Pricing built for scale
- Per-minute billing
- Consumption-based pricing
- Volume discounts
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Unlimited
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Consumption pricing
Ably's pricing is structured around three key usage metrics. Pay only for what you use. Benefit from volume discounts.
Messages
Messages contain the data that a client is communicating, such as the contents of a chat message.
$2.50
Volume discounts
Channels
Channels are used to route messages from publishers to subscribers. Channels are billed by the minute when actively being used by a connected client.
$1.00
Volume discounts
Connections
Clients establish and maintain a connection to the Ably service, typically over WebSockets.
$1.00
Volume discounts
Consumption costs estimator
Quickly view the cost of using Ably to power popular realtime use cases.
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Monthly estimated consumption costs:
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Messages
Total number of messages sent and received during the live stream.
Events (5) x Attendees (5K) x 5* x (Attendees (5K) x 0.2**) + Events (5) x Attendees (5K) x 5 messages per person
Assumptions: *5 messages sent per person, **20% attendance at any one time
Note: Each message sent is also received by the sender.
Channel mins
Events (5) x Avg duration in hrs (1) x 60 (mins in an hr) x 3*
Assumptions: *3 channels per event
Connection mins
Events (5) x Attendees (5K) x Avg duration in hrs (1) x 60 (mins in an hr) x 0.2*
Assumptions: *20% attendance at any one time
Excludes plan fees
What’s included
Designed for enterprise
When every message counts
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.
Private link
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