Reach next level fan engagement

Optimize your application for high traffic and realtime interactions to ensure long-lasting fan engagement and a strong ROI.
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Reach next level fan engagement
trusted by brands serious about realtime

Realtime. All the time

Lowest latency on the market, powered by the world’s fastest websocket platform.

Reliable at scale

No scale ceiling. Secure, reliable and fault tolerant with 99.999% uptime SLAs.

Maximize your ROI

Make optimal use of your budget. Engage fans without sacrificing ROI.

Composable realtime

Create the live experiences your customers demand with our fully featured SDKs.

Live streaming chat

Enable realtime interaction on your web or mobile platform that’s capable of handling millions of concurrent users.

  • Enable reactions, show who reacted and a count of each reaction.
  • Show active users or a count of room occupancy.
  • Set user permissions to delete or edit sent messages.
  • Update your UI to indicate whether a message has been read.
  • Moderation (coming soon) - flag messages and take actions like banning a user or rejecting inappropriate messages.
Live streaming chat

Data broadcast

Broadcast the live state of the event to keep fans in sync with the action.

  • Power live data feeds such as sports scores and betting odds.
  • Directly access aggregated data to efficiently display it dashboards, charts, leaderboards or poll results.
  • Ensure fans don’t miss vital information by enabling devices to sync with live state following a network disconnect.
Data broadcast

Push notifications

Notify fans of scores and events updates or send special offers directly to the user’s screen, whether an application is open and running.

  • Deliver cross platform notifications to iOS and Android devices and web browsers with a single request.
  • Send a targeted notification to specific devices for personalized communications.
  • Simultaneously publish notifications to a range of users.
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Collaboration

Engage fans by creating live polls and quizzes, with a host serving them questions and displaying scores in realtime.

  • Customize permissions for the host and the participants.
  • Present live scores based on your custom criteria.
  • Show how many people are playing and who they are.
  • Enable fans to react to key moments, with emojis, to content being live streamed e.g. room reactions and gifting.
Collaboration

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Ably in action

Discover how top brands leverage Ably Pub/Sub to build realtime experiences for a global user base.

Data broadcast

Genius Sports slashes cost and lowers latencies for last-mile live sports data delivery.

600M+

messages a month

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Data broadcast

Chat

Sportsbet relies on Ably to deliver live chat to its ‘Bet With Mates’ customers.

4.5M

messages per day

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Chat

Fan engagement

NASCAR relies on Ably to deliver live experiences for millions of race fans worldwide.

1TB+

data generated per race

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Fan engagement

Powered By

Purpose-built APIs to optimize costs when operating at extreme scale.

Limitless fan-out

Broadcast updates from one to millions of clients, in milliseconds. Ably absorbs very large and unexpected traffic spikes, with autoscaling systems that actively manage capacity. No need to pre-provision on your part.

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Large presence sets and occupancy

Enable a high concurrency of fans to have their online status shared with others in the chat room and for them to be aware of others present, including total occupancy at any given point.

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Subscription filters

Create personalized data streams for large numbers of individual fans or limit clients’ access to different parts of the data, based on specific criteria - helping reduce costs.

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Optimizing costs for extreme concurrent chat and reactions

Our message batching feature minimizes the number of messages the system sends. This is essential for reducing costs and enhancing performance in large-scale, high-throughput applications, like live streaming chat.

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Bandwidth efficient deltas

Benefit from significant bandwidth reduction when broadcasting large data sets using binary delta compression. Only the changes are broadcast.

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Composable realtime

Ably provides a range of application building blocks and integrations that enable developers to create the live experiences users and businesses demand.

Ably Pub/Sub

Flexible APIs and message guarantees for building any realtime interactive experience at serious scale.

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Ably Pub/Sub
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Ably Chat

Rapidly launch the chat features with APIs you’ll love. Optimized to handle massive user loads.

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Ably Chat
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Ably Spaces

Create collaborative environments in a few lines of code, with our purpose-built APIs.

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Ably Spaces
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Ably LiveSync

Seamlessly sync your database and frontend, publishing changes reliably to millions of clients.

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Ably LiveSync
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Ably Asset Tracking

Simple APIs to quickly add realtime asset tracking across last mile logistics.

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Ably Asset Tracking
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Ably LiveObjects

COMING SOON

Realtime sync for application state across multiple users and devices at any scale.

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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.

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

global median latency

19M+

concurrent connections

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.

1B+

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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