Plenty of reasons to choose Ably
All the features you'd expect
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Publish/Subscribe messaging
Broadcast to millions of users instantaneously -
Presence and device awareness
Be notified when devices become present or leave -
Message history
Store messages and presence events on our servers -
Token and key based access control
Secure and simple ways to manage access to your realtime data -
End-to-end encryption
TLS and 256-bit AES encryption ensures your data is secure in transit and rest -
Consistent client libraries
API consistent client libraries for every popular development platform -
Fast reliable platform
A global platform that delivers in milliseconds under any load, all the time
Plus features unique to Ably
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Message Queues and Ably Reactor
A scalable service to trigger events and stream data from Ably's pub/sub platform -
Connection state recovery
Our platform ensures your customers receive their data, even if they become disconnected -
Message delivery guarantee
We always deliver, 100% of the time -
Reliable message ordering
When ordering matters, we have you covered -
100% uptime SLA on all paid packages
We're so confident we'll refund when we're down -
Protocol agnostic
Zero lock-in. Choose the right protocol for the job such as IoT-ready MQTT -
Ease migration to Ably
Our protocol adapters make that possible
We're also working on some secret stuff coming soon...