2 trillion messages, 330 million chat users, infinite scale.

One-to-One Chats
Group Chats
Live Events

Resolve inquiries, reduce support costs, and collaborate. Integrate AI-driven chatbots.

Physician/patient interaction
Customer service & support
Rideshare and food delivery

It was challenging to find a service provider that maintained HIPAA-compliance. Additionally, as my engineering team started looking through SDKs and resources, it was pretty seamless for us to do the integration and utilize the PubNub service.

Jason Brock | Director of Software Development @ ZOLL

PubNub is reliable. It’s efficient. It’s fast. It’s everything we were looking for. In the EMS/911 space, efficiency is key because how quickly the first responders and public safety agencies respond determines life or death. PubNub has all of that.

Jason Brock | Director of Software Development @ ZOLL

Drive in-app engagement, enrich social experiences, and improve team productivity with realtime collaboration and online presence.

Gaming
E-learning
Social experiences

DevOps isn’t our core competency. I’d much rather work with a dedicated service like PubNub to fulfill a well-defined need, like quickly transmitting data between players, so our engineering team can focus on the hard problems that are unique to our business.

David Underhill | VP of Engineering @ Pocket Gems

Adobe DPS2015 is the next generation publishing platform that was built from the ground up. PubNub provided a solution that Adobe Digital Publishing could quickly and easily integrate with to enable change notification.

William Liang | Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe

Deliver chat experiences that complement live events, enhanced with reactions, polls, and content moderation, with reliability at massive scale.

Sports
Concerts
Political Events

PubNub sped up the development process and reduced our infrastructure costs. We’re happy to have PubNub maintaining the solution.

Andrew Cronyn | Managing Director of FanHub Media

Chat APIs to Build the Features Your Users Love

Users and Chat Rooms

Manage metadata between users and chat rooms.
Typing Indicators

Send typing on/off events to indicate when someone is typing a message.
Chat Message History

Fetch past messages from history and show counts of unread messages.
Read Receipts

Indicate if the message has been delivered or read by the recipient.
Message Reactions

Send emojis or a custom reaction in response to a message.
Mobile Push Notifications

Trigger APNs/FCM mobile push notifications when users are out of app.

Customize Your Way With Programmable Business Logic

Use PubNub Functions to add business logic or to integrate with third-party services. PubNub Functions give you full control over chat behavior and are serverless, so there is no need to worry about provisioning, managing or scaling servers.

Serverless integration

Language translation, content moderation, push notifications, and other 3rd party services.

Message handling

Filter (profanity, keywords, etc), transform, parse, and route based on message content or user status.

AI and aggregation

Chatbots, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and other AI-enabled services.

Realize the promise of Edge compute today

export default (request) => {
request.message = translate(request.message, en, fr);
return request;
}

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