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What You Don't See Is What Costs You Most.
Initial costs don't tell the whole story. From support gaps to hidden overhead, your 'managed' Kafka service might be costing more than you thought.
Hosted Kafka services from Cloud Service Providers claim to be "fully managed"- until you're stuck with capacity planning, manually tuning configs, configuring VPC networking and troubleshooting performance. The result? More hidden costs and 3am pages for your team.
Confluent Cloud gives you more from the start.
Cloud-native streaming platform
A truly fully managed Kafka service that is built to scale effortlessly with zero operational burden
Complete & enterprise-ready
All the tooling developers need to build fast, secure, and reliable streaming applications or pipelines
Run Everywhere
Run Apache Kafka across any cloud, the way you need to
The result? Far fewer tools to manage, fewer fires to put out, and far less budget wasted on a hosted Kafka service.
Trying to do more with less—without the pain of managing configs or manually scaling clusters with a hosted Kafka service?
Reduce your Kafka bill by 60% or more
Lower your infra spend with elastically scaling clusters, cost efficient cluster types for every streaming use case and a completely re-architected Kafka engine for the cloud
Put your streaming data to work
Unlock the full value of your streams with the power of fully managed Apache Flink for stream processing, the industry's only fully managed governance suite for Kafka and Tableflow to easily turn Kafka topics into Iceberg or Delta Lake tables
Built-in reliability, zero operational hassle
Industry leading 99.99% SLAs- covering both Kafka and the infrastructure it runs on, which keeps your data streaming and your teams focused on what matters
Many hosted Kafka services look affordable at first—until you factor in the engineering time spent sizing and scaling clusters or upgrading from Zookeeper to KRaft, extra spend on third-party tools, and gaps in support that often leave your team dealing with outages over nights and weekends.
Compare the real-world total cost of ownership (TCO) of Confluent Cloud vs. hosted Kafka services from hyperscalers. With a fully managed streaming platform that reduces complexity and operational overhead, Confluent helps you save more and do more- starting on day one.