Chat building blocks
Interactions. Reactions. All in realtime
Engage fans with these live streaming chat essentials.

Chat rooms
Implement high-concurrency global chat rooms where users can send, receive, edit and delete messages.
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Polls & quizzes
Engage participants with live polls and quizzes embedded in the chat experience.
languages & frameworks
Start fast with SDKs built for your favorite tools
Providing developers with a consistent and idiomatic API across popular platforms.
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
Livestream chat for in the moment engagement

Sports games
Let fans celebrate, debate, and react in realtime as the action unfolds.

Concerts & festivals
Connect fans worldwide with live reactions and backstage Q&As.

Virtual events & conferences
Keep audiences engaged with live Q&A, polls, and reactions.

Live shopping & auctions
Drive urgency and sales with interactive chat and instant updates.

Gaming & esports
Enable seamless player and audience interaction during live tournaments.

Breaking news & political debates
Foster discussion and audience participation as events happen.
integrations
Easy integration, whatever your stack
Connect with pre-built integrations for Webhooks, Lambdas, databases, cloud services, observability tools and stream processors.
Pricing built for scale
Usage-based pricing
Granular control over your costs with per-minute billing or MAU pricing options.
Volume discounts
The more you use the platform, the lower the consumption rates become.
Cost optimization
Maximize your ROI with platform features designed to reduce consumption.
Get unmatched expertise paired with a host of value-adding options to keep your business-critical applications running at optimal performance.
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.
6.5ms
message delivery latency
30B+
connections opened monthly
Reliability
Designed to preserve continuity of service we ensure sufficient redundancy at a regional and global level.
7+ years
of 100% uptime
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.
700+
points of presence
11
globally distributed regions





