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Group chat that powers collaboration, and community

Connect teams, unite communities, and scale conversations with Ably’s Chat SDK - built for fast, reliable group messaging at any scale.
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Group chat features

Interactions. Reactions. All in realtime.

Enable in-app conversations with these group chat essentials.

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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Chat messages

Chat messages

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

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Chat room reactions

Chat room reactions

Share room-wide reactions with counts for each type.

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Typing indicators

Typing indicators

Display typing indicators when chat participants start and stop typing.

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Edit and delete a chat message

Edit and delete a chat message

Edit the contents of a chat message, or enable soft and hard delete of the chat message.

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Moderation

Moderation

Quickly set-up moderation with our Hive integration for both synchronous and asynchronous moderation.

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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

Group chat that makes everyone part of the conversation

B2B collaboration platforms

B2B collaboration platforms

Fuel productive teamwork with realtime messaging for internal comms, project updates, and cross-functional coordination.

Customer communities & forums

Customer communities & forums

Build thriving communities with scalable group chat that powers discussions, support, and shared interests in real time.

Healthcare  & patient support

Healthcare & patient support

Enable secure, HIPAA compliant, realtime discussions among care teams or between patients, in moderated support communities.

Gaming & live digital experiences

Gaming & live digital experiences

Support in-game team chat, party coordination, or global community hubs with ultra-low latency messaging that scales effortlessly with player activity.

E-learning & virtual classrooms

E-learning & virtual classrooms

From study groups to live classroom conversations, keeps messages in sync across devices and participants.

Field operations & logistics teams

Field operations & logistics teams

Keep distributed teams and on-the-ground operators in sync - from delivery fleets to construction crews.

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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