# RabbitMQ

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/rabbitmq
- **Category:** Message Queues
- **Homepage:** https://www.rabbitmq.com
- **Also known as:** rabbitmq
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-05T13:33:51.006Z

## Vioscale score

**72 / 100**, confidence 26% (low).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 80 | 0.047 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| reliability | 0 | 0.175 | 0 | - |
| capabilities | 74.7 | 0.07 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| github_stars | 78.1 | 0.029 | 2.3 | ✓ |
| integrations | 0 | 0.094 | 0 | - |
| github_activity | 63.1 | 0.105 | 6.6 | ✓ |
| release_cadence | 98.9 | 0.058 | 5.7 | ✓ |
| security_posture | 0 | 0.129 | 0 | - |
| package_downloads | 84.6 | 0.152 | 12.9 | ✓ |
| pricing_transparency | 25 | 0.07 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| stackoverflow_activity | 0 | 0.07 | 0 | - |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-05, [verify at source](https://www.rabbitmq.com). Independently observed._

Hybrid · Free tier

> Free open source, with commercial Tanzu RabbitMQ offering available

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Open Source | Free | ✓ | - |
| Tanzu RabbitMQ | Contact sales | - | - |

### Open Source

Free and open source under Mozilla Public License 2.0

### Tanzu RabbitMQ (Contact sales)

Enterprise-grade commercial offering with 24/7 expert support, longer lifecycle, disaster recovery, cloud cost savings, and industry compliance

## About

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.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS, On-premise, Self-hosted

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for Message Queues. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Core** | |
| Messaging paradigm | Queue |
| **Correctness** | |
| Delivery guarantee | At-least-once |
| Ordering guarantee | Per-partition |
| **Durability** | |
| Durable replayable log | ✓ |
| Message replay / rewind | - |
| **Interop** | |
| Wire protocol | AMQP 1.0, MQTT 5.0 |
| Kafka-protocol compatible | ✗ |
| **Scale** | |
| Partitioned horizontal scaling | ✓ |
| **Consumption** | |
| Consumer groups / competing consumers | - |
| Dead-letter queue | - |
| **Scale** | |
| Geo / cross-region replication | ✓ |
| **Deployment** | |
| Managed cloud offering exists | ✓ |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Processing** | |
| Built-in stream processing | ✓ |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### activity

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | [link](https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/pulse) | 2026-08-01 | 65% (medium) |

### adoption

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| adoption.github_stars | 13,771 | [link](https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server) | 2026-08-01 | 90% (high) |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 3,256,280 | [link](https://pypistats.org/packages/pika) | 2026-07-31 | 60% (medium) |

### language

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| language.primary | JavaScript | [link](https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server) | 2026-08-01 | 90% (high) |

### license

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| license.spdx | BSD-3-Clause | [link](https://pypi.org/pypi/pika/json) | 2026-07-31 | 63% (medium) |

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.model | commercial | [link](https://www.rabbitmq.com) | 2026-08-05 | 70% (medium) |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://www.rabbitmq.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | low | [link](https://www.rabbitmq.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | no | [link](https://www.rabbitmq.com) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |

### release

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| release.cadence_days | 2 | [link](https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server/releases) | 2026-08-01 | 70% (medium) |

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