Yes, CloudAMQP has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes Max 100 queues for development use, Max 10,000 queued messages, and Max idle queue time of 28 days. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $19/mo.
About
CloudAMQP is a managed message broker service for LavinMQ and RabbitMQ clusters. It automates cluster setup, operation, scaling, monitoring, and upgrades across major cloud platforms, with a control panel for alarms, logs, diagnostics, and user management.
The service includes shared multi-tenant plans and dedicated plans. Shared plans include a free option with 1M messages per month, 20 connections, up to 100 queues, up to 10,000 queued messages, and up to 28 days of idle queue time; dedicated plans add higher throughput, multi-AZ clustering, VPC options, and protocol support such as AMQP 0.9.1, HTTPS, MQTT, STOMP, and WebSockets.
- Managed LavinMQ and RabbitMQ clusters
- 1M messages per month free plan
- 20 connection limit on free plan
- Up to 100 queues on free RabbitMQ plan
- Up to 10,000 queued messages
- Up to 28 days idle queue time
- Monitoring, alarms, logs, and diagnostics
- Multi-cloud support across 129 regions
Free Tier Value
This free tier is a genuinely usable shared RabbitMQ development plan, with monthly quotas for queues, messages, and connections rather than a short trial. The cheapest paid step is $19/month, and the free offering keeps most of the core experience but with tighter caps, so it’s worth about $19/month; a credit card is not explicitly waived on the page, so that friction remains a consideration.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Max 100 queues for development use.
- Max 10,000 queued messages.
- Max idle queue time of 28 days.
- Shared RabbitMQ broker.
- 1 million messages quota per month.
- 20 connection limit.
See CloudAMQP pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Loyal Lemming
- queues
- 200
- queued messages
- 20,000
- message quota/month
- 2M
- connections
- 40
- Shared LavinMQ broker
- For development or small hobby projects
- 100% human support
- Switch plans without downtime
- Diagnostics, alarms and logs
Elegant Ermine
- queues
- 2,000
- queued messages
- 200,000
- message quota/month
- 20M
- connections
- 200
- Shared LavinMQ broker
- For development or small hobby projects
- 100% human support
- Switch plans without downtime
- Diagnostics, alarms and logs
Passionate Puffin - 1 node
- throughput msg/s
- 3.8k
- connections
- 5k
- nodes
- 1
- Dedicated LavinMQ broker
- Benchmarked throughput
- Benchmarked connections
- 100% human support
- Switch plans without downtime
Passionate Puffin - 3 nodes
- throughput msg/s
- 3.8k
- connections
- 5k
- nodes
- 3
- Multi-AZ cluster
- Dedicated LavinMQ brokers
- Benchmarked throughput
- Benchmarked connections
- 100% human support
Passionate Puffin - 5 nodes
- throughput msg/s
- 3.8k
- connections
- 5k
- nodes
- 5
- Multi-AZ cluster
- Dedicated LavinMQ brokers
- Benchmarked throughput
- Benchmarked connections
- 100% human support
Playful Penguin - 1 node
- throughput msg/s
- 7.5k
- connections
- 10k
- nodes
- 1
- Dedicated LavinMQ broker
- Benchmarked throughput
- Benchmarked connections
- 100% human support
- Switch plans without downtime
Pricing extracted from CloudAMQP's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is CloudAMQP free forever?
Yes. CloudAMQP has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What happens when you exceed CloudAMQP's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. CloudAMQP's cheapest paid plan is Elegant Ermine at $19 / month.
What is CloudAMQP's free tier worth?
CloudAMQP's free tier is worth about $19 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 53/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
