--- title: Apache ActiveMQ Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache ActiveMQ Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 16 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache ActiveMQ works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 16 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # Apache ActiveMQ Reviews & Product Details Apache ActiveMQ is a popular and powerful open source messaging and Integration Patterns server. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache ActiveMQ Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-activemq/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-activemq/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![IBM MQ](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IBM MQ") IBM MQ 4.3/5(174) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews) [ ![MuleSoft Anypoint Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MuleSoft Anypoint Platform") MuleSoft Anypoint Platform 4.5/5(775) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mulesoft-anypoint-platform/reviews) [ ![RabbitMQ](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "RabbitMQ") RabbitMQ 4.1/5(48) ](https://www.g2.com/products/rabbitmq/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-activemq/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 16 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Ajay V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ajay V.") AV Ajay V. Senior Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/15/2022 "Great Tool for Communication between Multiple Microservices" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache ActiveMQ? The queue management tool is too good and helps me to communicate among 43 microservices which I developed for one of my clients. It's very fast and convenient to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache ActiveMQ? Compared to Kafka it is not that much robust and fast to process messages. But As it is opensource and easy to available and setup, I have used it and fulfilled my requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache ActiveMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? When It comes to microservices it is very difficult to communicate among them. I have used it to pass it through the queue and code in all my microservices to understand the message and process that thing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Bill M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bill M.") BM Bill M. Chief Technology Officer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/2/2020 "ActiveMQ: a workhorse JMS implementation" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache ActiveMQ? Apache ActiveMQ has been a solid workhorse for JMS Message Broker services at our company. We especially like the delayed send feature, something which we don't have when we use Kafka. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache ActiveMQ? Unfortunately, Apache ActiveMQ doesn't cluster nicely, so if the broker goes down, there is not a seamless failover to a secondary broker, without losing data. There are some published hacks to work around this, but it is not baked into the product's DNA like other message broker implementations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache ActiveMQ: If you are looking for a JMS solution, Apache ActiveMQ has proven it's merit through longevity, outliving alternatives for a reason. It's fast, stable, and just plain works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache ActiveMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Apache ActiveMQ to handle high volume scale of message, through a set of over 2 dozen topics and about a dozen queues. The messages are delivered reliably. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") UT Verified User in Telecommunications Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/8/2018 "Perfect solution for intercomunications with different systems" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache ActiveMQ? A perfect solution for comunicate systems with diferents technologies. You can enqueue requests without overload your main system. You can adminintrate it with a web interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache ActiveMQ? If you have problems, documentation is very poor and it is not very popular. It’s difficult find people that know this software. Operation is similar to other queuing system for easy tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache ActiveMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? I have used it to enqueue requests, is faster that use a database. You can intercomunicate diferents applications like java/C++. An important point is the price, because it’s free, you can use other solution like IBM MQ but you will must paid for the license. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/6/2020 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Dhananjay S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dhananjay S.") DS Dhananjay S. Full stack developer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/15/2019 "Powerful messaging broker tool in java" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache ActiveMQ? It supports multiple languages such as Java, C, C++ , Perl , Python, PHP , C# , Ruby, etc. It has many advanced features such as Composite Destinations, Virtual Destinations, Message Groups, Wildcards. It has Spring framework support as well. Supports multiple transportation protocol such as NIO, UDP, multicast, TCP, SSL, JGroups. I work on java, and from my experience I can say that it is very easy to use. We can use this for parallel processing also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache ActiveMQ? Nothing as such. Everything in ActiveMQ is easy to develop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache ActiveMQ: If you have asynchronous communication, parallel processing, message oriented system, etc. Please use this. It is very easy to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache ActiveMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? I mostly use ActiveMQ for parallel processing and asynchronous communication. Very easy to develop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite GS Gabriella S. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/17/2018 "Apache ActiveMQ Review" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache ActiveMQ? I love the ease of use for Apache ActiveMQ. We use this service remotely with many of our customers. For instance, we will have them on the phone and we will have to tell them how to access their queues, and this product is perfect for using remotely. We never feel like it would be easier for the customer if we were in person with them when using this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache ActiveMQ? I think that something that could be updated is a user guide about the difference between deleting and purging queues right on the queues page. This is something that always trips me up, and I wish there were a question mark I could hover over or click on for quick clarification without actually leaving the page I am on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache ActiveMQ: I would definitely recommend! Great way to keep track of multiple queues for our software all over the world! Easy to access and easy to integrate our platform with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache ActiveMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? We use this product to track the queues for our gateway software. We built out our gateway software so that we can send medical imaging back and forth from our cloud platform. We use Apache ActiveMQ to track the queues for each gateway installed with our customers, which is a couple hundred. Without this, we would not have an easy way to track the queues for each piece software of software we have installed across the world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Edgardo Enrique C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Edgardo Enrique C.") EC Edgardo Enrique C. Owner Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/24/2018 "Easy to configurate different Workspaces" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache ActiveMQ? Connection templates that comes with the bundle are pretty useful. In case you're someone structured and want to create DEV, TEST and PRODUCTION environments in the same box with different ports, the procedure actually works. It comes with several protocols and you can choose the one you feel more comfortable. Admin interface is basic but within time intuitive, you can check all messages stuck and reprocess in case you want to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache ActiveMQ? In a year we had to restart the queues 3 times in Production environment as a java memory leak affected us and we couldn't identify what the problem was, so we did the restart thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache ActiveMQ: If you're looking for a Queue System that takes messages from a SOA architecture like Oracle Web Logic, this is a good place to start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache ActiveMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? Asynchronous queues allowed us to get messages from SAP services and got processed in our Processmaker BPM. It saved our lives! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Brooke D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Brooke D.") BD Brooke D. Web Specialist Broadcast Media Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/1/2018 "Perfect for using remotely" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache ActiveMQ? It has a nice user interface for administration, it is Open Source based , it is suitable with numerous applications with programing languages. Apache ActiveMQ is the best MQ for develop dispersed service and applications.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache ActiveMQ? It could be more stable... and it would be nice to be a little bit more inexpensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache ActiveMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? Apache ActiveMQ decrease the complexity and maintenance cost of you application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Giuseppe D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Giuseppe D.") GD Giuseppe D. IT Security Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/5/2018 "The perfect MQ for distribuited services" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache ActiveMQ? Apache ActiveMQ is the perfect MQ for create distributed service and applications. You can connect multiple applications with your prefered programming languages (Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, etc). Apache ActiveMQ reduce the complexity and maintenance cost of you application. You can create a micro services and daemons for manage your business workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache ActiveMQ? Is not easy to manage the SSL/TLS connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache ActiveMQ: You can create a distributed services between remote machines with your prefer programming language Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache ActiveMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? With Apache ActiveMQ i have created a distributed service for dispatch jobs between remote machines and for collect remote logs using "queues" and "topics". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/20/2018 "Excellent messaging software with rock solid failover technology" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache ActiveMQ? I find the failover feature very impressive. It's pretty easy to setup two nodes in a failover cluster and it's easy for the clients (we are mainly using the .NET client libraries) to just use a failover connection string instead of one that just contains one node. When we kill the AMQ process on one node, our client software can send and receive messages without even noticing that one node went down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache ActiveMQ? We sometimes have issues where one queue just keeps building up messages and stops delivering them to the subscribers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache ActiveMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? Messaging (e.g. text chat) between clients in a distributed system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") UT Verified User in Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/24/2018 "Apache AMQ" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache ActiveMQ? the best of apache active mq, is their scalabilitry based on "networks brokers", that allow increase the numbers of queue in an imperceptible way for the final user. Anotherer stronger points is that is based on Open Source and have an graphic interface for management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache ActiveMQ? Depends of Api's for converge whith other applications based on PHP, C/C++, .Net, Ruby, this significantly reduces the level of coupling between components of our system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache ActiveMQ: apache active mq have many features that can help you to solve many things fot which do you need two or more programs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache ActiveMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? the way as work apache activeMQ has allowed us create queues of messages for many platforms in a few steps saving time and money in comparison with their competition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Apache ActiveMQ? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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