Apache Kafka Pricing

AT
Group Manager at a media company with 201-500 employees

I have experience in private cluster implementation. When you use Apache Kafka with Cloudera, the pricing is included in your Cloudera license. The pricing is based on the number of nodes, the storage cost, and other components. As part of this license, Kafka is one of the solutions offered. When you compare it with OnCloud, if you don't have a good volume of data and use cases, your benefits realization will not be there, as the initial cost of setting up the cluster and bringing up the license can be as much as $760k for a small cluster of ten to twenty nodes. You need at least 20-30 GBs of data and use cases before utilizing and profiting from the Teradata license and cloud data. Kafka is just one piece of it. 

When it comes to the cloud, the pricing also goes at the solution level so that you can compare it at the Kafka level. Still, I don't have much information on that from where I am currently implementing the solution. After we did the cost-benefit analysis, we only opted for the solution. We realized that by bringing in Cloudera along with Kafka, we would be able to replace two or three existing systems, including Teradata, Oracle, Informatica, and IBM Datastage. Only then were we able to realize the benefit for the bank. Otherwise, Cloudera would be much more expensive, especially in the short term. With distributed computing, the concept of Delta Lake is coming in, and IDBMS systems like Teradata and distributed systems like data lakes will coexist. Not all use cases will be solved, but cloud solutions like Azure come as a package, and you need not worry about having different physical systems in your enterprise to take care of. That's where I think the cost-benefit analysis from a data perspective becomes too important.

At the end of the day, we bring in big data systems only when the data volumes are high. When the data volumes are low, the cost-benefit analysis can easily show that systems like Oracle or Teradata can run it just fine.

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Amit Laddha - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President (Information and Product Management) at Tradebulls Securities (P) Limited

I rate Apache Kafka's pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. There are no additional costs apart from the licensing fees for Apache Kafka.

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Harsha Ravnikar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at Sysmex America, Inc.

Apache Kafka has open-source pricing.

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Reza Sadeghi - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Team Lead at asa com

Kafka is free. 

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Jhon Rico - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at BVC

The cost can vary depending on the provider and the specific flavor or version you use. I'm not very knowledgeable about the pricing details.

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Nor EL MALKI - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Leyton & Associés, SAS

We are using the free version of Apache Kafka.

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SP
CEO at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

The price for the enterprise version is quite high.

For on-premise, there is an annual fee, which starts at 60,000 euros, but it is usually higher than 100,000 euros. The cost for a project including the subscription is usually between 100,000 to 200,000 euros. The cost also depends on the level of support. There are two different levels of support.

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Bharath-Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at Tekgeminus

Apache Kafka is an open-source solution.

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GT
Lead Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It will be included in the Oracle-specific platform. It is approximately $600,000 USD.

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Mukulit Bhati - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at InsightGeeks Solutions Pvt.

I rate the pricing for this solution an eight out of ten. It could be a bit cheaper.

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Stuart-Cook - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO & Founder at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

Kafka is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs. There are third-party companies who support and provide add-ons to Kafka, but we didn't need to use any of those. Confluence, for example, provides plug-ins for Kafka. 

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Silvio Lucas Pereira Filho - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Tech Lead at RecargaPay

The price of Apache Kafka is good.

I rate the price of Apache Kafka an eight out of ten.

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Joaquin Marques - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO - Founder / Principal Data Scientist / Principal AI Architect at Kanayma LLC

I would advise others to schedule a month or two to just set it up and have it up and running.

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AV
Technical Director at Metrofibre Networx

It's a premium product, so it is not price-effective for us.

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NK
Director at Tibco

The solution is open source.

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SK
Barista Brewing Espresso at Linkedln

We are currently using the open-source version. 

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Salvatore Campana - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO & Founder at XAUTOMATA TECHNOLOGY GmbH

It's a bit cheaper compared to other Q applications.

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ME
CTO at Estrada & Consultores

Apache Kafka is OpenSource, you can set it up in your own Kubernetes cluster or subscribe to Kafka providers online as a service.

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DZ
Enterprise Architect at Smals vzw

Apache Kafka is an open-source solution.

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Ravi Kuppusamy - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO and Founder at BAssure Solutions

Apache Kafka is an open-sourced solution. There are fees if you want the support, and I would recommend it for enterprises. There are annual subscriptions available.

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Paul Adams - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The price of the solution is low.

I rate the price of Apache Kafka a nine out of ten.

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RP
Assistant Professor at CHAROTAR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The solution is free, it is open-source.

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JB
Software Support & Development Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

This is an open-source solution and is free to use.

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ShoaibKhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at APIZone

This is an open-source version.

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DP
Sr Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apache Kafka is free. My clients were using Confluent which provides high-quality support and services, and it was relatively expensive for our client. There was a lot of back and forth on negotiating the price.

Confluent has an offering that has Cloud-Based pricing. There are different packages, prices, and capabilities. The highest level being the most expensive. AWS provides services to their market, for example, to have Kafka running. I do not know what the pricing is and I am fairly confident, Azure and GCP provide similar services.

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LP
Owner at Binarylogicworks.com.au

Kafka is open-source and it is cheaper than any other product.

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TM
Building Event-centric Data processing Architectures at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The price depends on who we are getting the product from. If we buy it from Confluent, we always have to try to negotiate the price. The price is always negotiable.

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it_user653562 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

When starting to look at a distributed message system, look for a cloud solution first. It is an easier entry point than an on-premises hardware solution. A lot of the complexity has already been taken care of. Both AWS and Azure have supported Kafka clusters that can be provisioned very easily.

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Abdul-Samad - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Kafka is open source. 

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Guirino Ciliberti - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Governance & Lineage Product Manager at Primeur

We are licensed annually for this solution.

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MN
Project Engineer at Wipro Limited

It's an open-source product, so the pricing isn't an issue. It's free to use. We don't have costs associated with it.

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it_user660591 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Java Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I don’t have any idea, as we use the open source version.

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it_user578787 - PeerSpot reviewer
Java Developer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Licensing and pricing was handled by my management, so I don’t have much knowledge there.

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YL
Vice President at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

It's free. We use the free version.

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it_user660627 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineering Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is open source software.

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it_user650223 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Software Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

With paid support from Confluent, you get the additional benefit of Kafka Connect.

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Sreekar Nethagani - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at Attaika

This is an open-source product.

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NC
Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The licensing for this solution is pay-as-you-use.

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JJ
Technology Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Apache Kafka is open-source and can be used free of charge.

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it_user650004 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

There is no pricing and licensing.

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it_user647457 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering

I would not subscribe to the Confluent platform, but rather stay on the free open source version. The extra cost wasn't justified.

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Andrea Castorino - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at SirfinPA

Our clients purchased the license and they think it's an affordable solution. 

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it_user592356 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead/Project Manager(Consulting Apple Inc) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is worth the money.

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it_user592338 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use a community version.

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OT
Senior Big Data Developer | Cloudera at Dilisim

I'm unaware of the costs surrounding licensing and setup.

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it_user642942 - PeerSpot reviewer
Hadoop Technical Lead (Assistant Consultant) at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

This is open source with the cost of a cluster administrator.

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DR
Founder, CEO at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

Licensing issues are not applicable. Apache licensing makes it simple with almost zero cost for the software itself.

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MS
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is open source; it's free to use.

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RH
freelance at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Apache Kafka is an open-source solution and there are no fees, but there are fees associated with confluence, which are based on subscription.

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it_user998961 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprice Architect

Kafka is more reasonably priced than IBM MQ.

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it_user660630 - PeerSpot reviewer
SDET II at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Since it's an open source product, there is no pricing for it.

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