Q: Does Aiven offer a free plan?

Aiven offers free plans for Aiven for PostgreSQL®, Aiven for MySQL and Aiven for Valkey™ , and have the following specifications: A single node 1 CPU per virtual machine 1 GB RAM For PostgreSQL and MySQL: 1 GB disk storage For Valkey: maxmemory set to 50% Management through the Aiven Console, CLI, API, Terraform Provider, or Kubernetes Operator Monitoring for metrics and logs Backups Integrations between different Aiven services including free, paid, and trial services If you need more memory or access to features in the full platform, try a free trial . Free plans do not have any time limitations. However, Aiven reserves the right to shut down services if we believe they violate the acceptable use policy or are unused for some time. For more details, check out our documentation .

Question 1

What are the differences between plans?

Accepted Answer

Aiven categorises plans into 5 different tiers depending on the services. These are Free, Hobbyist, Startup, Business and Premium. The differences between tiers are service specific so we encourage you to choose the service you are interested in from the plan finder on the pricing page and then click "Plan Comparison".

Most technical features are available in all tiers. One key difference between the tiers can be the number of dedicated VMs. The more VMs there are, the more resistant the service is for any anomalies. Our Hobbyist/Startup tiers are typically recommended for test environments, Business for production environments and Premium for enterprise-level production environments.

Aiven offers free plans for Aiven for PostgreSQL®, Aiven for MySQL and Aiven for Valkey™, and have the following specifications:

A single node
1 CPU per virtual machine
1 GB RAM
For PostgreSQL and MySQL: 1 GB storage
For Valkey: maxmemory set to 50%

For more details on the free plans, check out our documentation.

All Aiven for Apache Kafka and Aiven for Apache Cassandra plans offer high-availability (minimum 3 nodes), private networking (VPC) and single-tenant, dedicated clusters where each virtual machine is in a different availability zone. With our Apache Kafka service, Kafka Connect is included only in Business and Premium plans.

See plan comparison to check what's included in different tiers of Kafka plans. Also, you can use our Kafka plan finder tool to get a recommended Kafka plan based on your unique data needs and requirements.

Aiven for PostgreSQL offers high Availability for Business (2 nodes) and Premium (3 nodes) plans. Backup Retention Time varies per plan: 0 days for Hobbyist, 2 days for Startup, 14 days for Business, and 30 days for Premium plan. On premium level plans, you can optionally enable synchronous replication for higher reliability

See plan comparison for more details on PostgreSQL plans.

Question 2

Does Aiven offer a free plan?

Accepted Answer

Aiven offers free plans for Aiven for PostgreSQL®, Aiven for MySQL and Aiven for Valkey™, and have the following specifications:

A single node
1 CPU per virtual machine
1 GB RAM
For PostgreSQL and MySQL: 1 GB disk storage
For Valkey: maxmemory set to 50%
Management through the Aiven Console, CLI, API, Terraform Provider, or Kubernetes Operator
Monitoring for metrics and logs
Backups
Integrations between different Aiven services including free, paid, and trial services

If you need more memory or access to features in the full platform, try a free trial.

Free plans do not have any time limitations. However, Aiven reserves the right to shut down services if we believe they violate the acceptable use policy or are unused for some time. For more details, check out our documentation.

Question 3

What is the difference between the Aiven free plans and the Aiven free trial?

Accepted Answer

The free plans are limited in size but can be run indefinitely free of charge. The full platform free trial gives you $300 of credit for 30 days that you can use on any service types and plan sizes. You can run free services alongside your trial, they will not impact your trial credits and will continue to run after the trial has expired.

For more details on the free plans, check out our documentation.

Question 4

What’s included in Aiven customer support?

Accepted Answer

We proactively monitor all services 24/7/365. Our personnel are automatically alerted to any service anomalies for immediate resolution. Additionally, your account includes email and chat support. Three additional support tiers are available for a fee. Learn more about support response times and plans.

Question 5

Does Aiven offer any discounts?

Accepted Answer

Discounts are available for organizations willing to make annual minimum-spend commitments. For more information, contact sales .

Question 6

Can I add more disk space to my plan?

Accepted Answer

Yes, with Aiven’s Dynamic Disk Sizing you can freely adjust the disk space allocation for Aiven for PostgreSQL® , Aiven for MySQL® , Aiven for Apache Kafka® , Aiven for Metrics® and Aiven for OpenSearch plans. Adjust the amount of disk space you use in the Aiven Console. You can go all the way up to three times the amount defined in your plan. The price of the additional storage also covers the additional backup storage needed to handle the increased disk size.

Aiven for Apache Kafka®	Startup starting from $290/month	Business starting from $725/month	Premium starting from $2,800/month
Dedicated VMs	3	3	6-30
CPU per VM	2	2-8	2-8
RAM per VM	2-4 GB	4-32 GB	8-32 GB
Total cluster storage	90 GB	600-18432 GB	2250-184320 GB
Clouds	AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, UpCloud	AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, UpCloud	AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, UpCloud
Data retention	Limited only by diskspace	Limited only by diskspace	Limited only by diskspace
All networking cost included
Seamless upgrade/downgrade to other plans
One-click version upgrade
Performance graphs
Data encrypted on disk and network
VPC peering in AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure
Kafka Tiered Storage Offload data from local disks to object storage in the cloud
Kafka REST HTTP access to sending and receiving messages
Schema Registry Registry for storing Kafka message schemas
99.99% availability Percentage of time the service is guaranteed to be available and operational
High availability Automatic failover to another node in case of a node failure
Kafka Connect Included in the base Kafka cluster. A separate Kafka Connect service is available to all plans
Dynamic disk sizing Add or remove additional storage to meet your growing business needs		Available at an additional cost	Available at an additional cost
Support Offers three additional support tiers with separate charge that include faster response times and phone support	Support through email with best-effort responses during the same or next business day	Support through email with best-effort responses during the same or next business day	Support through email with best-effort responses during the same or next business day
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