| Price from | $29/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 0 |
| Spec score · Chat APIs | 8.7 (#1) | 7.9 (#13) |
| Spec score · Chat Api | 8.7 (#1) | 8.0 (#8) |
| Integrations | Ably lists integrations including AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloudflare Workers, Google Cloud Functions, Kafka, Zapier, and Terraform. | The file-upload example uses Qiniu or Alibaba Cloud OSS and says to configure the cloud-storage type in the Admin Console. |
| Product | Ably Chat is a chat API and SDK platform for building realtime chat applications at scale. | JuggleIM is an instant-messaging system that offers public-cloud and private-cloud deployments with the same IM capabilities. |
| Security | Ably states that client-to-server communication is secured by TLS by default and that optional private-key encryption uses 256-bit AES. | Server API requests use authentication headers, including app keys and signatures, as described in the API documentation. |
