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“Our development team did two MVP builds - one with Sendbird©* and one with Stream. The Stream SDK was easier to work with. It only took three days to complete. We liked the available functionality and thought it would be the fastest route to market.”
“We evaluated Sendbird©* and decided it couldn't meet our scalability requirements.”
“We started out using Sendbird©* for chat, but soon switched due to a high number of timeouts and a lack of edge infrastructure and offline support.”
“We started out on Sendbird©*, but eventually had to write our own Go chat infrastructure to work around Sendbird©*'s scalability issues. Building in-house proved to be time consuming and expensive though. When we found Stream, we were able to standardized our entire chat experience and scale confidently up to 5 million concurrent users on a single channel.”
“We started out on Sendbird©*, but switched to Stream because of the superior quality of the Stream Chat SDKs.”
“The main issue we had was that our server with Sendbird©* was located in Japan while our users were located in the UK. We experienced a lot of latency loading the chat and sending new messages. Our original plan was to migrate to another Sendbird©* server in Europe, but they did not provide adequate support, so we decided to thoroughly evaluate other chat providers and eventually decided to use Stream.”
“When we started the migration, we started routing the data to Stream from our previous chat provider. Stream's migration process made it really easy for us to do that. The entire migration went off without a hitch. It was phenomenal. We completed the Stream Chat migration and integration without downtime or player-facing impact. The transition was invisible; it was there, and it worked right away.”
“Stream's SDKs and documentation were superb. The integration was easy, and the sample apps provided valuable guidance for our developers. Stream's scalable architecture positions Jófogás for continued innovation, providing the flexibility needed to adapt and grow.”
“We looked at several solutions, including Sendbird©*, but ultimately chose Stream because of the pricing, SDK completeness across platforms, complete documentation, and ease of integration.”
“After evaluating Sendbird, Tradeblock chose Stream Chat instead for its modern SDKs, rich media support, extensive documentation, prebuilt UI components, and developer-first design.”
Sendbird©'s features and support plans limit the ability of product teams to easily build scalable, reliable apps with custom UX. Find out why dozens of apps with global reach have migrated away from Sendbird© and switched to Stream.
Modern SDKs that enable your team to build and launch quickly, iterate faster and ship a stable chat experience. Sendbird©* is missing key SDKs such as Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI.
There are no hidden limits to the number of channels a user can participate in, the number of members in a channel or the number of concurrent users. Scale up to 5 million concurrent users in a single channel.
Leverage Stream's global edge network to avoid latency and time-outs from Sendbird©*'s cloud region-approach. Offline support in the SDKs and optimistic UI updates further accelerate performance.
Stream is built on Go, RocksDB & Raft. The API takes an average of 9ms to respond. Not only does it enable great performance, it also means we can offer the most cost effective chat experience in the market. Optimized for livestream use cases and/or apps with hundreds of millions of users.
Streams offers shared slack channels with our engineering team, 24/7 phone support and a 99.999% up-time guarantee. Our support team replies in 30 minutes on average. We succeed by making our customers successful and stand behind the quality of our products.
“I definitely recommend Stream. What was originally a very daunting migration project for us ended up being quite smooth. Migrating from Sendbird©* could have been a long and painful process but Stream made it into a manageable one that we are happy with.”
Stream is powered by the most efficient tech stack leveraging Go, RocksDB, and Raft.
We offer any existing Sendbird©* enterprise customer that switches to Stream a guaranteed 25% off your current agreement, and we will buy out your current contract to accelerate the process.
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Build Plan | Free | Developer Plan | Free |
Start Plan | $399/mo | Starter Plan | $429/mo |
Elevate Plan | $599/mo | Pro Plan | $579/mo |
Enterprise Plan | Custom | Enterprise Plan | Custom |
“Sendbird©*'s group chat functionality was limited to a maximum of 20K users, while Stream Chat supports up to 5M.”
Stream delivers a chat experience with an unmatched feature set that is more customizable, robust, and scalable than Sendbird©*'s. Create the exact chat UX you want for your app without limitations.
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Frontend SDKs & UI Components |        | |
Backend SDKs |         | |
Channel Limitations | Unlimited | Up to 20k within group channel |
Uptime SLA | Up to 99.999% | 99.9% |
DPF Certification | ||
Offline Support | Limited | |
Custom File Management | Limited | |
Custom Events | ||
Team Support/Multi-Tenancy | ||
User Mentions | Limited | |
Announcements | ||
Polls | Max 100 Channel Participants | |
Threads | Up to 20k within group channel | |
Read Receipts | Max 100 Channel Participants | |
Reactions | Max 100 Channel Participants | |
Video/Voice Call Integration | ||
Slash Commands | ||
Advanced Moderation | ||
Message Drafts | ||
Restricted Message Visibility |
“During our migration from Sendbird©* to Stream, the Stream team was incredibly helpful. We gave them our API keys so they could access and export our dashboard data. Sendbird©* was reluctant to do so, so it is nice to know our data belongs to us now that we are using Stream.”
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