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RabbitMQ

Open-source message broker (AMQP 0-9-1, AMQP 1.0, MQTT, STOMP) for queues and pub/sub between services, run yourself or as a managed service.

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Where it fits

Background Jobs & Cron · Self-run queueA dedicated message broker for queues and pub/sub between services, in any language, or as the broker behind Celery.Trade-off: Another server to run and monitor, and it only moves messages — retries, schedules and job dashboards are up to your worker library.

Who uses it

2 makers' products, each linked to the source that shows it, and 42 open-source projects that declare it in their code.

The maker says so 2Declared in code 42How evidence is collected →
DataboxAgentic analytics platform for you and your agents.

“We use RabbitMQ to queue data fetching jobs. It gives us reliable async processing and makes sure every data sync runs without blocking other operations - critical when handling multiple integrations at scale.”

Background Jobs & CronMaker says so · source ↗

Open source: a project that declares RabbitMQ as a dependency in its public code — verifiable, but not necessarily a live product.

What makers say

2 makers on why they use RabbitMQ, in their own words on Product Hunt.

We use RabbitMQ to queue data fetching jobs. It gives us reliable async processing and makes sure every data sync runs without blocking other operations - critical when handling multiple integrations at scale.
DataboxSep 2026 ↗
Reliable queue system for async processing and background jobs.
FraudLens AISep 2026 ↗

Reliability and open issues

Most wanted on GitHubOpen on 2026-10-04 in rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server, with activity in the last year — issues and feature requests by 👍.

Alternatives to RabbitMQ

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Trigger.devLong-running TypeScript tasks — AI calls, media processing — that would time out in a serverless function.Open sourceFree tier23 makers · background jobs & cron
InngestEvent-driven, multi-step workflows where each step retries on its own and your code stays in your existing app.Open sourceFree tier16 makers · background jobs & cron
TemporalLong-running, multi-step workflows — payments, onboarding, AI agent loops — whose state must survive crashes and deploys, in Go, Java, Python, TypeScript and more.Open sourceFree tier29 makers · background jobs & cron
UpstashSimple scheduled calls and delayed HTTP jobs on serverless or edge hosting, via QStash.Free tier2 makers · background jobs & cron
BullMQNode apps on a long-running server that already have Redis — free and fully in your control.Open sourceFree tier1 makers · background jobs & cron
pg-bossNode apps that already run on Postgres and want a job queue with retries and cron without adding Redis.Open sourceFree tier
CeleryPython backends — Django, FastAPI, AI pipelines — that need background tasks and schedules on worker processes.Open sourceFree tier

Questions makers ask about RabbitMQ

Is RabbitMQ free?

Yes — it is free, open-source software.

Is RabbitMQ open source or self-hostable?

Open source, and you can self-host it. source ↗

Can AI coding agents work with RabbitMQ?

No llms.txt, official MCP server or CLI found yet.

Who uses RabbitMQ?

2 makers' products we track, each with a source, and 42 open-source projects declare it in their code. source ↗