What is RabbitMQ?
A powerful, enterprise-grade open-source messaging and streaming broker that enables efficient, reliable and versatile communication for distributed microservices, real-time data, and IoT applications.
RabbitMQ 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 open source, with commercial Tanzu RabbitMQ offering available
Open Source
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Tanzu RabbitMQ
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What RabbitMQ does
The capabilities that matter for message queues, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Messaging paradigm
- Queue
- Delivery guarantee
- At-least-once
- Ordering guarantee
- Per-partition
- Durable replayable log
- ✓
- Message replay / rewind
- -
- Wire protocol
- AMQP 1.0, MQTT 5.0
- Kafka-protocol compatible
- ✗
- Partitioned horizontal scaling
- ✓
- Geo / cross-region replication
- ✓
- Consumer groups / competing consumers
- -
- Dead-letter queue
- -
- Managed cloud offering exists
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Built-in stream processing
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
RabbitMQ alternatives
Other message queues we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Apache KafkaDistributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines and streaming analyticslow · 26%
- NATSlow · 30%
- Temporalmedium · 59%
- RedpandaHigh-performance Kafka-compatible streaming platform for real-time data and AI agentslow · 45%
- WarpStream10x Cheaper Than Kafkamedium · 62%
- Apache KafkaDistributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines and streaming analyticslow · 34%
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 RabbitMQ, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package Downloads | 85 | 0.15 | 12.9 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 63 | 0.10 | 6.6 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 99 | 0.06 | 5.7 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 0.07 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 78 | 0.03 | 2.3 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 0.07 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.17 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 0.13 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 0.07 | 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.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","ordering":"per_partition","paradigm":"queue","protocol":"AMQP 1.0, MQTT 5.0","persistent_log":true,"geo_replication":true,"kafka_compatible":false,"managed_offering":true,"stream_processing":true,"delivery_guarantee":"at_least_once","horizontal_scaling":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | JavaScript | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | BSD-3-Clause | mediumsource · 2026-07-31 · 63% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |