HiveMQ

HiveMQ is the real-time industrial data platform built on MQTT, developed by HiveMQ GmbH (Berlin, Germany). It provides an enterprise-grade MQTT message broker for reliable, scalable, and secure bidirectional data movement between IoT and OT devices and enterprise IT systems. The HiveMQ platform spans the self-managed HiveMQ Broker, the fully managed HiveMQ Cloud service, HiveMQ Edge (a software edge gateway that bridges OT protocols such as OPC-UA and Modbus to MQTT), HiveMQ Data Hub (in-broker data policy, validation, and transformation), HiveMQ Pulse (distributed data intelligence), and an extensible Extensions SDK for IT integrations (Kafka, security, monitoring). HiveMQ fully supports MQTT 3.1.1 and MQTT 5.0 as well as MQTT Sparkplug for unified namespace architectures, and offers open-source client tooling including the Java hivemq-mqtt-client library and the MQTT CLI. It is used in production for connected cars, manufacturing, logistics, and energy by companies including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Air France-KLM, and Unilever.

HiveMQ is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, MQTT, IoT, Industrial IoT, and Message Broker.

HiveMQ’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, support, CLI, and 17 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyMQTTIoTIndustrial IoTMessage BrokerEvent-DrivenMessagingReal-Time DataEdge ComputingSparkplug

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Composite quality — 30.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 7.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conformance

Conformance

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Security

Security

Compliance

Compliance

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: hive-mq
name: HiveMQ
description: HiveMQ is the real-time industrial data platform built on MQTT, developed by HiveMQ GmbH (Berlin, Germany). It
  provides an enterprise-grade MQTT message broker for reliable, scalable, and secure bidirectional data movement between
  IoT and OT devices and enterprise IT systems. The HiveMQ platform spans the self-managed HiveMQ Broker, the fully managed
  HiveMQ Cloud service, HiveMQ Edge (a software edge gateway that bridges OT protocols such as OPC-UA and Modbus to MQTT),
  HiveMQ Data Hub (in-broker data policy, validation, and transformation), HiveMQ Pulse (distributed data intelligence), and
  an extensible Extensions SDK for IT integrations (Kafka, security, monitoring). HiveMQ fully supports MQTT 3.1.1 and MQTT
  5.0 as well as MQTT Sparkplug for unified namespace architectures, and offers open-source client tooling including the Java
  hivemq-mqtt-client library and the MQTT CLI. It is used in production for connected cars, manufacturing, logistics, and
  energy by companies including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Air France-KLM, and Unilever.
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  url: https://status.hivemq.cloud/
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- type: SDKs
  url: packages/hive-mq-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/hive-mq-cli.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/hive-mq-lifecycle.yml
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  url: conformance/hive-mq-conformance.yml
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