Pricing and Billing
EMQX Platform offers a variety of flexible product plans and pricing options to support the deployment of fully managed MQTT services exclusively for you on the leading cloud providers, so you can easily scale up or down as your needs change, without any hidden costs or fees.
Serverless Plan
EMQX Serverless Plan is billed based on the actual usage of your deployment, including the number of session minutes and the amount of traffic generated by messages. Each user is given a certain amount of free credits at the beginning of each month, which will be used first before any charges are incurred. After this free quota (session minute or traffic) is used up, you will then be charged for any additional usage.
Billing Unit
Connection time: Calculated by connection minutes, where 1 connection minute is the unit for measuring 1 client connection to the deployment for 1 minute. Any duration less than 1 minute is calculated as a full minute.
Traffic: Traffic (including free traffic) refers to all public network traffic that flows in and out of your deployment.
Rule Action: The total number of action execution times in Data Integration.
Related Terms
Number of Client Connections: The number of clients simultaneously online (including offline clients that have enabled persistent sessions) connected to the deployment.
Persistent Session: A session that remains active and stores offline messages when the client disconnects, until the session times out and is logged out.
Billing Plan
| Billing Unit | Free quota | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Connection time | 1 million connection minutes / month | $ 2.00 per million connection minutes |
| Traffic | 1 GB / month | $ 0.15 / GB |
| Rule Action | 1 million rule action executions / month | $ 0.25 per million rule action executions |
Billing method
Connection time fee = Number of connected clients * connection time (in minutes, rounded up to the nearest minute) / 1,000,000 * 2
Traffic fee = Inbound and outbound traffic（byte）/ 1024 / 1024 / 1024 * 0.15
Rule Action fee = Number of rule action executions / 1,000,000 * 0.25
Billing use case
Assume in a 24-hour billing period, a user has 120 client connections for 10 hours, 20 client connections for 10 hours, and 0 client connections for 4 hours, the total connection minutes are: 120 * 60 * 10 + 20 * 60 * 10 + 0 = 84,000, and the connection time fee is 0 if this falls within the free quota. If the free quota has run out, the connection time fee will be 84,000 / 1,000,000 * 2 = 0.168, rounded up to $ 0.17.
The bill is calculated based on the fees accumulated in the previous 24 hours, with collections taking place at 0:00 daily. You can go to the Billings page in EMQX Platform console to find the details.
Spend Limit
Spend Limit helps you control how much money your Serverless deployment spends each month, and you'll receive a reminder when you reach that limit. You can set the Spend Limit when you create your deployment, and you can change it later.
The spending limit can be an integer from 0 to 10000:
- If it is set to 0, the deployment will only consume the free quota, which is 1 million connection minutes, 1 GB of traffic, and 1 million rule action executions per month. When the free quota is used up, the deployment will be stopped.
- If it is set to an integer between 1 and 10,000, an action should also be selected when the consumption of the deployment reaches the limit for the month, such as stopping the deployment or reminding and continuing to charge. If there is an overdue bill, regardless of the action you previously set, the deployment will be stopped.
Dedicated Plan
EMQX Dedicated Plan is charged based on the tier, and message transmission network traffic. There are no restrictions on the number of messages, API calls, or data integration usage. You can select the appropriate product plan based on your business needs, and be confident that the costs remain transparent and manageable even as your business expands.
Billing Unit
Base Fee: The base fee for the instance is calculated based on the hourly unit price corresponding to the selected product plan and instance tier (maximum number of connections, message TPS) at the time of deployment. In practical usage, this fee is only related to the duration of usage and will not be affected by changes in usage (number of connections, message TPS).
Traffic Fee: Each instance tier includes a certain amount of free traffic. The free traffic is valid for the current month and any remaining amount will be automatically cleared at the end of the month. When device communication exceeds the free traffic, the excess part will be charged as traffic fees.
Related Terms
Number of Clicnet Connections: The total number of clients simultaneously online (including offline clients with persistent sessions).
Persistent Session: A session that remains active and stores offline messages when the client disconnects until the session times out and is logged out.
Traffic: Traffic (including free traffic) refers to all public network traffic flowing out of the deployment.
Traffic through VPC peering connections or private network connections is not included in the traffic calculation.
Traffic of messages received by the deployment (e.g., messages sent to the deployment by clients) is not included in the traffic calculation.
If a NAT gateway is enabled, the traffic flowing out of the deployment is considered public network traffic and will be included in the traffic calculation.
Specification Based Fee for Dedicated Plan
| Plan | Tier | Base Fee | Free Traffic | Traffic exceeded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dedicated | 1,000 connections / Up to 1,000 TPS | $0.36 /hr | 100G/month | $ 0.15/GB |
| 2,000 connections / Up to 2,000 TPS | $0.5 /hr | |||
| 5,000 connections / Up to 10,000 TPS | $0.99 /hr | |||
| 10,000 connections / Up to 20,000 TPS | $1.49 /hr | |||
| >10,000 connections | Contact us | |||
TIP
Prices may vary depending on the public cloud platform selected and the deployment region. The actual price is based on the price displayed on the deployment page.
Billing Method
For Dedicated Plan deployments, charges are calculated every hour based on usage for the previous hour, and charged from your account balance. The hourly charges are then accumulated into monthly charges, which you can view in detail on the Billing Overview page.
Pricing of suspended depoyment
Dedicated deployment in hourly billing will incur data retention fees at the following rates when suspended: $0.06 / hour
BYOC Plan
EMQX BYOC will deploy the EMQX service in your cloud platform account, and the associated costs include cloud platform resource fees and EMQX BYOC license fees.
Cost Components
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Cloud Platform Resources | When EMQX BYOC is deployed and running, it utilizes virtual machines, networks, and other resources under your cloud platform account. You will be billed by the cloud platform provider for the usage of these resources. |
| EMQX BYOC License | To use the EMQX BYOC service, you need to subscribe and obtain an official EMQX BYOC license from EMQ. For details on license pricing, please contact us. |