IBM MQ · Pricing Plans

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.

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Plans

IBM MQ on Cloud — Lite freemium

Free tier of IBM MQ on Cloud for evaluation and low-volume integration testing. Single queue manager with capped throughput.

Queue manager (instance · month) 0.00 USD
IBM MQ on Cloud — Standard (Reserved Capacity) subscription

Reserved-capacity managed MQ tiers (Small / Medium / Large) on IBM Cloud, billed monthly per deployment with included throughput.

Reserved capacity deployment (month · month) see https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/mq USD
IBM MQ (on-premises) enterprise

Traditional licensed IBM MQ for on-premises deployment, sold via IBM Passport Advantage with PVU or VPC-based metrics. Pricing negotiated through IBM Sales.

License (contract · year) contact sales USD

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