Infrastructure & DevOps
Ably Realtime
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Ably Realtime is a managed platform for building realtime messaging features at scale.
Is Ably Realtime production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Ably Realtime 79 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Ably Realtime (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 47/100
- Accessibility — 77/100
- Security — 80/100
- Privacy — 100/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 72/100
- Discoverability — 75/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 414 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
Developers · AI agents · Chat applications · Livestream platforms · Enterprise teams
Pricing
Free ($0); Standard ($29/month + usage); Pro ($399/month + usage); Enterprise (Custom). Pay-per-minute or pay-per-MAU models. Messages from $2.50/million, Channels $1.00/million mins, Connections $1.0