PAYGO small
Confluent Spend: <$100K
- Free Aiven service: 2 months
- Support discount: N/A
- Access to CAB & Elevate: No
Zero-risk migration for Kafka.
If the recent acquisition of Confluent is Concerning, Confusing, or Conflicting - don't worry, we get it. We've got a zero risk approach to migration, with up to 6 months off your Kafka bill.
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Why migrate to Aiven
Risk mitigation
The extended no-cost transition phase allows for a stress-free dual-run, ensuring stability before cutting over from Confluent.
Maintain your voice & partnership
Unlike large enterprises, Aiven is built on close customer collaboration. While Large tier customers gain direct access to our Customer Advisory Board (CAB) to influence the roadmap, all Aiven customers benefit from high-touch engagement and the agility of a focused data platform partner.
Focus on open source
Aiven is a pure-play open source data platform provider, committed to community values, avoiding vendor lock-in, and transparent governance.
Superior support
Significant discounts on our Advanced and Premium support tiers provide dedicated, expert assistance critical for high-stakes migrations.
Go fast, save more
If you complete your migration and cutover faster than the allotted no-cost service period, the remaining months of free service can be used for production workloads until the period expires.
BYOC and regional options
Aiven provides a true multi-cloud data plane with consistent pricing and functionality. Retain full ownership and residency of your data with our Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) and regional options—avoiding the risk of a single monolithic vendor (IBM) owning your data stream.
Program structure and benefits
The program is designed to provide dual-run capacity and expert support, allowing customers to safely migrate their critical data infrastructure from Confluent to Aiven services with zero cost for the transition period.
PAYGO large
Confluent Spend: $100K - $200K
- Free Aiven service: 3 months
- Support discount: N/A
- Access to CAB & Elevate: No
Commit medium
Confluent Spend: $120K - $1M
- Free Aiven service: 4 months
- Support discount: 10% on advanced support
- Access to CAB & Elevate: No
Commit large
Confluent Spend: $1M+
- Free Aiven service: 6 months
- Support discount: 25% on premium support
- Access to CAB & Elevate: Yes
Aiven for Kafka: A head to head comparison
Aiven for Apache Kafka is designed from the ground up to deliver transparency, automation, and seamless integration across any cloud. Built to avoid the operational overhead, vendor lock-in, and unpredictable costs of proprietary platforms like Confluent.
Feature | Aiven | Confluent | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
Predictable TCO | Aiven's pricing provides clear and predictable costs, allowing for accurate budget forecasting and a lower Total Cost of Ownership. | ||
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) | Aiven offers a true Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) model, giving organizations the best control over their cloud environment, data residency, and security posture. Complete freedom to deploy Kafka in any public cloud with multi-cloud approach that ensures you're never locked into a single provider. | ||
Commitment to Open Source | Aiven is built on 100% open-source technologies and actively contributes to the community, giving customers the freedom and flexibility to avoid vendor lock-in. Not just Kafka, but Kafka's entire open-source ecosystem - Connect, MirrorMaker 2, Schema Registry, and all essential components in one unified platform. | ||
Powered by Diskless Kafka | Aiven offers Open Source Diskless Kafka topics for BYOC customers that can cut your cross AZ data replication costs by as much as 80%. Confluent’s Diskless Offering is proprietary and only available at cluster level without the flexibility of both low latency and diskless topics in the same cluster. | ||
Optimised Provisioning | Aiven delivers opinionated Kafka with all the capabilities you love - legendary performance, retention, and replay. Pick throughput, retention, and replication tiers and click go. Get a secure, properly-sized cluster in seconds. | ||
Scalable Growth | Aiven's architecture and transparent pricing model are designed to support cost-effective growth, allowing businesses to scale their operations seamlessly and affordably. | ||
All-Inclusive Pricing | Aiven's all-inclusive pricing model bundles networking and other costs into a single, transparent price, simplifying budget management and eliminating surprise fees. | ||
Unified Open Source Platform | Aiven provides a unified platform where the best open-source services like PostgreSQL and OpenSearch can be easily integrated, creating a powerful and flexible data ecosystem. | ||
Open Data Governance | Aiven empowers customers with open data governance by supporting and contributing to open-source tools like Klaw, ensuring control over data policies without proprietary constraints. |
Book a meeting
If you’re an existing Confluent customer looking to migrate then all you need to do is book a meeting with our team of experts. They’ll give you a technical evaluation of how Aiven can support you with a possible migration and the benefits of our managed Kafka offering, including Diskless Kafka.