Feature

MQTT & IoT Protocols

Lightweight pub/sub messaging for devices.

11 providers 262 APIs 10 declared variants

Device-oriented protocols such as MQTT, AMQP, CoAP, or LoRaWAN for constrained networks. Relevant to fleet, telemetry, and connected-device integrations.

11 API providers on the APIs.io network offer mqtt & iot protocols. The highest-rated are Adafruit IO, Cumulocity, ThingSpeak, ThingsBoard, Soracom.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Adafruit IOAdafruit IO is a cloud Internet of Things platform from Adafruit Industries built for makers, hobbyists, st...12 APIs63.3CumulocityCumulocity is an enterprise AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) platform that connects, manages, and a...39 APIs63.2ThingSpeakThingSpeak is an IoT analytics platform from MathWorks that lets devices aggregate, visualize, and analyze ...12 APIs62.7ThingsBoardThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for device connectivity, data collection, processing, and visual...58 APIs57.6SoracomSoracom is a global IoT cellular connectivity and platform provider headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 2014...45 APIs55.8
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Amazon MQAmazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to set up...5 APIs49.4Amazon IoT CoreAWS IoT Core is a managed cloud service that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud...70 APIs49.0SPANSPAN is a San Francisco-based home energy technology company building smart electrical panels that replace ...9 APIs49.0JeticJetic is the first and only cloud-native API & Integration Platform based on Apache Camel. An iPaaS solutio...5 APIs40.6
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
BMW ConnectedDriveBMW ConnectedDrive is BMW Group's umbrella for connected vehicle services spanning navigation, remote servi...4 APIs31.3BlynkBlynk is a low-code / no-code IoT software platform that helps companies prototype, deploy, and remotely ma...3 APIs28.4

What Providers Actually Declared

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Device connectivity over MQTT, HTTP, CoAP, LwM2M, and SNMPMQTT 3.1.1 streaming over TLS for near-real-time per-VIN telematics on topic `{gcid}/{vin}`MQTT 3.1.1/5.0 broker with SmartREST 2.0 CSV payload format saving up to 80% mobile traffic vs JSON; 16 KiB max payloadMQTT broker at `mqtt3.thingspeak.com` on ports 1883 / 8883 / 80 / 443 (WebSocket path `/mqtt`)MQTT broker at io.adafruit.com with TLS (8883), plain (1883), and WebSocket (443) transportsMQTT pub/sub via the Electrification Bus (eBus) framework using the Homie ConventionMQTT support for device connectivityManaged Message BrokersMessage BrokerSoracom Air for LoRaWAN and Air for Sigfox — managed LPWAN connectivity

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