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MQTT pricing
MQTT publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the software tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
MQTT 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Protocol | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where MQTT stops being free
Open Protocol, Free
- Publish-subscribe
- Lightweight
- QoS levels
No paid tier on record
MQTT lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full MQTT 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.
Core
- Publish-Subscribe
- Lightweight
- QoS Levels
- Retained Messages
Integrations
- IoT platforms
- Home automation
- Cloud services
- Edge devices
Platform
- Any platform support
- Embedded devices support
- Cloud support
- Edge computing support
People bring MQTT in for iot messaging, sensor data, real-time updates, device telemetry. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to MQTT are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for MQTT
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.
MQTT runs on any platform, embedded devices, cloud, edge computing, and is published by OASIS Open of Burlington, Massachusetts, USA. The full record is on the MQTT review.
MQTT pricing questions
- How much does MQTT cost?
- MQTT publishes a single tier, Open Protocol, at Free.
- Does MQTT have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Protocol tier costs nothing and covers publish-subscribe, lightweight, qos levels.
- What am I actually paying for with MQTT?
- The record lists 12 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for iot messaging, sensor data, real-time updates.
- Does MQTT 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 MQTT 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 MQTT against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to MQTT to make a useful price comparison.