Best IoT Products in 2026

emqtt - erlang mqtt broker.

Key emqtt features:

High Performance Scalability Extensibility Rich Feature Set

Illuminate the future with AI.

Key Electe features:

Connect your Data Analyze the Data Generate custom reports AI Agents

Try for free paid Free Trial €384.0 / Annually (Starter)

EMQX is an open source MQTT 5.0 broker for mission-critical IoT scenarios, massively scalable and highly available clustering, running anywhere from edge to cloud.

Key EMQX features:

High Performance Scalability Protocol Support Enterprise Features

Open Source freemium

Open source data platform for the Internet of Things. ThingSpeak Features.

Key ThingSpeak features:

Ease of Use Real-time Data Processing Integration with MATLAB API Support

Open Source

HiveMQ is the MQTT based messaging platform for fast, efficient and reliable data movement to and from connected IoT devices and enterprise systems.

Key HiveMQ features:

Scalability MQTT Support Enterprise Features Clustering

Open Source

Mender is a secure and robust end-to-end over-the-air (OTA) software update manager for IoT devices. Mender makes it easy to deploy updates to a large number of devices by providing efficiency and risk tolerant OTA deployments.

Key Mender.io features:

Robust OTA Updates Security Features Scalability Open Source

An all-round MQTT client that provides a structured topic overview.

Key MQTT Explorer features:

User-Friendly Interface Real-Time Monitoring Cross-Platform Support Data Visualization

Open Source

We make internet of things simple.

Key Blynk.io features:

User-Friendly Interface Cross-Platform Support Cloud Connectivity Extensive Widget Library

Open Source

A cross-platform MQTT 5.0 desktop client open-sourced by EMQ, which can run on macOS, Linux and Windows, and supports formatting MQTT payload.

Key MQTT X features:

User-Friendly Interface Cross-Platform Support Multi-Protocol Support Open Source

Open Source free

Eclipse Mosquitto is an open source (EPL/EDL licensed) message broker that implements the MQTT protocol versions 5.0, 3.1.1 and 3.1. Mosquitto is lightweight and is suitable for use on all devices.

Key mosquitto features:

Lightweight Open Source Standards Compliant Cross-platform

Open Source

Thingsboard is an open-source IoT platform for data collection, processing, visualization, and device management.

Key Thingsboard features:

Open Source Scalable Feature-Rich Community Support

Open Source

A cloud service to capture and make sense of sensor data.

Key Ubidots features:

User-Friendly Interface Quick Prototyping Data Visualization API Integration

the IoT cloud backend company.

Key The IoT Guru features:

Easy to Set-up and use Free Trial

freemium $0.01 / Monthly (per device, node and field)

Electric UI equips engineers, researchers, and enthusiasts with software to build cross-platform user interfaces for realtime hardware visualisation and control.

Key Electric UI features:

GPU accelerated charting 3D Integration Transformer Pipelines Hot reloading

paid $80.0 / Annually (For passion projects. Non-commercial licence.)