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For experimentation, early development, and basic use cases. Single click upgrade to Standard available at any time.
For production-ready use cases leveraging an extended feature set and elastic scaling up to 1 GBps.
For massive-throughput use cases at GBps+ scale that require private networking.
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Get started quickly with on-demand cluster provisioning and consumption-based billing
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Access scaled discounts for production or high-volume workloads with committed usage
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Throughput supported | Up to 250 MBps ingress and 750 MBps egress (1 GBps total) | Up to 250 MBps ingress and 750 MBps egress (1 GBps total) | GBps+ ingress and egress |
Base Price $/hour | $0.00/hour | $1.50/hour | n/a |
CKU CKUs are a unit of horizontal scalability in Confluent Cloud that provide a pre-allocated amount of resources. Learn more $/CKU/hour | n/a | n/a | |
Partitions $/partition/hour | First 10 included (Hard limit of 4096) $0.004/partition/hour after | First 500 included (Hard limit of 4096) $0.0015/partition/hour after | Hard limit of 4500 per CKU $0/partition/hour |
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Throughput supported | Up to 250 MBps ingress and 750 MBps egress (1 GBps total) |
Base Price $/hour | $0.00/hour |
CKU $/CKU/hour CKUs are a unit of horizontal scalability in Confluent Cloud that provide a pre-allocated amount of resources. Learn more | n/a |
Partitions $/partition/hour | First 10 included (Hard limit of 4096) $0.004/partition/hour after |
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Throughput supported | Up to 250 MBps ingress and 750 MBps egress (1 GBps total) |
Base Price $/hour | $1.50/hour |
CKU $/CKU/hour CKUs are a unit of horizontal scalability in Confluent Cloud that provide a pre-allocated amount of resources. Learn more | n/a |
Partitions $/partition/hour | First 500 included (Hard limit of 4096) $0.0015/partition/hour after |
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Throughput supported | GBps+ ingress and egress |
Base Price $/hour | n/a |
CKU $/CKU/hour CKUs are a unit of horizontal scalability in Confluent Cloud that provide a pre-allocated amount of resources. Learn more | |
Partitions $/partition/hour | Hard limit of 4500 per CKU $0/partition/hour |
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Storage billing is consistent across clusters and cloud providers.
Infinite storage, available for Standard and Dedicated clusters on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, allows you to elastically retain infinite volumes of data while only paying for what you actually use.
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Data Stored $/GB-month* Billing occurs by hour. Prices displayed based on 720 hours per month. | $0.10 *Storage is billed at an hourly interval at $0.00013889/GB-hr |
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Data Stored $/GB-month* Billing occurs by hour. Prices displayed based on 720 hours per month. | $0.10 *Storage is billed at an hourly interval at $0.00013889/GB-hr |
Source & sink integrations with 60+ fully managed connectors are available for Basic, Standard, and Dedicated clusters. Use of fully managed connectors is billed based on task price ($/task/hour) and throughput ($/GB).
A task is the capacity unit for fully managed connectors. Learn more within managed connectors documentation.
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Source | $0.1000 | $0.05 | |
Source | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Source | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Source | $0.0347 | $0.03 | |
Source | $0.1000 | $0.05 | |
Source | $0.0347 | $0.03 | |
Source | $0.1000 | $0.05 | |
Datagen (development & testing) | Source | $0.0347 | $0.03 |
Source | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Source | $0.0347 | $0.03 | |
Source | $0.1000 | $0.05 | |
Source | $0.0347 | $0.03 | |
Source | $0.2083 | $0.03 | |
Source | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Source | $0.1000 | $0.05 | |
Source | $0.0347 | $0.03 | |
Source | $0.2083 | $0.03 | |
Source | $0.0347 | $0.03 | |
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Source | $0.2083 | $0.03 | |
Source | $0.1000 | $0.05 | |
Source | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Source | $0.2083 | $0.03 | |
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Source | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Source | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Source | $0.1000 | $0.05 | |
Source | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.2083 | $0.03 | |
Sink | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.1041 | $0.03 | |
Sink | $0.0347 | $0.03 | |
Sink | $0.0347 | $0.03 | |
Sink | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.0347 | $0.03 | |
Sink | $0.2083 | $0.03 | |
Sink | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.1041 | $0.03 | |
Sink | $0.1041 | $0.03 | |
Sink | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.2083 | $0.03 | |
Sink | $0.1041 | $0.03 | |
Sink | $0.0347 | $0.03 | |
Sink | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.1041 | $0.03 | |
Sink | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.1000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.1041 | $0.03 | |
Sink | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.1041 | $0.03 | |
Sink | $0.1000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
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Sink | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.1000 | $0.05 | |
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Sink | $0.3000 | $0.05 | |
Sink | $0.1041 | $0.03 | |
Stream processing with ksqlDB is available for use with Basic, Standard, and Dedicated clusters.
A CSU (Confluent Streaming Unit) is the compute unit for fully managed ksqlDB. Clusters can be configured with 1, 2, 4, 8, or 12 CSUs based upon the workload.
ksqlDB CSU $/CSU-hour | $0.23 |
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Confluent’s Stream Governance suite is available through two packages: Essentials and Advanced. Features and billing dimensions vary by package. Individual environments are billed separately and may be configured with different packages.
Visit Stream Governance documentation to learn more about specific features, capabilities, and limits.
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$/hour $/schema/hour | $0.00 $0.002 after 1,000 schemas included free | $1.00 $0.00 with a hard limit of 20,000 schemas |
Stream Quality Features schema registry & validation | ||
99.5% uptime SLA 1,000 schemas included free 9 cloud regions supported | 99.95% uptime SLA 20,000 schemas limit 30 cloud regions supported | |
Stream Catalog Features data organization & discoverability | ||
Auto-technical metadata ingestion Tags metadata Cloud UI & REST API | All Essentials features plus: Business metadata GraphQL API | |
Stream Lineage Features data origin & tracking | ||
Real-time lineage | All in Essentials features plus: Point-in-time lineage Lineage search |
Cluster linking sends data from a “source cluster” to a “destination cluster” with billing based on the total number of active links and the volume of data passing between them. Link billing is calculated at the individual cluster level with source and destination clusters counted separately. If a source cluster or destination cluster is not on Confluent Cloud, then that cluster will not accrue any charges.
Destination clusters on Confluent Cloud must be a Dedicated cluster type.
Link $/link/hour | $0.25/link/hour For source or destination clusters with public networking. $0.50/link/hour For source or destination clusters with private networking. |
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Data in (Ingress) $/GB | Same price as Data in (Ingress) rate for the cluster; no additional charge. |
Data Out (Egress) $/GB | $0.25/GB In place of Data out (Egress) rate for the cluster. Volume discounts are available. Contact us or your Confluent Cloud account team to find out more. |
Audit logs consumption $/GB | $0.13 |
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Confluent is the industry leading expert when it comes to working with Apache Kafka, offering 24/7 expert support directly from the team driving 80% of OSS commits. Free support is always available to all customers alongside our Developer, Business, and Premier packages.
Learn more about our Support packages.
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Availability | Available for all customers: Open a request | Recommended for experimenting & non-prod | Recommended for production applications | Recommended for mission critical applications |
Pricing | - | Greater of $29 per month OR 5% of monthly usage | Greater of $1,000 per month OR 10% of first $50,000 of usage + | |
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Availability | Recommended for experimenting & non-prod |
Pricing | Greater of $29 per month OR 5% of monthly usage |
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Pricing | Greater of $1,000 per month OR 10% of first $50,000 of usage + |
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Multi AZ clusters | - |
Uptime SLA | 99.5% |
| Scale | |
Throughput limit | Up to 250 MBps ingress and 750 MBps egress (1 GBps total) |
Storage limit | 5 TB |
Partition limit | 4096 |
Auto data balancing | |
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Stream Governance | |
ksqlDB | |
Connectors | 1 task limit per connector |
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VPC/Vnet Peering | - |
AWS PrivateLink | - |
Azure Private Link | - |
AWS Transit Gateway | - |
GCP Private Service Connect | - |
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AWS | |
Azure | |
GCP | |
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Stream lineage | |
Metrics API | |
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Data encryption | |
Kafka ACLs | |
SAML/SSO | |
Audit Logs | - |
Customer managed keys (BYOK) | - |
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) | |
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SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3 | |
ISO 27001 | |
PCI | |
GDPR readiness | |
HIPAA readiness | |
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Single AZ clusters | |
Multi AZ clusters | |
Uptime SLA | 99.95% Single AZ 99.99% Multi AZ |
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Throughput limit | Up to 250 MBps ingress and 750 MBps egress (1 GBps total) |
Storage limit | Infinite Storage |
Partition limit | 4096 |
Auto data balancing | |
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Stream Governance | |
ksqlDB | |
Connectors | |
| Private Network Connectivity | |
VPC/Vnet Peering | - |
AWS PrivateLink | - |
Azure Private Link | - |
AWS Transit Gateway | - |
GCP Private Service Connect | - |
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AWS | |
Azure | |
GCP | |
| Monitoring & Visibility | |
Stream lineage | |
Metrics API | |
| Security | |
Data encryption | |
Kafka ACLs | |
SAML/SSO | |
Audit Logs | |
Customer managed keys (BYOK) | - |
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) | |
| Compliance | |
SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3 | |
ISO 27001 | |
PCI | |
GDPR readiness | |
HIPAA readiness | |
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Single AZ clusters | |
Multi AZ clusters | |
Uptime SLA | 99.95% Single AZ 99.99% Multi AZ |
| Scale | |
Throughput limit | From 1 to 24 CKUs; each CKU is capable of 50MBps ingress/150MBps egress |
Storage limit | Infinite Storage |
Partition limit | 100,000 across all CKUs |
Auto data balancing | |
| Managed Components | |
Stream Governance | |
ksqlDB | |
Connectors | |
| Private Network Connectivity | |
VPC/Vnet Peering | |
AWS PrivateLink | |
Azure Private Link | |
AWS Transit Gateway | |
GCP Private Service Connect | |
| Cloud Providers | |
AWS | |
Azure | |
GCP | |
| Monitoring & Visibility | |
Stream lineage | |
Metrics API | |
| Security | |
Data encryption | |
Kafka ACLs | |
SAML/SSO | |
Audit Logs | |
Customer managed keys (BYOK) | AWS, Google Cloud |
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) | |
| Compliance | |
SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3 | |
ISO 27001 | |
PCI | |
GDPR readiness | |
HIPAA readiness | |
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:
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).
When you commit to an annual plan, you can get discounts based on your usage.
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.