IBM Confluent

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Confluent	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	IBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments.	$385 per month

Pricing

IBM Confluent

Editions & Modules

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

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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).

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Community Pulse
	IBM Confluent
Considered Both Products	IBM Confluent Verified User Director Chose IBM 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose IBM Confluent We chose to use the Confluent Platform because they provide enterprise-grade customer service support. Whenever we have trouble setting up or using the service, we can create a ticket for them and it will be resolved pretty fast. Kafka is the open-source software that comes … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	IBM Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	IBM 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	IBM Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	IBM Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	IBM 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	IBM 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	IBM 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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