Realtime

Ably

standard

Ably is an reliable realtime provider offering WebSockets, Pub/Sub Messaging, Presence Detection and 1 more through Aweb's unified API. It features full streaming support with premium-tier latency.

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Specifications

CategoryRealtime
Auth Typeapi_key
Latency Tierpremium
Streamingfull
Pricing Tierstandard
Reliabilitypremium
Qualitypremium
Base URLhttps://rest.ably.io
SDK Package

Capabilities (4)

WebSocketsrealtime.websockets
Score: 80
Pub/Sub Messagingrealtime.pubsub
Score: 80
Presence Detectionrealtime.presence
Score: 80
Data Syncrealtime.sync
Score: 80

Quick start

Use Ably through Alfred's unified API — no provider-specific SDK needed.

cURL

curl -X POST https://api.alfred-ai.app/v1/execute \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ALFRED_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "provider": "ably",
    "capability": "realtime.websockets",
    "input": { "prompt": "Hello from Ably!" }
  }'

TypeScript

import { Alfred } from '@alfred/core';

const alfred = new Alfred({ apiKey: process.env.ALFRED_API_KEY });

const result = await alfred.execute({
  provider: 'ably',
  capability: 'realtime.websockets',
  input: { prompt: 'Hello from Ably!' },
});

console.log(result.output);

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