How much does VerneMQ cost?

VerneMQ publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Source build up to On request for Commercial support. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Source build and Binary packages and Docker images on VerneMQ?

Binary packages and Docker images costs On request against Free, and adds covered by the vernemq eula, not apache 2.0, yearly usage subscription expected for commercial use, official builds and docker images, price not published, arranged with octavo labs.

Which databases tools can I use without paying?

5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside VerneMQ have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.

Does VerneMQ charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 VerneMQ 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 VerneMQ against before paying?

The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with VerneMQ covering price, platforms and features.

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VerneMQ pricing

VerneMQ publishes 3 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, VerneMQ pricing is free across 3 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
Model: Quote
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

VerneMQ 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.

VerneMQ pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Source build	Free	4	Entry tier
Binary packages and Docker images	On request	4	Priced on request
Commercial support	On request	4	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.

Source build

Free

The entry tier. It covers apache 2.0 licensed source from github, full clustering and plugin capability, you compile and package it yourself, community support only.

Binary packages and Docker images

On request

Over Source build, this tier adds:

Covered by the VerneMQ EULA, not Apache 2.0
Yearly usage subscription expected for commercial use
Official builds and Docker images
Price not published, arranged with Octavo Labs

Commercial support

On request

Over Binary packages and Docker images, this tier adds:

Evaluation, customisation and operations assistance
Custom development
Long-term maintenance agreements
Quoted per engagement

Where VerneMQ stops being free

Source build, Free

Apache 2.0 licensed source from GitHub
Full clustering and plugin capability
You compile and package it yourself
Community support only

No paid tier on record

VerneMQ lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full VerneMQ 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

Erlang/OTP clustering
MQTT 5.0 support
Plugin system
Backpressure handling
Bridge support
Metrics export
MQTT over WebSockets
Pluggable auth backends

People bring VerneMQ in for an industrial operator that wants an mqtt broker with predictable memory behaviour and no data integration features it will not use, a team building from source to stay strictly under apache 2.0 terms with no vendor licence entanglement, a deployment needing custom authentication logic implemented as a plugin in lua or over a webhook, an organisation that wants a broker maintained by a small european company rather than by a vendor that keeps changing licences. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to VerneMQ are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Databases

Too few databases 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.

VerneMQ entry price against other Databases tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
VerneMQ (this page)	Free	quote	-
Canary Labs	$3000/year	Per tag band per year	-	vs VerneMQ
Presto	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs VerneMQ
Privacera	On request	quote	-	vs VerneMQ
Dremio	Free, then $0.2/hour	Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed	-	vs VerneMQ
Solace PubSub+	Free	quote	-	vs VerneMQ
StarRocks	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs VerneMQ

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 VerneMQ badges page.

Before you pay for VerneMQ

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: 3 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.

VerneMQ runs on linux, docker, macos, kubernetes, and is published by Octavo Labs AG of Zurich, Switzerland. The full record is on the VerneMQ review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.

VerneMQ pricing on the vendor's own site

VerneMQ pricing questions

How much does VerneMQ cost?: VerneMQ publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Source build up to On request for Commercial support. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does VerneMQ have a free plan?: Yes. The Source build tier costs nothing and covers apache 2.0 licensed source from github, full clustering and plugin capability, you compile and package it yourself.
What is the difference between Source build and Binary packages and Docker images on VerneMQ?: Binary packages and Docker images costs On request against Free, and adds covered by the vernemq eula, not apache 2.0, yearly usage subscription expected for commercial use, official builds and docker images, price not published, arranged with octavo labs.
Which databases tools can I use without paying?: 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside VerneMQ have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
What am I actually paying for with VerneMQ?: The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for an industrial operator that wants an mqtt broker with predictable memory behaviour and no data integration features it will not use, a team building from source to stay strictly under apache 2.0 terms with no vendor licence entanglement, a deployment needing custom authentication logic implemented as a plugin in lua or over a webhook.
Does VerneMQ charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 VerneMQ 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 VerneMQ against before paying?: The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with VerneMQ covering price, platforms and features.