EMQX
8.1#1 in message broker softwareFrom $234 a monthFree planWebAPILinuxmacOS
VisitEMQX vs VerneMQ
What both publish
| Fact | EMQX | VerneMQ |
|---|---|---|
| Company | EMQ says it is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, and was founded in 2017 after the EMQX project launched in 2013. | Octavo Labs AG is identified as the successor company of Erlio GmbH, which invented VerneMQ; the site lists its address in Brugg, Switzerland. |
| 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. | VerneMQ is built for Linux and also runs on Mac OS X; the download page says Windows is not currently supported due to LevelDB code. |
| Headquarters | Menlo Park, California, United States | Brugg, Switzerland |
| Integrations | EMQX Enterprise provides more than 40 out-of-box integrations including Kafka, AWS RDS, MongoDB, Oracle, SAP and time-series databases. | Listed integrations and interfaces include bridges, WebSockets, Graphite, Prometheus, Lua scripting, webhooks, and an HTTP Administration API. |
| Security | Security features include TLS/mTLS, X.509 certificate authentication, access controls, and audit logs. | The feature list includes TLS (SSL) encryption. |
EMQX plans
- Dedicated Flex$234 a month
- BYOCPriced on request
- ServerlessFree
- Enterprise—
VerneMQ plans
- Production subscriptionPriced 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 VerneMQ if…
VerneMQ suits teams running MQTT infrastructure on Linux or other self-hosted systems. It is relevant for IoT, mobile messaging, and smart-infrastructure projects needing clustering and configurable authentication.