Compare the Top MQTT Brokers as of October 2025

What are MQTT Brokers?

MQTT brokers are message brokers that allow clients to communicate with each other in a publish/subscribe model. They are designed for machine-to-machine communication and can be used in many scenarios such as home automation, healthcare, and industrial control systems. MQTT brokers are typically lightweight and efficient, using minimal resources in order to facilitate real-time messaging. Compare and read user reviews of the best MQTT Brokers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    EMQX

    EMQX

    EMQ Technologies

    EMQX is the world's most scalable and reliable MQTT messaging platform designed by EMQ. It supports 100M concurrent IoT device connections per cluster while maintaining extremely high throughput and sub-millisecond latency. EMQX boasts more than 20,000 global users from over 50 countries, connecting more than 100M IoT devices worldwide, and is trusted by over 300 customers in mission-critical IoT scenarios, including well-known brands like HPE, VMware, Verifone, SAIC Volkswagen, and Ericsson. Our edge-to-cloud IoT connectivity solutions are flexible to meet the demands of various industries towards digital transformation, including connected vehicles, Industrial IoT, oil & gas, carrier, finance, smart energy, and smart cities.
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    Starting Price: $0.18 per hour
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    Open Automation Software

    Open Automation Software

    Open Automation Software

    Liberate your Industry 4.0 data with Open Automation Software IIoT platform for Windows and Linux. OAS is truly an unlimited IoT Gateway for Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi 4, Windows IoT Core, and Docker deployments. Create HMI visualization for web, WPF, and WinForm C# and VB .NET applications. Log data and alarms to SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, MySQL, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, MariaDB, SQLite, InfluxDB, and CSV files. MQTT Broker and Client interface along with cloud connectivity to Azure IoT and AWS IoT Gateway. Read and write data from remote Excel Workbooks. Alarm notification to email, SMS text, and voice messaging. .NET and REST API programmatic access. Allen Bradley ControlLogix, CompactLogix, GuardLogix, Micro800, MicroLogix, SLC 500, and PLC-5. Siemens S7-200, S7-300, S7-400, S7-1200, and S7-1500. Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, and Modbus ASCII for Master and Slave communications. OPTO-22, MTConnect, and OPC UA, OPC DA.
    Starting Price: $495 one-time payment
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    Pro Edition for Eclipse Mosquitto
    Pro Edition for Eclipse Mosquitto is a pro version of the world's #1 MQTT broker that quickly, stably, and reliably transmits data between IoT devices. Compared to the popular open-source version, our product offers professional MQTT broker and client administration and monitoring, MQTT High Availability, MQTT and REST API access, improved reliability, enhanced security, and professional support, making it an ideal solution for commercial use. Functionality highlights: Leverages Mosquitto Management Center to manage MQTT broker instances and clusters from a single interface. Ensures MQTT High Availability, making your solution available 24h. Ensures security through the use of client certificates and custom certificate authorities, application tokens with role-based access and expiry dates, and the use of the native Dynamic Security plugin to control access rights. Enables MQTT API and REST API to automate workflows and facilitate further integration with third-party systems.
    Starting Price: €23 per month
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    PubSub+ Platform
    Solace PubSub+ Platform helps enterprises design, deploy and manage event-driven systems across hybrid and multi-cloud and IoT environments so they can be more event-driven and operate in real-time. The PubSub+ Platform includes the powerful PubSub+ Event Brokers, event management capabilities with PubSub+ Event Portal, as well as monitoring and integration capabilities all available via a single cloud console. PubSub+ allows easy creation of an event mesh, an interconnected network of event brokers, allowing for seamless and dynamic data movement across highly distributed network environments. PubSub+ Event Brokers can be deployed as fully managed cloud services, self-managed software in private cloud or on-premises environments, or as turnkey hardware appliances for unparalleled performance and low TCO. PubSub+ Event Portal is a complimentary toolset for design and governance of event-driven systems including both Solace and Kafka-based event broker environments.
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    MQTTRoute

    MQTTRoute

    Bevywise Networks

    MQTT Broker built with passion to provide everything you need to deploy & scale your IoT application. REST API, dashboard and widgets, complete data store & more. A Quick snapshot of the IoT devices with client connection & disconnection and the most important data visualized with widgets on multiple dashboards. Alerts and coloured notations for the different value based triggers. Rules engine to transform MQTT Messages for effective M2M communication automation. Event & timer based rules to define & pattern match data and create actions. Secured publish and subscribe messaging model with two layer of security for device communication with SSL / TLS for the connectivity and device authentication with Username / password as an additional layer. Web security for data view. Broker High availability mode will provision multiple message broker in parallel to collect & publish messages from devices. This ensures 99.99% of data collection to be successful irrespective of any software.
    Starting Price: $299 one-time payment
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    Datacake

    Datacake

    Datacake

    With the Datacake platform, you can realize your Industrial IoT use cases, such as condition monitoring, data logging, real-time dashboards, and data analytics. Connect LoRaWAN or NB-IoT devices and gateways to the platform. Use MQTT or other interfaces. Use the Datacake IoT platform and Ready-to-Use LoRaWAN sensors to detect water levels in flowing or standing water, containers or other vessels. Use modern online maps and display the positions of your IoT assets (e.g. sensors, machines, or other things) in real-time on Interactive Maps. View the routes traveled by these devices in a historical view directly on the map. Upload images and place sensors directly in the floor plan of the building, hall plans, or other diagrams. Show your customers the conditions on-site in a simple way. Send data to your devices on Datacake via webhook. Payload decoders for HTTP requests are also available here.
    Starting Price: €1 per device per month
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    IBM Cloud Messages for RabbitMQ
    IBM® Messages for RabbitMQ on IBM Cloud® supports multiple messaging protocols as a broker. It lets you route, track and queue messages with customizable persistence levels, delivery settings and publish confirmations. Get to global scale with integrated, infrastructure-as-code tools, such as IBM Cloud Schematics with Terraform and Red Hat® Ansible® support at no additional charge. IBM® Key Protect lets you can bring your own encryption key. Each deployment supports private networking, in-database auditing and more. Messages for RabbitMQ allows you to scale disk and RAM independently to fit your requirements. Grow with elasticity just an API call away. The service is compatible with RabbitMQ APIs, data formats and clients. You can use Messages for RabbitMQ as a drop-in replacement for RabbitMQ. The standard configuration includes three data members configured for high availability. Deployments use multiple availability zones.
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    Cassandana

    Cassandana

    Cassandana

    Cassandana is an open-source MQTT message broker which is entirely written in Java. This project began its life as a fork of Moquette, and later underwent some cleanup, optimization and adding extra features. Now it’s ready to work as an enterprise message broker. Supports In-memory caching mechanism to reduce I/O operations. Supports In-memory caching mechanism to reduce I/O operations.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Anypoint MQ

    Anypoint MQ

    MuleSoft

    With Anypoint MQ, perform advanced asynchronous messaging — such as queueing and pub/sub — with fully hosted and managed cloud message queues and exchanges. As a service of Anypoint Platform™, Anypoint MQ supports environments, business groups, and role-based access control (RBAC) with enterprise-grade functionality.
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    Thingstream
    Thingstream is a cloud-based delivery platform and administration interface for enterprise IoT services. The Thingstream platform comprises IoT connectivity, security, enterprise-grade MQTT broker, visual programming, simple enterprise integration, and support for u‑blox global positioning hardware. Bearer-agnostic connectivity and management for cellular, LoRaWAN, and IP-based IoT devices. Safeguarding IoT data for enterprises by enabling devices to communicate sensitive data securely. Improving accuracy and providing increased location reliability and enhanced GNSS positioning indoors. Connect everything - Easily connect and manage IoT devices, APIs and online services. Data Flow Manager - Decision making and data management at the network edge with a simple drag-and-drop programming interface. Simple enterprise integration - Ready-made connectors for cloud-based services including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, TIBCO eFTL and more.
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    ActiveMQ

    ActiveMQ

    Apache Software Foundation

    Apache ActiveMQ® is the most popular open source, multi-protocol, Java-based message broker. It supports industry standard protocols so users get the benefits of client choices across a broad range of languages and platforms. Connect from clients written in JavaScript, C, C++, Python, .Net, and more. Integrate your multi-platform applications using the ubiquitous AMQP protocol. Exchange messages between your web applications using STOMP over websockets. Manage your IoT devices using MQTT. Support your existing JMS infrastructure and beyond. ActiveMQ offers the power and flexibility to support any messaging use-case. There are currently two "flavors" of ActiveMQ available - the well-known "classic" broker and the "next generation" broker code-named Artemis. Once Artemis reaches a sufficient level of feature parity with the "Classic" code-base it will become the next major version of ActiveMQ. Initial migration documentation is available as well as a development roadmap for Artemis.
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    IBM Integration Bus
    You can use IBM® Integration Bus to connect applications together, regardless of the message formats or protocols that they support. This connectivity means that your diverse applications can interact and exchange data with other applications in a flexible, dynamic, and extensible infrastructure. It supports a broad range of data formats: binary formats (C and COBOL), XML, and industry standards (including SWIFT, EDI, and HIPAA). Patterns provide reusable solutions that encapsulate a tested approach to solving a common architecture, design, or deployment task in a particular context. You can use them unchanged or modify them to suit your own requirements. Message flows describe your application connectivity logic, which defines the exact path that your data takes in the integration node, and therefore the processing that is applied to it by the message nodes in that flow.
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    FairCom MQ

    FairCom MQ

    FairCom

    ​FairCom MQ combines the benefits of an MQTT broker with the reliability of a dedicated embedded database. Its core persistence layer guarantees safe data transfer between subscribers and publishers, while the no-code configuration capabilities allow easy cross-communication for app development and IoT devices. FairCom MQ frees your data, allowing you to easily gather, push, and pull data wherever you need. You can add new processing capabilities without affecting existing integrations using FairCom MQ’s messaging systems, easily sending your data wherever needed. With guaranteed delivery, even when devices go offline, using MQ’s embedded database, and store-and-forward capabilities means you never miss a message. Eliminate bottlenecks and improve decision-making with parallel processing’s real-time monitoring and notifications between applications. Easily run our plug-and-play broker with simple JSON configurations to keep operations accessible.
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