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Alternatives to Amazon SQS

Queues and background jobs · 9 alternatives · Amazon SQS iScore 75 (#1/10)

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.

Ranked by iScore
  1. Upstash QStashPricing model: Per message rather than per operation, metered against a daily ceiling on the free plan a…73#2/10
  2. Cloudflare QueuesPricing model: Billed per operation, not per message: one operation per 64 KB written, read or deleted,…72#3/10
  3. Trigger.devEntry paid plan: $10/month for Hobby, which includes $10 of credits; Pro is $50/month including $50 of cre…71#4/10
  4. Google Cloud Pub/SubPricing model: Three meters: throughput at $40 per TiB counting both publish and subscribe, storage at $…69#5/10
  5. TemporalKind of free offer: Free credit vs Free tier66#6/10
  6. ZeploEntry paid plan: $39/month for Company, including 1,000,000 requests and three team members. Additional me…66#7/10
  7. Azure Queue StorageFree tier: No vs Yes · Kind of free offer: Free credit vs Free tier60#8/10
  8. HatchetEntry paid plan: $500/month for Team, which adds users, tenants, retention and throughput on top of usage.…58#9/10
  9. InngestEntry paid plan: $99/month for Pro, described as a starting price with usage above the included allowance…57#10/10

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