Confluent Cloud
VerifiedFully managed, cloud-native Apache Kafka service with consumption-based pricing and 120+ connectors.
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- Starting price Free
- Free trial Available
- Best for Startups, SMEs, Enterprises
What is Confluent Cloud?
Confluent Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-native service for Apache Kafka, built and operated by the original creators of Apache Kafka. It runs on Confluent's proprietary Kora engine and handles cluster provisioning, scaling, patching, and upgrades so teams can stream and process event data in real time without operating Kafka brokers themselves.
The service uses consumption-based pricing across Basic, Standard, Enterprise, and Freight cluster tiers, with a free Basic tier that scales to zero when idle. Confluent Cloud includes more than 120 pre-built connectors, a schema registry, Apache Flink and ksqlDB stream processing, and Cluster Linking for bridging to existing Kafka deployments, plus support for Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema formats. Confluent is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Key Features of Confluent Cloud
Confluent Cloud lists 10 documented features, including Fully managed Apache Kafka service built on the proprietary Kora engine, Consumption-based pricing with a serverless Basic tier that scales to zero and 99.99% uptime SLA on Enterprise-tier production clusters. The list below covers what the product does rather than how it is marketed.
- Fully managed Apache Kafka service built on the proprietary Kora engine
- Consumption-based pricing with a serverless Basic tier that scales to zero
- 99.99% uptime SLA on Enterprise-tier production clusters
- 120+ pre-built connectors to databases, data warehouses, and cloud storage via Confluent Hub
- Built-in Schema Registry supporting Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema
- Native Apache Flink integration for real-time stream processing
- ksqlDB support for SQL-based stream processing
- Cluster Linking for migrating or bridging existing Kafka clusters without downtime
- Stream governance tools including data lineage, catalog, and audit logs
- Role-based access control (RBAC) and customer-managed encryption keys on higher tiers
Confluent Cloud Pricing
Confluent Cloud lists 2 plans, starting free and running to $385.
Basic
Free
per month, starting cost
General purpose cluster tier to start small with no risk and get going with test cases; usage is billed per eCKU and per GB on top.
Standard
$385
per month, estimated starting cost
General purpose cluster tier for most production-ready use cases with an extended feature set, multicloud across AWS, Azure and GCP.
Confluent Cloud Specifications
Confluent Cloud is available on web app. It offers an API, has a free trial and has a free plan.
- Deployment
- Cloud Based
- Billing cycle
- Monthly
- Desktop
- Web App
- Languages
- English
- Built for
- Startups
- SMEs
- Enterprises
- Support
- Phone
- Live Support
- Training
- Tickets
- Integrations
- Snowflake, Databricks, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Salesforce, Apache Flink, ksqlDB, Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema, 120+ Confluent Hub connectors
- Public API
- Yes
- Free trial
- Yes
- Free plan
- Yes
- Runs in browser
- No
- Customisable
- Yes
- Website
- confluent.io
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