G2 Vendor Directory

Akka vs. PubNub

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAkka

by akka.io

PubNub

by PubNub

Overall rating4.24.4
Review count3025
Ease of use8.68.9
Ease of setup0.08.9
Quality of support8.39.3
Meets requirements8.89.1
NPS43.47826160.869565
Small Business40.0%52.0%
Mid-Market30.0%20.0%
Enterprise30.0%28.0%
Total page views217197
Total LLM citations635731

Akka

Akka is a platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. Industry titans and disruptors rely on Akka when application responsiveness must be guaranteed. Engineering teams use a simple SDK and powerful libraries to build transactional, durable, and real-time services that distribute logic and data together. Operations are fully automated in serverless and BYOC environments, and a self-hosted option is available.

Pros

    PubNub

    PubNub is a real-time platform for developers who build in-app chat and live features. The Chat SDK includes typing indicators, presence, message history, read receipts, reactions, and threads. PubNub supports unlimited subscribers per channel. PubNub assigns each message a server-side timetoken. Messages on a channel form one ordered sequence. End-to-end delivery latency is sub-100ms. DAZN uses PubNub to power chat and Watch Party experiences for 10 million users. PubNub charges by Monthly Active Users or transactions, depending on the plan.

    Pros

    • Customer Support
    • Chat Functionality
    • Ease of Use
    • Data Security
    • Real-time Streaming
    • API Integration