CometChat is a real-time communications platform that provides in-app chat, voice, and video calling APIs, SDKs, and UI kits for web and mobile applications.
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overview
CometChat is a real-time communication platform tool that enables developers and product teams to add in-app chat, voice, and video calling to web and mobile applications. It provides APIs, SDKs, and UI kits for platforms and frameworks including React, iOS, Android, and Flutter. CometChat also offers moderation, analytics, notifications, multi-tenant infrastructure, and an AI agent platform with OpenAI and Anthropic model support.
features
CometChat supplies communication infrastructure and developer components for adding real-time features to applications. Its documented offerings include APIs, SDKs, UI kits, operational tools, and an AI agent platform.
use cases
CometChat is aimed at developers and product teams building real-time communication into web or mobile products. The company identifies the following application areas and audiences.
how to use
Developers can review the Chat APIs overview and documentation, choose a plan, and integrate CometChat into a supported application. The free Build plan has a stated limit of 500 API requests per minute.
pricing
CometChat uses a freemium model. The Build plan is free and allows 500 API requests per minute. Pro and Enterprise plans are listed with pricing available by contacting CometChat; specific monthly prices are not provided in the available pricing information. Stated rate limits for paid plans are up to 10,000 requests per minute for core operations and 20,000 for standard operations. Data imports are limited to up to 60 requests per minute, and per-user message sending is limited to up to 30 messages per minute. Data retention is 180 days unless extended retention is purchased or agreed upon.
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CometChat offers a packaged combination of messaging, calling, APIs, SDKs, and UI kits. The following comparisons describe the stated distinctions between the products; individual fit depends on requirements such as hosting, media performance, supported clients, and pricing.
Provides pre-built UI components with significantly deeper SDK support and higher throughput infrastructure for rich messaging.
Stream is more refined with better out-of-the-box UI kits, but its standard pricing ramps up sharply once you outgrow the Maker tier, whereas CometChat offers cheaper starter tiers.
Focuses strictly on lightweight REST and WebSocket APIs for React and Vue with pre-hosted server logic, requiring minimal backend configuration.
It is substantially cheaper and faster to integrate for simple text chat than CometChat, but it lacks native voice/video calling and does not offer mobile SDKs like Flutter or React Native.
A decentralized, federated communication protocol that lets you host your own secure chat and WebRTC calling infrastructure with no user limits.
You eliminate vendor lock-in and monthly per-user fees entirely, but you forfeit CometChat's turnkey UI widgets and have to handle server deployment, scaling, and client integration yourself.
Built primarily as a real-time audio and video network with chat as a companion API, making it superior for interactive live streaming and WebRTC performance.
Agora's media engine is much more capable for high-volume voice and video than CometChat's calling add-on, but building standard in-app messaging requires more custom UI work.
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