Verified User in Music
UM
Verified User in Music
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great support, excellent documentation, easy to integrate with!"
5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

The Ably team has been very helpful since the start of our project which gives our users a real-time interactive experience with features such as presence, chat, and ability for users to join a virtual stage. The ably documentation has been easy to find what we need with a lot of useful examples to get us started with integrating with Ably. The dev console has also been helpful with troubleshooting during our build phases. Moreover, the Ably team has been super responsive and quick to answer any questions we have about our tech solutions with Ably. They have guided us effectively. I’m also very impressed at how Ryan Landes has been effective at facilitating every discussion and quick to setup meetings with the right people to help us move quickly. I have nothing but great things to say about our experience with Ably! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

Haven't encountered any significant issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Incredibly easy to get started!"
5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

It's inexpensive and I was able to get it started.

I had an issue (user error) in my implementation that blew up my free-tier quota (100% my fault) and Ably customer support were amazing at resolving my issues.

Someone got on live chat with me at 11PM, did not expect that! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

Can't say much.

Maybe the documentation could include more examples that i could copy paste into my code and tweak it.. but really only if I'm nitpicking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

WW
Williams W.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"I am 100% satisfied with Ably"
5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

All of Ably's services are excellent, from customer service to product performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

So far it's been perfect. I hope it continues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain
EL
Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to use and stable like a rock"
5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

Several years ago we needed a way to deliver updates in real time to our frontend. We built it in days thanks to Ably Realtime. Since then we scaled our usage by orders of magnitude and Ably remained impressively stable and awlays delivered high performances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

It's easy to throw more workloads at Ably but you need to keep an eye on your budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Entertainment
UE
Verified User in Entertainment
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Stable, scalable, very easy to use"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

Ably is a solid platform. It's stable, scalable, very easy to use, well documented, and it evolves constantly. The console application makes setting up integrations to cloud services very easy (we use AWS). Client libraries are performant, and we didn’t have any problems with them (we used JS/Java/Go clients). We didn’t use much customer support, but when we did, they were responsive, and helped us solve issues with ease.

We used the platform often for communcation between our services and a client facing app, and it served that purpose well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

We didn't encounter any significat problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zaven T.
ZT
Zaven T.
Director of Business Development
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Overall great experience!"
5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

Very friendly and reliable team, with a great quality of real-time capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

So far everything has been smooth. So, no negative experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
UE
Verified User in Education Management
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great product that works well and is easy to use."
5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

Implementing ably was easy and straighforward. There is plenty of documentation, and everything works exactly as described. The ably team has also been great about keeping in touch to make sure they are meeing our business needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

As of now, I haven't found anything to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Human Resources
UH
Verified User in Human Resources
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Ably support is real support!"
5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

Thanks to Ably, the real-time functionality of our application is very reliable. However, a small oversight on our part caused a huge problem for our users. Ably's support was there to help us immediately until the problem was solved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

Well, there's nothing to dislike about Ably as far as I'm concerned. Maybe the code examples in the docs could be more extensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Broadcast Media
UB
Verified User in Broadcast Media
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A lot of implementation effort saved by Ably Spaces SDK"
5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

We're using Spaces SDK for our internal article editor. The SDK covers exactly our needs and was very simple to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

Before the Spaces SDK, it was quite hard to implement a locking mechanism because this is one of the things which look quite easy but are hard. So my only concern is that there was no locking example or something similar before Spaces SDK :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael M.
MM
Michael M.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great realtime pubsub platform"
5/5
What do you like best about Ably Realtime?

The breadth of platform/client support and the extensive technogy background of the realtime platform. We're in production with Ably since 3 years and it has performed like a champ ever since. Support and tech assistance were great too in cases where we needed them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ably Realtime?

Metering by channels made us architect towards a model with the least channels used, rather than the most optimal number of channels for publishers/subscribers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.