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24 alternatives to EMQX

The most scalable open-source MQTT broker for IoT

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. EMQX launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   µTT – A new faster MQTT broker▲115

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   MyMQTT▲67

   The simple message queuing telemetry transport client

   2022 · mymqtt.app · its alternatives →

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   Mqtizer▲85

   Cross-platform MQTT client for industrial-grade IoT

   2023 · mqtizer.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   MQTT Studio▲87

   Build your own MQTT dashboard in minutes

   2023 · mqtt.studio · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Bevywise MQTT Broker▲5

   Connect Devices, Collect & Analyse Data & Visualize it

   2016 · bevywise.com · its alternatives →

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   MQTT X▲2

   Cross-platform MQTT desktop client

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   smart-mqtt

   Reduce IoT Infrastructure Cost to 1/10 of Original

   Apr 2026 · smartboot.tech · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Go IoT Platform▲13

   GoIoT: Efficient, scalable MQTT IoT platform in Go.

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   AI Observability by OpenObserve▲317

   OpenTelemetry-native observability for agents and LLMs

   Aug 2026 · openobserve.ai · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Broker-ha – Golang MQTT broker with clustering capabilities▲12

    Broker-HA is golang MQTT broker with clustering capabilities build for K8s. Its based on `mochi-co/mqtt` and `hashicorp/memberlist`. Features: - Paho MQTT 3.0 / 3.1.1 compatible (drop-in replacement for Mosquitto [MQTT 3.0/3.1.1]) - Clustering! - HTTP API

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Mqtt Broker for 10 Years▲15

    Intended for 10-year (plus hopefully) deployment lifetime on $10-30 of silicon. The kind of thing you screw to a wall, plug in, and walk away from for a decade. No telemetry, no phone-home updates, no external dependencies. Storage decisions get a sanity checked against NVS wear... a write-per-PUBLISH would shred the flash in months, so the retained store and in tables that stay in PSRAM. Its heavily written with AI and borrowed a lot of visuals from Tasmota. Not for production use yet (been currently running it for a month with great results!)

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn Kafka into an MQTT Broker for IoT with Zilla▲24

    🦎 A lightweight, multi-protocol gateway for event-driven applications and AI agents. Expose and govern Kafka, MQTT, APIs, and MCP through one high-performance engine with shared routing, security, schema, and observability. - aklivity/zilla

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LogDNA – Easy logging in the cloud▲196

    Mezmo runs agentic SRE on your own infrastructure: AURA is an open-source agent harness, and Mezmo's telemetry pipelines feed it in-stream operational context.

    2016 · logdna.com · its alternatives →

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    Simulate 1000s of IoT devices fast▲1

    Realistic IoT data generator for MQTT, HTTP and TCP.

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source realtime IoT platform▲16

    Undercontrol.io – Open source Internet of Things IoT Platform with MQTT and Web-sockets for realtime support - daraosn/undercontrol

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LavinMQ, an open-source message broker written in Crystal▲16

    Hi HN. I'm Carl, creator of LavinMQ. LavinMQ is an open-source message broker. AMQP 0-9-1, MQTT, HTTP and streaming. Single binary, minimal resource use. If you know RabbitMQ, it's that (but running on a fraction of hardware). We're the team behind CloudAMQP where we've hosted RabbitMQ for 14 years. Sometimes customers hit issues we couldn't fully explain / work around. So we built our own broker, in order to provide solutions where we previously couldn't (which is much easier when you control the full stack). It all started by me building an open-source AMQP proxy to handle short-lived…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Finally.io▲81

    IFTTT for cloud infrastructure

    2014 · finally.com · its alternatives →

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    Lightweight Microservices Architecture for the Internet of Things▲94

    Open Source Lightweight Microservices Architecture for the Internet of Things. For developers. - lelylan/lelylan

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Shameless plug for my IOT dashboard (open source)▲14

    Crouton MQTT IOT Dashboard. Contribute to edfungus/Crouton development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Nodrix▲76

    Open-source, single-tenant IoT platform that deploys to your own Cloudflare account. Hardware over HTTPS or WebSocket, realtime dashboards, automations, and a clean read API.

    Jun 2026 · nodrix.live · its alternatives →

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    The Things Gateway▲100

    Crowdsourced global and open Internet of Things data network

    2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenThread Mesh Gateway with BG95-M3 Based LTE-M Support▲16

    2021 · lab5e.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Telepat.io Cloud▲128

    Open source, real time API platform

    2016 · telepat.io · its alternatives →

24. 24
    MemSQL Community Edition▲89

    A database so scalable everyone can use it

    2015 · its alternatives →

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