Aiven for Apache Kafka 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Aiven for Apache Kafka

4.6

(69)

Pricing

Starting at $200.00 per month

About Aiven for Apache Kafka

Aiven for Apache Kafka is an end-to-end solution for data streaming enabling companies to manage Apache Kafka deployments effortlessly. Aiven for Apache Kafka offers automatic updates and upgrades with zero downtimes include a 99,99% SLA backed by Aiven’s SRE team. Aiven offers super-transparent pricing including networking costs hence making your monthly costs for Kafka deployments predictable and easy to manage.

Who is Aiven for Apache Kafka for?

Data Engineers
Software Developers
DevOps Managers
DevOps Engineers
Solution/Product owners

Looking to leverage the scalability and power of real time data and Apache Kafka at any scale.

Additional features of Aiven for Apache Kafka include:

Data security with VPC peering, dedicated VMs across all Aiven’s plans and enhanced compliance environments for PCI, HIPAA, BAA
Seamless migration from existing services or to multiple cloud providers and availability zones with Aiven for Apache Kafka MirrorMaker
Easy integration to your existing databases and external sources and sinks with fully open source Aiven for Apache Kafka Connect
Scalable data governance for your Apache Kafka topics with Klaw, a fully open source d...

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Aiven for Apache Kafka Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $200.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Startup

$200.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Data Encryption
High Availability
Performance Graph
Schema Registry
Switch Between Plans
VPC Peering in AWS

Business

$500.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Data Encryption
High Availability
Kafka Connect
Performance Graph
Schema Registry
Switch Between Plans
VPC Peering in AWS

Premium

$1,900.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Data Encryption
High Availability
Kafka Connect
Own Cloud Account Integration
Performance Graph
Schema Registry
Switch Between Plans
VPC Peering in AWS

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Aiven for Apache Kafka Features

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Multiple Programming Languages Supported
Performance Analysis
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More features of Aiven for Apache Kafka
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Real-Time Data
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Third-Party Integrations

Aiven for Apache Kafka Integrations

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Aiven for Apache Kafka User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

59%

39%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.1

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

4.1

Yoel S.

Verified reviewer

Logistics and Supply Chain

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Great service

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Overall, great service. Really thought through. Makes setting up services a breeze.

Cons:

It would be nice to have easier options for bring your own cloud services. This would be helpful for setting up master/master cross region.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

Good managed service

Very positive. It is my first experience with a managed Kafka service and I would recommend it over managing a cluster internally.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I don't have to manage a Kafka cluster. The terraform provider has also proven to be very useful

Cons:

We have experienced some issues with data being lost however this was quickly addressed and was put right by Aiven

Christopher S.

Verified reviewer

Utilities

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

Good product with some annoying wrinkles

I enjoy using Aiven Kafka. Hosted Kafka Connect with the option to use custom connectors and transformers would be great.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Aiven Kafka is generally very stable, especially now that Kafka itself is becoming more mature

Cons:

The security model has been very broken. Making an API call to get a certificate and being given a list of all the certificates in the project is simply wrong. Also, the UI does not always contain the same information that is output by the standard Kafka command line tooling.

Verified

Reviewer

Utilities

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Great service

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Fantastic support who answers questions swiftly. Easy to use and to setup users/ACL's.

Cons:

Not reactive UI to monitor the Kafka topic. Logs can be improved as well.

Vendor Response

Hello, Thank you for your honest feedback. It¿s great to hear you have enjoyed using Aiven. Just wanted to let know that Aiven now provides Logs Integration via Elasticsearch which enables you to store and search many months worth of Aiven Kafka service logs. You can find more information from this help article about log integrations: https://help.aiven.io/elasticsearch/getting-started-with-elasticsearch-log-integration Thank you!

Replied February 2019

Verified

Reviewer

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

Using Kafka as a persistent queue for large amount data

It helped us build a scalable real-time analytics platform.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Scale well to handle large loads, resilient. Customer support from Aiven is reactive and competent, a pleasure to work with them.

Cons:

Configuration is a bit difficult, there's a learning curve. In particular understanding the concepts of Kafka, the impact of configuration parameters, in order to have a setting corresponding to the need take some time. Fortunately, the Aiven team is able to help with helpful advices.

Verified

Reviewer

Utilities

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Using Kafka for messaging between many microservices belonging to different teams

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

No need for us to deal with setting up and running our own clusters. All that difficult work is done for us and we can get on with delivering useful functionality.

Cons:

Sometimes useful information is hidden and hard to get hold of. Sometimes changes have occurred in Kafka without us expecting them. That said, the Aiven team are responsive to improvement suggestions so as issues occur they tend to get dealt with and the product improves.

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Reviewer

Automotive

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Easy setup with many cloud providers and excellent support

a managed environment without the operational support from internal teams.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Setup in minutes, uses reliable cloud providers, able to do VPC peering and easy management of the clusters.

Cons:

When we have the VPC peering, the cluster is not accessible from the public anymore, it would be nice if there is an option to have the kafka rest endpoint as public even in vpc peering.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review. We¿re glad to hear your experience with Aiven has been good. About the feature you requested, it is currently available. Please contact Aiven support if you need this feature. Thank you again!

Replied February 2019

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

Seamless and full featured.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Seamless deploys of kafka without the burden of opsing it yourself. Up to date with the latest kafka and offers one click schema registry deploys as well.

Cons:

More documentation of the web console please! Would love to more easily see the kafka configuration generated for the config specified via the UI.

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Reviewer

E-Learning

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Easy to use and Excellent customer support.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Very easy to use and setup and should not need customer support at all. - when you do need customer support , they are super fast to respond.

Cons:

- API documentation is good , but can be better

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Reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Easy to use messaging system

This has sped up the interfaces to several databases and minimized the custom code to basically just data transformations. By following the subscribe/notify model a clear master for data is indicated and the speed is very quick for our needs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Our organization found it very easy to use. Using the hosted version we were able to get up and running quickly and were able to keep a number of databases in sync

Cons:

The list of connectors isn't as big natively as I would like however there are a good number of open source options available, you just need to compile and deploy them yourself

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