Google Cloud Pub/Sub comparisons

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Google Cloud Pub/Sub is compared head-to-head with RabbitMQ, Solace PubSub+ Event Broker and Apache Kafka and more: 7 head-to-heads in Message Broker Software, each with the specs and prices we checked.

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Google Cloud Pub/Sub vs each of them

#	Tool	Free plan	Paid from	Deployment model	Delivery guarantees	Dead-letter queues	Ordering guarantees	Score
3	Google Cloud Pub/Sub	Yes		Cloud	Configurable	Yes		9.1
1	RabbitMQ	Yes	Free	Hybrid	Configurable	Yes	Per_queue	9.4
2	Solace PubSub+ Event Broker	Yes		Hybrid				9.2
4	Apache Kafka		Free					9.0
5	IBM MQ	Yes	$312/unit/mo	Hybrid	Configurable	Yes	Per_queue	8.8
6	Apache Artemis	Yes	Free	Self_hosted	Configurable	Yes	Per_queue	8.7
7	Apache RocketMQ		Free					8.6
8	Amazon SQS	Yes		Cloud	Configurable	Yes	Per_queue	8.5

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