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Ably vs ImageKit comparison

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Arctera Insight Platform
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Average Rating
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Number of Reviews
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Data Governance (61st), Compliance Management (31st)
Ably
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
4
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AWS Marketplace (35th)
ImageKit
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
AWS Marketplace (91st)
 

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Uday Nagpure  - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at Zinsat Technologies
Reduced manual work and built reliable real-time collaboration with serverless messaging
I love Ably for its advanced pub/sub messaging capabilities, which help us with messaging Delta Compression, allowing us to send only changes from previous messages instead of entire payloads every time. For example, if I have to say 'hi', instead of sending the whole payload, it only sends the change in the current payload, reducing bandwidth consumption and enabling high-frequency data streaming. This major change has made our clients really happy as they receive notifications and messages without latency. Additionally, if a client goes offline, Ably stores messages in history for up to 72 hours, allowing clients to query history and catch up on missed events, ensuring complete stream continuity. It also supports multi-protocol, using WebSockets and gracefully falling back to server-sent events and long polling as needed, including support for MQTT and IoT devices along with pub/sub control for easy migration.I appreciate the serverless integration that has the integrated native web hook, instantly triggering serverless functions such as AWS Lambda and Azure Function when specific real-time events occur. It also allows Kafka Connector for seamless ingestion of messages from Kafka topics to stream them out to millions of users in milliseconds.
Edd Michira - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst at Axxis Systems
Image optimization has reduced bandwidth costs and improves e‑commerce product delivery speed
High-performance caching is very important to me. When you cache the images, such as for the most visited products and pages, it is faster to retrieve them because they are already in-memory. This means they load faster compared to accessing other products that are pulled from storage, which can take longer. I do see an impact from lazy loading. With lazy loading, as a user accesses the product page, images load in an asynchronous way, meaning not all images load at once. For example, if there are ten products, they do not all load together, which saves bandwidth instead of loading all thousands of products at once. For analytics, I rarely pay that much attention to them, though they are useful for monitoring the website. I have not experienced a challenge where I really need to go deep into the analytics; they are quite optimized primarily for bandwidth monitoring. I have not experienced any technical disadvantages with ImageKit, though I have not tried their video storage and delivery aspect. I would rate this review a 9 out of 10.
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Construction Company
42%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Consumer Goods Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Construction Company
44%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

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What needs improvement with Ably?
There is nothing much to be improved. The experience has been smooth so far, and I haven't run into any major gaps du...
What is your primary use case for Ably?
Ably's main use case is real-time messaging and event streaming. In our recent project, we used Ably to synchronize l...
What advice do you have for others considering Ably?
Everything is smooth and perfect. I would recommend taking advantage of Ably's documentation, which really helps spee...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ImageKit?
I would not say the pricing model is unfair. I just think the difference from the $9 to the $89 plan is significant. ...
What needs improvement with ImageKit?
There is a huge disparity in the pricing model, from the free option to the $9 plan, then it jumps to the $89 plan, w...
What is your primary use case for ImageKit?
I use ImageKit for purposes similar to Cloudinary, including storage of images, CDN, and features where you can retou...
 

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