G2 Recognizes HiveMQ Among Germany's Best Software Companies for 2026

The Recognition: Why HiveMQ Was Selected

HiveMQ, the industrial data platform powered by MQTT, has been recognized by G2 as one of Germany's Best Software Companies for 2026 in the Message Queue category. This recognition validates HiveMQ's role as a trusted industrial data platform, securely moving operational data from edge to enterprise to enable real-time intelligence and action. 

Out of 1,210 total vendors in this category, and 72 that were eligible for the 2026 Best Software Awards, HiveMQ was one of the 50 best software vendors. When looking at this year's winners, 26 remained on the list from last year, while 24 are new entrants— representing a 48% change on this list since the 2025 Best Software Awards.

What Makes G2’s Best Software Companies Awards Significant

As the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace, G2 reaches over 100 million buyers annually. Its annual Best Software Awards rank the world’s best software companies and products based on authentic, timely reviews from real users.

It was thanks to customer reviews that this G2 recognition was earned. HiveMQ counts, among its customers, leaders in the industry segments it serves. Here are a few reviews capturing what customers are saying: 

The ease in which HiveMQ can be used to support an extremely broad and disparate group of IoT devices including simple sensors all the way up to complex actuators is what has been transformative in our business. - A G2 Reviewer

HiveMQ really excels at the intermittent device connections. We regularly deploy remote sensors in locations with poor cellular connectivity and we very seldom lose telemetry as a result of its smart buffering. - A G2 Reviewer

Before we switched to HiveMQ we had a constant nightmare during daily peak hours when hundreds of thousands of vehicles in our fleet would all simultaneously reconnect. Our old broker would just choke which leads to huge data backlogs and lost real-time visibility. With HiveMQ's masterless clustering architecture it's just a night and day difference. - A G2 Reviewer

The Award’s Message Queue Category

To qualify for inclusion in the G2 awards Message Queue (MQ) category, a product must facilitate asynchronous messaging; store, deliver, and delete messages; document communication information; and allow administrative control over messaging permissions.

HiveMQ fits naturally within this category as the trusted industrial data platform powered by MQTT. Organizations use message queue software to coordinate distributed applications, improve system performance, and enable real-time communication between devices, applications, and cloud platforms at scale.

HiveMQ's platform is purpose-built for industrial environments,  handling millions of concurrent device connections, ensuring reliable message delivery over unstable networks, and integrating operational technology (OT) data with enterprise IT systems. This makes HiveMQ a critical data layer in industrial IoT architectures and emerging Agentic AI workflows that depend on real-time operational data.

How Companies Are Ranked on G2

G2’s 2026 Best Software Awards feature dozens of award lists, ranking software vendors and products using G2’s proprietary algorithm. The results are based on G2’s verified user reviews and publicly available market presence data. To be eligible for the 2026 Best Software Awards, a software company or product must have received at least 10 approved reviews during the 2025 calendar year. Scores reflect only data from reviews submitted during this evaluation period. 

“As buyers increasingly shift to AI-driven research to discover software solutions, being recommended in the ‘answer moment’ must be earned with credible proof,” said Godard Abel, co-founder and CEO at G2. “Our Best Software Awards are grounded in trusted data from authentic customer reviews. They not only give buyers an objective, reliable guide to the products that help teams do their best work, but they’re also the proof AI search platforms rely on when sourcing answers. Congratulations to this year’s winners, including HiveMQ. Earning a spot on these lists signals real customer impact.”

Grateful to Our Customers 

This recognition belongs to our customers, our partners, and our hardworking team! It marks another HiveMQ milestone and follows G2 awards won in previous years. Thank you to our customers and community for your valuable feedback—it helps inform our roadmap so we can keep building software that meets and anticipates your needs.