AblySpaces
Seamlessly add collaborative features into your product, with our in-app collaboration SDK.
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550B+
messages per month
2B+
connected devices per month
7+ years
of 100% uptime
Purpose-built APIs
The only product with purpose-built, realtime collaboration APIs for adding avatar stacks, member location, live cursors, and component locking.
Developer velocity
Achieve a quicker time to market with our React Hooks and starter kits. Combine with our other products to deliver the richest user experience.
High performing
Powered by our market-proven, realtime infrastructure that’s built for reliability at scale, backed by five nines SLAs and messaging guarantees.
features
Show, share, move, lock. All in realtime.
The essential feature set for building large scale collaborative applications - explore the docs to see what’s possible
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Avatar stack
A visual representation of a user’s presence - showing them as online and connected.
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Live cursors
The pointer location of members in a virtual space showing what they are looking at.
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Member location
The live location of a user within the app - page, cell, slide, block or anything else that makes sense for your application.
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Component locking
Avoid confusion by letting members of a virtual space lock specific parts of your app to edit without blocking overall collaboration.
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Avatar stack
A visual representation of a user’s presence - showing them as online and connected.
View docs
Live cursors
The pointer location of members in a virtual space showing what they are looking at.
View docs
Member location
The live location of a user within the app - page, cell, slide, block or anything else that makes sense for your application.
View docs
Component locking
Avoid confusion by letting members of a virtual space lock specific parts of your app to edit without blocking overall collaboration.
View docs"Ably is now a business-critical part of our organisation-wide infrastructure."
Max Freiert
Product Group Lead

"With Ably, we delivered a high quality outcome in an impressive timeframe."
Andy Camera
Head of Technology (C2C)

"Partnering with Ably was a game-changer…ensuring a top-tier experience for our users."
Andy Tseng
Senior Engineering Director

choose your platform
Crafted SDKs for popular platforms
Ably's SDKs provide a consistent and idiomatic API across a variety of supported platforms.
JavaScript
React
Python
Java
.NET
Ruby
Flutter
Obj-C
Swift
PHP
Go
C#.NET
integrate with other services
Easy integration, whatever your stack
Connect with pre-built integrations for Webhooks, Lambdas, databases, cloud services, observability tools and stream processors.
Amazon Lambda functions
Azure functions
Cloudflare Workers
Google Cloud functions
AMQP
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon SQS
Kafka
IFTTT
Zapier
Apache Pulsar
Terraform
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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.
Ably for Enterprise
Get unmatched expertise paired with a host of value-adding options to keep your business-critical applications running at optimal performance.
Premium support24x7 support and incident management
HIPAA BAACompliance for your healthcare solution.
SOCII compliantInformation security taken care of.
99.999% uptime
CNAME
Limitless capacity
Firehose integrations
Dedicated cluster
SSO and SCIM provisioning
Architectural guidance
US/EU routing of data
Enterprise observability and analytics
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.
7+ 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