Ably vs. IBM Confluent

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Ably	N/A	N/A	Ably is a real-time application infrastructure platform that enables applications, devices, and AI agents to exchange messages and synchronize state over persistent connections. Its APIs and SDKs support publish-subscribe messaging, chat, collaborative features, database-to-client synchronization, and continuous agent sessions.	N/A
IBM Confluent	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	IBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments.	$385 per month

Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/hour), networking ($/GB), and storage ($/GB-hour). Connect: Use of connectors is billed based on throughput ($/GB) and a task base price ($/task/hour). Process: Use of stream processing with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is calculated based on CFUs ($/minute). Govern: Use of Stream Governance is billed based on environment ($/hour). Confluent storage and throughput is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB). Please also note that all prices are stated in United States Dollars unless specifically stated otherwise. All billing computations are conducted in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Ably	IBM Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	Ably No answers on this topic	IBM If you have a need to stream data, real time or segmented structured data then Confluent is a great platform to do so with. You won't run into packet transfer size limitations that other platforms have. Flexibility in on-prem, cloud, and managed cloud offerings makes it very flexible no matter how you choose to implement. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	Ably No answers on this topic	IBM Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Cons	Ably No answers on this topic	IBM Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Support Rating	Ably No answers on this topic	IBM The support from the Confluent platform is great and satisfying. We have been working with Confluent for more than a year now. They sent out resident architects to help us set up Confluent cluster on our cloud and help us troubleshoot problems we have encountered. Overall, it has been a great experience working with the Confluent Platform. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Ably No answers on this topic	IBM For our use case it was very important that the technology we were working with fit into our Azure architecture, and met our data processing size requirements to stream data within certain SLAs. Confluent more than met our performance requirements and compared to the others scale options and cost to run it was more than financially viable as a platform solution to our global operations. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	Ably No answers on this topic	IBM It enables us to develop event driven application. It increases our ability to handle streaming data. It reduces latency of communication. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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