How much does HiveMQ cost?

HiveMQ publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Community Edition up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Community Edition and Launch on HiveMQ?

Launch costs $299/month against Free, and adds ten thousand connections, five hundred messages per second, single broker deployment, clustering, tls and authentication.

Is the Enterprise plan on HiveMQ worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is priced by connections and throughput, multi-broker and multi-site deployments, distributed data intelligence, silver, gold or platinum support. It costs On request against $299/month for Launch. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which networking tools can I use without paying?

3 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside HiveMQ have a free tier: OpenVPN, Icinga, pfSense.

Does HiveMQ charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these HiveMQ prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare HiveMQ against before paying?

The closest networking tools in this directory are MikroTik RouterOS, Cisco Meraki, PRTG Network Monitor, OpenVPN. Each has a side-by-side comparison with HiveMQ covering price, platforms and features.

Networking · pricing

HiveMQ pricing

HiveMQ publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 31 August 2026, HiveMQ pricing is free, then $299/month across 4 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free, then $299/month
Model: Per month by connections and throughput
Tiers: 4
Free tier: Yes

HiveMQ plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

HiveMQ pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Community Edition	Free	5	Entry tier
Launch	$299/month	6	+$299/month, 6 more features
Run	$499/month	5	+$200/month, 3 more features
Enterprise	On request	5	Priced on request

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Community Edition

Free

The entry tier. It covers apache 2.0 licence, mqtt 3.1.1 and 5 support, single broker, no clustering, no enterprise extensions, control centre or data hub, community support.

Launch

$299/month

Over Community Edition, this tier adds:

Ten thousand connections
Five hundred messages per second
Single broker deployment
Clustering, TLS and authentication
Data Hub included
Community support level

Run

$499/month

Over Launch, this tier adds:

One thousand messages per second
All enterprise extensions and Data Hub
Silver support

Enterprise

On request

Over Run, this tier adds:

Priced by connections and throughput
Multi-broker and multi-site deployments
Distributed data intelligence
Silver, Gold or Platinum support
Custom limits

Where HiveMQ stops being free

Community Edition, Free

Apache 2.0 licence
MQTT 3.1.1 and 5 support
Single broker, no clustering
No enterprise extensions, control centre or Data Hub
Community support

Launch, $299/month

The first thing you pay for:

Ten thousand connections
Five hundred messages per second
Single broker deployment
Clustering, TLS and authentication
Data Hub included
Community support level

What the product covers

The full HiveMQ feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

MQTT 5 and 3.1.1
Native clustering
Data Hub
Extension framework
Enterprise bridges
Control centre

People bring HiveMQ in for a connected vehicle fleet where devices drop off the network for hours and sessions must survive, an industrial plant bridging mqtt telemetry into kafka without writing and operating the bridge, a utility that needs message-level schema validation so one faulty firmware release cannot corrupt the data lake, an iot project that needs a self-managed broker price for a budget submission without entering a sales process. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to HiveMQ are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Networking

Too few networking tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

HiveMQ entry price against other Networking tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
HiveMQ (this page)	Free, then $299/month	Per month by connections and throughput	-
MikroTik RouterOS	On request	One-time purchase, per licence level	-	vs HiveMQ
Cisco Meraki	On request	quote, hardware plus mandatory recurring licence	-	vs HiveMQ
PRTG Network Monitor	On request	Per sensor tier, billed monthly on an annual contract	-	vs HiveMQ
OpenVPN	Free	Open source core is free; Access Server billed per simultaneous connection	-	vs HiveMQ
Icinga	Free	Open source core, with paid repository, module and support subscriptions sold separately	-	vs HiveMQ
pfSense	Free	Open source Community Edition, free; commercial Plus edition sold separately by Netgate	-	vs HiveMQ

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the HiveMQ badges page.

Before you pay for HiveMQ

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

HiveMQ runs on linux, docker, kubernetes, web, and is published by HiveMQ of Landshut, Bavaria, Germany. The full record is on the HiveMQ review, and the rest of the category is under best networking tools.

HiveMQ pricing on the vendor's own site

HiveMQ pricing questions

How much does HiveMQ cost?: HiveMQ publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Community Edition up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does HiveMQ have a free plan?: Yes. The Community Edition tier costs nothing and covers apache 2.0 licence, mqtt 3.1.1 and 5 support, single broker, no clustering. Paying starts at $299/month for Launch.
What is the difference between Community Edition and Launch on HiveMQ?: Launch costs $299/month against Free, and adds ten thousand connections, five hundred messages per second, single broker deployment, clustering, tls and authentication.
Is the Enterprise plan on HiveMQ worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is priced by connections and throughput, multi-broker and multi-site deployments, distributed data intelligence, silver, gold or platinum support. It costs On request against $299/month for Launch. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which networking tools can I use without paying?: 3 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside HiveMQ have a free tier: OpenVPN, Icinga, pfSense.
What am I actually paying for with HiveMQ?: The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a connected vehicle fleet where devices drop off the network for hours and sessions must survive, an industrial plant bridging mqtt telemetry into kafka without writing and operating the bridge, a utility that needs message-level schema validation so one faulty firmware release cannot corrupt the data lake.
Does HiveMQ charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these HiveMQ prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare HiveMQ against before paying?: The closest networking tools in this directory are MikroTik RouterOS, Cisco Meraki, PRTG Network Monitor, OpenVPN. Each has a side-by-side comparison with HiveMQ covering price, platforms and features.