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PubNub vs Voyage AI comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

PubNub
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
17th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Voyage AI
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
101st
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of PubNub is 0.2%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Voyage AI is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PubNub0.2%
Voyage AI0.2%
Other99.6%
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.
Chirag Morajkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
Automation workflows have transformed resume screening and document chat into accurate, low-cost flows
Improvement can be made in the documentation aspect, which definitely needs to be updated or enhanced. I felt this need while using Voyage AI. I recognize that it is still growing, which is acceptable for a user like me, but enhancing documentation would greatly help developers or technical personnel. One more improvement could be native integration. For example, when using Voyage AI through make.com, which is an automation platform I regularly use, integration is possible only through APIs. This requires more time for setup and handling configurations. If Voyage AI had a native integration with make.com, similar to how OpenAI's ChatGPT operates, it would streamline the onboarding process very effectively. Other improvements needed for Voyage AI include enhanced documentation, native integration, and potentially video tutorials for each model or feature that they add. Short videos could significantly aid developers who might be lost or unfamiliar with updates since staying up to speed can be challenging.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"PubNub's push notification and chat features stand out because of ease of use and very easy integration within our application."
"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%."
"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 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."
"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."
"The speed and efficiency of PubNub, which helps transfer data in real-time with very low latency, received positive feedback from our customers."
"I have significantly increased my outputs around 60-70%, making them much more accurate than before, and the context and semantic meaning have increased substantially."
"Voyage AI has improved time, manual efforts, and employee satisfaction, and for this type of use case, Voyage AI is the best option available because the time it takes for answering questions reduces, employees no longer need to raise many tickets for simple queries, and it provides an answer in a single question and a single click without waiting for HR to respond."
"The best feature Voyage AI offers is its text embedding, whose quality is very good and crucial, and I think Voyage AI has excelled in text understanding and contextual comprehension."
 

Cons

"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."
"Since PubNub is a paid library, it may not be useful for everyone."
"Regarding customer support from PubNub, around six years ago, we did not receive good support."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I have not been frustrated with Voyage AI, but some enterprises will not share their data because they keep their data within their own infrastructure."
"Improvement can be made in the documentation aspect, which definitely needs to be updated or enhanced."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
38%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Construction Company
52%
University
6%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
5%
 

Company Size

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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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Voyage AI?
My experience with costing information, overall it is good as for as now. We got free tokens around 200 million at start. we paid approximately $0.12 per million tokens depending on the model. It i...
What needs improvement with Voyage AI?
Voyage AI's SDK support is limited to Python and JavaScript, so teams using other languages need custom wrappers to integrate it. Rate limiting also feels outdated, requiring manual static wait per...
What is your primary use case for Voyage AI?
My main use case for Voyage AI is converting text into embeddings so that it can be searched efficiently. I can provide a specific example of how I use Voyage AI for text-to-embedding through Retri...
 

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Find out what your peers are saying about PubNub vs. Voyage AI and other solutions. Updated: June 2026.
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