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Are you part of the Confluent team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Cloud-native service for data in motion built by the original creators of Apache Kafka® Today’s consumers have the world at their fingertips and hold an unforgiving expectation for end-to-end real-time brand experiences. Data in motion is the underlying, fundamental ingredient to any truly connected customer experience. It provides a continuous supply of real- time event streams coupled with real-time stream processing to power the data-driven backend operations and rich front-end experiences necessary for any business to succeed within today’s competitive, consumer-driven markets. Set your data in motion while avoiding the headaches of infrastructure management and focus on what matters most: your business. Built by the original creators of Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-native service for connecting and processing all of your real-time data, everywhere it’s needed. * * * Seller [IBM](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ibm) Discussions [Confluent Community](https://www.g2.com/products/confluent/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Christian Glason (Director of Growth) Show More ## Typical Contract Price Pricing provided by BetterCloud and others. $$k - $$k Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing](/auth/linkedin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g2.com%2Fproducts%2Fconfluent%2Freviews%3Ffilters%255Bnps_score%255D%255B%255D%3D3) ## User Insights Average based on 114 real user reviews. Implementation Time 3 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Akash G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Akash G.") AG Akash G. Data Scientist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/25/2023 "One of the best managed platform for Kafka" 4/5 What do you like best about Confluent? 1. Confluent has enhanced Kafka infrastructure management features in the last year. 2.The platform serves as a unified solution for real-time data pipelines, applications, and microservices.Offers a wide range of features in the enterprise edition for reliable and scalable real-time data management. 3. Easy integration with various software solutions, contributing to a significant increase in usage. Schema Registry exports, Prometheus monitoring tools are Valuable .Impressive API integrations and support for Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) through Terraform. 4. Confluent's support has proven to be time-saving and enhances developer productivity. Key highlights: reliable Kafka clusters, schema registry for message reliability, user-friendly web interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Confluent? 1. The web interface lacks some features present in APIs and the shell. 2.Schema exporter is not fully supported in Terraform. 3.Some Confluent documents are outdated, requiring external searches and Stack Overflow for issue resolution.Documentation, especially on deployment, is not up to par and is not beginner-friendly. 4. The overall learning curve is high, requiring knowledge of Kafka, connectors, and security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you? We use an event-driven microservices architecture in our company, so Confluent solves the problem of managing clusters and provisioning infrastructure for Kafka. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ian M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ian M.") IM Ian M. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/3/2023 "Event-Driven Architecture - Kafka Vendor of Choice" 4/5 What do you like best about Confluent? Confluent has, in the last year, released a lot of additional features that make it simpler to manage the Confluent Kafka infrastructure. My organization manages its infrastructure through Terraform, so having a Terraform provider is a big requirement for us. In addition, Confluent also provides a lot of tooling that is consistently useful (Schema Registry exports, Prometheus monitoring tools, etc). In addition to this, their support has been useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Confluent? There are some minor growing pains related to building out the managed Kafka infrastructure at Confluent. As a result, we've had to spend a considerable amount of effort rectifying initial account design decisions that we later found out were incorrect. To be fair, if we had started using Confluent today, we wouldn't have run into these issues. It's clear that Confluent has made significant leaps since we first started using them 2 years ago. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you? We use an event-based architecture, so utilizing a managed Kafka solution was top of mind. Confluent is used to provide infrastructure that will allow our services to communicate with one another in an event-driven manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Roberto Francesco L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Roberto Francesco L.") RL Roberto Francesco L. Data Architect Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/8/2023 "Confluent Cloud is the easiest and more reliable approach to kafka clusters" 4/5 What do you like best about Confluent? - Reliable kafka clusters - Usage of schema registry for message reliability - Fantastic UX on the web interface - Amazing integrations with APIs - Support for Terraform for IaaC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Confluent? - The web interface does not have all the features implemented of the APIs and the shell - Schema exporter is not fully supported in Terraform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you? Confluent helps us moving, in a reliable and stable way, big amount of data from datasources on prem/on cloud to our data lake, keeping all business and analytics process up and running with the latest data produced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") UF Verified User in Financial Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/14/2023 "Embracing event streaming using confluent at a fintech" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Confluent? Best part about confluent is that it's very easy get started with setting up new topics from the confluent dashboard itself and manage allowed producers and consumers. Also it makes it very easy to set up and interact via pipelines on confluent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Confluent? It's not yet real time, there have been a lot of instances where we failed to interpret the exact behaviour just because it'd take considerable amount of time to see updates on message consumptions, consumer lag etc. Also, being the company that confluent is, a better UX is expected from the dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you? We've changed a lot of existing flows in our company which were initially dependent on webhooks and polling to Kafka based workflows which has inturn helped us with improved success rates of transactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Mohsin R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mohsin R.") MR Mohsin R. Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/16/2023 "Confluent is one of the best platforms for secure data streaming" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Confluent? Confluent provides a great deal of comfort and convenience to software developers looking to build secure and sustainable applications, I really liked the distributed systems including Kafka and KSQL DB which not only saved quality time but also made me a better developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Confluent? I think somewhat the documentation was a bit less detailed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you? By creating a centralised system in Apache Kafka, message and big data streaming can become very easy. It allows developers to utilise quality time more on the business logic rather than staying concerned about data security and privacy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic RK Rishabh K. Business Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/17/2023 "Good Data streaming architecture" 4/5 What do you like best about Confluent? 1. Complete stack of data steaming architecture biggest upside 2. On the spot security matrix capable enough to carry 50million + counts 3. AI enhanced enterprise security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Confluent? 1. Lots of issues with data governance. 2. Mircoservices integration are still lathargic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you? Users threads matrix control and it is helping us make sure our analysis is accurate and according to business kpis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Amit B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amit B.") AB Amit B. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/29/2023 "Easy Kafka platform Integration and better total cost of ownership" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Confluent? Highly scalable and easy to integrate with current architecture. Provides a lot of features on top of apache kafka. Easy to roll out implementations across environments and provides good customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Confluent? Ease of migration from current kafka ecosystem to confluent can be made better over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you? Event streaming and microservice communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Gambling & Casinos](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Gambling & Casinos") UG Verified User in Gambling & Casinos Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/19/2023 "Senior Software Engineer" 4/5 What do you like best about Confluent? High availability and throughput. It's very reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Confluent? It's costly and often we need to think about alternatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you? Kafka is our main component in delivering events to various services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/3/2023 "Product is good to find suitable software needed for user." 4/5 What do you like best about Confluent? Product is good which streams all data without any issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Confluent? Need to do something regarding integration which will be easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you? Tried for streaming messages and notification from my application. It worked with smooth easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mike T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mike T.") MT Mike T. Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/21/2022 "The Confluent platform is leading the charge in real time data streaming!" 4/5 What do you like best about Confluent? Confluent Kafka is a fantastic open-source streaming software that lets you build event-driven systems and allows backend systems to communicate with one another. The best thing about Confluent as a platform is that a large community uses it and its support system is like no other. They have excellent documentation on all their products, so all the information you need is available at the tip of your fingers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Confluent? Some downside to the Confluent platform is that some of its products, like Confluent Kafka can be difficult to understand and visualize. However, there are tons of user-created tutorials that are available, and they are fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Confluent solving and how is that benefiting you? Confluent Kafka specifically is helping me connect backend services by taking advantage of their event-driven consumers and producers, and from my experience, they do it better than their competitors at AWS or Apache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ## Questions about Confluent? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Confluent ](https://www.g2.com/products/confluent/discussions/new) GU Guest User • Last activity 12 months ago What is your primary use case for Confluent, and how does it enhance your real-time data streaming? 1 Upvote 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-your-primary-use-case-for-confluent-and-how-does-it-enhance-your-real-time-data-streaming) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/confluent/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 13 months ### Average Discount 9% ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/confluent/pricing) ## How much does Confluent cost? Data powered by [BetterCloud](https://www.bettercloud.com). Estimated Price ### $$k - $$k Per Year Based on data from 17 purchases. 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