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Offering pricing options
IBM® MQ Starts at USD 312.00*

The standard offering providing the essential capabilities to securely and reliably connect message and event driven applications at scale and empower teams to innovate and deliver outstanding customer experiences.

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IBM MQ Advanced Starts at USD 583.00*

Everything that is available in the standard offering plus additional capabilities providing state of the art data resiliency, broader connectivity options and advanced security for end to end encryption and audit compliance.

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IBM MQ as a Service (SaaS) Starts at USD 727.00*

A fully managed multi-tenant IBM MQ Advanced offering. IBM will handle upgrades, patches and many of the operational management tasks of IBM MQ. 

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IBM MQ as a Service Reserved Instance

A fully managed single-tenant IBM MQ Advanced offering increased isolation, deployment automation and the ability to deploy highly-available queue managers.

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Plans

IBM MQ Virtual Processor Core Subscription License: USD 312.00 (billed monthly, minimum 1-year term) 

IBM MQ Advanced Virtual Processor Core Subscription License: USD 583.00 (billed monthly, minimum 1-year term) 

  • Monthly IBM MQ SaaS Subscription: USD 
  • 727.00 VPC per month.
  • Flexible hourly pay-as-you-go plan: USD 1.02 per VPC per hour.

Monthly IBM MQ SaaS Subscription: USD 6610.00 per month. 

Starting Instance Capacity

1 VPC or 70 PVUs

1 VPC or 70 PVUs

Free tier (Lite plan) available (limit of 10000 messages per month)

OR

1 VPC (paid)

1 Capacity Unit (equivalent to 5 VPC) 

Metric Unit

Available as:

Processor Value Unit (PVU),(perpetual) – a unit of measure used to differentiate licensing of software on distributed processor technologies.

Virtual Processor Core (VPC), (monthly) – a physical processor core, provided that the server is not partitioned for virtual machines, or a virtual core assigned to a virtual machine.

Available as:

Processor Value Unit (PVU),(perpetual) – a unit of measure used to differentiate licensing of software on distributed processor technologies.

Virtual Processor Core (VPC), (monthly) – a physical processor core, provided that the server is not partitioned for virtual machines, or a virtual core assigned to a virtual machine.

Available as:

Virtual Processor Core (VPC), (monthly) – a physical processor core, provided that the server is not partitioned for virtual machines, or a virtual core assigned to a virtual machine.

Same VPC metric is available on hourly basis (thru IBM Cloud platform).

Available as:

Capacity Unit, (monthly) – is a selected Cloud Services capacity type that will be multiplied by the specified number of required capacity units for such capacity type

Private Cloud

YES

YES

N/A

N/A

Public Cloud

YES

YES

IBM Cloud® and AWS

IBM Cloud® and AWS

IBM MQ Internet Pass-Thru (unlimited installs)

YES

YES

YES

YES

IBM MQ on z/OS

Combine the stability and reliability of the mainframe with IBM MQ.

IBM MQ Appliance

Messaging firmware precisely tuned by experts—running on dedicated hardware to enable impressive performance.

*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.

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Buy MQ and MQ Advanced on AWS

For 12 Months: IBM MQ VPCs: USD 3,325; IBM MQ Advanced VPCs: USD 6,228

IBM MQ Advanced

Get extra data protection, high availability and the power to share data across any environment

IBM MQ SaaS

Experience superior messaging reliability, security and performance, built for a hybrid cloud world and fully managed for you

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*Prices shown are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties, and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.