Sendbird is the leading in-app chat, voice, and video API for market leaders who connect and engage tens of millions of users every day. Sendbird is trusted by global brands such as Reddit, Hinge, Paytm, and Teladoc.
Stream started as an activity feed API servicing customers such as CNBC Sports and Crunchbase. Stream then added a new chat offering which for the most part targeted smaller-scale startups and SMBs, with some recent exceptions.
The apps that hundreds of millions of users rely on every day are built on Sendbird.
Monthly active chat users
Messages a month
Concurrent chat users
Global developers
we believe that choosing a communication API is for the long term. Sendbird has been supporting high-scale, global apps like Reddit from day one and for years. When you look at Sendbird and Stream head-to-head, Sendbird delivers more proven and feature-rich platform that encompasses chat, voice & video calls, live streaming and customer support. Over the years, Sendbird has won the trust of leading customers and built its interaction platform for scale, reliability, and performance.
The richest and the most scalable chat API.
High-quality voice and video for engaging group and direct calls.
The best support agent interface for live chat customer support.
The simplest way to turn your app into your own private streaming platform.
FEATURE DIFFERENCES | Sendbird | Stream |
Chat – Engagement and conversion | ||
Supergroups (up to 20k users) | ||
Soft cap on connection limits for seamless scalability | ||
Open-channel dynamic partitioning | ||
Delivery receipts (to the recipients’ device) | ||
Translated message count optimization | ||
Push notification translation | ||
Do-not-disturb and @user-mention-only notifications | ||
Polls | ||
Scheduled messages | ||
Bulk messaging announcements | ||
User team support | ||
Enforced unique reaction | ||
Pinned messages | ||
Quotes replies | ||
Slash commands | ||
Chat – Advanced features | ||
Cross-platform offline mode support | ||
High-speed and -security OpenSSL TLSv1.3 protocol for fast app start-up time | ||
User-to-user blocking | ||
Automatic regular expressions moderation (tel, credit card#) and domain filtering | ||
Advanced analytics dashboard | ||
Chat – Developer tools | ||
.Net SDKs (in addition to JavaScript, iOS, Android, Unreal, Unity, Flutter, and React Native) | ||
Full chat dataset export (channel + users) | ||
Backend wrapper libraries |
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Years of in-house security and compliance expertise.
Trusted and battle-tested for enterprise-grade performance and global scale.