HiveMQ

HiveMQ is an enterprise MQTT broker and IoT connectivity platform that provides reliable, scalable bidirectional messaging between connected devices and back-end systems using the MQTT protocol. It supports MQTT 3, MQTT 5, MQTT over WebSocket, clustering, multi-cloud deployments, and an extensible enterprise extension framework for security, data routing, and stream processing through HiveMQ Data Hub. HiveMQ exposes a REST API (OpenAPI 3.0) for broker administration, client management, backups, trace recordings, and Data Hub policy management.

HiveMQ publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including MQTT over WebSocket, Data Hub API, Management API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include MQTT, IoT, Messaging, Message Broker, and Pub/Sub.

The HiveMQ catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

HiveMQ’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, signup flow, GitHub presence, engineering blog, support, and 26 more developer resources.

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57.2/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

MQTT IoT Messaging Message Broker Pub/Sub WebSocket Real-Time

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information Technology Management

BC-600

Management

POST /management/backups POST /management/backups/{backupId}/restore POST /management/diagnostic-archives GET /management/trace-recordings

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 57.2/100 · strong

Contract Quality 10.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.9 / 15

Access Clarity 13.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.8 / 10

Contract Governance 2.7 / 9

Discoverability 4.8 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 53.1 — up to +11.7 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 52.4 — up to +9.5 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 28.9 — up to +9.2 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Artifact Hub Cloud-Native Packages	standard	44.5	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 5

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

MQTT

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Pub/Sub

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

WebSockets

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

AsyncAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

HiveMQ MQTT over WebSocket

MQTT 3.x and MQTT 5 messaging endpoints exposed over WebSocket for browser and edge clients to publish and subscribe to topics. Used by web dashboards and JavaScript IoT clients...

HiveMQ Data Hub API

The Data Hub API from HiveMQ — 4 operation(s) for data hub.

HiveMQ Management API

The Management API from HiveMQ — 9 operation(s) for management.

HiveMQ Mqtt API

The Mqtt API from HiveMQ — 5 operation(s) for mqtt.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

HiveMQ REST Data Hub API

OPEN COLLECTION

HiveMQ REST Data Hub Management API

OPEN COLLECTION

HiveMQ REST Data Hub Mqtt API

OPEN COLLECTION

HiveMQ REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

HiveMQ API pricing

Prices published by HiveMQ, read 2026-10-28 from www.hivemq.com/pricing/. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Lab (self-managed)	Free Includes: Brokers 1, Connections 25, Messages / sec* 25, Community support. License valid for 30 days.
Launch (self-managed)	$299/month Includes: Brokers 1, Connections 10,000, Messages / sec* 500, Community support
Run (self-managed)	$499/month Includes: Brokers 1, Connections 10,000, Messages / sec* 1,000, Silver support
Enterprise (self-managed)	Custom Includes: Custom connections and throughput, Silver to Platinum support
Starter (fully-managed)	From $0.34/hour + $0.80/million messages Includes: 10,000 connections, 1 MB/sec, 99.95% Uptime SLA, Silver support, 15 day trial
Enterprise (fully-managed)	Priced by capacity connections + throughput Includes: Up to 99.99% uptime; Silver, Gold, or Platinum support

Plan details, limits and sources →

Billed by: 1 broker deployment · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Hivemq Plans Pricing

6 plans

PLANS

Hivemq Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

HiveMQ

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Hivemq Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

HiveMQ MQTT Broker

AsyncAPI description of the message-oriented surface of a HiveMQ enterprise MQTT broker. HiveMQ implements MQTT 3.1, MQTT 3.1.1, and MQTT 5 over plain TCP, TLS, WebSocket, and S...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

HiveMQ — asyncapi rules

2 rules · 2 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Hivemq Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Hivemq Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Hivemq Vulnerability Disclosure

no policy recorded

SECURITY

Hivemq Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CSA STAR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Hivemq Agentic Access

30 operations · 14 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

30 operations · 14 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conformance

Conformance

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Security

Compliance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Community Edition

Community Edition

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Cloud

Cloud

Source (apis.yml)

aid: hivemq
name: HiveMQ
description: HiveMQ is an enterprise MQTT broker and IoT connectivity platform that provides reliable, scalable bidirectional
  messaging between connected devices and back-end systems using the MQTT protocol. It supports MQTT 3, MQTT 5, MQTT over
  WebSocket, clustering, multi-cloud deployments, and an extensible enterprise extension framework for security, data routing,
  and stream processing through HiveMQ Data Hub. HiveMQ exposes a REST API (OpenAPI 3.0) for broker administration, client
  management, backups, trace recordings, and Data Hub policy management.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  try_now_blocked_by: loopback
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/hivemq.png
tags:
- MQTT
- IoT
- Messaging
- Message Broker
- Pub/Sub
- WebSocket
- Real-Time
tags_raw:
- MQTT
- IoT
- Messaging
- Message Broker
- Pub Sub
- WebSocket
- Real-Time
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hivemq/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-08-08'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: hivemq:mqtt-websocket
  name: HiveMQ MQTT over WebSocket
  description: MQTT 3.x and MQTT 5 messaging endpoints exposed over WebSocket for browser and edge clients to publish and
    subscribe to topics. Used by web dashboards and JavaScript IoT clients to interact with the HiveMQ broker without native
    TCP MQTT support.
  humanURL: https://docs.hivemq.com/hivemq/latest/user-guide/listeners.html
  baseURL: ws://localhost:8000/mqtt
  tags:
  - MQTT
  - WebSocket
  - Pub/Sub
  - IoT
  tags_raw:
  - MQTT
  - WebSocket
  - Pub Sub
  - IoT
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.hivemq.com/hivemq/latest/user-guide/listeners.html
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hivemq/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/hivemq-asyncapi.yml
- aid: hivemq:hivemq-data-hub-api
  name: HiveMQ Data Hub API
  description: The Data Hub API from HiveMQ — 4 operation(s) for data hub.
  humanURL: https://docs.hivemq.com/hivemq/latest/rest-api/index.html
  baseURL: http://127.0.0.1:8888
  tags:
  - Data Hub
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hivemq-data-hub-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.hivemq.com/hivemq/latest/rest-api/index.html
  - type: Configuration
    url: https://docs.hivemq.com/hivemq/latest/rest-api/configuration.html
- aid: hivemq:hivemq-management-api
  name: HiveMQ Management API
  description: The Management API from HiveMQ — 9 operation(s) for management.
  humanURL: https://docs.hivemq.com/hivemq/latest/rest-api/index.html
  baseURL: http://127.0.0.1:8888
  tags:
  - Management
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hivemq-management-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.hivemq.com/hivemq/latest/rest-api/index.html
  - type: Configuration
    url: https://docs.hivemq.com/hivemq/latest/rest-api/configuration.html
- aid: hivemq:hivemq-mqtt-api
  name: HiveMQ Mqtt API
  description: The Mqtt API from HiveMQ — 5 operation(s) for mqtt.
  humanURL: https://docs.hivemq.com/hivemq/latest/rest-api/index.html
  baseURL: http://127.0.0.1:8888
  tags:
  - MQTT
  tags_raw:
  - Mqtt
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hivemq-mqtt-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.hivemq.com/hivemq/latest/rest-api/index.html
  - type: Configuration
    url: https://docs.hivemq.com/hivemq/latest/rest-api/configuration.html
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/hivemq-plans-pricing.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/hivemq-capability-edges.yml
  name: HiveMQ Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/hivemq-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/hivemq-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/hivemq-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hivemq-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/hivemq-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.hivemq.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.hivemq.com
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.hivemq.com/pricing
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.hivemq.com/signup
- type: Cloud
  url: https://www.hivemq.com/cloud
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/hivemq
- type: Community Edition
  url: https://www.hivemq.com/developers/community
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.hivemq.com/blog
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hivemq
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.hivemq.com/llms.txt
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.hivemq.com/developers/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://console.hivemq.cloud/
- type: Login
  url: https://console.hivemq.cloud/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.hivemq.com/company/support/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/hivemq
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.hivemq.com/legal/terms-of-service/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.hivemq.com/legal/privacy-policy/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.hivemq.cloud/
- type: Security
  url: https://www.hivemq.com/solutions/technology/hivemq-security/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.hivemq.com/solutions/technology/hivemq-security/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/hivemq-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/hivemq-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/hivemq-cli.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/hivemq-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/hivemq-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hivemq-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-merged-from:
- hive-mq

HiveMQ API — frequently asked questions

Does HiveMQ have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from HiveMQ, including HiveMQ MQTT over WebSocket, HiveMQ Data Hub API and HiveMQ Management API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the HiveMQ API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for HiveMQ, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the HiveMQ API?

HiveMQ uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Hivemq Authentication.

How much does the HiveMQ API cost?

HiveMQ publishes its prices; its Launch (self-managed) plan is $299/month as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 6 pricing plans for HiveMQ, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the HiveMQ API ready for AI agents?

HiveMQ has a Kin Score of 57.2 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 21.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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