Confluent Cloud is a managed service for Apache Kafka, built by Kafka's original creators, providing event streaming with added tooling and connectors. It targets teams building real-time data pipelines who want Kafka without operating clusters, and offers serverless, Kafka-compatible clusters. Apache Kafka is open-source, but the Confluent Platform is proprietary; the self-managed Confluent Platform is self-hostable, while the cloud service itself is not open-source. Pricing is usage based with a free tier plus new-signup credits. Confluent carries SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS compliance.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2014
- Pricing tier
- Mid
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Streaming / messaging
- Free tier
- Yes: Free tier + new-signup credits; usage-based beyond.
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Managed service
- Yes
- Kafka-compatible
- Yes
- Serverless
- Yes