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Best realtime tools for web apps (buyer asking for advice)

We asked 10 models: I'm adding live chat to my web app. Which realtime tool or service would you recommend? Each named its own top 10.

Asked 4 ways: List request · Buyer asking for advice · Search query · Worth paying for?. Share of voice pools every wording.

Agreement between models
54%
Same model, run twice
63%
Different picks
22

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#PickScoreListed byClaude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra

7 lower-scoring picks are not shown; every ballot below lists them in full.

Most divisive

Picks most models listed, at very different positions

Hot takes

Picks that appear on only one ballot

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Haiku 5.5

  1. Stream
  2. Pusher
  3. Ably
  4. Sendbird
  5. PubNub
  6. Twilio Conversations
  7. CometChat
  8. Socket.IO
  9. Firebase
  10. Tawk.to

66% with consensus · 61% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

  1. Ably
  2. Stream
  3. Pusher
  4. Sendbird
  5. PubNub
  6. Firebase
  7. Supabase
  8. CometChat
  9. Liveblocks
  10. LiveKit

84% with consensus · 71% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

  1. Stream
  2. Sendbird
  3. Ably
  4. Pusher
  5. Supabase
  6. Socket.IO
  7. PubNub
  8. CometChat
  9. Firebase
  10. Twilio Conversations

54% with consensus · 92% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

  1. Stream
  2. Ably
  3. Sendbird
  4. Pusher
  5. PubNub
  6. Socket.IO
  7. Firebase
  8. AWS AppSync
  9. Supabase
  10. Centrifugo

64% with consensus · 60% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

  1. Pusher
  2. Ably
  3. Stream
  4. Sendbird
  5. Intercom
  6. PubNub
  7. Firebase
  8. Crisp
  9. Socket.IO
  10. Tidio

70% with consensus · 29% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

  1. Ably
  2. Firebase
  3. Pusher
  4. Stream
  5. Socket.IO
  6. PubNub
  7. Supabase
  8. Sendbird
  9. LiveKit
  10. SignalR

82% with consensus · 53% self-consistent

Kimi K3

  1. Ably
  2. Pusher
  3. Firebase
  4. PubNub
  5. Stream
  6. Twilio Conversations
  7. Socket.IO
  8. Supabase
  9. Sendbird
  10. LiveKit

89% with consensus · 63% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

  1. Pusher
  2. Ably
  3. Socket.IO
  4. PubNub
  5. Firebase
  6. Sendbird
  7. Supabase
  8. Stream
  9. TalkJS
  10. AWS AppSync

68% with consensus · 92% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

  1. Pusher
  2. Ably
  3. Socket.IO
  4. Firebase
  5. Supabase
  6. Twilio Conversations
  7. Sendbird
  8. Stream
  9. PubNub
  10. SignalR

65% with consensus · 41% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

  1. Pusher
  2. Ably
  3. Firebase
  4. Socket.IO
  5. Supabase
  6. PubNub
  7. Particle
  8. Centrifugo
  9. Stream
  10. ActionCable

63% with consensus · 83% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 42 (lightest) to 88 (darkest)

Claude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5697980664858525045
GPT-6 Luna696573677673575049
Gemini 4 Argon796585534943444442
Qwen 3.8 Flash807385645754554747
DeepSeek V4 Pro666753645660746968
GLM-5.3487649575683616165
Kimi K3587343546083686767
MiniMax M3525744557461688883
Mistral Large 4505044476961678886
Nemotron 3 Ultra454942476865678386