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PubNub vs TheHive comparison

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Categories and Ranking

PubNub
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
18th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
TheHive
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
38th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of PubNub is 0.3%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TheHive is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PubNub0.3%
TheHive0.2%
Other99.5%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

Kirtishil Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Frontend Developer at Globant
Real-time chat has boosted one-to-one messaging and user engagement in my mobile projects
The best features PubNub offers, in my opinion, are one-to-one chat, as I mentioned in my review, and the great SDK documentation which allows for easy integration that does not take much time. Setting up channels, message listeners, tracking user status to determine whether users are online or offline, and ensuring reliable message delivery are all great features. I find myself relying on all three of those features the most because the presence tracking is great, the delivery speed is superb compared to other SDKs, and the user status updates immediately pop up, which is significant. The integration is very easy, so any new developers can easily understand the integration process thanks to the clear documentation. PubNub has positively impacted my organization as I have received numerous reviews and feedback stating that the chat works much faster and cleaner, and everyone appreciates it, saying it feels powerful. After implementing PubNub, I noticed positive outcomes such as client feedback acknowledging that they enjoyed the chat features and found them much faster than in other applications, which I believe is very positive feedback for any organization.
Karsh Trivedi - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at Payatu
Automation has transformed incident response and case management has boosted daily productivity
TheHive is actually quite beautiful and very optimized. If I had to improve anything, I would say that it could improve costing. TheHive is pretty expensive right now. With a low number of users, it works for how the business runs, but I feel that it is pretty expensive when you want to go for the commercial versions, which is where people might not want to go with it. Cost is the only downside, but it is the major downside. I would like to share an incident with you about a recent meeting I had with a client regarding TheHive. The only trigger that they had not to go with TheHive was the cost. Everything looked very good and was very fine, but the costing part was hard. The costing part was something that made them hold off on TheHive and choose a different solution. Over the years, TheHive has improved significantly in how the platform is used and how cases are managed. One good feature that I appreciated when I moved from TheHive 4 to TheHive 5 was the dark mode. When Strange Bee did the rebranding and made it a closed-source product, they added the dark mode feature, which I need because I am not good with light screens. TheHive was the only tool having only white mode capabilities. Once they added it, they have improved a lot. Many connectors are added, and many more integrations are possible now with TheHive. Basically, the appearance, performance, and integrations have improved a lot over the years.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The speed and efficiency of PubNub, which helps transfer data in real-time with very low latency, received positive feedback from our customers."
"If we had implemented all of this on our own, we would have had to hire at least 50 more employees for that, so we are very happy with PubNub and we have saved a lot of time."
"PubNub's push notification and chat features stand out because of ease of use and very easy integration within our application."
"PubNub saves development time because we do not have to create a complete chat backend and frontend from scratch, enabling a plug-and-play approach that saves time, effort, and money for the company."
"PubNub has positively impacted my organization as I have received numerous reviews and feedback stating that the chat works much faster and cleaner, and everyone appreciates it, saying it feels powerful."
"PubNub has positively impacted my organization by reducing implementation time and developers' work, making it very easy to implement and enabling fast development that has reduced the developers' time by 40-50%."
"The people at TheHive have made it very customizable, flexible, and very security-centric, as they understand what a particular incident responder or security team needs and provide it quite well."
"TheHive has positively impacted my organization because before that, we did not have a good solution to register the tickets."
"TheHive has positively impacted our organization because it is a free solution."
 

Cons

"Since PubNub is a paid library, it may not be useful for everyone."
"I believe PubNub can improve in terms of pricing transparency, as I previously mentioned, since that is the only thing I think should be improved because for smaller projects or startups, estimating scaling costs can be challenging."
"I gave PubNub a rating of nine out of ten because of the many features discussed, but I deducted one point because the cost increases with scale."
"Most of the time there are some instances at the load peak hours or sometimes payload is missed by the application or SDK at the SDK level."
"The reliability of PubNub is really good, but occasionally we face issues where users complain about messages or push notifications not being delivered within a short period of time, as it occasionally takes longer, which could be due to outages."
"Regarding customer support from PubNub, around six years ago, we did not receive good support."
"TheHive can be improved because if you want to use it in a small or medium company, it will be really good, but for a really huge company like mine was, I believe that at least on the free version, you will have big issues regarding performance because the solution is not built for a huge company like mine was."
"I would rate it a seven because I think the design could be better in TheHive."
"Cost is the only downside, but it is the major downside."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
35%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
28%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Media Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PubNub?
The setup cost is very low. Regarding pricing, when the data scales, the pricing increases gradually, but PubNub does not charge much in the initial phase.
What needs improvement with PubNub?
The subscription and the SDK part can be improved. If the client is offline and the application is killed, and the user comes back again, sometimes the subscription to the channel is missed, so tha...
What is your primary use case for PubNub?
We are mostly using PubNub for payload sending and for live chat. We are a mobile-based application with an admin side, so it's a live chat application. Whenever a user comes online or offline or s...
What needs improvement with TheHive?
I would rate it a seven because I think the design could be better in TheHive. The graphics need improvement. When I used TheHive, the platform did not have AI governance and security options yet, ...
What is your primary use case for TheHive?
My main use case for TheHive is to work in our incident response team, where we manage the incident response process inside TheHive and alerts as well. A specific example of how TheHive fits into m...
What advice do you have for others considering TheHive?
I rate TheHive an eight on a scale of one to ten. I choose the number eight because it is a really good solution if you know how to configure it and if you know how to measure the infrastructure ne...
 

Overview

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