Get complete control in any cloud with Aiven for Apache Kafka's fully managed, enterprise-grade streaming service.
99.99% SLA
50+ connectors
Runs on any cloud
Includes $300 in free credits
Get complete control in any cloud with Aiven for Apache Kafka's fully managed, enterprise-grade streaming service.
99.99% SLA
50+ connectors
Runs on any cloud
Includes $300 in free credits
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. |
Built on 100% open-source Kafka, Aiven eliminates complexity, reduces cost, and offers the flexibility modern teams need to scale quickly without lock-in.
And, unlike proprietary platforms that add operational overhead, vendor lock-in, and unpredictable costs, Aiven is designed from the ground up to deliver transparency, automation, and seamless integration across your cloud environment.
Simplified Operations
Automatic updates and upgrades. Zero stress. Fully managed Kafka reduces engineering effort, allowing teams to focus on innovation.
Mature Ecosystem
An ecosystem allowing schema management, enterprise integration, and data
synchronization.
Cost Optimization
Predictable pricing, efficient resource allocation, and BYOC help control expenses and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
Aiven’s Committed to Open Source
Aiven not only offers Open Source we also contribute to the community by making key features available and sustainable, like tiered storage.
Enterprise Reliability
99.99% uptime SLA, automated failover, and self-healing infrastructure ensure business continuity with dedicated, experienced support staff.
Streamlined Solutions
Easily integrate Kafka with any of our other services, like ClickHouse or OpenSearch, for a single pane of glass, simplifying your platform and data operations.
Aiven’s customers unlock major cloud savings and full control with it's BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) model.
Both platforms provide out-of-the-box monitoring. Aiven provides a Grafana-based monitoring screen for all plans, offering metrics dashboards and easy integration with external monitoring tools like Datadog or Prometheus. Confluent's managed service features the Confluent Control Center for platform-wide monitoring, with integrations for other systems.
This is a key differentiator. Aiven is built on a 100% open-source foundation. We provide Karapace, our open-source alternative to Confluent's Schema Registry and Kafka REST proxy.Confluent changed the license for some of its platform components (like Schema Registry and certain connectors) from the open-source Apache 2.0 license to the proprietary Confluent Community License. This license restricts users from "making available any software-as-a-service... that competes with Confluent." With Aiven, you get a fully open-source data platform without vendor lock-in or proprietary licenses.
The best choice depends on your team's priorities.
Yes. Aiven supports flexible migration strategies, including a hybrid-cloud model. You can use Aiven's migration services to move non-confidential data streams to the cloud while keeping highly confidential data on your existing on-premises environment. This allows you to modernize at your own pace while ensuring compliance with any local data regulations.
Let us show you how Aiven for Kafka can reduce your costs, boost flexibility, and simplify your architecture—without locking you in.
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. |
Built on 100% open-source Kafka, Aiven eliminates complexity, reduces cost, and offers the flexibility modern teams need to scale quickly without lock-in.
And, unlike proprietary platforms that add operational overhead, vendor lock-in, and unpredictable costs, Aiven is designed from the ground up to deliver transparency, automation, and seamless integration across your cloud environment.
Simplified Operations
Automatic updates and upgrades. Zero stress. Fully managed Kafka reduces engineering effort, allowing teams to focus on innovation.
Mature Ecosystem
An ecosystem allowing schema management, enterprise integration, and data
synchronization.
Cost Optimization
Predictable pricing, efficient resource allocation, and BYOC help control expenses and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
Aiven’s Committed to Open Source
Aiven not only offers Open Source we also contribute to the community by making key features available and sustainable, like tiered storage.
Enterprise Reliability
99.99% uptime SLA, automated failover, and self-healing infrastructure ensure business continuity with dedicated, experienced support staff.
Streamlined Solutions
Easily integrate Kafka with any of our other services, like ClickHouse or OpenSearch, for a single pane of glass, simplifying your platform and data operations.
Aiven’s customers unlock major cloud savings and full control with it's BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) model.
Both platforms provide out-of-the-box monitoring. Aiven provides a Grafana-based monitoring screen for all plans, offering metrics dashboards and easy integration with external monitoring tools like Datadog or Prometheus. Confluent's managed service features the Confluent Control Center for platform-wide monitoring, with integrations for other systems.
This is a key differentiator. Aiven is built on a 100% open-source foundation. We provide Karapace, our open-source alternative to Confluent's Schema Registry and Kafka REST proxy.Confluent changed the license for some of its platform components (like Schema Registry and certain connectors) from the open-source Apache 2.0 license to the proprietary Confluent Community License. This license restricts users from "making available any software-as-a-service... that competes with Confluent." With Aiven, you get a fully open-source data platform without vendor lock-in or proprietary licenses.
The best choice depends on your team's priorities.
Yes. Aiven supports flexible migration strategies, including a hybrid-cloud model. You can use Aiven's migration services to move non-confidential data streams to the cloud while keeping highly confidential data on your existing on-premises environment. This allows you to modernize at your own pace while ensuring compliance with any local data regulations.
Let us show you how Aiven for Kafka can reduce your costs, boost flexibility, and simplify your architecture—without locking you in.
