If you're looking to build community-driven features that are intuitive and familiar to your users, in order to facilite one-to-one, or many-to-many conversations, then Stream Chat is a compelling option. The plug-and-play nature of Stream Chat, and the many examples provided, allowed us to build a jaw-dropping proof-of-concept in no time at all, and showcase the feasibility of integrating desirable chat capabilities into our app. Finally, Stream Chat stands up to rigorous analysis against its competitors and wins hands down when considering the combination of: scalability, developer experience, customizability / extensibility, security, and content moderation. Finally, the level of support offered by the Stream team has been incredible - this is clearly a company that is playing the long game in terms of building customer relationships. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only major downside of Stream Chat is its cost. Even at the cheapest price point, it is super-expensive, and compromises affordability, especially for small organisations. Without doubt, it is drastically cheaper than building any of the features outright, but there ought to be more flexible and tolerant pricing options for products that are pre-revenue.

A minor gripe is that the strategic relationship between Stream Chat and its sister product Stream Activity Feeds isn't always clear, so makes it difficult to forward plan on the technical roadmap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of integration - Quite easy to integrate stream into your in app messaging platform. There's also good support from the stream team.

Additionally, theres support for a variety of programming languages which makes it easier for developers to use the language they are comfortable with. Highly recommended Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing model is abit too high and there's lack of self-hosting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integration with Stream Chat was easy to do. The provided SDK is excellent for the different platform (web, mobile). The support given by the provider is super fast and very high quality. The platform itself is reliable and no hickup occured since we have started using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platform itself doesn't suffer from any problem. We had some issues with the billing (received twice) but Stream admit immediately the mistake and it didn't have any consequences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The flexibility of Streams APIs is advantageous if you want to send messages programmatically rather than rely on widgets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation is not very clear on some general use cases. An example is that the documentation assumes that messages are sent between a sender and a receiver immediately after a channel is created, this is hardly the case.

The actual flow creates a channel between two persons, saves the Getstream URL, and then uses the saved Getstream URL to find the channel to send a message when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a UI toolkit for flutter out of the box using the stream_chat_flutter library. This makes chatting integration extremely easy.

The examples in the GitHub repo are easy-to-understand works without any extra steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Flutter library is incomplete compared to native Android and iOS libraries missing many features.

Also, the FCM push notification needs service account keys, which is a significant security threat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

well, API is straightforward to integrate. Great work by the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well, nothing as much, but there is always room for improvement. high hopes that a focused team is already working behind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stream Chat enables us to deliver a powerful set of chat features to our customers without having to build and maintain our own chat module. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stream Chat could make customizing the chat experience a bit more "plug and play" but for now support has been responsive in terms of helping us with this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's almost everything helpful. Very responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

not much but the interface for developers can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It worked after half a day and saved month of development. The documentation is quite good if you get stuck the support will help you out even on a maker plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

front end integration could get some more examples, especially for the streams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stream Chat's SDK was helpful in our implementation and provided value to what we were trying to achieve for our business outcome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stream Chat had out-of-the-box features, but when it got to the implementation for the use case, it raised unforeseen challenges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.