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Layer vs SendBird vs Sinch

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Overview

Layer
Layer
Stacks15
Followers39
Votes7
Sinch
Sinch
Stacks40
Followers117
Votes32
SendBird
SendBird
Stacks138
Followers405
Votes78

Advice on Layer, Sinch, SendBird

Yeongju
Yeongju

SW Web Engineer at Sense Korea

Apr 14, 2021

Needs adviceonCometChatCometChatSendBirdSendBirdMSSQLMSSQL

I am considering which chat solution to choose between CometChat and SendBird, for our new app. The condition is, the app is going to run in a private network and has to connect with MSSQL. Any advice on other things I have to consider before choosing one, or is there another chat service you would recommend? Thank you!

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Detailed Comparison

Layer
Layer
Sinch
Sinch
SendBird
SendBird

Layer's asynchronous messaging fabric is capable of transporting payloads of any type. Get your users talking with chat, voice or video messaging. Pull them back in with push. Connect friends, colleagues or perfect strangers seamlessly.

Sinch makes it easy for developers to add voice, messaging and SMS to their apps with just a few lines of code. Enrich your apps with communications that your users will love.

SendBird is a Messaging SDK, Chat API, and fully managed chat infrastructure for your mobile apps and websites. Embeddable chat for iOS, Android, JavaScript, Unity, .NET.

Send any message payload (photos, videos, location, json data, etc) up to 2GB;Build your UI quickly with sample UI components to get started;User-expected communication features work right out of the box (full message state tracking, typing indicators, read receipts);Pre-loading of content with background-synchronized state and metadata across devices;Push notifications across platforms and devices with full control over display and delivery;Handles offline mode and poor network conditions with network state management and performance handling
iOS, Android and JavaScript SDK with support for REST;Voice calling and SMS at market leading prices;Enrich your apps with sticky features such as messaging and calling to increase user retention and engagement;Two-factor authentication and user verification for added security for your app and user base;24/7 in house monitoring to ensure your app has the best calling and messaging service possible;Simple at its core - with a few lines of code, any app can start calling and messaging across the world; Call over 220 countries - more than any other platform;Analytics and Reporting dashboard so you can review the performance of your calling and messaging apps;More Info? Email social@sinch.com
In-app chat experiences users will love; Immersive voice and video experiences; Easy in-app chat support for your customers; Enterprise-ready compliance
Statistics
Stacks
15
Stacks
40
Stacks
138
Followers
39
Followers
117
Followers
405
Votes
7
Votes
32
Votes
78
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 6
    Open source ui atlas makes messaging easy
  • 1
    Easy setup
Pros
  • 9
    Super smooth SDK
  • 8
    Easy setup
  • 6
    Cross-platform (iOS, Android, Web)
  • 5
    Super voice quality
  • 4
    Great support
Cons
  • 2
    Crashed in ios when make connection in vedio calling
Pros
  • 13
    Active support is impressive. (Support for private deve
  • 10
    Easy to use
  • 10
    Pre-built UI for major platforms
  • 8
    Migration API for customers using other chat services
  • 7
    First chat SDK officially supports Xamarin
Cons
  • 2
    Prices ramp up exponentially
  • 2
    Policy on concurrent users leads to overages and overch

What are some alternatives to Layer, Sinch, SendBird?

Chat by Stream

Chat by Stream

Chat API and SDK. With a beautiful UI Kit, easy to use React Components and powerful API. Add Chat to any application in a matter of hours. The tech uses Go, RocksDB and Raft. By the creators of Stream, the API that powers activity feeds for more than 300 million users.

ChannelizeIO

ChannelizeIO

Add In-App User-to-User Communication into Mobile Apps & Websites, with rich & engaging Text Chat, Video, and Audio Calling experiences, to Increase User Engagement and Enable new Revenue Streams.

Agora

Agora

Agora.io provides building blocks for you to add real-time voice and video communications through a simple and powerful SDK. You can integrate the Agora SDK to enable real-time communications in your own application quickly.

OpenTok

OpenTok

It adds the clarity and emotion of face-to-face communication to your brand whether you're developing for the web, iOS, or Android. We make the integration of high-quality live video a breeze so that you can focus on building a great product.

QuickBlox

QuickBlox

Add powerful communication features to your mobile app and data services for your backend<br>

Scringo

Scringo

Scringo offers a unique Community &amp; Messaging Platform that turns every app into an independent, dynamic &amp; fully functional social network.

TalkJS

TalkJS

TalkJS provides a chat API & Javascript SDK with a pre-built UI that allows developers to add chat between users on websites and apps in hours instead of months.

PopcornNotify

PopcornNotify

Popcorn Notify is designed to be an effortless method for sending emails and text messages from your code. Client libraries are simple to install and are available on pip and npm.

Talkray

Talkray

The Talkray Developer API is a white-label cloud-hosted platform to easily enable all forms of real-time and asynchronous&nbsp;communication&nbsp;between your mobile users.&nbsp;With a few lines of code, you can connect your users together at&nbsp;unparalleled&nbsp;speed and scale.&nbsp;

LINE

LINE

Use the Messaging API to build bots that provide personalized experiences for your users on LINE. You associate your bot with a channel on the LINE Platform. The bot works behind the LINE Official Account that is generated when you create the channel if you operate the account in bot mode.

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