IBM MQ

by IBM

174

Reviews

4.3

Star rating

Rank in Message Queue (MQ)

Pros and cons

Pros

Cons

Traffic & LLM citations

Monthly G2.com page views and citations by AI answer engines for IBM MQ.

Page views and citations · IBM MQ

Source: G2 review data

Winning from

Based on reviewers who said they switched from another product.

Apache Kafka

3 switched

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

1 switched

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

1 switched

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

1 switched

Losing to

Based on reviewers of other products who said they switched from IBM MQ.

Axway Managed File Transfer (MFT)

2 switched

Boomi

1 switched

KubeMQ

1 switched

Automation Anywhere Agentic Process Automation

1 switched

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

1 switched

Key stats

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Enterprise

Adoption by company size

Segment	Share of reviews
Small Business	11.6%
Mid-Market	26.0%
Enterprise	62.4%

Quarterly history

Quarter	Reviews	Star rating
2024 Q4	3	5.0
2025 Q1	2	4.5
2025 Q2	1	4.5
2025 Q3	4	4.9
2025 Q4	3	4.8

Satisfaction ratings

Ease of Use8.5

Ease of Setup8.4

Quality of Support8.6

Meets Requirements9.0

What reviewers say

Rock-Solid Reliability with a Learning Curve

5.0

“With over 10 years of experience working with MQ, I can confidently say that its greatest strength is its reliability and the guarantee of exactly-once message delivery.”

Small Business Owner

MQ: Built for Reliability, Not Hype

5.0

“MQ is super lightweight, extremely fast, and highly reliable — a robust backbone for asynchronous communication that continuously evolves with modern architectures.”

Owner

Incorporacion de Nuevo MQ Appliance StandAlone en produccion

5.0

“Presta soluciones para las distintas necesidades de los clientes, como son la de Soporte al cliente y Facilidad de Implementación”

Analista