Confluent Cloud Billing
Confluent Cloud bills are based on your consumption of resources within your cloud organization.
Discounts based on usage are available with annual commitments.
Billing for each Confluent Cloud component accrues at hourly intervals. To view billing
information, log into Confluent Cloud and visit the Billing & payment
screen.
Confluent Cloud billing integrates with
Google Cloud Platform,
Microsoft Azure,
and Amazon Web Services.
Sign up with your cloud provider to pay via your cloud provider billing account.
Annual commitments
Confluent Cloud offers the ability to make a commitment to a minimum amount of spend. This
commitment gives you access to discounts and provides the flexibility to use this
commitment across the entire Confluent Cloud stack, including any Kafka cluster type,
ksqlDB on Confluent Cloud, Connectors,
and Support. With self-serve provisioning and expansion,
you have the freedom to consume only what you need from a commitment at any point
in time.
With annual commitments you can view the total amount of accrued usage during the
commitment term and the amount of time left on your commitment.
If you use more than your committed amount, you can continue using Confluent Cloud without
interruption. You will be charged at your discounted rate for usage beyond the committed
amount. Charges will go to the payment method set for your organization.
Contact Confluent to learn more about annual
commitments.
Billing profile
To view your billing profile, navigate to the Billing & payment screen and select
the Payment details & contacts tab.
You can obtain your Cloud Organization ID, edit your billing information, add an
address for tax purposes, or claim a Promo Code.
You can use all major credit cards with Confluent Cloud. To switch to invoicing,
contact the Confluent sales team. Invoicing requires a minimum annual commitment.
Credit card payment receipts or invoices are emailed to the address that was initially
provided during sign up for Confluent Cloud. To change the billing email address, contact
support or your account team
The invoice can only be sent to a single email address.
Billing Dimensions
Kafka
Confluent Cloud offers basic, standard, and dedicated Kafka
cluster types. Kafka clusters are billed based on these dimensions.
- Basic clusters
| Dimension |
Unit of measure |
|---|
| Ingress |
Cost per GB |
| Egress |
Cost per GB |
| Storage |
Cost per GB |
| Partitions |
Cost per partition per hour (Effective July 1, 2020) |
- Standard clusters
| Dimension |
Unit of measure |
|---|
| Base price |
Cost per hour |
| Ingress |
Cost per GB |
| Egress |
Cost per GB |
| Storage |
Cost per GB per hour |
| Partitions |
Cost per partition per hour (Effective July 1, 2020) |
- Dedicated clusters
| Dimension |
Unit of measure |
|---|
| CKU price |
Cost per CKU per hour |
| Ingress |
Cost per GB |
| Egress |
Cost per GB |
| Storage |
Cost per GB per hour |
Confluent Cloud charges for partitions on Basic and Standard clusters. You are charged
for the number of unique partitions that exist on your cluster during a given hour.
Basic clusters receive 10 partitions free of charge, and Standard clusters receive
500 partitions free of charge. Dedicated clusters have no partition-based charges.
Unit prices for each configuration are shown in the New cluster screen:
Note
You are billed for the total amount of data transferred in and out of
your cluster, including request overhead associated with the Kafka protocol.
Kafka Connect
Connectors on Confluent Cloud run on your own Dedicated Connect Cluster. If
you use a dedicated Kafka cluster, connectors on Confluent Cloud run on your own
dedicated Connect cluster. Confluent Cloud provisions the dedicated Connect
cluster when you launch your first connecter. If you use a Basic or Standard
Kafka cluster, your connector runs in multi-tenant Kafka Connect clusters. For
the connectors running on a multi-tenant Connect cluster, there is no
Connect capacity (ConnectCapacity) charge.
The dedicated cluster and fully-managed connectors are billed based on the
following dimensions:
| Dimension |
Unit of measure |
|---|
| Dedicated cluster |
Cost per hour |
| Task base price |
Cost per task per hour |
| Throughput |
Cost per GB |
Fully-managed connector pricing is displayed in the Add Connector screen:
Dedicated connect cluster hourly pricing is shown on the Review and launch
screen the first time you launch a connector.
Dedicated cluster billing is shown as a line item on the Billing & payment >
Billing screen.
Self-managed connectors have no billing mechanism themselves. However, note that
using self-managed connectors may incur ingress, egress, and storage charges for
your Kafka clusters running in Confluent Cloud.
ksqlDB
Fully-managed ksqlDB is billed based on the following dimension:
In addition to the per-Confluent Streaming Unit charge, ksqlDB applications may influence
Kafka ingress, egress, and storage.
Fully-managed ksqlDB pricing is displayed in the Add an Application screen:
Support
Support plans are available for purchase from the Confluent Cloud UI at https://confluent.cloud/settings/paid_support.
From this page, you can view your current plan or choose a different plan. If you
have an annual commitment, support charges contribute to your total committed spend amount.
Important
Downgrade restrictions apply to support plan purchases. Your current support level
will stay in effect until the end of the current calendar month. However, if you
downgrade within the month of purchase, your current support plan level is
maintained until the end of the next full calendar month.
View invoices
You can view your current and past monthly invoices by navigating to the Billing
tab on the Billing & payment screen. To view invoices from past months, select
an option from the dropdown.