--- title: IBM MQ Reviews meta\_title: 'IBM MQ Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 174 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM MQ works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 174 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # IBM MQ Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by IBM MQ but has limited features. Are you part of the IBM MQ team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! IBM MQ connects applications and microservices in private datacenters, across hybrid or multi-cloud environments, and at the edge of the enterprise. It allows businesses, from large enterprises to startups, to ensure every order, every payment, and every customer interaction counts. Messages between applications are delivered reliably once-and-only-once and applications are decoupled to enable rapid response to sudden traffic increases or system outages. Businesses can tap into the value of existing mission-critical data to gain real-time insights and ensure the safety of customer and business data with comprehensive security mechanisms. * * * Seller [IBM](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ibm) Discussions [IBM MQ Community](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Pradeep Sudarshan Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Return on Investment 20 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![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) [ ![Apache Kafka](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Apache Kafka") Apache Kafka 4.5/5(132) ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-kafka/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/ibm-mq/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 174 real user reviews. Implementation Time 4 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## IBM MQ Integrations (3) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Apache Kafka ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-kafka/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") IBM App Connect ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-app-connect/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") IBM Instana ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-instana/reviews) Show More ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/28/2024 "MQ feedback" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM MQ? MQ is a very good product for processing asynchronous service requests and handling massive workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM MQ? It experiences some crashes when very long messages are included. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you? Solves situations that require processing items through queues for processes and controlled execution. These features facilitate integration between systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller inviteAI Translated ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") AB Verified User in Banking Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/16/2023 "IBM MQ is a very powerful tool for asyncronous messages exchange across different platforms" 5/5 What do you like best about IBM MQ? The reliability, the possibility to recover from failures, the powerful queue-sharing feature for High Availability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM MQ? The API differences between a queue-sharing and a non queue-sharing environment (commands and Return Codes). This leads to the need to change the applications when deciding to move to a High Availability Queue Sharing configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you? The need to avoid syncronicity in the messages exchange when not really needed, in order to give more priority to the real time data communications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/19/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Information Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Services") II Verified User in Information Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/22/2023 "MQ - Reliable Messaging platform" 5/5 What do you like best about IBM MQ? We are a messaging service provider where major insurance and banking companies use our service to distribute their documents. Many such companies have been sending their messges via their IBM MQ server to our MQ server for delivery. We were able to implement MQ solution very easily and the service has been working very reliably for more than 10 years Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM MQ? Downside of using IBM MQ is it is a legacy product and limited expertize in the user community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you? Many large financial and insurance companies require MQ interface for them to send and receive their messages. By implementing MQ solution, we were able to deliver messages from these customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Francisco O.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Francisco O.") FO Francisco O. Líder de equipe de integração Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/17/2023 "IBMMQ - Messaging system" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM MQ? The options to address some security issues are very useful on some business scenario! The integration with other IBM tools, on which you can deploy messaging processing components! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM MQ? The installation process is no simple, so you need to understand the requirements to achieve the performance and results! The configuration (interval and number of attempts) of retries, which is useful, on messaging processing errors scenario! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you? It worked as decoupling mechanism of processing layers. Possibiliting differents business processing designs to achieve the reliability and the performance required by business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Sumanth M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sumanth M.") SM Sumanth M. Associate Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/4/2023 "MQ Enterprise experience" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM MQ? Reliable Point to Point connection Supported Message size is more than sufficient Monitoring tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM MQ? Message Headers could be improved to contain state information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you? Connecting to different systems hosted in different underlying architectures Connection between applications implemented in different programming languages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite AE Amr E. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/17/2023 "MQ is the best for integration" 5/5 What do you like best about IBM MQ? Help us with we sphere applications and integrations with other platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM MQ? It must have embedd monitor tool for alerts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you? Some long transaction with was application.. We are using MQ to work in back ground to have short transaction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller RD Rafael d. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/5/2023 "Very good system for exchanging messages" 4.5/5 What do you like best about IBM MQ? Stability, product confidence, and documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM MQ? Support is slow and the links to download the products are quite difficult to find. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you? Exchange files with our financial partners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller inviteAI Translated ![Essa M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Essa M.") EM Essa M. Senior Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/10/2023 "My Review regarding IBM MQ" 3/5 What do you like best about IBM MQ? IBM MQ is a good solution for messaing solution to exchange the information and it is relaible, secure, scalable, effective for data driven solution and data transformation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM MQ? Mainly IBM MQ is a cost effective product which is affordable for coorporate sector, banking sector and other firms, companies not for individuals or new starters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you? IBM MQ is a really a good product for message queueing, and bussiness activity montoring to grow the bussiness and their transaction securely passing through multiple instances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mahmoud M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mahmoud M.") MM Mahmoud M. System And Database Administrator Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/27/2023 "Working as administrator for this product" 5/5 What do you like best about IBM MQ? Can use for cloud pack integration and for kafkak streaming , using for WebSphere and iib 10, and ace 11for ternesfering queue data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM MQ? Limited resources for studying , and review video Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you? We have streaming transactions so the best tool for our telco business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Shaik Mohammed I.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shaik Mohammed I.") SI Shaik Mohammed I. Mulesoft Integration Lead Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/18/2023 "IBM MQ Channels" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM MQ? IBM MQ Channels are used to connect one queue manager to another over a network. You can create MQ channels yourself,or a queue manager can join a cluster of queue managers where MQ channels are automatically created when they are needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM MQ? User should be experienced and expertise for troubleshooting issue , configuring and managing systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you? Protection to businesses from wrongful data and application errors with exactly once message delivery not like other applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/2/2025 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about IBM MQ? 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. [ Ask about IBM MQ ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is IBM MQ used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/ibm-mq-what-is-ibm-mq-used-for) GU Guest User • Last activity over 3 years ago Is IBM MQ free? 0 Upvotes 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-ibm-mq-free) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Return on Investment 20 months ### Average Discount 17% [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/pricing) IBM MQ Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_2879288387f48b3d7b8205fe6d626c9a/rabbitmq.png "Product Avatar Image") RabbitMQ 4.1/5(48) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/ibm-mq-vs-rabbitmq) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_809aa88d3571ee805a47d8fb156ba412/apache-kafka.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Apache Kafka 4.5/5(132) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/apache-kafka-vs-ibm-mq) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_b350900e1c1cde239f398145fc13d8f3/apache-activemq.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Apache ActiveMQ 4.3/5(16) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/apache-activemq-vs-ibm-mq) ##### ##### IBM MQ Features Functionality Asynchronous Messaging Language Support Cloud-based Messaging Integration Application Integration Data Integration Plugins and integrations Management Policies and Controls Security Monitoring Activity Monitoring Risk Internal Compliance [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/features) ##### Categories on G2 [Message Queue (MQ)](https://www.g2.com/categories/message-queue-mq)[Business Activity Monitoring](https://www.g2.com/categories/business-activity-monitoring) ##### Explore More [What is the most affordable video communication software for SMBs?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-most-affordable-video-communication-software-for-smbs)[Which file reader solutions have the easiest setup for non-technical users rated highly by practitioners?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-file-reader-solutions-have-the-easiest-setup-for-non-technical-users-rated-highly-by-practitioners)[Top tools for automating software deployment pipelines](https://www.g2.com/discussions/top-tools-for-automating-software-deployment-pipelines) [What survey platforms come with a solid template library so you are not building every survey from scratch?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-survey-platforms-come-with-a-solid-template-library-so-you-are-not-building-every-survey-from-scratch)[Blytheco vs NexTec Group: which Acumatica consulting partner is better for manufacturing and construction implementations?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/blytheco-vs-nextec-group-which-acumatica-consulting-partner-is-better-for-manufacturing-and-construction-implementations)[Top-rated API management tools for developer portals](https://www.g2.com/discussions/top-rated-api-management-tools-for-developer-portals) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)