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Comparison

ActiveMQ vs Inngest

No leader: the top candidate ActiveMQ has only 0.22 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

ActiveMQ full profile →Inngest full profile →
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ActiveMQ67
Inngest61
Score
Vioscale score
ActiveMQ67 / 100low · 22%updating
Inngest61 / 100medium · 74%updating
Pricing
Free tier
ActiveMQ✓
Inngest✓
Model
ActiveMQcommercial
Inngestcommercial
Price level
ActiveMQfree
Inngestlow
Transparent
ActiveMQ✓
Inngest✓
Integrations
Count
ActiveMQ–
Inngest5
Security
Disclosure policy
ActiveMQ–
Inngest✓
Hipaa
ActiveMQ–
Inngest✓
Scorecard
ActiveMQ6.9
Inngest–
Soc2
ActiveMQ–
Inngest✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
ActiveMQ–
Inngest✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
ActiveMQ7,528
Inngest2
Github stars
ActiveMQ2,451
Inngest5,765
Package downloads weekly
ActiveMQ–
Inngest1,746,391
Activity
Commits last 30d
ActiveMQ39
Inngest88
Release
Cadence days
ActiveMQ–
Inngest1
History
ActiveMQ18 items
Inngest20 items
License
Spdx
ActiveMQApache-2.0
InngestApache-2.0
Language
Primary
ActiveMQJava
InngestGo

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for message queues. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Messaging paradigm
ActiveMQPub/sub
InngestDurable execution
Correctness
Delivery guarantee
ActiveMQ-
InngestAt-least-once
Ordering guarantee
ActiveMQ-
Inngest-
Durability
Durable replayable log
ActiveMQ✓
Inngest✓
Message replay / rewind
ActiveMQ-
Inngest✓
Interop
Wire protocol
ActiveMQAMQP, STOMP, MQTT, JMS
InngestHTTPS
Kafka-protocol compatible
ActiveMQ-
Inngest✗
Scale
Partitioned horizontal scaling
ActiveMQ✓
Inngest✓
Geo / cross-region replication
ActiveMQ-
Inngest-
Consumption
Consumer groups / competing consumers
ActiveMQ-
Inngest✗
Dead-letter queue
ActiveMQ-
Inngest-
Deployment
Managed cloud offering exists
ActiveMQ✓
Inngest✓
Hosting
ActiveMQCloud + self-hosted
InngestCloud + self-hosted
Processing
Built-in stream processing
ActiveMQ-
Inngest✗

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

ActiveMQ

A message broker that facilitates asynchronous communication between services regardless of programming language, using standardized protocols. Supports high-availability configurations and can be deployed on-premises or through managed cloud services.

Independently observed

Inngest

Provides an execution layer that automatically handles durability, retries, and state management for background jobs, scheduled tasks, and AI workflows through code-based function definitions.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

ActiveMQ

Open sourceFree tier

Open source and free to download and use. Professional support available from commercial vendors.

as of verify ↗

Inngest

from $0.50/moSubscriptionFree tier

Free tier available. Pro from $99/mo + metered usage.

  • HobbyFree
    • 50k executions
    • 5 concurrent executions
    • 500 MB span data ingested
    • 10K scores
    • 500k events ingested
    • +6 more
  • ProStarting at $99/mo + metered usage
    • 1M executions included
    • Pay as you go up to 20M
    • 100+ concurrent executions
    • 5 GB span data ingested
    • 50K scores
    • +8 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Custom executions
    • Custom concurrent executions
    • Custom span data ingested
    • Custom scores
    • Custom events ingested
    • +5 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
ActiveMQ✗
Inngest✓
Windows
ActiveMQ✓
Inngest✗
Linux
ActiveMQ✓
Inngest✗
CLI
ActiveMQ✓
Inngest✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
ActiveMQ✓
Inngest✓
Self-hosted
ActiveMQ✓
Inngest✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

ActiveMQ

Not documented yet.

Inngest

5 total
  • Datadog
  • Vercel
  • OpenAI
  • Discord
  • Deno
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.