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1NCE vs EMQX comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

1NCE
Ranking in IoT Connectivity
5th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
EMQX
Ranking in IoT Connectivity
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Message Queue (MQ) Software (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the IoT Connectivity category, the mindshare of 1NCE is 2.5%. The mindshare of EMQX is 10.6%, down from 39.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IoT Connectivity Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
EMQX10.6%
1NCE2.5%
Other86.9%
IoT Connectivity
 

Featured Reviews

Pieter Geelen - PeerSpot reviewer
Freelancer at geelen.io
IoT projects have become effortless as I manage long‑life sensor connectivity and tracking
I think the cool part about 1NCE is that they provide SIM cards for ten years, making them relevant for ten years. It is fairly cheap to get a SIM card from them and if you have a need for particular networks, they support the breadth of networks. With IoT sensors, for example, the 2G and 3G are probably more used. NarrowBand-IoT is also available there. When you want to bring a sensor in the field, it is going to have a certain lifetime and you want to add a SIM card to that, and it is very easy to do that with 1NCE. The best features 1NCE offers in my experience are that you get the SIM cards, you have a platform in which you can manage your SIM cards and you have a backend where you can also communicate. What I think is really powerful about 1NCE is that you can just order it online. It is very simple to do, you have it really quickly and it just works out of the box. If you would compare that to other mobile phone or mobile network providers, then this would be a lot of work with contracts and other administrative tasks. Here you do not have that. Another nice feature is that their platform allows for geofencing or geolocation, so you can identify where what towers are being used and where your sensor approximately is. This also helps with tracking. They have the capability to manage network access, whether devices can go directly to the internet or have a different approach of accessing those devices. This covers the breadth of needs for bringing IoT and mobile network together. 1NCE has impacted my organization positively because I am a freelancer and I deliver this to customers. Customers very often struggle with getting started with IoT. They have to think about contracts for mobile phone providers or mobile network providers. Because 1NCE has a very simple business model, it is very easy to understand, very easy to budget, and that lowers the threshold for companies that want to start with this.
AP
Senior Software Engineer
Connected millions of iot devices and manage real time pub sub control and flexible access rules
When going with the open-source EMQX version, there are limitations provided. For example, the webhooks use case cannot be scaled to as large a scale compared to the enterprise edition of EMQX. The open-source version helps a great deal with work in the company. The way this resource helps nurture the IoT device paradigm is greatly helpful for developers working newly on this system because the onboarding part of EMQX is very easy and developer-friendly. Someone who wants to dive into it can easily implement and make the system robust based on the technologies it provides. EMQX provides API connections for applications. HTTP calls can be made to EMQX to get updates from the client. Those connections should be made asynchronously. The webhook part handles this well, but when it comes to the API part, when the load and payload of the MQTT topics and messages are very heavy, sometimes unknown errors occur, and logs and errors must be found. When a specific log session is created for that client, the readability of those logs is not good. The platform itself does not need improvement, but when it comes to developer-friendly implementations of EMQX, there are some pain points that need attention. The visibility of logs, error logs, and information logs inside the built-in monitoring needs work because developers, when they implement code or any kind of specific tools, need proper control over the system. Without that control, there is no point in implementing anything at all. The monitoring part needs work. When it comes to the flow chart of how different clients are connected with different devices, there is a feature inside EMQX called Flow. When that Flow is in place, clients (devices) should be controllable from that Flow itself. These are the most important improvements that need to be addressed.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Since I use 1NCE for IoT devices, it has significantly changed IoT device management and everything related to it."
"We estimate connectivity costs were reduced by around 20 to 30 percent and centralized device management saved several hours of administrative effort each month."
"What I really appreciate about 1NCE, and I think they are the only player that really does it like this, is that they provide the SIM card and it just works."
"1NCE has positively impacted our organization by reducing connectivity costs and simplifying the management of our IoT deployment, making it easier to scale effectively."
"The outcomes from using EMQX are very cost-saving for us because we previously used the MQTT Mosquitto broker, and when I compare Mosquitto with EMQX, EMQX is far better than Mosquitto and other protocols."
"EMQX will boost your product sampling rate and transmission so that you can achieve a large amount of data without any loss while transmitting through the internet."
"The best features EMQX offers in my experience are that it can send messages for a large number of customers with a very high message-per-second rate while consuming low resources."
"EMQX helped me complete my project perfectly because when I compared it to other platforms, EMQX truly fits my needs and my project, allowing me to explain my output more clearly to my lecturer, and ultimately I received a good grade, so it has been very helpful."
"The best features EMQX offers are that it is highly scalable and cheaper than other brokers, plus we can use our own back-end services integrated to it for authentication and authorization."
"EMQX remains live and matured, allowing us to scale it, and we continue using EMQX without requiring to switch to any other offerings as it still works best and is resilient."
"EMQX is a solid open-source project for making IoT devices connect anywhere in the world."
"EMQX has positively impacted my organization in many ways, particularly by making our main agenda of getting stock details and connecting users to our real-time protocol much easier."
 

Cons

"1NCE could be improved with more advanced analytics and reporting features for monitoring device performance and connectivity trends."
"1NCE has a 500 MB lifetime cap, which is tight for some IoT devices that use more data."
"On EMQX improvement side, I saw certain frameworks such as NanoMQTT and others claiming to be much more performant than EMQX, so maybe the newer version of EMQX can look into those aspects for potential improvements, but I do not have insight on the latest version of EMQX to know whether it has already addressed this or not."
"If you want to improve further, the SSL certificate and TLS certificate have overhead in serverless EMQX."
"The visibility of logs, error logs, and information logs inside the built-in monitoring needs work because developers, when they implement code or any kind of specific tools, need proper control over the system."
"I think EMQX can be improved by providing a uniform UI and login feature that we can use in the dashboard."
"To improve EMQX, I think it should reduce costs, save time when sending messages, and improve reliability."
"EMQX is a good MQTT broker but the historian is simple."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
24%
Outsourcing Company
23%
Educational Organization
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Media Company
20%
Legal Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise9
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with 1NCE?
The areas for improvement could be around analytics and reporting flexibility. While the platform provides good operational visibility, having more customizable dashboards and deeper reporting capa...
What is your primary use case for 1NCE?
I have been using 1NCE for over a year and a half. Primarily, it is a solution for IoT connectivity and device communication use cases across distributed environments. My primary use case for 1NCE ...
What advice do you have for others considering 1NCE?
1NCE is a good product and I would recommend this. I would rate this review a 7.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for EMQX?
We have seen specific outcomes such as cost savings since switching to EMQX, as we are using it for trial purposes and have some licenses based on our usage, meaning we do not need to pay for what ...
What needs improvement with EMQX?
I think EMQX can be improved by providing a uniform UI and login feature that we can use in the dashboard. Additionally, it seems to be a single tenant setup. If we are using a multi-tenant structu...
What is your primary use case for EMQX?
My main use case for EMQX is using it as a broker for MQTT. In our projects, we use EMQX as an MQTT broker because we are an IoT-based company where devices are provisioned or connected to our clou...
 

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