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Eclipse Mosquitto pricing
Eclipse Mosquitto publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the networking tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, Eclipse Mosquitto pricing is free. 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
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Eclipse Mosquitto 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.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eclipse Mosquitto | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where Eclipse Mosquitto stops being free
Eclipse Mosquitto, Free
- Eclipse Public License 2.0 with Eclipse Distribution Licence
- MQTT 5.0, 3.1.1 and 3.1
- No client or message limits beyond your hardware
- Community support only
- No commercial support offering from the project
No paid tier on record
Eclipse Mosquitto lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Eclipse Mosquitto 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 5.0 support
- Very small footprint
- Bridging
- WebSockets listener
- Command line clients
- Dynamic security plugin
People bring Eclipse Mosquitto 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. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Eclipse Mosquitto 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.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eclipse Mosquitto (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| MikroTik RouterOS | On request | One-time purchase, per licence level | - | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| Cisco Meraki | On request | quote, hardware plus mandatory recurring licence | - | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| PRTG Network Monitor | On request | Per sensor tier, billed monthly on an annual contract | - | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| OpenVPN | Free | Open source core is free; Access Server billed per simultaneous connection | - | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| Icinga | Free | Open source core, with paid repository, module and support subscriptions sold separately | - | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
| pfSense | Free | Open source Community Edition, free; commercial Plus edition sold separately by Netgate | - | vs Eclipse Mosquitto |
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 Eclipse Mosquitto badges page.
Before you pay for Eclipse Mosquitto
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: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Eclipse Mosquitto runs on linux, windows, macos, docker, and is published by Eclipse Foundation of Brussels, Belgium. The full record is on the Eclipse Mosquitto review, and the rest of the category is under best networking tools.
Eclipse Mosquitto pricing questions
- How much does Eclipse Mosquitto cost?
- Eclipse Mosquitto publishes a single tier, Eclipse Mosquitto, at Free.
- Does Eclipse Mosquitto have a free plan?
- Yes. The Eclipse Mosquitto tier costs nothing and covers eclipse public license 2.0 with eclipse distribution licence, mqtt 5.0, 3.1.1 and 3.1, no client or message limits beyond your hardware.
- Which networking tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside Eclipse Mosquitto have a free tier: OpenVPN, Icinga, pfSense.
- What am I actually paying for with Eclipse Mosquitto?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is 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.
- Does Eclipse Mosquitto charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 Eclipse Mosquitto 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 Eclipse Mosquitto 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 Eclipse Mosquitto covering price, platforms and features.