Cut costs by 40% on Apache Kafka®

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How Aiven helps control costs for Apache Kafka®

Increase agility

Boost your development speed by eliminating legacy code.


  • Vendor Consolidation: Access a comprehensive data platform featuring 10 popular open source data technologies.
  • Simplified Developer Experience: Enjoy a consistent and user-friendly interface for seamless development across all services.

Simplify platform architecture

One-stop solution that can be deployed across clouds.


  • Flexible Deployment Options: Deploy your applications in your preferred cloud environment, including public clouds, marketplaces, or across multiple clouds.
  • Leverage Savings Plans: Use Aiven's Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployment model to use any cost-saving plans offered by your cloud service providers (CSPs) while using the Aiven platform in your cloud account.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Leverage Aiven’s cloud experts to ensure optimal usage of your cloud resources.


  • Extensive Cloud Coverage & Migration: Choose from 5 clouds and 100+ regions, enabling easy migration and potential cost savings.
  • Transparent Pricing & Service Flexibility: Enjoy predictable pricing, integrate technologies with a few clicks, easily turn on/off or scale up/down your workloads to optimize costs based on your needs.

Finding the perfect fit for your business

Managed service offering
Aiven for Apache Kafka®
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Experts manage your data infrastructure for you

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Supported Open-Source Technologies in same platform
10 - Kafka, Flink, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra & Grafana.
2 - Kafka, Flink
Multi-Cloud
5 - AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean & UpCloud
3 - AWS, Microsoft Azure & Google Cloud.
Dedicated Servers

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Default configurations based on use-case

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Replication

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Wide range of integrations

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Availability
99.99% across all plans
99.95% Basic & Single AZ clusters. 99.99% Multi AZ clusters

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Pricing model
Aiven for Apache Kafka®
Confluent
Transparent pricing at all plans

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No
Networking included

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No
Data Migration Services included

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No. Data transfer costs added to cluster costs
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) support, to run on your cloud account

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Not supported.
Unlimited number of Kafka topics/partitions

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Virtual Private Cloud

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Included for all plans

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Only with Enterprise
Data Storage charges
Included in Price
Per GB/Hour Charge
Kafka Connector included

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Charge / Connector Unit

Enjoy high availability even with the smallest plan

  • Free

    $0/month

    • Data IN: up to 250 kb/s
    • Data OUT: up to 250 kb/s
    • Retention: up to 3 days
    • Data encrypted on disk and network
    • Schema Registry & REST proxy included

    • Cannot select a specific cloud or region

    Start for free

  • Startup

    starting from

    $200/month

    $0.27/hour
    • 3 dedicated VMs
    • 2 CPU per VM
    • 2-4 GB RAM per VM
    • 90 GB total cluster storage

    Start for free

  • Business

    starting from

    $500/month

    $0.69/hour
    • 3 dedicated VMs
    • 2-16 CPU per VM
    • 4-32 GB RAM per VM
    • 600-18432 GB total cluster storage
    • Everything in Startup, plus support for Kafka Connect in the same cluster

    Add-ons

    Start for free

  • Premium

    starting from

    $1,900/month

    $2.60/hour
    • 6-30 dedicated VMs
    • 4-16 CPU per VM
    • 8-32 GB RAM per VM
    • 2250-184320 GB total cluster storage
    • Everything in Business, plus more compute and storage capacity

    Add-ons

    Start for free

Need help? Use our Pricing Calculator to get a recommended plan based on your unique data needs and requirements.

Data retention is only limited by storage, with the exception of Free plan. For information about annual discount or plan capacity beyond the listed plans, please contact us

Network & Data Transfer

Networking is metered based on consumption. For accounts on classic plans, usage is included whilst meeting our fair usage policy to ensure platform stability.

For high-volume streaming requirements or to view current network rates, please contact Sales.

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You can speak to a US-based Kafka expert to discuss how we can support your projects. After choosing your preferred meeting slot, we will send you a meeting invitation.

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