Plans & Pricing
Aiven's pricing is all-inclusive and transparent, providing you with the confidence and ease to forecast monthly expenses without any surprises from variable costs.
Service
Free
$0/month
- 1 dedicated VM
- 1 CPU per VM
- 1 GB RAM per VM
Cannot select a specific cloud or region
No integrations or connection pooling
Startup
starting from$60/month
$0.08/hour- 1 dedicated VM
- 2-32 CPU per VM
- 4-192 GB RAM per VM
- 99.99% uptime SLA
Business
starting from$70/month
$0.10/hour- 2 dedicated VM
- 1-32 CPU per VM
- 1-192 GB RAM per VM
- Everything in Startup, plus high availability
Premium
starting from$85/month
$0.12/hour- 3 dedicated VM
- 1-32 CPU per VM
- 1-192 GB RAM per VM
- Everything in Business, plus a second standby node
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
Aiven for Valkey™ | Free $0/month | Hobbyist starting from $19/month | Startup starting from $60/month | Business starting from $70/month | Premium starting from $85/month |
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Dedicated VMs | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
CPU per VM | 1 | 1 | 2-32 | 1-32 | 1-32 |
RAM per VM | 1 GB | 1 GB | 4-192 GB | 1-192 GB | 1-192 GB |
Clouds | Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean, UpCloud | Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, UpCloud | Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, UpCloud | Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, UpCloud | Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, UpCloud |
All networking cost included | |||||
Seamless upgrade/downgrade to other plans | |||||
One-click version upgrade | |||||
Performance graphs | |||||
Data encrypted on disk and network | |||||
Automatic backups to a remote location | |||||
Backups | Single backup only for disaster recovery | Single backup only for disaster recovery | 1 day | 3 days | 13 days |
Continuous verified data restoration | |||||
VPC peering in AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure | |||||
High availability Automatic failover to another node in case of a node failure | |||||
Support Offers three additional support tiers with separate charge that include faster response times and phone support | Support via documentation | 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 | Support through email with best-effort responses during the same or next business day |
Start for free | Start for free | Start for free | Start for free | Start for free |
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) available for larger setups
Run Aiven services in your own cloud account to achieve lower TCO. Our self-service BYOC automation simplifies deployment. Contact us for more information.
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Open questions? We’ve got answers
Aiven categorise plans into 6 different tiers depending on the services. These are Free, Developer, 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 Developer/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:
maxmemoryset 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.
Aiven for PostgreSQL offers high Availability for Business (2 nodes) and Premium (3 nodes) plans. Backup Retention Time varies per plan: 0 days for Free, Developer and 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
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:
maxmemoryset 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.
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.
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.
Discounts are available for organizations willing to make annual minimum-spend commitments. For more information, contact sales.
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.