HiveMQ
An event-driven data streaming platform that enables real-time industrial operations powered by MQTT, built to support AI-driven decision-making at scale
- Also known as
- hivemq
Available worldwide · Popular in: US, EU
What is HiveMQ?
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.
HiveMQ pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier available. Starter from $0.34/hour + $0.80/million messages. Enterprise custom.
Serverless Free
FreeShared broker for evaluation and testing
- connections
- 100
- throughput_monthly
- 10 GB
- 100 connections
- 10 GB/month throughput
- Shared MQTT broker
- TLS encryption
- RBAC
- Community support
- No uptime SLA
Starter
Production-ready platform with clustering and high availability
- throughput
- 1 MB/sec
- connections
- 10,000
- 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
Enterprise
Contact salesCustom platform for large-scale deployments with distributed data intelligence
- 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
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (5)
Independently observed- Kafka
- Amazon Kinesis
- AWS CloudWatch
- Prometheus
- Graphite
HiveMQ alternatives
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Compare HiveMQ
Side by side against other realtime messaging infra, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for HiveMQ, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.08 | 8.4 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 65 | 0.07 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.07 | 3.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 22 | 0.04 | 0.9 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-19 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sla pct | 99.99 | mediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60% |