socket.io
Socket.IO
Who runs Socket.IO, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest real-time messaging library alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Part of automattic.com
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Ably
Measured from Socket.IO’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Socket.IO01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Socket.IO
Socket.IO socket.io
Wikidata: JavaScript library for realtime web applications
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Part of
- automattic.com Runs this domain’s DNS
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Socket.IO tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Socket.IO’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Socket.IO
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Socket.IO, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Ably | Realtime platform for chat, AI and live apps at scale
Ably is the realtime platform built for scale and reliability. Power live chat, messaging, collaborative apps, and AI experiences that never drop.
Very close - 02
Build, manage, & optimize real-time apps at scale | PubNub
Power your real-time app with PubNub - the world's largest pub/sub network. Scale to 3 trillion API calls/month, with <30ms global delivery. Start building now!
Very close - 03
Pusher | Leader In Realtime Technologies
Simple, scalable and reliable. Hosted realtime APIs loved by developers and trusted by giants. Build live dashboards, notifications, geotracking, chat and more.
Very close - 04
React
React is the library for web and native user interfaces. Build user interfaces out of individual pieces called components written in JavaScript. React is designed to let you seamlessly combine components written by independent people, teams, and organizations.
Very close - 05
Svelte • Web development for the rest of us
Web development for the rest of us
Very close - 06
Lit
Simple. Fast. Web Components.
Very close - 07
Lodash
A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras.
Very close - 08
jQuery
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Very close - 09
Node.js — Run JavaScript Everywhere
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
Very close - 10
Home • Angular
The web development framework for building modern apps.
Very close - 11
AMP - a web component framework to easily create user-first web experiences - amp.dev
Whether you are a publisher, e-commerce company, storyteller, advertiser or email sender, AMP makes it easy to create great experiences on the web. Use AMP to build websites, stories, ads and emails.
Very close - 12
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Very close - 13
Learn JavaScript, React, and TypeScript to Node.js, Fullstack, and Backend | Master.dev
Advance your web development and software engineering skills from front-end to full-stack!
Very close - 14
TypeDoc
Documentation for TypeDoc
Very close - 15
Use JSDoc: Index
Official documentation for JSDoc.
Very close - 16
Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework | Vue.js
Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework
Very close - 17
Skia
2D Graphics Library
Very close - 18
Symfony, High Performance PHP Framework for Web Development
Symfony is a web framework and a set of reusable PHP packages to build web applications, APIs, microservices and CLI apps.
Very close - 19
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Very close - 20
Codecourse
Practical screencasts for developers. Learn Laravel, Livewire, Inertia, Vue and more.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Socket.IO’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Socket.IO uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Socket.IO adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 44 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Socket.IO’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on socket.io 16/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on socket.io 10/20
- Google Workspace · not on socket.io 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on socket.io 7/20
- React · not on socket.io 5/20
- Netlify · not on socket.io 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on socket.io 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on socket.io 3/20
- Fastly · not on socket.io 3/20
- Next.js · not on socket.io 3/20
- nginx · not on socket.io 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on socket.io 3/20
- Vercel 3/20
- Google Cloud DNS · not on socket.io 3/20
- jQuery · not on socket.io 3/20
- Apple Business · not on socket.io 2/20