Ably

What is Ably?

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.

Key Capabilities

Ably Pub/Sub provides real-time messaging APIs and message-delivery guarantees for interactive applications.
Ably Chat provides APIs for adding chat features to applications.
Ably AI Transport maintains continuous, controllable sessions for AI-agent experiences.
Ably LiveObjects synchronizes application state across users and devices.
Ably Spaces provides APIs for collaborative environments.
Ably LiveSync publishes database changes to connected frontend clients.
Supports integrations with webhooks, serverless functions, databases, cloud services, observability tools, and stream processors.

Audience & Use Cases

Ably is intended for development and product teams building real-time features at scale. It supports live chat, collaborative workspaces, dashboards, alerts, fan engagement, live commentary, operational updates, customer-support experiences, telehealth messaging, financial-data updates, and synchronized AI-agent sessions.

Technical Specifications

Ably provides SDKs for JavaScript, React, Python, Java, .NET, Ruby, Flutter, Objective-C, Swift, PHP, Go, and C#. It integrates with services and tools including AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloudflare Workers, Google Cloud Functions, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS, Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, AMQP, Terraform, Zapier, and IFTTT. The platform operates through a globally distributed edge network and supports enterprise capabilities including SSO, SCIM provisioning, data-routing options, observability, dedicated clusters, and HIPAA BAA support.