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Comparison

Ably vs Supabase Realtime

On the evidence we track, Ably leads this comparison with a composite score of 74/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Ably74
Supabase Realtime51
Score
Vioscale score
Ably74 / 100medium · 61%updating
Supabase Realtime51 / 100low · 13%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Ably✓
Supabase Realtime–
Model
Ablyfreemium
Supabase Realtimecommercial
Price level
Ablymid
Supabase Realtime–
Starting price
Ably$29
Supabase Realtime–
Transparent
Ably✓
Supabase Realtime–
Integrations
Count
Ably17
Supabase Realtime–
Security
Gdpr
Ably✓
Supabase Realtime–
Hipaa
Ably✓
Supabase Realtime–
Iso27001
Ably–
Supabase Realtime✓
Soc2
Ably✓
Supabase Realtime✓
Reliability
Sla pct
Ably99.999
Supabase Realtime–
Status page
Ably✓
Supabase Realtime–
Market
Availability

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for realtime messaging infra. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Presence
Ably-
Supabase Realtime✓
Message history replay
Ably-
Supabase Realtime-
Delivery guarantee
Ably-
Supabase Realtime-
Global edge network
Ably-
Supabase Realtime-
Scaling model
Ably-
Supabase Realtime-
Offline reconnect catchup
Ably-
Supabase Realtime-
Push notification bridge
Ably-
Supabase Realtime-
Auth model
Ably-
Supabase Realtime-
Self hostable
Ably-
Supabase Realtime-
Mqtt support
Ably-
Supabase Realtime-
Deployment
Ably-
Supabase RealtimeCloud hosted
Pricing model
Ably-
Supabase Realtime-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Ably

Leader

A distributed messaging platform for building interactive features like chat, notifications, and collaboration. Provides fault-tolerant message delivery with guaranteed ordering, automatic network recovery, and multi-region redundancy.

Independently observed

Supabase Realtime

A real-time service that synchronizes application state across clients, enabling database change notifications, user presence tracking, and low-latency message broadcasting for collaborative applications.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Ably

Leader
from $29/moHybridFree tier

Free tier available. Paid plans start at $29/month with per-million message and channel minute billing.

  • FreeFree
    • All Ably products included
    • Community and email support
    • No commitment
  • Standard$29/month plus usage charges
    • 1 day email support SLA
  • Pro$399/month plus usage charges
    • 4 hour email support SLA
    • Datadog lite monitoring
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • 24/7 mission critical support
    • 99.999% uptime SLA
    • Committed use discounts
    • Datadog integration
    • SSO and SCIM
    • +4 more
as of verify ↗

Supabase Realtime

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Ably✓
Supabase Realtime✓
iOS
Ably✓
Supabase Realtime✗
Android
Ably✓
Supabase Realtime✗
macOS
Ably✓
Supabase Realtime✗
Windows
Ably✓
Supabase Realtime✗
Linux
Ably✓
Supabase Realtime✗
CLI
Ably✓
Supabase Realtime✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Ably✓
Supabase Realtime✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Ably

Leader
17 total
  • AWS Lambda
  • Microsoft Azure Functions
  • Google Cloud Functions
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • AWS Kinesis
  • Kafka
  • RabbitMQ
  • AMQP
  • AWS SQS
  • Pulsar
  • Zapier
  • IFTTT
  • Datadog
  • BigQuery
  • Terraform
  • Netlify
  • HTTP Webhooks
Independently observed

Supabase Realtime

Not documented yet.

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.