# Create a free trial deployment
For first-time EMQX Cloud customers, we have an opportunity for you to create a free trial deployment of up to 14 days in length. The free trial deployment is an ideal way for you to learn and explore the features of EMQX Cloud. Before creating a free trial deployment, you need to understand that the free trial has the following restrictions.
Free trial up to 14 days.
To extend your free trial, you can submit a ticket or contact us by email to get in touch with us.
Maximum 1000 client connections for the basic plan, maximum 5000 client connections for professional plan
100 GB free traffic per month.
Use all EMQX features such as Data Integrations, monitoring management, etc.
Support for MQTT, WebSockets, MQTT over TLS/SSL, WebSockets over TLS protocol connections.
For additional protocol support, you can submit a ticket or send email (cloud@emqx.io) to get in touch with us.
The basic plan does not support custom TLS/SSL and VPC Peering.
Deployment has active client connections within 7 days.
If the deployment has no active connections for 7 days we will temporarily stop your free trial deployment. You can start your free trial deployment again by logging into the EMQX Cloud console.
# Start creating a free trial deployment
Login to EMQX Cloud Console (opens new window)
Click the
Create Deployment
buttonSelect
create free trial
under basic planReview the EMQX Cloud Standard Terms of Service and Free Trial Declaration Terms.
Wait for 5 ~ 10 minutes until the deployment status is running
# Connect to your free trial deployment
Before connecting to your free trial deployment, you need to wait for the deployment status changed from pending to running
Get free trial connection information.
Click the free trial deployment to be connected, and you will enter the deployment details page. The corresponding ports of the protocol are as follows:
Protocol Port MQTT 11xxx MQTT over TLS 11xxx WebSockets 8083 WebSockets over TLS 8084 Add client authentication information.
Click the EMQX Dashboard button on the deployment details page, you will enter the EMQX Dashboard, and click the Users & ACL menu on the left
Connect to free trial deployment with MQTT X EMQX Cloud recommends using MQTT X (opens new window) to test the connection.
MQTT connection
WebSockets connection
Use SDK or other tools to connect to the free trial deployments