IO. It is possible that some details may now be out of date. If you think that’s the case, please let us know so we can update them. In any case, you should not rely solely on the information presented here and must check with each provider before deciding to integrate or buy any of these two solutions.

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