RabbitMQ is the most widely deployed open-source message broker supporting AMQP, MQTT, and STOMP protocols for reliable asynchronous messaging.
Pricing
Free + managed from $29/month
Reviews
3,000+
Founded
2007
Team Size
1-10 employees
Current Deal
Free and open source
About RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ is a lightweight, open-source message broker that implements Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) and supports multiple messaging protocols including MQTT and STOMP.
The broker provides flexible routing through exchanges and bindings, supporting direct, topic, fanout, and headers exchange types. It offers message persistence, delivery acknowledgments, and publisher confirms for reliability.
RabbitMQ supports clustering for high availability and federation/shovel plugins for distributed deployments. Management UI and HTTP API provide monitoring and administration capabilities.
RabbitMQ excels at traditional message queuing patterns and is widely used for microservices communication, task queues, and event-driven architectures. CloudAMQP provides managed hosting.
Pricing
Free + managed from $29/month
RabbitMQ: Free and open source (MPL 2.0)
CloudAMQP: Free tier (Little Lemur), paid from $29/month
VMware RabbitMQ: Commercial support available
