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Confluent Cloud Pricing Details

Confluent Cloud offers four different cloud-native Apache Kafka cluster types: Basic, Standard, Enterprise, and Dedicated. Billing dimensions vary by cluster type and cloud provider. Visit cluster type documentation to learn more about specific features, capabilities, and limits by cluster type.

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Starting From
$0/hour~$1.5/hour~$4.5/hourContact us
Throughput Supported
Up to 250 MBps ingress/
750 MBps egress
Up to 250 MBps ingress/
750 MBps egress
Up to 250 MBps ingress/
750 MBps egress
GBps+ ingress and egress
Base Price
$/hour
n/a$1.50/hour

$2.25/E-CKU/hour

Minimum 2 E-CKUs

E-CKUs (CKU for Enterprise) are a unit of horizontal scalability in Confluent Cloud that provide a pre-allocated amount of resources. Learn more

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CKUs are a unit of horizontal scalability in Confluent Cloud that provide a pre-allocated amount of resources. Learn more

Partitions
$/partition/hour

First 10 included, then $0.004/partition/hour

Hard limit of 4,096

First 500 included, then $0.0015/partition/hour

Hard limit of 4,096

All included ($0/partition/hour)

Hard limit of 5,000 across all E-CKUs

All included ($0/partition/hour)

Hard limit of 100,000 across all CKUs

Data In/Out (Ingress/Egress) 1,2
$/GB
$0.11 - $0.13$0.04 - $0.13$0.05 - $0.11Contact us
Data Stored 3
$/GB-month
$0.08$0.08$0.08$0.08

Basic

Starting From
$0/hour
Throughput Supported
Up to 250 MBps ingress/
750 MBps egress
Base Price
$/hour
n/a
Partitions
$/partition/hour

First 10 included, then $0.004/partition/hour

Hard limit of 4,096

Data In/Out (Ingress/Egress) 1,2
$/GB
$0.11 - $0.13
Data Stored 3
$/GB-month
$0.08

Standard

Starting From
~$1.5/hour
Throughput Supported
Up to 250 MBps ingress/
750 MBps egress
Base Price
$/hour
$1.50/hour
Partitions
$/partition/hour

First 500 included, then $0.0015/partition/hour

Hard limit of 4,096

Data In/Out (Ingress/Egress) 1,2
$/GB
$0.04 - $0.13
Data Stored 3
$/GB-month
$0.08

Enterprise

Starting From
~$4.5/hour
Throughput Supported
Up to 250 MBps ingress/
750 MBps egress
Base Price
$/hour

$2.25/E-CKU/hour

Minimum 2 E-CKUs
Partitions
$/partition/hour

All included ($0/partition/hour)

Hard limit of 5,000 across all E-CKUs

Data In/Out (Ingress/Egress) 1,2
$/GB
$0.05 - $0.11
Data Stored 3
$/GB-month
$0.08

Dedicated

Starting From
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Throughput Supported
GBps+ ingress and egress
Base Price
$/hour

$/CKU/hour

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Partitions
$/partition/hour

All included ($0/partition/hour)

Hard limit of 100,000 across all CKUs

Data In/Out (Ingress/Egress) 1,2
$/GB
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Data Stored 3
$/GB-month
$0.08

1 Prices vary by cloud provider, availability zone and networking type.

2 For Cluster Linking, no additional charge for Data In (Ingress); Data Out (Egress) is $0.25/GB. An hourly rate per link also applies, which varies by networking type.

3 Prices displayed based on 730 hours per month. Actual storage billing occurs by the hour at a rate of $0.00010959/GB-hr.

Prices vary by cloud region. Learn more about Confluent Cloud Billing.

Discounts based on usage are available. Contact us or your Confluent Cloud account team to find out more.

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FAQ

How is my monthly bill calculated?

Billing for each Confluent Cloud component accrues at hourly intervals. All billing computations are conducted in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption:

  • Kafka clusters are billed for networking ($/GB), storage ($/GB-hour), and fixed costs including a base price ($/hour) and partitions ($/hour).
  • Use of connectors is billed based on throughput ($/GB) and a task base price ($/task/hour).
  • Use of stream processing with ksqlDB is billed based on CSUs ($/unit/hour).
  • Use of stream processing with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is calculated based on CFUs ($/unit/minute).
  • Use of Cluster Linking is billed at an hourly rate per link ($/hour/link) and by the data sent/received over all links ($/GB).

Confluent storage and throughput is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB). Please also note that all prices are stated in United States dollars unless specifically stated otherwise.

How can I get Confluent discounts?

When you commit to an annual plan, you can get discounts based on your usage.

What are annual commitments?

Confluent Cloud offers the ability to make a commitment to a minimum amount of spend. This commitment gives you access to discounts and provides the flexibility to use this commitment across the entire Confluent Cloud stack, including any Kafka cluster type, ksqlDB, Connect and Support. With self-serve provisioning and expansion, you have the freedom to consume only what you need from a commitment at any point in time. For more information about annual commitments, contact us.

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