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Stream, connect, process, and govern your data with the real-time platform by the original co-creators of Apache Kafka®. Build faster, scale smarter, and turn data chaos into instantly accessible and usable data products.
Replace point-to-point, batch, and streaming pipelines with one platform.
Prevent downstream data delays and quality issues.
Ensure AI/ML apps, agents & systems access the right data in real time.
New in Confluent Cloud: Enterprise-Grade Tableflow, Streaming Agents, & More
Real-Time Context Engine: Power AI with Trustworthy, Low-Latency Context
Introducing Confluent Private Cloud: Cloud-Level Agility for Your Private Infra
Unify Management and Monitoring Across Cloud and On-Prem with Unified Stream Manager
“Managed Kafka” Is Costing You: How to Save 70%
The 2025 Data Streaming Report
New in Confluent Cloud: Enterprise-Grade Tableflow, Streaming Agents, & More
Real-Time Context Engine: Power AI with Trustworthy, Low-Latency Context
Introducing Confluent Private Cloud: Cloud-Level Agility for Your Private Infra
Unify Management and Monitoring Across Cloud and On-Prem with Unified Stream Manager
“Managed Kafka” Is Costing You: How to Save 70%
The 2025 Data Streaming Report
New in Confluent Cloud: Enterprise-Grade Tableflow, Streaming Agents, & More
Real-Time Context Engine: Power AI with Trustworthy, Low-Latency Context
Introducing Confluent Private Cloud: Cloud-Level Agility for Your Private Infra
Unify Management and Monitoring Across Cloud and On-Prem with Unified Stream Manager
“Managed Kafka” Is Costing You: How to Save 70%
The 2025 Data Streaming Report
For every data opportunity, Confluent helps you innovate faster and operate more efficiently.
With Confluent, you can build fault-tolerant apps and microservices that respond to business events in real time.
Stream real-time events, setting data in motion across your entire business.
Connect legacy databases, modern SaaS apps, and more with pre-built integrations.
Govern and process data streams so your apps act on trusted, secure, and compliant data.
Deliver enterprise GenAI and Agentic AI applications with real-time, contextualized, and trustworthy data for smarter outcomes.
Unlock intelligent automation with event-driven Streaming Agents.
Power AI applications, LLMs, and RAG systems with fresh, enriched data.
Simplify and scale AI workflows with secure, governed data streams.
Confluent lets you shift data quality upstream—reducing rework, lowering costs, and accelerating time-to-insight.
Stop data errors before they spread to save time and avoid costly fixes.
Ensure your data is trusted and accurate for smarter, faster decisions.
Cut expensive reprocessing costs by handling issues at the start of the pipeline.
Confluent enables seamless hybrid cloud integration so your business can act on data anywhere.
Move data seamlessly across on-prem and cloud systems to accelerate innovation.
Reduce operational cost and risk by managing all environments through a single platform.
Free engineering teams to focus on high-impact projects—not complex infrastructure.
Confluent gives you the flexibility to power a limitless number of data-driven projects with real-time, reusable data. Here are just a few examples:
Customer 360: Incorporate real-time data from multiple channels to gain holistic insights into customer interactions and enhance engagement.
Streaming Data Pipelines: Build reliable, real-time data pipelines that seamlessly connect systems and apps to power faster insights and decisions.
Data Sharing: Share governed streams of real-time data between teams, lines of business, or organizations in a secure, scalable way.
Transform your business with real-time data that drives agility, security, and growth.
Turn your data into insights that increase revenue, reduce waste, and delight customers.
Drive efficiency and resilience with real-time data that connects production, supply chains, and logistics.
Harness your data to optimize networks, drive seamless customer experiences, and unlock 5G innovation.
Real-time data streaming unlocks new opportunities in every industry—helping businesses move faster, smarter, and with greater impact.
Confluent provides a cloud-native and complete data streaming platform that is available everywhere your business needs to be at a cost less than open source Kafka and your favorite hyperscaler with transparent consumption-based pricing.
Kafka completely re-architected for the cloud to create a 10X better cloud service, eliminating your Kafka ops burden.
A complete, enterprise-grade data streaming platform with all the essential tools enabling developers to build quickly, reliably, and securely.
Freedom of choice to deploy Kafka anywhere from on-prem to cloud and across clouds.
Receive a tailored solution fit to your data streaming needs while receiving guidance every step of the way.
Learn how to build a data streaming pipeline in less than five minutes. No log-in required.
Receive a tailored solution fit to your data streaming needs while receiving guidance every step of the way.
Learn how to build a data streaming pipeline in less than five minutes. No log-in required.
Data streaming is the practice of treating information as a continuous flow of events rather than static batches. Instead of waiting for data to pile up before it’s processed, insights and actions can be triggered the moment new events occur. Apache Kafka® has become the standard technology that makes this possible.
Confluent takes Kafka further, rearchitecting it for the cloud. Both Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform provide high-performance, enterprise-ready data streaming capabilities—built to scale seamlessly, reduce operations overhead, and deliver faster results. Confluent Cloud is powered by Kora, our cloud-native engine that provides autoscaling and 20-90%+ throughput savings.
Traditional APIs follow a request-response model, where apps must ask for data to receive it. Data streaming flips the model: producers continuously publish events to a central log, and consumers subscribe to whatever streams they need in real time. This event-driven approach enables more scalable, decoupled architectures.
A data streaming platform enables organizations to stream data continuously in real time, connect systems across environments, process events as they happen, and govern data for reliability and compliance. It provides the foundation to power analytics, AI, and event-driven applications, all while ensuring trusted, scalable, and secure data flows across the business.
Organizations of all sizes—from startups to global enterprises—use Confluent to modernize their data foundations. It’s especially valuable for teams looking to build event-driven applications, leverage analytics and AI on live data, or replace brittle batch-based ETL pipelines with a more reliable, real-time approach.
Any app that relies on fast, trustworthy data can benefit. Examples include streaming analytics dashboards, fraud detection engines, real-time personalization, cybersecurity systems, and event-driven AI like RAG or multi-agent systems. If your application needs to react instantly and reliably, Confluent provides the foundation.
Confluent enables a wide range of industry-agnostic data streaming use cases, including:
Industry-specific use cases that Confluent enables also include:
Confluent supports common formats like Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema through its Schema Registry, which is part of Stream Quality in Stream Governance (Confluent’s fully managed governance suite). With Confluent’s portfolio of 120+ pre-built connectors you can quickly connect to databases, data warehouses, SaaS apps, and cloud services—making it easy to integrate data across your entire ecosystem.
Yes. Confluent is fully compatible with Apache Kafka®. With features like Cluster Linking, you can mirror topics in real time, replicate data and metadata, or migrate existing workloads to Confluent—all without downtime.
Absolutely. Confluent Cloud’s Kora engine delivers massive scalability and reliability, backed by a 99.99% uptime SLA for production workloads. It can handle GBps+ workloads while scaling 10x faster than traditional Kafka. Confluent Platform also runs on a cloud-native distribution of Kafka and provides features for easier self-managed scaling, including Confluent for Kubernetes and Ansible playbooks. Security is built in, with enterprise-grade features and compliance certifications including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS.
Sign up for Confluent Cloud and you’ll receive $400 in credits to start building right away. We’ll walk you through how to launch a cluster, connect a data source, and start using Schema Registry in minutes. Our Demo Center and Confluent Developer site also provide guided resources to help you build quickly and confidently.
It’s a common mix-up! Confluent is all about real-time data streaming, helping businesses move, connect, process, and govern data at scale. Confluence, on the other hand, is a web-based workspace for team collaboration and documentation. So while they both help teams work smarter, only Confluent powers the data that drives modern applications, AI, and analytics.
