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Cloud Native: Seamlessly scale Kafka clusters and minimize downtime
Complete: Rapidly build and secure streaming apps and data pipelines
Everywhere: Build on a platform designed to span on-premises, hybrid, and multicloud architectures
Confluent Cloud offers four different cloud-native Apache Kafka cluster types: Basic, Standard, Enterprise, and Dedicated. Billing dimensions vary by cluster type and cloud provider. Visit cluster type documentation to learn more about specific features, capabilities, and limits by cluster type.
Support: We have support plans available across Free, Developer, Business, and Premier. Learn more here.
| BasicGet started free | StandardGet started free | EnterpriseGet started free | DedicatedContact us |
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Starting From | $0/month | $1,100/month | $3,300/month | Contact us |
Throughput Supported | Up to 250 MBps ingress/ 750 MBps egress | Up to 250 MBps ingress/ 750 MBps egress | Up to 300 MBps ingress/ 900 MBps egress | GBps+ ingress and egress |
Base Price $/hour | n/a | $1.50/hour | $2.25/E-CKU/hour Minimum 2 E-CKUsE-CKUs (CKU for Enterprise) are a unit of horizontal scalability in Confluent Cloud that provide a pre-allocated amount of resources. Learn more | $/CKU/hour Contact usCKUs are a unit of horizontal scalability in Confluent Cloud that provide a pre-allocated amount of resources. Learn more |
Partitions $/partition/hour | First 10 included, then $0.004/partition/hour Hard limit of 4,096 | First 500 included, then $0.0015/partition/hour Hard limit of 4,096 | All included ($0/partition/hour) Hard limit of 5,000 across all E-CKUs | All included ($0/partition/hour) Hard limit of 100,000 across all CKUs |
$/GB | $0.11 - $0.13 | $0.04 - $0.13 | $0.05 - $0.11 | Contact us |
Data Stored 3 $/GB-month | $0.08 | $0.08 | $0.08 | $0.08 |
Basic | |
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Starting From | $0/month |
Throughput Supported | Up to 250 MBps ingress/ 750 MBps egress |
Base Price $/hour | n/a |
Partitions $/partition/hour | First 10 included, then $0.004/partition/hour Hard limit of 4,096 |
$/GB | $0.11 - $0.13 |
Data Stored 3 $/GB-month | $0.08 |
Standard | |
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Starting From | $1,100/month |
Throughput Supported | Up to 250 MBps ingress/ 750 MBps egress |
Base Price $/hour | $1.50/hour |
Partitions $/partition/hour | First 500 included, then $0.0015/partition/hour Hard limit of 4,096 |
$/GB | $0.04 - $0.13 |
Data Stored 3 $/GB-month | $0.08 |
Enterprise | |
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Starting From | $3,300/month |
Throughput Supported | Up to 300 MBps ingress/ 900 MBps egress |
Base Price $/hour | $2.25/E-CKU/hour Minimum 2 E-CKUs |
Partitions $/partition/hour | All included ($0/partition/hour) Hard limit of 5,000 across all E-CKUs |
$/GB | $0.05 - $0.11 |
Data Stored 3 $/GB-month | $0.08 |
Dedicated | |
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Starting From | Contact us |
Throughput Supported | GBps+ ingress and egress |
Base Price $/hour | $/CKU/hour Contact us |
Partitions $/partition/hour | All included ($0/partition/hour) Hard limit of 100,000 across all CKUs |
$/GB | Contact us |
Data Stored 3 $/GB-month | $0.08 |
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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). Please also note that all prices are stated in United States dollars unless specifically stated otherwise.
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.
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