- Starting price
- ~$385/Month
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Website
- confluent.io
- Social media
- @ConfluentInc
About Confluent
Confluent is a fully managed Kafka service and enterprise stream-processing platform. It serves enterprises and developers needing real-time data streaming across cloud and serverless environments to build, scale, and govern data-driven applications.
Key Features
For teams wrestling with data sprawl and latency, Confluent’s platform consolidates pipelines and enforces data quality at the source across multi-cloud and serverless environments:
Managed Kafka Service
Fully managed deployment of Apache Kafka with scalable, secure infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure, and serverless environments.
Real-Time Data Streaming & Processing
Ingest, route, and process data in real time, enabling immediate data availability for applications and analytics.
Data Quality & Governance at Source
Processing and governing data as it’s created to prevent downstream delays and quality issues.
AI-Ready Data for Applications
Ensures apps, LLMs, vector databases, agents, and RAG systems access the right data in real time.
Summary
Best for data engineering teams, real-time analytics groups, and AI/ML initiatives that rely on fresh, governed streams.
Pricing
View pricingPlans and prices as listed on confluent.io as of Sep 24, 2026.
Basic
$0/Month / monthly
- Serverless, fully managed clusters with zero ops
- Autoscaling Kafka resources
- 80+ fully managed connectors
- Security and governance essentials
- Multicloud across AWS, Azure, and GCP
Standard
~$385/Month / monthly
- Everything in Basic
- High availability with 99.99% uptime SLA
- Infinite storage
- Audit logs to detect security threats
- 30%+ throughput savings that scale with usage
Enterprise
~$895/Month / monthly
- Everything in Basic and Standard
- Private networking
- GBps+ autoscaling
- Enhanced partition limits
- 60%+ throughput savings that scale with usage
Freight
~$2,300/Month / monthly
- Cost-efficient for high scale logging and observability use cases with relaxed latency requirements
