Chatkit vs SendBird vs TalkJS

Overview

SendBird

Stacks142

Followers405

Votes78

TalkJS

Stacks11

Followers63

Votes6

Chatkit

Stacks19

Followers45

Votes0

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SendBird	TalkJS	Chatkit
SendBird is a Messaging SDK, Chat API, and fully managed chat infrastructure for your mobile apps and websites. Embeddable chat for iOS, Android, JavaScript, Unity, .NET.	TalkJS provides a chat API & Javascript SDK with a pre-built UI that allows developers to add chat between users on websites and apps in hours instead of months.	Chatkit is designed to make it as simple as possible to add chat to your app. It lets you add 1-1 and group chat to your app, along with typing indicators, file attachments and storage, user online presence and a flexible permissions system.
In-app chat experiences users will love; Immersive voice and video experiences; Easy in-app chat support for your customers; Enterprise-ready compliance	User-to-user messaging; Buyer-seller messaging; Real-time messaging; API + pre-built UI; Customizable chat UI; Email and SMS fallback; Full conversation history; Single-conversation View; Responsive cross-browser UX; Custom CSS themes; Developer-friendly API; Activity history & admin panel; Badges; Suppress contact information.	-
Statistics
Stacks 142	Stacks 11	Stacks 19
Followers 405	Followers 63	Followers 45
Votes 78	Votes 6	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 13 Active support is impressive. (Support for private deve 10 Pre-built UI for major platforms 10 Easy to use 8 Migration API for customers using other chat services 7 First chat SDK officially supports Xamarin Cons 2 Prices ramp up exponentially 2 Policy on concurrent users leads to overages and overch	Pros 2 Comes ready with inbuilt features e.g push notification 2 Super fast and easy to integrate 2 Easy to integrate	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	No integrations available	Pusher

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