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Alternatives to Eclipse Mosquitto
23 networking tools sit alongside Eclipse Mosquitto in this directory. Below is what separates each from Eclipse Mosquitto on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 23
- With a free tier
- 15
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Eclipse Mosquitto starts at
- Free
Why people look past Eclipse Mosquitto
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Eclipse Mosquitto entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is only one tier
Eclipse Mosquitto publishes a single plan, Eclipse Mosquitto at Free. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Open-source message broker supporting AMQP and other protocols
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee; managed services billed separately model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
Lightweight messaging protocol for IoT devices
- Sold on a open-source model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
High-performance messaging system for cloud-native applications
Priced and rated the same as Eclipse Mosquitto on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Open source infrastructure monitoring, free at its core, with paid support and modules sold separately by Icinga GmbH
- Sold on a Open source core, with paid repository, module and support subscriptions sold separately model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
- 2 tiers to Eclipse Mosquitto's 1.
Free, community-driven network monitoring with commercial support sold by a third-party partner, not the project itself
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee; commercial support sold by a third-party partner model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
Software-defined mesh networking, free up to 10 devices and one network, then billed per device
- Sold on a Free up to 10 devices and 1 network, then per additional device per month model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
- 3 tiers to Eclipse Mosquitto's 1.
Every Eclipse Mosquitto alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eclipse Mosquitto (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | |
| RabbitMQRabbitMQ when you need clustering, persistent queues across nodes and commercial support. | Free | Open source, no licence fee; managed services billed separately | 1 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| MQTTMQTT as the protocol if you are still deciding on a standard rather than an implementation. | Free | Open-source | 1 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| NATSNATS if you want a small, fast broker but are not tied to the MQTT protocol. | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| Icinga | Free | Open source core, with paid repository, module and support subscriptions sold separately | 2 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| LibreNMS | Free | Open source, no licence fee; commercial support sold by a third-party partner | 1 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| ZeroTier | Free | Free up to 10 devices and 1 network, then per additional device per month | 3 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| pfSense | Free | Open source Community Edition, free; commercial Plus edition sold separately by Netgate | 2 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| OpenVPN | Free | Open source core is free; Access Server billed per simultaneous connection | 3 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| Catchpoint | Free | Free tier plus published entry tiers, enterprise quote-only | 4 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| NetBird | Free | Per user per month | 3 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| Nebula | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| Headscale | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| Twingate | Free | Per user per month | 3 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| Zabbix | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| Netdata | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| Domotz | On request | Per collector or per managed device per month | 2 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| Juniper Mist | On request | Quote, hardware plus required Wi-Fi Assurance subscription | 2 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| Auvik | On request | Quote, per managed device | 1 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| Kentik | On request | Annual contract only, per tier | 2 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| Cisco Meraki | On request | Quote, hardware plus mandatory recurring licence | 1 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| PRTG Network Monitor | On request | Per sensor tier, billed monthly on an annual contract | 5 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| ThousandEyes | On request | Quote, unit-based consumption on annual or prepaid contracts | 1 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| MikroTik RouterOS | On request | One-time purchase, per licence level | 2 | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Eclipse Mosquitto badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Eclipse Mosquitto is most often brought in for a home or building automation stack where the broker must run on the same small computer as everything else, an industrial gateway that buffers local telemetry and bridges selected topics to a cloud broker, local development and testing of mqtt clients without provisioning a cloud iot service, an air-gapped deployment where a broker with no licence server and no phone-home behaviour is a requirement. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Eclipse Mosquitto is broadly right and the question is cost, the Eclipse Mosquitto pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Networking category lists everything the directory holds, and best networking tools ranks them.
Eclipse Mosquitto runs on linux, windows, macos, docker. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Eclipse Mosquitto alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Eclipse Mosquitto?
- 23 other networking tools are listed in this directory, led by RabbitMQ, MQTT, NATS, Icinga. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Eclipse Mosquitto?
- 15 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: RabbitMQ, MQTT, NATS, Icinga, LibreNMS.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Eclipse Mosquitto?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Eclipse Mosquitto?
- Eclipse Mosquitto is most often brought in for a home or building automation stack where the broker must run on the same small computer as everything else, an industrial gateway that buffers local telemetry and bridges selected topics to a cloud broker, local development and testing of mqtt clients without provisioning a cloud iot service, an air-gapped deployment where a broker with no licence server and no phone-home behaviour is a requirement. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Eclipse Mosquitto?
- MQTT is recorded with an open-source licence model.
- How were these Eclipse Mosquitto alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Networking, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Eclipse Mosquitto against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Eclipse Mosquitto covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every networking tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Networking category, 23 tools beside Eclipse Mosquitto. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.