Empowering the Data Streaming Ecosystem: Evolving Confluent Hub to Confluent Marketplace

Today marks a monumental step in our commitment to fueling the growth, reach, and impact of our global partner network. We’re thrilled to announce the official launch of Confluent Marketplace (formerly Confluent Hub), a centralized resource designed to accelerate innovation, drive connectivity, and dramatically simplify the developer experience within the data streaming landscape.

For years, integration engineers have been the quiet force behind the modern digital world. They connect systems that never communicated before, design architectures that keep businesses in motion, and make real-time intelligence possible—all while navigating an environment that evolves faster every quarter.

Until now, the work of these builders—the connectors, the sample code, the documentation—lived in silos: GitHub repos, internal projects, or proof of concepts shared at meetups. That’s what Confluent Marketplace is here to change.

Confluent Hub is now Confluent Marketplace, a centralized destination for Confluent partners and community developers to share and soon monetize their contributions to the Confluent Cloud ecosystem. Learn how this launch will help organizations find the curated, validated solutions they need to succeed with the data streaming platform.

Why the Data Streaming Platform Isn’t Complete Without the Ecosystem

Historically, finding and integrating trusted solutions—from governance tools to specialized connectors and stream processors—required complex sourcing and lengthy procurement cycles. At Confluent, we recognize that the power of data streaming is amplified when the world’s best technologies can connect seamlessly.

That’s why Confluent Marketplace provides a curated, validated catalog where you can not only discover enterprise-grade Kafka connectors but also purchase and deploy robust data streaming solutions directly alongside your Confluent Cloud environment. The expertise that partners contribute to this catalog allows them and their customers to accelerate time to value and extend the utility of data in motion.

The core focus of transitioning from Confluent Hub to Confluent Marketplace is building and scaling the developer community across our partner network. We’re moving beyond simply enabling integration discoverability to ensuring that every partner—from a nimble independent software vendor (ISV) to a global system integrator (GSI)—that contributes to Confluent Marketplace can focus on building features while we handle the distribution and co-selling motion.

The goal is simple: making it easier for everyone in the ecosystem to integrate the data streaming platform with their tech stack and go from idea to impact. For our partners, the Marketplace will serve as a direct, high-growth revenue channel. For our customers, it will make it easier than ever to discover and deploy the real-time solutions they need to build unified, intelligent organizations.

“We wanted to give the streaming community a place to show what’s possible,” says Pascal Vantrepote, Senior Director of Partner Innovation at Confluent. “The Marketplace brings together engineers, partners, and innovators who share the same belief: that real-time data should be accessible, reusable, and open.”

Built for Engineers, Partners, and Community Contributors

From the start, the Marketplace has been shaped by the people who use it. We spent months talking with data streaming engineers, partners, and contributors to understand what would make this meaningful as a space that actually amplifies their work—not just another platform to upload to.

Here’s what we built with them in mind:

• An open submission model, where anyone in the Confluent ecosystem can contribute

• Curation and certification tiers, ensuring trust and visibility

• Feedback and iteration, allowing creators to evolve their solutions based on community adoption

• Instant visibility so that every contribution is discoverable across the Confluent customer and partner base

Confluent Marketplace is about creating a level playing field for innovation. If you’ve built something valuable for the streaming world, it should be easy to share it—and, soon, to earn from it.

From Open Sharing to Sustainable Growth

While Confluent Marketplace is a community and discovery hub, it also lays the foundation for something bigger—a sustainable creator economy for the streaming world.

Confluent Marketplace will introduce monetization and revenue-sharing capabilities, allowing partners and developers to turn their work into:

• Connectors and integrations available via usage-based billing

• Pre-packaged solutions and data pipelines

• Data products powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that are designed for specific verticals

With Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a launch partner, Confluent Marketplace becomes a seamless part of how developers already build and collaborate in the cloud. By unifying cloud-native innovation with data streaming, it enables teams to create and launch solutions faster than ever, setting new benchmarks for how streaming solutions integrate with cloud platforms.

SP Singh, SVP, Service Offering Head of Enterprise Apps & Integration Services at Infosys, says, “Our partnership with Confluent Marketplace underscores our commitment to driving digital transformation through innovative, real-time data streaming capabilities. Together, we accelerate certified production-ready integrations, delivering faster time to value for our joint customers.”

“The Tableflow integration for Delta Lake and Unity Catalog gives customers a fast, trusted path to building a real-time, governed data foundation for AI and analytics at scale," says Stephen Orban, SVP of Product Partnerships at Databricks. "Confluent Marketplace makes it simple for teams to find and deploy certified data streaming integrations that fuel innovation on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.”

By rewarding creators, Confluent Marketplace will help transform the streaming ecosystem into a place where community contributions and business outcomes co-exist.

Join the Motion: Build, Sell, and Scale With Confidence

Confluent Marketplace is more than a catalog; it’s a commitment to an open, powerful, real-time future built on both commercial and community contributions. We invite developers and partners to explore the initial offerings, find the next integration that unlocks their use cases, and help us continue to build the central nervous system for the modern data-driven organization.

Visit Confluent Marketplace today to find your next solution!

Confluent Marketplace FAQs

What is Confluent Marketplace?

Confluent Marketplace is a centralized, curated destination for the data streaming ecosystem where users can discover, purchase, and deploy validated solutions—including enterprise-grade Apache Kafka® connectors and partner integrations—directly alongside their environments.

Is Confluent Hub going away?

No, Confluent Hub is becoming Confluent Marketplace, which will serve as the new version of the Hub and transition it from a simple repository into a comprehensive platform for discovery, deployment, and commerce.

Who can contribute to Confluent Marketplace?

Confluent Marketplace features an "open submission model," meaning anyone in the data streaming ecosystem can contribute. This includes open source community developers as well as contributors from ISVs, GSIs, and other partner organizations.

Will Confluent Marketplace support monetization?

Yes, Confluent Marketplace is meant to support a sustainable creator economy and will introduce monetization and revenue-sharing capabilities. This will allow partners and developers to earn from their contributions to the Kafka ecosystem through models like usage-based billing.

How is Confluent Marketplace different from other integration catalogs?

Unlike traditional catalogs that serve only as directories, Confluent Marketplace allows users to purchase and deploy solutions directly. It provides a curated, validated experience to ensure trust, handles distribution and co-selling for partners so they can focus on building features, and integrates seamlessly with cloud platforms such as AWS.

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