Designed to scale. Priced to match.
Blog post from Confluent
Confluent Cloud offers Kafka as an elastically scalable, globally available serverless service across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, with clusters designed for testing, production, mission-critical workloads, and high-volume logging or observability. Its Basic tier starts free and includes managed operations, autoscaling, connectors, and core security features, while Standard adds high availability, a 99.99% uptime SLA, infinite storage, audit logs, and throughput discounts from about $385 per month. Enterprise, starting near $895 monthly, adds private networking, higher partition limits, GBps-scale autoscaling, and larger throughput savings for sensitive or critical workloads. The Freight specialty tier, beginning around $2,300 monthly, targets cost-efficient, high-scale workloads with relaxed latency requirements and direct object storage. Pricing is based on Elastic Confluent Units, data transfer, and storage consumption, with discounts increasing as usage grows, while Dedicated clusters and annual commitments are also available for specialized capacity, network, or throughput needs.
| Trend | Post Mentions | Total Month Mentions | Posts | Companies | MoM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observability | 2 | 472 | 102 | 54 | -85% |
| Serverless | 2 | 156 | 54 | 28 | -80% |
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