Amazon SQS alternatives
Every queues and background jobs provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Amazon SQS's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Amazon SQS's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- Trigger.devvs Amazon SQSEntry paid plan: $10/month for Hobby, which includes $10 of credits; Pro is $50/month including $50 of cre…
- Google Cloud Pub/Subvs Amazon SQSPricing model: Three meters: throughput at $40 per TiB counting both publish and subscribe, storage at $…
- Upstash QStashvs Amazon SQSPricing model: Per message rather than per operation, metered against a daily ceiling on the free plan a…
- Cloudflare Queuesvs Amazon SQSPricing model: Billed per operation, not per message: one operation per 64 KB written, read or deleted,…
- Hatchetvs Amazon SQSEntry paid plan: No plan fee: Pay-as-you-go is $0 a month and bills only usage past the free million runs…
- Zeplovs Amazon SQSEntry paid plan: $39/month for Company, including 1,000,000 requests and three team members. Additional me…
- Inngestvs Amazon SQSEntry paid plan: $99/month for Pro, described as a starting price with usage above the included allowance…
- Temporalvs Amazon SQSFree tier: No vs Yes · Kind of free offer: Free credit vs Free tier
- Azure Queue Storagevs Amazon SQSFree tier: No vs Yes · Kind of free offer: Free credit vs Free tier
Where Amazon SQS stands against these 9
Amazon SQS's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- Yes. 7 of the 9 alternatives that document it have one: Cloudflare Queues, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Hatchet, Inngest, Upstash QStash, Trigger.dev and 1 more.
- Regions
- 34 commercial AWS Regions plus 2 AWS GovCloud (US) Regions listed in the SQS service endpoints tableHighest of the 4 that document it. Next: Temporal — 20 regions for Temporal Cloud Namespaces: 14 AWS regions and 6 Google Cloud regions, each with a PrivateLink…
- Uptime SLA
- 99.9% monthly uptime per AWS Region, one figure with no configuration splitJoint 2nd highest of the 4 that document it. Highest: Google Cloud Pub/Sub — 99.95% or better for Pub/Sub.
- Maximum message size
- 256 KB per message7th highest of the 9 that document it. Highest: Inngest — 4 MiB per step-returned payload; 32 MiB total function run state; 10 MiB hard cap per event batch.
- Message retention
- 4 days by default; configurable from 60 seconds up to 14 days per queueJoint 3rd highest of the 5 that document it. Highest: Azure Queue Storage — 7 days by default, set per message with messagettl; since version 2017-07-29 it can be any positive number…
- Maximum delay
- 15 minutes maximum per-message delay (message timer) or per-queue delay; default is 0 seconds5th highest of the 5 that document it. Highest: Temporal — Timers (durable sleeps) may run up to 100 years in Temporal Cloud.
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.