Ibm Mq Plans Pricing
IBM MQ is offered both as on-premises licensed software (PVU/RVU-based) and as a managed service on IBM Cloud (IBM MQ on Cloud) with Lite, Standard (Reserved Capacity), and dedicated tiers. Public per-unit prices for the Cloud offering are not consistently published outside the IBM Cloud catalog, and on-premises licensing is sold through IBM Sales / Passport Advantage. Plans below describe the shape of the offering; specific prices are quoted as 'see vendor pricing' rather than fabricated.
Ibm Mq Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for IBM MQ on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 3 plans, covering freemium, subscription, and enterprise tiers, with named plans including IBM MQ on Cloud — Lite, IBM MQ on Cloud — Standard (Reserved Capacity), IBM MQ (on-premises).
Tagged areas include Async, Enterprise, Integration, Messaging, and Middleware.
Plans
Free tier of IBM MQ on Cloud for evaluation and low-volume integration testing. Single queue manager with capped throughput.
- Single queue manager
- Limited throughput
- Community support
- IBM MQ REST API
- IBM MQ Messaging REST API
Reserved-capacity managed MQ tiers (Small / Medium / Large) on IBM Cloud, billed monthly per deployment with included throughput.
- Managed queue managers
- HA across availability zones
- REST and JMS access
- 24/7 support
- IBM MQ REST API
- IBM MQ Messaging REST API
- IBM MQ JMS API
- IBM MQ Native API
Traditional licensed IBM MQ for on-premises deployment, sold via IBM Passport Advantage with PVU or VPC-based metrics. Pricing negotiated through IBM Sales.
- Self-hosted queue managers
- Multi-platform support
- IBM Software Subscription & Support
- IBM MQ REST API
- IBM MQ Messaging REST API
- IBM MQ JMS API
- IBM MQ Native API
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