# Eclipse Mosquitto vs EMQX

**Leader by Vioscale score:** EMQX

| Attribute | Eclipse Mosquitto | EMQX |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 39.7 (16% (low)) | 53.8 (61% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 13 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 11,158 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | - | An MQTT-based infrastructure platform that enables real-time communication between numerous IoT devices and cloud systems, with built-in data processing, 50+ integrations to enterprise backends, and AI agent capabilities for autonomous device monitoring and control. |
| integrations.count | - | 50 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"Microsoft Azure"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"Oracle Cloud"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Google Gemini"},{"name":"ClickHouse"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Pulsar"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"InfluxDB"},{"name":"TDengine"},{"name":"TimescaleDB"},{"name":"BigQuery"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Azure Blob"},{"name":"Confluent Cloud"},{"name":"Webhook"}]` |
| language.primary | C | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true,"linux":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://mosquitto.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T18:21:59.744Z"}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Free tier available. Tiered subscription model with different SLA levels (99.9% and 99.99%). Pricing not transparently displayed.","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.emqx.com/zh/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T18:25:14.074Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.transparent | - | no |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.99 |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Feclipse-mosquitto%2Fmosquitto&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Realtime Messaging Infra)

| Capability | Eclipse Mosquitto | EMQX |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 2026-09-01T16:48:22.837Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*