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RabbitMQ

byRabbitMQ
in Event Brokers
4.5

Overview

Product Information on RabbitMQ

Updated 13th October 2025

What is RabbitMQ?

RabbitMQ is a message broker software that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol and supports multiple messaging protocols. It enables reliable asynchronous communication between applications or services by handling message queuing, routing, and delivery. The software allows for distributed and scalable messaging in cloud and on-premises environments. RabbitMQ supports clustering, high availability, and flexible routing through exchanges, offering features such as message persistence, acknowledgments, and dead letter queues. It helps address business problems related to integration of distributed systems, decoupling of components, and managing workload spikes by facilitating smooth and robust message transmission between producers and consumers.

RabbitMQ Pricing

RabbitMQ software is available as an open-source product with no licensing fees for its core version. Users can download, install, and use the software without direct purchase costs. Pricing may apply for enterprise support or managed cloud service offerings through third parties, which typically use subscription-based or usage-based models.

Overall experience with RabbitMQ

PRODUCT SUPPORT
50M - 250M USD, Telecommunication
FAVORABLE

“RabbitMQ Provides Protocol Flexibility but Requires Expert Management at Scale”

4.0
Sep 9, 2025
RabbitMQ provides protocol flexibility by supporting AMQP, MQTT, STOMP and more, making it interoperable across many languages and platforms. It also helps in handling high throughput and horizontal scaling. However, we have had to invest some time in tuning and monitoring, especially as traffic and complexity grew.
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

RabbitMQ is a renowned messaging and streaming solution. It focuses on offering secure and flexible connections for applications, components and individuals. The primary problem it resolves is enabling effective communication between various software components and end users.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2007
Head office location
London, United Kingdom
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://rabbitmq.com

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RabbitMQ Likes & Dislikes

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RabbitMQ is a battle-tested, mature product that handles high-throughput messaging scenarios with minimal downtime or failure. RabbitMQ supports multiple messaging patterns including pub/sub, work queues, routing and topics. RabbitMQ supports AMQP, STOMP, MQTT and more, making it interoperable with a wide range of applications and platforms.

Like

It's easy to install and maintain and really stable over time. Its simplicity, combined with strong performance make it well suited for asynchronous workloads. It is FREE !

Like

I really appreciate rabbitmq reliability and flexibility in handling real time messaging. its ability to manage high throughput and complex routing makes scaling seamless.

Dislike

As message volume grows, managing RabbitMQ becomes more complex and requires experienced hands. While helpful for basic tasks, the management console can be limited or slow when dealing with large queues or message backlogs. Out of the box, RabbitMQ lacks comprehensive observability, we had to set up custom dashboards and alerts using Grafana to get adequate insights.

Dislike

Maybe the UI is a little bit old and the lack of detailed historical data directly from the UI.

Dislike

Main drawback is the complexity when setting up and managing a clustered env. which can be challenging to configure and maintain.

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RabbitMQ Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(11 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

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4 Star
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Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

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4.4

Service & Support

4.3

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  • PRODUCT SUPPORT
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    RabbitMQ Provides Protocol Flexibility but Requires Expert Management at Scale

    4.0
    Sep 8, 2025
    RabbitMQ provides protocol flexibility by supporting AMQP, MQTT, STOMP and more, making it interoperable across many languages and platforms. It also helps in handling high throughput and horizontal scaling. However, we have had to invest some time in tuning and monitoring, especially as traffic and complexity grew.
  • Devops
    10B+ USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    RabbitMQ Offers Reliable Asynchronous Message Delivery and Simple Maintenance Experience

    5.0
    Jan 28, 2026
    RabbitMQ is a very stable and powerful messaging solution in our environment. It is a really reliable message delivery system especially for asynchronous processing needs.
  • SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    RabbitMQ: Promoting Seamless Scaling and Flexibility

    4.0
    Oct 30, 2024
    I had a great experience using rabbitmq, particularly for managing real-time message queuing and ensuring reliable communication between microservices. It's been instrumental in improving the concurrent requests seamless. Fault tolerance and routing capabilities have made message management more organised, which has helped maintain application perf.
  • SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    Energy and Utilities
    Review Source

    RabbitMQ: Unparalleled Messaging, But Complex Configuration

    5.0
    Oct 29, 2024
    RabbitMQ is the default messaging tool of our project. Reliable delivery and strong authentication mechanisms ensure data integrity. flexible routing options enable standardized messaging, and a rich ecosystem supports integration across multiple technologies, but installing rabbitMQ can be challenging for new users, and optimizing for high performance requires caution
  • ENGINEER
    <50M USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    RabbitMQ in NestJS: A Tricky Setup with Rewarding Benefits

    5.0
    Oct 30, 2024
    RabbitMQ broker helps us to handle all our asynchronous communication in an effective way with high availability by accommodating the clustering strategy. The reliability this offers is truly exceptional. And the flexibility of various means of transmitting messages helps to choose the right one suits for the application.
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