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Azure Queue Storage alternatives

Queues and background jobs · 9 alternatives · Azure Queue Storage iScore 54 (#10/10)

Every queues and background jobs provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Azure Queue Storage's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Azure Queue Storage's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.

Ranked by iScore
  1. Amazon SQSFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Free tier vs Free credit74#1/10
  2. Trigger.devFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Free tier vs Free credit72#2/10
  3. Google Cloud Pub/SubFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Free tier vs Free credit71#3/10
  4. Upstash QStashFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Free tier vs Free credit71#4/10
  5. Cloudflare QueuesFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Free tier vs Free credit70#5/10
  6. HatchetFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Free tier vs Free credit69#6/10
  7. ZeploFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Free tier vs Free credit67#7/10
  8. InngestFree tier: Yes vs No · Kind of free offer: Free tier vs Free credit62#8/10
  9. TemporalPricing model: Pay-as-you-go per Action with no base monthly fee: from $50 per million Actions, falling…57#9/10

Where Azure Queue Storage stands against these 9

Azure Queue Storage'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
No. 8 of the 9 alternatives that document it have one: Amazon SQS, Cloudflare Queues, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Hatchet, Inngest, Upstash QStash and 2 more.
Maximum message size
64 KB per message9th 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
7 days by default, set per message with messagettl; since version 2017-07-29 it can be any positive number…Joint highest of the 5 that document it. Level with: Google Cloud Pub/Sub — Retention is configurable and charged rather than granted: $0.27 per GiB-month for messages a topic is…

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