--- title: IBM MQ Reviews meta_title: 'IBM MQ Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 174 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM MQ works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 174 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # IBM MQ Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [Message Queue (MQ) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/message-queue-mq) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 174 ## About IBM MQ IBM MQ connects applications and microservices in private datacenters, across hybrid or multi-cloud environments, and at the edge of the enterprise. It allows businesses, from large enterprises to startups, to ensure every order, every payment, and every customer interaction counts. Messages between applications are delivered reliably once-and-only-once and applications are decoupled to enable rapid response to sudden traffic increases or system outages. Businesses can tap into the value of existing mission-critical data to gain real-time insights and ensure the safety of customer and business data with comprehensive security mechanisms. ## IBM MQ Reviews ### 1. Stable robust multiplattform Messaging moving to cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Stability of the product, mutliplattform support, strategz moving to the cloud, integration with Kafka **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Almost nothing as the product is one of the most stable ones IBM offers **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration, louse coupling of systems ### 2. MQ everywhere for modernization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Free client software for business partners **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Complex installation on z/OS. The features can be complex to implement, such as QSG. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Disparate and heterogeneous client connection to moderize SNA/IHS clients. ### 3. IBM most reliable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** It is very reliable and easy to configure & use **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** It wil be better if we have a way of auditing **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Asynchronous communications & large messges. Pub /Sub ### 4. Middleware **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** We use IBM MQ as a middleware solution in our payments system. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** So far I did not see any issues with using IBM MQ. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** so far no issues. ### 5. IBM MQ review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Very good tool for passing data between systems. NIce visibitlity tools **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Could use better common english documentation on topics **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Transferring messages thru disparent systems. Easier development ### 6. MQ Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** We do exentensively use MQ in PNC and greatly meets our requirment **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Sometimes we do see the message lost though we had it as persistent **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration ### 7. MQ review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** reliable and scalable product with guaranteed message delivery features to enable critical business processes **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** could be cheaper with easier interfaces and less costly **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** messaging ### 8. stable basic **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Very stable, backbone of data exchange / available on many plattforms **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** The future strategy is not clear - to many chnages **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dataexchange between applications ### 9. very robust product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** lot of industry standard cutting edge features **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** its a very costly product providing market has many options **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** publish subscribe, operating large MQ clusters ### 10. Reliable messaging **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Guaranteed delivery of MQ is amazing..... **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** I do not have any issues using this produtcct **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application connectivity via MQ is reliable. ### 11. Administration **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Functionality **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Documentation **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** You won't be disappointed **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** As the central capital market institution, we exchange data with our participants. ### 12. IBM MQ for I-Series **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Stability on AS400 platform for IBM MQ system **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Not much related information on internet or even on IBM websites **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** IBM MQ is much better on Unix or Windows platform but on AS400 its not much. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Transferring of Messages from one system to AS400 system ### 13. Manager **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kriangsak H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Stable, Esay to install and Configure MQ servers. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Dificult to check error log from problem. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Intregrate to any platform and stable. ### 14. Overall evaluation of IBM MQ **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Ability to use same API on all platforms **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** Complexity of fixpack maintenance is very difficult on Linux environments **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Interaction with applications from WEB to mainframe. ### 15. Best use for messaging **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** I am a java developer and I have got chance to work with IBM MQ which is great as it provides all the facilities to send a message and consume a message and It is very easy to connect and work with it **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** It helps to do my complete my work So I have no issues **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** As i have told before I use it for JMS purpose and facilitates my work ### 16. stable and reliable messaging prouduct **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** customers trust it and requires less support **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** developers not having limited access on their MQ objects **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** stable product for messaging and pubsub **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** filtering in pubsub , message transfer to disparate applications ### 17. Robust messaging software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zulla J. | Sr Systems Engineer, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** This robust messaging software gives 100 percent high availability and dependability on it. I completely trust this IBM MQ and we never have to bounce the queue managers. I work as admin for this software and installation and maintenance is very easy **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** The cost associated with IBM products is always a concern. IBM has to revise the cost in this competitive world. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** get IBm products for stability **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using the software to transfer messages between different applications that belong to client and us. The client sends messages from all frontend applications and our application from backend take the messages to process them ### 18. MQ at work **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** It is easy to message secure and confidential information. I t makes sharing data easier. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** The interface is not the most user friendly and at times is hard to navigate **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** `The ability to confidentially share data with colleges is the main purpose for my use of this product. ### 19. Stable message queuing system **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Tobacco | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** MQ and message queuing is not the most sexy of applications. Few will have a need for it, but when you do, you'll realise how critical this can be. If you build a system that needs to support hundreds/thousands of transactions per hour, the biggest worry is to lose one. If your servers can't process these transactions fast enough, this is bound to happen. This is where MQ fits in. Instead of directly processing your transactions, you store it in MQ instead, and have your processing engine read from the queue instead. This not only prevents losing transactions, it also removes the need to always throw more cpu to handle extra transaction loads, by being able to process them asynchronously, you can continue to process transactions at a constant rate. Also, if any piece of software crashes/fails, you can feel secure in knowing you arenot losing anything while you remedy the problem. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** MQ is not a simple system to figure out, proper installation and configuration can take some time, especially if you don't have any experience. But I wouldn't let that scare you away, the benefits far outweigh the cost. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** If you need to run an integrated transactional system, this tool needs to be part of your solution. Your systems might be working today as is, but the day your systems won't be able to handle the volume, you'll kick your self fonot doing so. Spare yourself the headaches and include MQ in your architecture. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this for all our Sap integration, and is central to running our business. We have multiple ordering platforms (web,EDI, Siebel, fax), that all need to exchange information with Sap.. As an example, a sales order comes in and is saved to a queue. A middleware will pick up the order from the queue, do some data manipulation and send the order to sap. Sap will send an order confirmation to the queue which the middleware will pick up and send to the ordering platform. The order is also sent to the warehouse for processing, and delivery details are sent to the ordering platform via MQ again. This process goes on for all steps of the sales order proces. ### 20. Websphere MQ is a good Messaging option **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2017 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Easy to use-Remote Queue and Local Queue concept is very good. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** It is not available as freeware option like ActiveMQ. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** It help to integrate most of the system, where real-time response was not required. ### 21. IBM MQ good solution for exchanging data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** It is very easy to setup and configure. It has best functionality to transfer large volume of data. exchanging of data between integrated systems using mq is very easy. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** As such no bad impression. I think it is best mq product available. **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used it in my previous organisation for exchanging customer data between integrated systems. Our product was used to put an order basically, integrated systems send some kind of verification data across the systems. for exchange of this data we used IBM MQ. ### 22. IBM MQ **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** It's highly configurable and customizable according to our need. Enables us to construct time-independent architecture and also enables independent and potentially non-concurrent applications on a heterogeneous system to communicate with one other. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** As of no dislike,but big data with MQ use case samples are not so exhaustive to think for future **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Independent of interfacing application availability, scalable, highly available, and allows workload balancing mechanism ### 23. MQ series_Shivakumar **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivakumar G. | Cerner Applications Analyst, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2016 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Various options that makes the programmer to deal with different project requirements. I like this products mainly because of the ease usage and very efficient and effective. **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** i don't really dislike, Might need to work on the UI of the application. **Recommendations to others considering IBM MQ:** Keep up the good work! **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use it for both personal and professional. Various Testing for various client projects . ### 24. IBM MQ Series **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2015 **What do you like best about IBM MQ?** Ease of use reliability Persistence Realtime monitoring of queues **What do you dislike about IBM MQ?** I have not encountered yet with this product **What problems is IBM MQ solving and how is that benefiting you?** Messaging across the organization. MQ series is very reliable and clients can be easily developed to put and get messages from MQ. ## IBM MQ Discussions - [Is IBM MQ free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-ibm-mq-free) - 1 comment - [What is IBM MQ used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ibm-mq-used-for) - 2 comments - [View IBM MQ pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-mq/reviews?page=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-26+20%3A42%3A21+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=bc25eae8-e973-425b-89c8-70633b3989df&secure%5Btoken%5D=5a8177e487257aead00f2b491a12086fc14f7e40b0ef681e9aa8330346c8b1f3&format=llm_user) ## IBM MQ Integrations - [Apache Kafka](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-kafka/reviews) - [IBM App Connect](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-app-connect/reviews) - [IBM Instana](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-instana/reviews) ## IBM MQ Features **Functionality** - Asynchronous Messaging - Language Support - Cloud-based Messaging - Latency **Risk** - Internal - Compliance **Integration** - Application Integration - Data Integration - Plugins and integrations **Recovery** - Disaster Recovery - Business Recovery - Contingency Planning **Management** - Policies and Controls - Security Monitoring - Activity Monitoring **Agentic AI - Business Activity Monitoring** - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Message Queue (MQ)** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance ## Top IBM MQ Alternatives - [MuleSoft Anypoint Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/mulesoft-anypoint-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (657 reviews) - [Apache Kafka](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-kafka/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (127 reviews) - [RabbitMQ](https://www.g2.com/products/rabbitmq/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (46 reviews)