In-app messaging and customer communications · RankedPubNub
PubNub is a real-time messaging infrastructure and data stream network for powering real-time apps · pubnub.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“For real‑time infrastructure beyond chat: PubNub or Ably.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“PubNub for real-time beyond chat”Kimi K2 · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as PubNub, over the 26 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 6 | View → | |
| 23 | 4 | View → | |
| 23 | 4 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 4 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on PubNub's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- real-time, interactive applications
- Price stated
- PubNub’s pricing is based on monthly active users (MAUs), so cost scales with the audience your application actually serves.
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Try for free
- Certifications
- SOC 2, SOC 3, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, ISO 27001, EU-US DPF
- Hosting
- EU-only, US-only, APAC-only, U.S.-only data centers, North America, Asia, Europe, South America
- Customers named
- DAZN, Gameloft, Swiggy, ManaDr, 17LIVE, Ayoa, Beamable, BusWhere
- Founded
- 2010
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 21 of the 26 answers that named PubNub and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-nine of the eighty-seven domain citations in answers naming PubNub came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 948 | undated | Mobile apps, Ecommerce | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 218 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 86 | undated | |||
| Case study | 58 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 29 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 17 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 9 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page pubnub.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.