Ship the chat features your users need with APIs you'll love.
Chat APIs for all kinds of user interactions from global livestreams to customer support, or social chats embedded within your apps. Build in days. Roll-out at scale.
CUSTOMERS DELIVERING REALTIME CHAT EXPERIENCES WITH ABLY
A leading live streaming platform enabling millions of fans to chat and react together in realtime.
1 million live chats supported across 86,000 businesses and their customers.
Sportsbet relies on Ably to deliver live chat to its 2 million+ ‘Bet With Mates’ customers.
When chat is critical, developers choose Ably
Developer velocity - Create custom chat experiences fast with our chat-specific SDK and APIs. Combine with our products for the best realtime interactions.
Cost optimizations - Efficient APIs that minimize unnecessary resource consumption.
Pricing that scales - Optimize your budget with hourly and usage-based packages built for scale and high user concurrency.
Guaranteed performance - Powered by the largest Websockets platform on earth. Secure, reliable and fault tolerant with 99.999% uptime SLAs and data delivery guarantees.
All the features you need to build chat apps
Support different kinds of messaging with flexible chat rooms - from 1:1 to group chats.
Show active avatars with presence or simply a count of the online members in a room with occupancy.
Let users react to key moments in the chat room. Server-side batching and aggregated counts enable even better performance at scale.
Display typing indicators when chat participants start and stop typing.
Let users with the right permissions delete or edit previously sent messages.
Let users react to specific chat messages and show who reacted to which message or a count of each reaction type.
Automatically receive delivery receipts and set up read receipts triggered by user actions indicating message read status.
Automatically screen for profanities before broadcasting or let a human moderator flag or edit messages.
Store chat messages with Ably for 30 days by default and longer upon request.
Integrations, whatever your stack
From Webhooks to Lambdas to stream processors like Kafka, Ably has built integrations for a range of protocols, frameworks, databases and cloud services.
Increase developer productivity and shorten delivery timelines. Fast track integration with your current and future tech stack.
Composable realtime experiences
Combine our products to create any experience you want. Your vision. Your approach.
Ably Chat: Deliver highly reliable chat experiences at scale
Ably Pub/Sub: Low-level APIs to build any realtime experiences at scale
Ably LiveObjects: Synchronized application state and live storage
Ably LiveSync: Sync database changes with frontend clients
Ably Spaces: Create multi-user environments
Ably Asset Tracking: Asset tracking across last mile logistics
The definitive realtime experience platform of the internet
Performance - We focus on predictability of latencies to provide certainty in uncertain operating conditions.
Reliability - Designed to preserve continuity of service we ensure sufficient redundancy at a regional and global level.
Scale - Elastic and highly-available, Ably is built to handle extreme scale and high concurrent connections.
Network - Truly distributed global edge network. Delivers a globally consistent experience to users.
Ably is one of the key technologies that underpins our business. Its realtime experience infrastructure seamlessly supports HubSpot's entire realtime needs, helping us to meet our technical, business, and product development requirements. With Ably, we have innovated and taken new products to market much faster while significantly reducing our operational engineering overhead.
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Companies including HubSpot and SportsBet are using our live chat solution. Read the docs to see how we can support your chat use case.
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