eGain Chat vs. Stream Chat

eGain Chat™ enables you to offer real-time chat assistance to website visitors. Agents can exchange text messages, files, web pages, and knowledge base articles with visitors to answer their queries, proactively as well as reactively. Rated #1 by analysts, it has been enabling businesses to transform chat customer support experiences for its customers for more than a decade. The live chat software is an integral part of eGain’s customer engagement software suite. It integrates seamlessly with the other social experience, web experience, and contact center applications in the suite.

Stream Chat is a messaging API and SDK suite for developers building in-app chat. Teams integrate it to ship production messaging in weeks instead of building and maintaining real-time infrastructure in-house. Client SDKs cover React, Swift, Android, Flutter, React Native, Angular, JavaScript, Unity, and Unreal, each with a UI kit you can customize or replace entirely. The backend runs on Go and RocksDB across 12 global edge locations, holding sub-40ms latency and 5M concurrent connections in a single channel behind a 99.999% uptime SLA.