Aiven vs. Confluent

Confluent

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Aiven	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Aiven provides managed open source data technologies on all major clouds, providing managed cloud infrastructure so that developers can focus purely on creating applications. Meanwhile, Aiven will manage the user's cloud data infrastructure.	N/A
Confluent	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	Confluent Cloud is a cloud-native service for Apache Kafka used to connect and process data in real time with a fully managed data streaming platform. Confluent Platform is the self-managed version.	$385 per month

Pricing

Aiven

Confluent

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Basic: $0
Standard: Starting at ~$385
per month
Enterprise: Starting at ~$1,150
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Aiven	Confluent
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/hour), networking ($/GB), and storage ($/GB-hour). Connect: Use of connectors is billed based on throughput ($/GB) and a task base price ($/task/hour). Process: Use of stream processing with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is calculated based on CFUs ($/minute). Govern: Use of Stream Governance is billed based on environment ($/hour). Confluent storage and throughput is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB). Please also note that all prices are stated in United States Dollars unless specifically stated otherwise. All billing computations are conducted in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Aiven	Confluent

Features

Aiven

Confluent

Database-as-a-Service

Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	Aiven 7.0 1 Ratings 21% below category average	Confluent - Ratings
Monitoring and metrics	7.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment	7.01 Ratings	00 Ratings

Streaming Analytics

Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Aiven - Ratings	Confluent 9.1 2 Ratings 13% above category average
Real-Time Data Analysis	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards	00 Ratings	8.02 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources	00 Ratings	10.02 Ratings
Low Latency	00 Ratings	9.02 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools	00 Ratings	8.02 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out	00 Ratings	9.02 Ratings
Data Enrichment	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Aiven	Confluent
Small Businesses	IBM Cloudant Score 7.4 out of 10	IBM Streams (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	IBM Cloudant Score 7.4 out of 10	Tealium Customer Data Hub Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Cloudant Score 7.4 out of 10	Spotfire Streaming Score 6.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Aiven	Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Aiven	Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	Aiven Aiven is well suited for medium/big companies where the reliability for events coming in is imperative and choose to use Kafka but would like to avoid the most complex parts of the integration and instead have an easy setup. It is less suited in my opinion for smaller companies, mainly due to its pricing. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Confluent If you have a need to stream data, real time or segmented structured data then Confluent is a great platform to do so with. You won't run into packet transfer size limitations that other platforms have. Flexibility in on-prem, cloud, and managed cloud offerings makes it very flexible no matter how you choose to implement. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Aiven No answers on this topic	Confluent Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Aiven No answers on this topic	Confluent Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Aiven No answers on this topic	Confluent The support from the Confluent platform is great and satisfying. We have been working with Confluent for more than a year now. They sent out resident architects to help us set up Confluent cluster on our cloud and help us troubleshoot problems we have encountered. Overall, it has been a great experience working with the Confluent Platform. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Aiven No answers on this topic	Confluent For our use case it was very important that the technology we were working with fit into our Azure architecture, and met our data processing size requirements to stream data within certain SLAs. Confluent more than met our performance requirements and compared to the others scale options and cost to run it was more than financially viable as a platform solution to our global operations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Aiven No answers on this topic	Confluent It enables us to develop event driven application. It increases our ability to handle streaming data. It reduces latency of communication. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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