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At a Glance
Market Segments
Small-Business (34.9% of reviews)
Enterprise (40.9% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Pay As You Go Per Year
Confluent
Star Rating
(112)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (34.9% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about ConfluentEMQX
Star Rating
(22)4.6 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (40.9% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Not enough data
Entry-Level Pricing
Pay As You Go Per Year
Browse all 5 pricing plansConfluent vs EMQX
- Reviewers felt that EMQX meets the needs of their business better than Confluent.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, Confluent and EMQX provide similar levels of assistance.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of EMQX over Confluent.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Confluent
No pricing availableEMQX
EMQX Cloud （Standard）
Pay As You Go
Per Year
NO Coding, Saas & On-premise solution.Billed Hourly: Start at $ 0.18 per hour
- Scale as you need, pay as you go
- Flexible and rich IoT data integration up to 30+ choices
- Run in 17 regions across AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure
Free Trial
Confluent
Free Trial is available
EMQX
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.7
87
9.0
10
Ease of Use
8.4
88
9.2
10
Ease of Setup
8.2
38
Not enough data
Ease of Admin
8.1
38
Not enough data
Quality of Support
8.3
81
8.3
10
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.5
35
Not enough data
Product Direction (% positive)
8.9
88
10.0
10
Features by Category
Data
8.8
63
Not enough data
8.8
59
Not enough data
8.8
63
Not enough data
9.0
63
Not enough data
Analytics
8.3
57
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
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Integration
Not enough data
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Management
Not enough data
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Not enough data
Agentic AI - Message Queue (MQ)
Not enough data
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Application Design
Not enough data
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Application Control
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Platform
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Reporting
Not enough data
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Systems Management
Not enough data
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IoT Capabilities
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Agentic AI - Industrial IoT
Not enough data
Not enough data
Database
9.0
18
Not enough data
8.7
17
Not enough data
8.3
15
Not enough data
Integrations
8.3
12
Not enough data
8.2
14
Not enough data
Platform
8.2
17
Not enough data
7.8
16
Not enough data
8.2
14
Not enough data
Processing
8.2
16
Not enough data
8.3
17
Not enough data
Data Transformation
8.9
22
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Verified
Not enough data
8.4
20
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Verified
Not enough data
Connectivity
8.2
17
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Verified
Not enough data
8.6
19
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Verified
Not enough data
8.3
22
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Verified
Not enough data
8.1
19
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Verified
Not enough data
Operations
8.3
22
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Verified
Not enough data
7.9
21
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Verified
Not enough data
8.2
18
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Verified
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
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Feature Not Available
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Building Reports
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Platform
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Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Confluent and EMQX share no categories
Unique Categories
Confluent is categorized as Event Stream Processing, Stream Analytics, Big Data Processing and Distribution, and Big Data Analytics
EMQX is categorized as Industrial IoT, IoT Platforms, Message Queue (MQ), and IoT Connectivity Management
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Confluent
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
EMQX
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Computer Software
22.0%
Information Technology and Services
15.6%
Financial Services
13.8%
Retail
5.5%
Banking
5.5%
Other
37.6%
Information Technology and Services
27.3%
Hospitality
13.6%
Online Media
9.1%
Financial Services
9.1%
Wholesale
4.5%
Other
36.4%
Alternatives
Discussions
Confluent has no discussions with answers
EMQX has no discussions with answers
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