IBM MQ Pricing
Small-scale companies may not want to buy IBM MQ because of its high cost. There are freeware in the markets, and many users are motivated to use those.
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Mat Brudar
Senior Developer at a media company with 10,001+ employees
IBM could lower the price because many companies are abandoning MQ from Mickey Mouse products like RabbitMQ and Kafka. Kafka is horrible but free.
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Sunil Sahoo
Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We have a multi-year OIO (open infrastructure offering) with IBM and if there is any additional licensing required it gets deducted from the OIO. We have been using IBM's other services as well.
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IBM MQ
March 2024
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I rate the product price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price.
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Mohammad Al-Smadi
Product Development Manager at Arab Bank
The MQ license is a bit high. I rate IBM MQ six out of 10 for affordability.
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reviewer1579410
Head Of Operations at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
You have to license per application installation and if you expand vertically or horizontally, you will be paying for more licenses. The licenses are approximately $10,000 to $15,000 a license, it can get expensive quite quickly.
We maintain and support a lot of applications across a wide enterprise. Therefore the cost of licenses increases with each individual implementation of a client because we have to pay for licenses. We are looking for an alternative solution to reduce costs by going to an open-source messaging system because we do not need the robustness of IBM MQ.
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Vjacheslav Mikitjuk
Director of Internet Technologies Division at IBA Group
The pricing seems good according to the functionality that the solution provides.
I'm not involved on the licensing side.
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Rahul Jayakumar Lekha
Integration Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I don't have any information related to licensing costs.
We likely have an enterprise license, based on the size of infra that we have. My understanding is it is not very expensive. However, for a new company, it may be pricier.
We get everything in a bundle. There are no extra costs involved.
View full review »A different team handles the setup, and likely they also handle the licensing. I don't have any visibility on the cost of the product.
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DavidPui
Enterprise Architect & Solutions Architect at AIA Australia
I think IBM needs to look at its pricing. The prices of IBM products should be simple. The old way of pricing should now be moving on to the cloud to be pay as you go, a plan-based kind of pricing.
To become competitive, they actually need to move to AWS and Azure. If they really want to be highly available, they can have a highly available location, and charge another price.
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Jitendra Jethwa
Websphere MQ Specialist at a maritime company with 10,001+ employees
This is a licensed product. We do pay for it.
While, of course, it would be better if it was cheaper, the service they provide with it, including the maintenance facilities they provide, is very good. We're quite happy. Most people have to use what IBM provides, however, it could be a cheaper license.
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reviewer1959375
ExaminerExaminer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
IBM MQ is an expensive solution compared to other solutions. However, if you pay less you will not receive the same experience or features.
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Luis Lascano
Solutions Director at Thesys Technologies
The licensing for this software is on a yearly basis, but the bank is holding just one license for the entire bank: a corporate license. As for additional costs, it's a standard fee that includes the maintenance and updates that are released periodically.
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reviewer1519440
Senior Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
This solution requires a license and we have purchased an enterprise license.
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George Thomas
Lead Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The fee for this solution is on the higher end of the scale. The licensing fee is high.
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reviewer1079856
Lead Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
IBM is expensive.
View full review »It's super expensive, so ask them if they can consolidate some other licensing costs. But, IBM is IBM, so I guess we'll pay for it.
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reviewer1466346
Senior Technology Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution costs are high, it is going to cost a fair bit for annual operating costs and support.
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Eduardo Cano
Architect & System Engineer at Servicio de Impuestos Internos
The price is high.
View full review »The licenses for our company are according to port authority contract sales and we buy a license for six months or one year. I don't know the exact costs of the licenses.
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Prashant Powar
Senior Middleware Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It is a licensed product. As compared to an open-source solution, such as RabbitMQ, it is obviously costly. If you're using IBM Message Broker, which is a licensed product, IBM MQ is included in the same license. You don't have to pay separately for IBM MQ. The license cost of IBM MQ is lesser than IBM Message Broker.
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Abraham Ansah-Cudjoe
Unix/Linux Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
IBM MQ is expensive and they charge based on the CPU.
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Gurvijay Bhatti
Senior Solutions Architect at Department of Justice
I think the pricing is reasonable, especially with IIB as a part of it.
View full review »IBM MQ's pricing is higher than its competitors'.
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reviewer1444734
IT Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
There is real money involved here. As compared to RabbitMQ, IBM MQ is on the higher side in terms of cost.
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Fran Tomas
Architect at T-Systems International GmbH
We have a special contract with IBM MQ that give us a certain price.
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reviewer1164303
Service Delivery Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The problem with this product is that it's a little bit expensive. This is one of the main challenges that we face with our clients. The charges are high and there should be a less costly solution available. This is especially true when you consider it in comparison to open-source tools that are available.
View full review »It would be a 10 out of 10 if it wasn't so expensive.
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PrabhasMishra
Technical Manager at MetLife
I was not involved in the pricing structure.
View full review »The price of IBM MQ could improve by being less expensive.
I rate the price of IBM MQ a three out of five.
View full review »The price of the solution could be reduced, and we are on an annual subscription.
View full review »Pricing could be better, as with all IBM products. But their performance in production, along with security and scalability, will pay returns in the long run.
View full review »I'm not aware of the pricing. That's something others deal with, but they do tell me that it is expensive. I don't know how much it is.
We have an ELA contract with IBM and everything is included. It's not like MQ has a different price, and different products have difference prices. Everything is done as part of one big contract
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reviewer1127196
Sr. Solution Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
You do need to pay a licensing fee in order to use this product. We pay it on a yearly basis.
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reviewer1644639
Technical Specialist at a maritime company with 10,001+ employees
We pay an annual license fee.
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Vlad Popa
Integration Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is expensive.
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reviewer895323
Enterprise Architect at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
I think it's pretty reasonable, but I'm not so too sure of the current pricing strategy from IBM. We use many bundled services, and most often, we go through a service provided by some other third-party implementation. So, I can't really give an honest opinion about that.
View full review »Use the new and lightweight version (Liberty) to lower licensing costs.
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Paulo Toscano
Database Administration Team Leader at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The pricing could be lower. It's not the cheapest option out there. However, I don't have comparison prices with other solutions at this time. We're working on comparison pricing currently.
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reviewer1319055
Sap Financial Accounting Senior Consultant at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
For individual projects, IBM MQ may cost more. Here, we are using it globally. It is distributed around the world for our operations, so cost-wise it is less for us. But if you go with individual licenses, the cost of IBM is much more.
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Sanjeev Nirala
Senior Technical Architect at Nagarro
It is a very expensive product compared to the open source products in the market.
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Balanna N
Architect at Franklin Templeton
IBM MQ appliance has pricing options, but they are costly.
View full review »99.999 percent availability for less than a penny per message over the past 25 years. IBM MQ is the cheapest software in the IBM software portfolio, and it is one of the best.
View full review »Since this was not the initial direction CIPC was embarking on, we had the minimal license requirement. The cost was less than the value we would be getting out of this product. There's an annual license with support and it is reasonable cost wise.
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Soumya Thomas
VP - Accelya Kale Solutions Ltd at Accelya World SLU
In terms of cost, IBM MQ is slightly on the higher side.
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solution259344
Enterprise Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
IBM MQ has a flexible license model based on the Processor Value Unit (PVU) and I recommend it.
View full review »Although I'm not involved with costs in our company, IBM products, in general, have high licensing costs and support costs are too high. A lot of people have started using open-source, like Kubernetes and microservices. There is also Apache ActiveMQ. There are many other products out there.
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reviewer1037130
Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The licensing fees are paid quarterly and they are expensive. This is something that I have heard from all of the organizations that I have worked with.
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Mohamed Ramses
IT Consultant at Ministry of Justice, Kuwait
Whatever the price is, it's worth it.
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reviewer1319070
IT Team Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It's a very expensive product.
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Dameer Siddiqui
Works at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I cannot speak to the pricing of the product. I can't say if it's overly expensive or reasonably priced as I don't deal directly with licensing.
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reviewer1181517
Project Manager/System Architect/Senior Mainframe System Engineer/Integration Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
There is a different platform price between Windows, z/OS, and iSeries.
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reviewer914592
Works
To implement such an IBM solution, a company has to pay a lot in term of licensing and consultancy. A pricing model might be a better option.
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reviewer1164303
Service Delivery Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Most of our customers are quite happy with the solution but they have an issue with the cost. They want to move to cheaper solutions.
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IBM MQ
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about IBM MQ. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.