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.
- Flag messages and take actions like banning a user or rejecting inappropriate messages.
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.
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.
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.
customer stories
Ably in action
Unveiling the secrets. 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
Chat
Sportsbet relies on Ably to deliver live chat to its ‘Bet With Mates’ customers.
4.5M
messages per day
Fan engagement
NASCAR relies on Ably to deliver live experiences for millions of race fans worldwide.
1TB+
data generated per race
Get unmatched expertise paired with a host of value-adding options to keep your business-critical applications running at optimal performance.
Are you ready to unlock the potential of scalable, affordable fan experiences?
Ably CEO, Matt O’Riordan shares insights on how to navigate the technical challenges of building scalable fan experiences without sacrificing ROI.
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A product for every realtime experience
Flexible APIs and message guarantees for building any realtime interactive experience at serious scale.
Rapidly launch the chat features with APIs you’ll love. Optimized to handle massive user loads.
Drop-in realtime that keeps every agentic session continuous, controllable and always in sync.
Realtime sync for application state across multiple users and devices at any scale.
Create collaborative environments in a few lines of code, with our purpose-built APIs.
Seamlessly sync your database and frontend, publishing changes reliably to millions of clients.
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.
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.
5+ 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