--- title: RabbitMQ Reviews meta\_title: 'RabbitMQ Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 48 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how RabbitMQ works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 48 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # RabbitMQ Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by RabbitMQ but has limited features. Are you part of the RabbitMQ team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! RabbitMQ is the most popular open source message broker, with more than 35,000 production deployments world-wide. RabbitMQ is lightweight and easy to deploy on premises and in the cloud and runs on all major operating systems. It supports most developer platforms, multiple messaging protocols and can be deployed in distributed and federated configurations to meet high-scale, high-availability requirements. * * * Seller [Broadcom](https://www.g2.com/sellers/broadcom-ab3091cd-4724-46a8-ac89-219d6bc8e166) Discussions [RabbitMQ Community](https://www.g2.com/products/rabbitmq/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Pieter Humphrey (Principal Product Marketing Manager) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/rabbitmq/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![MuleSoft Anypoint Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MuleSoft Anypoint Platform") MuleSoft Anypoint Platform 4.5/5(775) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mulesoft-anypoint-platform/reviews) [ ![IBM MQ](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IBM MQ") IBM MQ 4.3/5(174) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews) [ ![Apache Kafka](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Apache Kafka") Apache Kafka 4.5/5(132) ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-kafka/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/rabbitmq/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 48 real user reviews. Implementation Time 4 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Sezer D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sezer D.") SD Sezer D. Senior Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/1/2021 "RabbitMQ interview" 5/5 What do you like best about RabbitMQ? Some transactions do not need to be done instantly. If you want to give an example, it can be thought of as reducing the cache when a new news is entered into the system or updating an existing news, another example is scaling the uploaded "Gif" files. Even timed messages and automatic mails can be good examples of RabbitMq. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RabbitMQ? Not suitable for a high volume messaging system,Consumers are always welcome online. If the message is not delivered, it marks the message as pending. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering RabbitMQ: Multiple exchange types that allow different ways to forward messages to consumers. Because it is lightweight, it is easily deployed to enterprise and public clouds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RabbitMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? If different protocols are desired to be used, (AMQP, STOMP, MQTT, AMQP 1.0),If you need high performance,If you want messages to be delivered as a guarantee Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/27/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Balaji K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Balaji K.") BK Balaji K. Principle Member of Technical Staff Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/17/2022 "RabbitMQ - A best cloud native Message Queue" 4/5 What do you like best about RabbitMQ? Easy to deploy, use and understand. The architecture of RabbitMQ is pretty simple. Since it is available in the cloud-native mode it is also helpful to use it in micro services architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RabbitMQ? Kafka has a few extra features like streaming etc., In some scenarios, it is found to be a lesser performant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RabbitMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? For any use cases where we need Publisher subscriber mode, RabbitMQ is the first choice. The cloud-native nature of RabbitMQ is something good since now almost all applications are developed for cloud base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/22/2022 Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Abhishek J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Abhishek J.") AJ Abhishek J. Jr. Full Stack Developer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/20/2022 "One of the best Message Broker Server" 4/5 What do you like best about RabbitMQ? RabbitMQ is a message broker queing server. It store the message and help our application to work asynchronously. We can configure it in many different way as per the requirements like direct exchange will connect directly to queue, topic exchange for wildcard and many others It have good storage capacity, and easy User Interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RabbitMQ? Initial setup for RabbitMQ is slightly difficult as compare to other message broker service. Because it is written on Enlang programing language we need to install that first. It is having high latency. Also I found it is difficult to set the message limit on queues from the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering RabbitMQ: Good to use as message broker service in your project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RabbitMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? With the help of RabbitMQ we made our whole application asynchronous. We are storing the request in the queue so by that request will not loss and it is served of the basis of FIFO. Also the error handling part is very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/2/2022 "Good Message Distribution Tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about RabbitMQ? Great tool for sending asynchronous messages between distributed systems. Ability to interpret system data in an easy-to-read format. Management interface is simple and neat. Performance is just right. Very reliable tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RabbitMQ? It's slightly complicated to learn and understand the tool as a new developer. If the queue is full with unacknowledged messages, it stops accepting new messages, untill queue is clear or able recieve new message. Documentation is not all detailed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RabbitMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? Used for message queuing, to put EDI 270 requests into queue for processing. Any systems that require separate methods of communication between applications and accommodate long-running processes and background jobs, RabbitMQ is ideal for communication and integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Arsalan K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Arsalan K.") AK Arsalan K. Technical Architect Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/13/2021 "High performance and reliable messaging broker" 5/5 What do you like best about RabbitMQ? It's super fast, reliable, high performance and guarantees delivery. Based on standards of AMQP protocol Integration support for large variety of programming languages. Persistent/Durable messaging. Even if the system crashes all the messages will still be stored to the disk. Open source and free. Great community support, and integration guides. Routing message based using exchanges. Supports asynchronous and event driven Integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RabbitMQ? There is no reasons to dislike RabbitMQ except that being so popular in the market but for some enterprise level use cases people opt for Apache Kafka mainly because of compatibility with other applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering RabbitMQ: RabbitMQ is just great. If you are looking for a mature, durable, scalable and fast messaging framework then it is the right choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RabbitMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? Inter process communication between microservices. Distributed messaging broker using exchanges to receive and buffer requests coming from different microservices in a distributed environment. And then processing them asynchronously and preparing results and sending the responses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/21/2021 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") UF Verified User in Financial Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/28/2022 "Messaging Queue = RabbitMQ" 4.5/5 What do you like best about RabbitMQ? RabbitMq is a very lightweight framework on top of the MQTP protocol and it just works seemlessly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RabbitMQ? There is a lot of boiler plate code required out of the box, RMQ could work on some language specific connectors to remove the boilerplate code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RabbitMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? Async processing within the mivroservice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Bushra M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bushra M.") BM Bushra M. Senior Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/11/2022 "RabbitMQ Open Source Messaging System" 4/5 What do you like best about RabbitMQ? .Easy to install .Open Source free Software .Very Reliable gives guarantees delivery . provide accurate results .large number of plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RabbitMQ? Right now I don't have any reason to dislike this software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RabbitMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? RabbitMQ is very easy to start and integrate. It took us barely 2 months to write all our backend logic to communicate through RabbitMQ. We are mainly using it for Point-to-point communication between some monoliths. And yes its performance exceeds expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite PL Pascal L. Release Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/5/2021 "An easy and flexible Message Broker" 5/5 What do you like best about RabbitMQ? RabbitMQ is flexible. It is easy to create an exchange topic, queue, or pub/sub really fast. There is no overhead in creating everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RabbitMQ? It is a bit hard to install and configure for a production environment. For example, implementing a High Availability cluster is not trivial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RabbitMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? RabbitMQ is open source and free. So it is solving a big problem that other commercial Message Broker are really expensive! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain") UL Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/9/2021 "An easy to install and use message broker software" 5/5 What do you like best about RabbitMQ? It's easy to install and use. As a beginner, it wasn't at all difficult to pick up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RabbitMQ? There's nothing to dislike about RabbitMQ as of now. It works well for simple messages and small volumes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RabbitMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? It has helped us build a simple message broker service for handling internal needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sandip N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sandip N.") SN Sandip N. CEO & Chief Architect Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/30/2021 "One of the best MQ Brokers" 4/5 What do you like best about RabbitMQ? Flexibility, open-source, deployable to any platform, including some in ARM's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about RabbitMQ? Nothing as of now, there are few security aspects like how to use with HTTPS is something we still needs to try. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is RabbitMQ solving and how is that benefiting you? We are connecting our IoT Devices over MQTT, running the complete PUB-SUB with listners using RabbitMQ, which seems to be serving the purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about RabbitMQ? 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[ Ask about RabbitMQ ](https://www.g2.com/products/rabbitmq/discussions/new) GU Guest User • Last activity about 3 years ago Is RabbitMQ a software? 0 Upvotes 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-rabbitmq-a-software) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/rabbitmq/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/rabbitmq/pricing) RabbitMQ Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_5015a6ccbbe12278ba4392c1c0d806be/ibm-mq.png "Product Avatar Image") IBM MQ 4.3/5(174) [ 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_aeae116c52945fdecd7ed16d621cb315/google-cloud-pub-sub.png "Product Avatar Image") Google Cloud Pub/Sub 4.5/5(39) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/google-cloud-pub-sub-vs-rabbitmq) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_b3390b4cc3d92e87d570895f7358c003/amazon-mq.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Amazon MQ 3.6/5(18) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/amazon-mq-vs-rabbitmq) ##### ##### RabbitMQ 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 [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/rabbitmq/features) ##### Categories on G2 [Message Queue (MQ)](https://www.g2.com/categories/message-queue-mq) ##### Explore More [Which tool offers the best search and tagging features?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-tool-offers-the-best-search-and-tagging-features)[What are the best app localization services for companies launching quality translations across 10 or more languages simultaneously?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-best-app-localization-services-for-companies-launching-quality-translations-across-10-or-more-languages-simultaneously)[What chatbot platform connects well with Salesforce, HubSpot or Zendesk so customer data does not get lost between the bot and your CRM?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-chatbot-platform-connects-well-with-salesforce-hubspot-or-zendesk-so-customer-data-does-not-get-lost-between-the-bot-and-your-crm) [Top tools for multi-cloud threat monitoring](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-top-tools-for-multi-cloud-threat-monitoring)[Are there ethics and compliance training platforms that make the modules genuinely engaging for employees rather than something everyone clicks through as fast as possible?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/are-there-ethics-and-compliance-training-platforms-that-make-the-modules-genuinely-engaging-for-employees-rather-than-something-everyone-clicks-through-as-fast-as-possible)[What are the best education HR platforms for higher education faculty tracking across teaching, research, service, and accreditation reporting?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-best-education-hr-platforms-for-higher-education-faculty-tracking-across-teaching-research-service-and-accreditation-reporting) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)