EMQX
8.1#1 in message broker softwareFrom $234 a monthFree planWebAPILinuxmacOS
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What both publish
| Fact | EMQX | RabbitMQ |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | EMQX can run in Docker, through a Kubernetes Operator, or from packages on Red Hat, CentOS, Rocky Linux, Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, macOS and Linux. | RabbitMQ can run on cloud infrastructure, on-premises, local machines, physical or virtual hardware, containers and IaaS providers. |
| Founded | 2017 | 2007 |
| Integrations | EMQX Enterprise provides more than 40 out-of-box integrations including Kafka, AWS RDS, MongoDB, Oracle, SAP and time-series databases. | RabbitMQ provides client libraries for Java, .NET/C#, Erlang, and other languages, and offers a community Docker image and Kubernetes operators. |
| Notable news | EMQ announced EMQX Enterprise 6.3.0, an LTS release focused on stronger security defaults, feature gates and operational controls, on September 3, 2026. | RabbitMQ 4.3, announced 23 April 2026, added 32 strict quorum-queue priority levels, delayed retries, consumer timeouts, Khepri metadata storage and AMQP 1.0 improvements. |
| Protocols | The platform supports MQTT 3.1.1 and 5.0, MQTT over WebSocket and QUIC, plus NATS, CoAP and LwM2M gateways. | RabbitMQ supports AMQP 0-9-1, AMQP 1.0, MQTT, STOMP, RabbitMQ Streams, and browser communication over WebSocket. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.6 out of 5 from 23 reviews | 4.1 out of 5 from 46 reviews |
| Rating on Gartner Peer Insights | 4.5 out of 5 from 6 reviews | 4.6 out of 5 from 12 ratings |
| Security controls | Security features include TLS/mTLS, X.509 certificates, JWT authentication, fine-grained ACL/RBAC authorization and audit logs. | RabbitMQ documents authentication, authorization, topic permissions, TLS certificate mechanisms, LDAP and OAuth 2.0 backends. |
EMQX plans
- Dedicated Flex$234 a month
- BYOCPriced on request
- ServerlessFree
- Enterprise—
RabbitMQ plans
- Open-source RabbitMQFree
- Open Source RabbitMQ ServerFree
- Tanzu RabbitMQPriced on request
- VMware Tanzu RabbitMQPriced on request
Pick EMQX if…
EMQX suits teams building IoT systems that need MQTT messaging alongside data processing, protocol gateways, and integrations. Its deployment choices and management API may also suit teams that want to operate the platform through containers, Kubernetes, or installation packages.
Pick RabbitMQ if…
You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.