Ably · Pricing Plans

Ably Plans Pricing

Ably publishes Free, Standard ($29/mo + usage), Pro ($399/mo + usage), and custom Enterprise tiers. All tiers include flat-fee allowances; usage above the included quotas is charged at $2.50 per million messages and $1.00 per million connection / channel minutes (with volume discounts down to $0.20 per million).

Ably Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Ably on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.

It defines 5 plans, covering freemium, subscription, enterprise, and usage tiers, with named plans including Free, Standard, Pro, Enterprise, Usage Pricing.

Tagged areas include Realtime and Plans.

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Plans

Free freemium

$0/month - 200 concurrent connections, 500 messages/sec, 1-day history.

Monthly subscription (month · month) 0.00 USD
Concurrent connections (concurrent_connections · continuous) 0.00 USD
Message rate (messages_per_second · second) 0.00 USD
Standard subscription

$29/month + usage - 10K connections, 2.5K msg/sec, 30-day history.

Monthly subscription (month · month) 29.00 USD
Concurrent connections (concurrent_connections · continuous) 0.00 USD
Pro subscription

$399/month + usage - 50K connections, 10K msg/sec, 365-day history, Datadog integration.

Monthly subscription (month · month) 399.00 USD
Concurrent connections (concurrent_connections · continuous) 0.00 USD
Enterprise enterprise

Custom pricing - unlimited concurrent channels, 99.999% SLA, HIPAA / SOC II compliance.

Custom pricing (contract · contract) contact sales USD
Usage Pricing usage

Overage / on-demand usage - $2.50 per million messages, $1.00 per million connection minutes.

Messages (million_messages · usage) 2.50 USD
Connection / channel minutes (million_minutes · usage) 1.00 USD

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