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Seamless one-to-one live chat, no matter the scale

From answering urgent support queries to delivering vital care updates, make sure every message is delivered, exactly once and in order - with Ably’s Chat SDK.
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Customer service chat features

Interactions. Reactions. All in realtime

Power meaningful, realtime conversations with Ably Chat.

Data integrity guarantees

Data integrity guarantees

Messages are delivered exactly once and in the correct order. No duplicates, no missing data.

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Connection state and recovery

Connection state and recovery

Automatically re-establish failed connections and replay missed messages.

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Chat messages

Chat messages

Implement one-to-one chats where users can send, receive, edit and delete messages.

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Typing indicators

Typing indicators

Display typing indicators when chat participants start and stop typing.

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Online status

Online status

Update your UI according to a user’s realtime presence state.

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Read receipts

Read receipts

COMING SOON

Update your UI to indicate whether a message has been read.

talking your language

Choose your platform

Ably's Chat SDKs provide a consistent and idiomatic API across a variety of supported platforms.

Javascript
React
Swift
Kotlin

import * as Ably from "ably";
import { ChatClient, MessageEvent } from "@ably/chat";

// Initialize Ably Realtime client
const ablyClient = new Ably.Realtime({
  key: "<API_KEY>",
  clientId: "ably-chat",
});

// Create an Ably Chat client instance
const chatClient = new ChatClient(ablyClient);

// Get or create a chat room
const room = await chatClient.rooms.get("my-chat-room");

// Subscribe to incoming messages
room.messages.subscribe((event: MessageEvent) => {
  console.log("Received message:", event.message.text);
});

// Attach to the room to start receiving messages
await room.attach();

// Send a message
await room.messages.send({ text: "Hello, World!" });

applications

1:1 chat for exceptional service and care

Telehealth & patient care

Telehealth & patient care

Build secure, HIPAA-compliant messaging systems that connect patients and healthcare providers in realtime.

Customer support & service

Customer support & service

Deliver fast, reliable customer support chat that syncs messages instantly, keeps latency low, and handles peak traffic.

E-commerce & retail

E-commerce & retail

Enable personal shopping assistance and live sales guidance - boosting conversions through timely, tailored interactions.

Online banking & finance

Online banking & finance

One-to-one messaging for banking apps, guaranteeing clients receive instant support and transaction alerts with total data integrity.

Education & online tutoring

Education & online tutoring

Support realtime, one-on-one interactions between students and tutors - perfect for live help, mentoring, or assessments.

Logistics & field operations

Logistics & field operations

Ensure instructions, location-based alerts, and confirmations are delivered instantly and in order, no matter the network environment.

integrate with other services

Easy integration, whatever your stack

Connect with pre-built integrations for Webhooks, Lambdas, databases, cloud services, observability tools and stream processors.

Amazon Lambda functions

Azure functions

Cloudflare Workers

Google Cloud functions

AMQP

Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Lambda functions

Azure functions

Cloudflare Workers

Google Cloud functions

AMQP

Amazon Kinesis

Amazon SQS

Kafka

IFTTT

Zapier

Apache Pulsar

Terraform

Amazon SQS

Kafka

IFTTT

Zapier

Apache Pulsar

Terraform

Pricing built for scale

Ably not only enables you to make the most of your budget, but also enjoy greater flexibility, faster build times and a quicker ROI.

Usage-based pricing

With billing by-the-minute, our pricing gives you granular control over your costs.

Volume discounts

The more you use the platform, the lower your overall cost becomes.

Full transparency

We bill for connections, messages and channels. Nothing more.

Cost optimization

We maximize your ROI by actively designing platform features targeted at reducing consumption.

When every message counts

Designed for enterprise

Get unmatched expertise paired with a host of value-adding options to keep your business-critical applications running at optimal performance.

HIPAA BAA

Compliance for your healthcare solution.

Premium support

24x7 tech support and incident management with sub 15 mins response times.

Firehose integrations

Available for Kafka, Pulsar and Kinesis.

Architectural guidance

Expert advice on how to balance cost and user-experience for your use-cases.

Dedicated cluster

Dedicated capacity in cloud infrastructure including networking resources and servers.

99.999% uptime

Uptime guarantee with SLA.

US/EU routing of data

Choose where your data is stored.

CNAME

Custom CNAME endpoints.

SSO and SCIM provisioning

Choose your own authentication provider.

SOCII

Information security compliance

Limitless capacity

Scale to billions.

Enterprise observability and analytics

Get the data and insights you need, including access to our Datadog integration.

engineered to perform

The definitive realtime experience platform of the internet

Performance

We focus on predictability of latencies to provide certainty in uncertain operating conditions.

<50ms

median roundtrip latency

1B+

connections opened per day

Reliability

Designed to preserve continuity of service we ensure sufficient redundancy at a regional and global level.

5+ years

since last outage

99.999999%

message survivability

Scale

Elastic and highly-available. Ably is built to handle extreme scale and high concurrent connections.

2B+

connected devices per month

2T+

API operations per month

Network

Truly distributed global edge network. Delivers a globally consistent experience to users.

635

points of presence

11

globally distributed regions

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