# Ably vs HiveMQ

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Ably

| Attribute | Ably | HiveMQ |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 73.7 (61% (medium)) | 67.7 (62% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A distributed messaging platform for building interactive features like chat, notifications, and collaboration. Provides fault-tolerant message delivery with guaranteed ordering, automatic network recovery, and multi-region redundancy. | HiveMQ is a real-time data streaming platform built on MQTT that provides reliable, high-performance connectivity for industrial systems and AI applications. It supports both fully-managed cloud deployments and self-hosted installations, enabling enterprises to move operational data reliably at enterprise scale. |
| integrations.count | 17 | 5 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"AWS Lambda"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure Functions"},{"name":"Google Cloud Functions"},{"name":"Cloudflare Workers"},{"name":"AWS Kinesis"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"AMQP"},{"name":"AWS SQS"},{"name":"Pulsar"},{"name":"Zapier"},{"name":"IFTTT"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"BigQuery"},{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"Netlify"},{"name":"HTTP Webhooks"}]` | `[{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Amazon Kinesis"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Graphite"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"GB","primaryMarkets":["GB","US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":["GB","US","AU"],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"ios":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"android":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free","features":["All Ably products included","Community and email support","No commitment"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Proof of concept development","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"message_size":"64KiB","message_storage":"1 day","concurrent_connections":"200"}},{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$29/month plus usage charges","features":["1 day email support SLA"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000000,"unit":"messages"},"kind":"metered","amount":2.5,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000000,"unit":"channel_minutes"},"kind":"metered","amount":1,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.25,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Production deployment","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$399/month plus usage charges","features":["4 hour email support SLA","Datadog lite monitoring"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":399,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000000,"unit":"messages"},"kind":"metered","amount":2.5,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000000,"unit":"channel_minutes"},"kind":"metered","amount":1,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.25,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Business critical workloads","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["24/7 mission critical support","99.999% uptime SLA","Committed use discounts","Datadog integration","SSO and SCIM","CNAME custom domain","Architectural guidance","Regional data routing","Dedicated cluster"],"contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier available. Paid plans start at $29/month with per-million message and channel minute billing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ably.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T18:25:09.786Z","startingPrice":{"amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Serverless Free","summary":"Free; shared infrastructure","features":["100 connections","10 GB/month throughput","Shared MQTT broker","TLS encryption","RBAC","Community support","No uptime SLA"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Shared broker for evaluation and testing","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"connections":"100","throughput_monthly":"10 GB"}},{"free":false,"name":"Starter","summary":"$0.34/hour + $0.80/million messages; 15-day free trial","features":["Production-ready MQTT with clustering and high availability","1 MB/sec max throughput","10,000 connections","TLS encryption, authentication, advanced authorization","Data Streaming Extensions","99.95% uptime SLA","Silver support tier"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0.34,"period":"hour","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000000,"unit":"messages"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.8,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Production-ready platform with clustering and high availability","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"throughput":"1 MB/sec","connections":"10,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing based on capacity (connections + throughput)","features":["Complete HiveMQ Platform","Custom connection and throughput limits","Distributed Data Intelligence","Agentic AI for Operations (coming soon)","Up to 99.99% uptime SLA","Gold or Platinum support tier","Custom cloud infrastructure and deployment options"],"description":"Custom platform for large-scale deployments with distributed data intelligence","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier available. Starter from $0.34/hour + $0.80/million messages. Enterprise custom.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.hivemq.com/pricing/fully-managed/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T18:27:03.839Z","freeTrialDays":15,"startingPrice":{"amount":0.34,"period":"hour","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["hour","month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | mid | low |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":29,"currency":"USD"}` | `{"amount":0.34,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.999 | 99.99 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |

## Capabilities (Realtime Messaging Infra)

| Capability | Ably | HiveMQ |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Presence | - | - |
| Message history replay | - | - |
| Delivery guarantee | - | - |
| Global edge network | - | - |
| Scaling model | - | - |
| Offline reconnect catchup | - | - |
| Push notification bridge | - | - |
| Auth model | - | - |
| Self hostable | - | - |
| Mqtt support | - | - |
| Deployment | - | - |
| Pricing model | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:20:45.108Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*