Compare the Top Free Chat SDK & API Software as of April 2025

What is Free Chat SDK & API Software?

Chat SDK and API providers offer tools and services that enable developers to integrate real-time chat functionality into applications. These solutions typically provide pre-built components like chat interfaces, messaging systems, and notifications, reducing the need for custom development. Providers often offer APIs that allow seamless interaction with chat services, such as sending and receiving messages, managing user profiles, and customizing chat experiences. SDKs, on the other hand, often come with libraries and documentation to help developers quickly build and deploy chat features on mobile or web platforms. Some popular chat SDK & API providers also include advanced features like video calling, chatbots, and analytics for enhanced communication experiences. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Chat SDK & API software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Weavy

    Weavy

    Weavy

    The complete in-app collaboration API and SDK. Add contextual activity feeds, chat, and document collaboration directly into your apps to increase user engagement, improve in-app retention, and reduce customer churn. All Weavy features include integrations to the third party tools your users are already familiar with: add capabilities for Zoom and Teams video conferencing, Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box file sharing, document sync and versioning contextually inside your app. Weavy allows app developers to quickly add the features that users need to be productive and interactive, directly within the app environment. With our SDK and APIs, you can deploy chat, feeds, and document sync in a matter of days, not months, and at a fraction the cost to build in-house. Focus on your core product while simultaneously adding functionality that makes your user experience not only better, but increases user engagement and dependency on your app.
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    Starting Price: $0/Month
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    Digital Samba

    Digital Samba

    Digital Samba

    Digital Samba's video conferencing solutions enable organisations across industries to hold GDPR-compliant online meetings, webinars, trainings, and large events in HD video & audio right from their browsers or mobile app. Digital Samba's prebuilt video conferencing solution allows developers to embed and launch a full-featured video meeting with minimal effort. Built from the ground up with UX in mind, Digital Samba Embedded allows you to manage all aspects of the conference with our video calling API and fine-tune the experience with our client SDK. The Digital Samba Video SDK, written in Typescript and provided as an NPM package, will have you up and running with a few lines of Javascript code. Made for developers, by developers.
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    Starting Price: €0.004
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    Bird

    Bird

    Bird

    Bird (formerly MessageBird) is the next-generation CRM for Marketing, Sales, and Payments, powering over 5 trillion annual messages across Email, SMS, and WhatsApp. Leading brands grow cost-efficiently with Bird through personalized interactions on Email, SMS, and WhatsApp. The world's most innovative companies build communication solutions using Bird's applications and APIs. Get started today and talk to your customers over any channel, for any use case, anywhere in the world. Marketing messages, push notifications, order updates, delivery alerts and more. Operational bottlenecks slowing your growth? Use automated conversations and workflows to collect critical information up front, reduce manual tasks, implement self-service flows, and route chats to the right agent. Get up and running in minutes on our reliable, auto-scaling APIs with extensive documentations, complete API references and intuitive SDKs.
    Starting Price: $45 per month
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    PubNub

    PubNub

    PubNub

    Innovate with Realtime Features: We take care of realtime communication infrastructure so you can focus on your app. Our Platform for Realtime Communication: A platform to build and operate real-time interactivity for web, mobile, AI/ML, IoT, and Edge computing applications Faster & Easier Deployments: SDK support for 50+ mobile, web, server, and IoT environments (PubNub and community supported) and more than 65 pre-built integrations with external and third-party APIs to give developers the features they need regardless of programming language or tech stack. Scalability: The industry’s most scalable platform capable of supporting millions of concurrent users and allows for rapid growth with low latency, high uptime, and without financial penalties. Security & Compliance: Enterprise-grade security and compliance with the most stringent regulations worldwide, including GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and CCPA.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Ably

    Ably

    Ably

    Ably is the definitive realtime experience platform. We power more WebSocket connections than any other pub/sub platform, serving over a billion devices monthly. Businesses like HubSpot, NASCAR and Webflow trust us to power their critical applications - reliably, securely and at serious scale. Ably’s products place composable realtime in the hands of developers. Simple APIs and SDKs for every tech stack, enable the creation of a host of live experiences - including chat, collaboration, notifications, broadcast and fan engagement. All powered by our scalable infrastructure.
    Starting Price: $49.99/month
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    ApiRTC

    ApiRTC

    Apizee

    ApiRTC is a library which allows a developer to easily integrate real-time communications (chat, audio, video) into a web or mobile application. Behind the scenes, the WebRTC technology is used . This means that the media flows are encrypted and exchanged in peer-to-peer when possible. Otherwise a media relay (TURN server) may be required. ApiRTC is the entry point of our platform that will manage all connection establishments for you including user connection, user presence and media establishment. ApiRTC library is available in different format depending of the integration you need; be it for web and hybrid applications based on Javascript or native applications for iOS and Android. For audio and video communications, Apizee solutions are based on the WebRTC standard. The compatibility of Internet browsers with this technology is growing rapidly and this choice now allows the availability of our audio/video streaming solutions in most PC, tablet and smartphone environments.
    Starting Price: $71 per month
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    Gupshup

    Gupshup

    Gupshup

    Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Gupshup is a leading conversational messaging platform that enables businesses to build engaging conversational experiences seamlessly across 30+ messaging channels using a single API. Gupshup offers an easy-to-use omnichannel messaging API, advanced bot-building platform and mobile marketing tools. Gupshup's messaging platform handles over 6 billion messages per month enabling over 39,600 businesses send messages to several billion users across popular messaging channels such as SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, Mobile Web, Android RCS, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram, WeChat, FB Messenger, Slack, Viber, Skype and many more. Gupshup's constant innovation enables it to offer market leading features on its platform, enabling developers to build Interactive, Programmable and Rich omni-channel CX journeys across messaging services
    Starting Price: $0.01
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    Dyte

    Dyte

    Dyte

    Dyte's Video SDK and APIs are SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA complaint. That lets you embed scalable, customisable and interactive video calls within minutes into your Web, Desktop or mobile apps. Collaborate efficiently with HD video, chat, screen sharing, whiteboard, emoji reactions, file sharing and everything a user packaged within one SDK. Dyte's Video Conferencing SDK & APIs are comfortable with React JS, Angular, JavascriptMobile: Flutter, Kotlin, Swift, React Native, Android, iOSDesktop, Electron. With an uptime of 99.99%, industry-leading documentation and out of the box plugins, customize the video experience for your ed-tech, tele-health, fitness, HR-tech, social or gaming platform. Use Dyte's SDKs to build fully custom video experiences powered by a robust infrastructure. With our out-of-the-box chat, plug-ins, recording, and several useful features, Dyte is an all-in-one SDK to help you take video collaboration to the next level. Dyte offers 10K free credits each month
    Starting Price: $0
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    ZEGOCLOUD

    ZEGOCLOUD

    ZEGOCLOUD

    Embed engaging real-time voice, video, and in-app chat experiences into your apps with ZEGOCLOUD's communications APIs. Get started with 4 lines of code and enable enriched interactions with more features. Use our voice, video, and in-app chat SDKs to develop the exact communication features your users need to connect, share, and interact with each other anytime, anywhere. Liven up the interactions and elevate the vibes for your users with a rich set of add-ons, including emotionally responsive avatars, AI-powered video effects, whiteboards, and more. Monitor the quality of communications in real-time and gain insights into your user experience with our powerful monitoring and analytics tools, so you can respond to any issues swiftly and improve your services continuously. ZEGOCLOUD's social solutions help you build 1-on-1 and group video calls, live audio rooms, and social live streaming into your apps to help your users connect and have fun together.
    Starting Price: $0.59 per 1000 minutes
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    Infobip

    Infobip

    Infobip

    Infobip is a global leader in omnichannel engagement powering a broad range of messaging channels, tools and solutions for advanced customer engagement, authentication and security. With over 700 direct carrier connections and 60+ offices on 6 continents, Infobip is the #1 choice of some of the world's biggest companies to scale their customer communications. We help our clients and partners overcome the complexity of consumer communications, grow their business and enhance customer experience, all in a fast, secure and reliable way. With Infobip, you can achieve deeper customer engagement across the widest selection of local and global channels, including: SMS MMS RCS Live Chat WhatsApp Business Apple Messages for Business Facebook Messenger Instagram Business Telegram Viber Voice / VOIP Video Email
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    mesibo

    mesibo

    mesibo

    mesibo is a powerful real-time communication platform to quickly add robust real-time messaging, group chat, voice, and video calls, conferencing into your mobile and web applications. The key objectives while designing mesibo APIs were reliability, performance, and scalability. We have seen APIs as complex as the universe making apps unnecessarily complex and error-prone. We have instead worked hard to make mesibo APIs simple, yet powerful. In this section, we will explore mesibo real-time APIs in detail. It is highly recommended that you also refer to the source code of one of the mesibo sample app in GitHub to learn how APIs are used. This makes it easy for you to write cross-platform code across platform. In the following sections, we will describe APIs with name and parameters.
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    Kloudless

    Kloudless

    Kloudless

    SaaS App Integrations Made Fast and Easy. Kloudless is an API integration platform that unifies endpoints and data models across many SaaS APIs so that you can code just once and instantly integrate your app with many SaaS providers. We figured out the ins and outs of 150+ APIs so you don’t have to. We learned how to talk to and maintain over 150+ APIs so that you don't have to. Partner with us to help your app integrate with any SaaS app that your customers want. Our Unified APIs unify endpoints and data models across many SaaS APIs so that you can code once and integrate many. Our Unified APIs abstract away the differences between many SaaS APIs, making it simple to build integrations quickly get new features to market. We offer extra features like real-time activity monitoring and pre-built tools like the File Picker and Crawler that the SaaS provider doesn’t even offer.
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    ChatCamp

    ChatCamp

    ChatCamp

    Realtime Chat SDK and Messaging API for Apps & Websites. Integrate in-app messaging in your mobile apps & websites using ChatCamp platform. Product architecture to scale infrastructure on the go. Perfected for handling thousands of users at a time. We use world class infrastructure of Google Cloud Platform to provide most reliable service. We follow best practices of the industry to insure data security and privacy. Focus on building your application. No need to worry about building chat from scratch. We have got you covered. Use our chat SDK and messaging API to build a fully functional chat application. Android, iOS, Javascript and Platform API.
    Starting Price: $199 per month
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    Bandwidth

    Bandwidth

    Bandwidth.com

    You want the best quality voice, messaging, and more. To get them, you need the only API provider with its own nationwide network. You can eliminate the middleman, save on costs, give yourself more control, and build the application that your customers are craving. You’re not new to this, but you need a partner to help you reach the scale you know you’re capable of. Whether you’re bringing your own carrier or building your own solution from the ground up, Bandwidth has the tools you need to reach your maximum potential. Bandwidth is a communications platform with limitless flexibility. You need integrations, enterprise-class APIs, and tools to manage your communications stack intelligently. We are open where you need it the most, with optionality and control. Our global network is directly connected to where it matters most. Giving unmatched reliability. Bringing your customers closer. Scaling wherever your business takes you.
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    Nylas

    Nylas

    Nylas

    Billions of people. Trillions of connections. One API. The Nylas APIs power applications with email, calendar, and contacts sync from any inbox in the world. Only Nylas provides one API for 100% of email, calendar, and contacts integrations. Add missing information in contact records. Make warmer intros with the help of a connection graph. Compile data from each address book to create a unified data source. Straightforward, universal connectivity to lower your costs, save time, and increase developer productivity. Transform data into insights and personalize the user experience. Fuel innovation with unique customer intelligence. Automate digital processes to drive business growth. Streamline user workflows with powerful scheduling automation. Discover how organizations just like yours are driving engagement and increasing customer satisfaction with the Nylas APIs.
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