G2 Vendor Directory

RabbitMQ vs. PubNub

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricRabbitMQ

by Broadcom

PubNub

by PubNub

Overall rating4.14.4
Review count4625
Ease of use8.68.9
Ease of setup8.68.9
Quality of support8.59.3
Meets requirements8.99.1
NPS35.55555660.869565
Small Business37.0%52.0%
Mid-Market39.1%20.0%
Enterprise23.9%28.0%
Total page views508197
Total LLM citations2,186731

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ is the most popular open source message broker, with more than 35,000 production deployments world-wide. RabbitMQ is lightweight and easy to deploy on premises and in the cloud and runs on all major operating systems. It supports most developer platforms, multiple messaging protocols and can be deployed in distributed and federated configurations to meet high-scale, high-availability requirements.

Pros

    PubNub

    PubNub is a real-time platform for developers who build in-app chat and live features. The Chat SDK includes typing indicators, presence, message history, read receipts, reactions, and threads. PubNub supports unlimited subscribers per channel. PubNub assigns each message a server-side timetoken. Messages on a channel form one ordered sequence. End-to-end delivery latency is sub-100ms. DAZN uses PubNub to power chat and Watch Party experiences for 10 million users. PubNub charges by Monthly Active Users or transactions, depending on the plan.

    Pros

    • Customer Support
    • Chat Functionality
    • Ease of Use
    • Data Security
    • Real-time Streaming
    • API Integration