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Thinglinks alternatives for AI agents.

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Thinglinks

Enterprise-grade IoT platform powered by ThingLinks Engine. Supports MQTT / HTTP / CoAP / TCP / Modbus, rule engine, Visual display screen & multi-tenancy. Millions of connections per node.

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#1

Bifromq

Similarity 131Trust 88Excellent 86

Apache BifroMQ (Incubating) is a high-performance, distributed MQTT broker that natively supports multi-tenancy. It is designed to enable the building of large-scale IoT device connectivity and messaging systems.

771 starsJun 12, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add apache/bifromq
#2

Tbmq

Similarity 131Trust 88Excellent 86

The ultimate distributed MQTT broker. Handles 100M+ connections and 10M msg/sec with ease. Built on Kafka to provide industrial-grade persistence and eliminate data loss.

734 starsJun 15, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add thingsboard/tbmq
#3

Aedes

Similarity 130Trust 91Excellent 98

Barebone MQTT broker that can run on any stream server, the node way

2.0K starsMar 27, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaScriptIoT
$ npx skills add moscajs/aedes
#4

Hivemq Community Edition

Similarity 128Trust 95Excellent 100

HiveMQ CE is a Java-based open source MQTT broker that fully supports MQTT 3.x and MQTT 5. It is the foundation of the HiveMQ Enterprise Connectivity and Messaging Platform

1.2K starsJun 13, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add hivemq/hivemq-community-edition
#5

Hivemq Mqtt Client

Similarity 128Trust 93Excellent 100

HiveMQ MQTT Client is an MQTT 5.0 and MQTT 3.1.1 compatible and feature-rich high-performance Java client library with different API flavours and backpressure support

1.1K starsJun 13, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add hivemq/hivemq-mqtt-client
#6

Server

Similarity 124Trust 87Strong 73

The fully compliant, embeddable high-performance Go MQTT v5 server for IoT, smarthome, and pubsub

1.9K starsApr 16, 2025 pushrobotics-iotGoIoT
$ npx skills add mochi-mqtt/server
#7

Smqtt

Similarity 123Trust 75Promising 56

开源 MQTT 服务器(基于reactor-netty实现高性能的、可扩展、支持千万级设备接入集群)支持 mqtt 3.1.1、mqtt 5等协议

864 starsApr 9, 2023 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add quickmsg/smqtt
#8

KCloud Platform IoT

Similarity 123Trust 88Excellent 85

KCloud-Platform-IoT(老寇IoT云平台)是一个企业级单体架构和微服务架构的IoT云平台。采用DDD(领域驱动设计)思想,基于Spring Boot 4.1.0、Spring Cloud 2025.1.2、Spring Cloud Alibaba 2025.1.0.0 最新版本开发的云服务多租户IoT平台,家人们,点个star!拜托啦~

661 starsJun 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add KouShenhai/KCloud-Platform-IoT
#9

OpenBK7231T App

Similarity 123Trust 91Excellent 100

Open source firmware (Tasmota/Esphome replacement) for BK7231T, BK7231N, BL2028N, T34, XR809, W800/W801, W600/W601, BL602, LN882H, Realtek chips and more

2.2K starsJun 8, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add openshwprojects/OpenBK7231T_App
#10

Paho.Mqtt.C

Similarity 122Trust 90Excellent 100

An Eclipse Paho C client library for MQTT for Windows, Linux and MacOS. API documentation: https://eclipse-paho.github.io/paho.mqtt.c/

2.3K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.c
#11

Rumqtt

Similarity 122Trust 91Excellent 99

The MQTT ecosystem in rust

2.1K starsMay 1, 2026 pushrobotics-iotRustIoT
$ npx skills add bytebeamio/rumqtt
#12

ThingsGateway

Similarity 122Trust 94Excellent 100

ThingsGateway is a cross-platform, high-performance gateway for edge data acquisition and IoT connectivity. Developed with .NET 8, it offers a suite of powerful tools, including advanced PLC communication libraries and debugging software.

1.4K starsJun 3, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC#IoT
$ npx skills add ThingsGateway/ThingsGateway
#13

Ekuiper

Similarity 122Trust 91Excellent 100

Lightweight data stream processing engine for IoT edge

1.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotGoIoT
$ npx skills add lf-edge/ekuiper
#14

Comqtt

Similarity 121Trust 93Excellent 96

A lightweight, high-performance go mqtt server(v3.0|v3.1.1|v5.0) supporting distributed cluster

1.2K starsMay 14, 2026 pushrobotics-iotGoIoT
$ npx skills add wind-c/comqtt
#15

Paho.Mqtt.Java

Similarity 121Trust 81Promising 69

Eclipse Paho Java MQTT client library. Paho is an Eclipse IoT project.

2.3K starsAug 14, 2024 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.java
#16

Arduino Mqtt

Similarity 121Trust 91Excellent 96

MQTT library for Arduino

1.1K starsApr 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add 256dpi/arduino-mqtt

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