Stream Chat comparisons
Stream Chat is compared head-to-head with Tencent Cloud Chat, CometChat and Ably Chat and more: 7 head-to-heads in Chat APIs, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Stream Chat head-to-head
- Stream Chat vs Tencent Cloud Chat
- Stream Chat vs CometChat
- Stream Chat vs Ably Chat
- Stream Chat vs PrivChat
- Stream Chat vs PubNub Chat
- Stream Chat vs OpenIM
- Stream Chat vs mesibo
Stream Chat vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Presence support | Typing indicators | Push notifications | SDK platforms | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Stream Chat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | React, iOS (Swift), Android, Flutter, React Native, JavaScript, Unity, Unreal, Angular, Node, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, .NET, Go, REST | 9.2 | |
| 1 | Tencent Cloud Chat | Yes | $399/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Web, Flutter, Electron, Unity, React Native, C, C++ | 9.3 |
| 3 | CometChat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | JavaScript, React Native, iOS, Android, Flutter, Ionic/Capacitor | 9.1 | |
| 4 | Ably Chat | Yes | $29/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | JavaScript, React, React Native, Kotlin (Android), Kotlin (JVM), Swift | 9.0 |
| 5 | PrivChat | Yes | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Web, Android, iOS, desktop, Cocos/game engines | 8.9 |
| 6 | PubNub Chat | Yes | $98/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | JavaScript, Kotlin, Swift, Unity, Unreal | 8.8 |
| 7 | OpenIM | Yes | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Web, iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, uni-app, Electron, C/C++, Unity | 8.7 |
| 8 | mesibo | Yes | $49/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Android, iOS, Flutter, JavaScript, Python, C++, Linux, macOS, Windows, Raspberry Pi, ARM64 | 8.6 |
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