About
HiveMQ Cloud is a fully managed MQTT broker platform hosted by HiveMQ. It provides a serverless free plan for learning and experimentation, plus paid Starter and Enterprise plans for larger deployments.
The free Serverless plan includes a shared MQTT platform, 100 connections, 10 GB of data traffic per month, MQTT 3.1/3.1.1/5.0, MQTT over TLS/SSL, basic authorization rules, and WebSocket support. It does not include an uptime SLA and is limited to basic support.
- Shared MQTT platform
- 100 free connections
- 10 GB monthly data traffic
- MQTT 3.1, 3.1.1, 5.0
- MQTT over TLS/SSL
- WebSocket support
- No uptime SLA
- Basic support
Free Tier Value
This free tier has no explicit quota or allowance listed, but the page does show a real, perpetual free offering with no credit card required. Because the cheapest paid option is Starter at about $0.34/hour plus usage, the free tier is only worth a small fraction of that paid entry point; a conservative buyer-equivalent estimate is about $1/month.
What's included in the free tier
- 100 connections included.
- 10 GB data traffic per month.
- MQTT 3.1, 3.1.1, and 5.0 protocol support.
- MQTT over TLS/SSL.
- WebSocket support.
- Basic support included.
See HiveMQ Cloud pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Starter
- throughput
- up to 1 MB/s
- uptime_sla
- 99.95%
- connections
- unlimited
- Dedicated MQTT platform
- Unlimited connections
- Up to 1 MB/s data throughput
- Client certificate authentication
- HiveMQ Control Center
- REST API
- Data streaming integrations
- 99.95% uptime SLA
Enterprise
- throughput
- unlimited
- uptime_sla
- up to 99.99%
- region
- any region
- Fully customizable MQTT platform
- Unlimited data throughput
- Exclusive infrastructure
- Any region
- Private Link
- Custom integrations
- Dedicated customer success manager
- Up to 99.99% uptime
Pricing extracted from HiveMQ Cloud's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
