--- description: Learn more about IronMQ price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in South Africa. Read reviews from verified users and discover similar tools. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: IronMQ Price, Reviews & Features - Capterra South Africa 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [App Development Software](/directory/30082/application-development/software) > [IronMQ](/software/182241/ironmq) # IronMQ Canonical: https://www.capterra.co.za/software/182241/ironmq Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/182241/ironmq?page=2) > A highly scalable and elastic message queue providing an extremely fast and robust message passing system with flexible deployments. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 26 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses IronMQ? IronMQ is highly flexible in terms of deployment and scalability, so our customers range from small to medium sized business, all the way to Fortune 50 companies. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 26 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 70% | (7/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Iron.io - **Location**: Las Vegas, US - **Founded**: 2014 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$24,99 - **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Hobby: $24.99/week or $1319/year. Launch: $749/month or $9877/year. Professional: $1148/month or $13776/year. Enterprise: contact Iron for a quote. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - API ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) ## Category - [App Development Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/30082/application-development/software) ## Alternatives 1. [Salesforce Platform](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/164356/app-cloud) — 4.4/5 (392 reviews) 2. [Rayven](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/173908/rayven-industrial-business-intelligence) — 5.0/5 (24 reviews) 3. [Domo](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/119119/domo) — 4.3/5 (329 reviews) 4. 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Worker and MessageQueue were the team that solved it for us. ----- ### "Set up a push queue in few minutes" — 5.0/5 > **Jose** | *15 February 2019* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Very easy to set up projects, queues, subscribers. Good value for money. > > **Cons**: The company seems to be quite focused on IronWorker and the product plans do not contemplate a low-volume case when you just need a cloud-hosted push queue server to distribute amongs subscribers. Documentation on local setup with Docker is limited. > > We needed a cloud-hosted push queue to distribute work across several worker nodes that we were hosting and ironMQ was the perfect solution. The Node.js sdk allowed us to set up very quickly the necessary code to send the jobs requests, and then you just need to set up your queue to push your messages to these subscribed workers. Another feature we liked was the availability of some Docker images that mimicked the authentication and queue behaviour for testing locally. We've used extensively in our docker-compose stacks. ----- ### "Evaluate with great caution and care before committing" — 2.0/5 > **Ezekiel** | *15 February 2019* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10 > > **Pros**: - Signed up on a free plan - Integrated easily with Heroku > > **Cons**: - Randomly lost queues several times during THEIR outages - Very slow performance - Horrible support; sometimes WEEKS without response - Horrible documentation -- out of date, incomplete, etc. - Minimal feature set -- not even close to competitors - Terrible, buggy UI online > > IronMQ at the time was the simplest integration for our small PHP Laravel app on Heroku. We are still stuck on it despite having grown significantly. Even when we were small we faced myriad horrible technical issues that should never happen with any production 3rd party service -- loss of data, frequent outages, god awful performance, buggy UI causing you to have to revert to your own API usage for simple queue management tasks, etc. I would never put it past a company to improve over time so I won't just tell you to run away as fast as you can, but SERIOUSLY if you ever are actually considering using Iron or someone tries to convince you to use it, you should be prepared to justify that decision against very mature, very serious competition at this point. Queuing is more or less a solved problem including managed solutions in the cloud; Iron doesn't hold a candle to the competition at this point in time. ----- ### "IronMQ let us quickly get to solving the problems that really mattered for our company" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *15 February 2019* | Hospitality | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: IronMQ was simple to implement in our system. We use it for a number of use cases and find it reliable, fast, and easy to use. > > **Cons**: I can't think of any specific issue we've had with IronMQ. When we first started we organized things in an awkward way which lead to a large number of projects appearing on the dashboard when logging into Iron. That was mostly our own fault though. ----- ### "Interaction with go driver is great\!" — 5.0/5 > **Diego** | *15 February 2019* | Investment Management | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: How easy it was to get up and running. At least the Go driver let's you put your config files in several places, following a hierarchy to override one value or another. > > **Cons**: This will sound like a fake review but my experience was just very good with IronMQ, there wasn't anything I needed that wasn't there. > > I wrote a search engine that had to coordinate several crawlers. I used IronMQ because I didn't want to setup any of the other message queues. I wrote my app in Go, and the go driver to talk to IronMQ was well designed, easy to follow examples on their site. The dashboard gives you enough info to debug any issues. 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