G2 Vendor Directory

PubNub vs. Lenses

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

MetricPubNub

by PubNub

Lenses

by Lenses.io Ltd

Overall rating4.44.2
Review count2517
Ease of use8.99.5
Ease of setup8.97.9
Quality of support9.37.8
Meets requirements9.18.5
NPS60.86956547.058824
Small Business52.0%12.5%
Mid-Market20.0%37.5%
Enterprise28.0%50.0%
Total page views197194
Total LLM citations731361

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

Lenses

Lenses is the Developer Experience for enterprises to work with every Apache Kafka-based technology, in one place. Trusted by Europcar, Adidas, Daimler and Kandji, Lenses simplifies data streaming across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, giving engineers the autonomy to explore, integrate, and govern data -- and modernize their applications with ease: - Efficiently find, explore, process, integrate and govern streams with a data catalog, SQL studio and SQL stream processors - Confidently share, migrate and back up data streams across any cloud or environment with the Kafka to Kafka

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • User Interface
  • Features
  • Intuitive
  • Simple
  • UX Design