--- description: Get information about Aiven for Apache Kafka price, usability & features from verified user experiences. Read reviews from Indian business users & discover similar tools. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Aiven for Apache Kafka Price, Features, Reviews & Ratings - Capterra India --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Database Software](/directory/18/database-management/software) > [Aiven for Apache Kafka](/software/167938/aiven-kafka) # Aiven for Apache Kafka Canonical: https://www.capterra.in/software/167938/aiven-kafka Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.in/software/167938/aiven-kafka?page=2) > Aiven for Apache Kafka is a scalable, fully-managed event streaming system hosted on all major clouds. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 69 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Aiven for Apache Kafka? SMEs and large corporations with growing volumes of streaming data that need to easily manage and operate Apache Kafka workloads on cloud. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 69 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Aiven - **Location**: Helsinki, Finland - **Founded**: 2016 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: $200.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Aiven services are charged by the hour and billed monthly. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 208 more ## Features - Data Replication ## Integrations (4 total) - Aiven for PostgreSQL - Datadog - Prometheus - Terraform ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Database Software](https://www.capterra.in/directory/18/database-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Also using Kafka is not the most trivial things in the hearth. Would be good to have more detailed monitoring maybe coupled with InfluxDb that is already available in Aiven > > It saved us from the hassle to manage Kafka cluster ourselves, with a very fast response customer support ----- ### "Our experiences deploying Kafka with Aiven" — 5.0/5 > **Russell** | *12 August 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: We liked that Aiven offered us a self service portal and is easy to integrate with our existing software stack. We have a number of environments in development requiring Kafka and they are able to offer us the level of flexibility we need. We are using Terraform in AWS so being able to provision everything using their Terraform provider is also beneficial to us. Setting up a cluster to the point where we are able to monitor it with our existing Prometheus is very easy to do thanks to their external integrations. > > **Cons**: The documentation is lacking in some parts. Trying to set up logging to am external Elasticsearch cluster is difficult if you have your cluster secured with SSL. The terraform documentation is also lacking documentation and expects you to figure it out yourself from reading JSON. > > We are a very new customer but our experience has been good so far. They have taken a lot of headaches out of setting up a Kafka cluster. I am hopeful that this experience will carry over to production as we begin to deliver new projects using Kafka. ----- ### "Good but not excellent" — 3.0/5 > **Neeraj** | *15 May 2018* | Automotive | Recommendation rating: 4.0/10 > > **Pros**: 1. easy UI and scalability. easy to use kafka features easy and approachable team and easy to see logs. > > **Cons**: 1. documentation is not proper. no steps mentioned anywhere for connectivity of aiven with other cloud or on premise clusters. 2. no troubleshooting steps available 3. very tough to use if face errors, as there is no way to go out as documents are not avilable in detail. > > 1\. Kafka easy to maintain and easy to use, easy to scale up ----- ### "Up and ready in less than 5 minutes\!" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *26 June 2020* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Aiven is prod-ready in 5 minutes... Grab an account, pop your instances, and that's all\! Integrated with Datadog, Hot patching, All-in-one (schema registry, kconnect, ...). > > **Cons**: Kafka clusters are quite expensive, but still cheaper than running kafka by yourself > > Perfect, I'm able to maintain 5 Kafka Clusters, everywhere, uptodate, without spending lot of time. The time to market is perfect. ----- ### "Aiven Kafka Monitoring" — 4.0/5 > **Manjunath** | *8 December 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Easy to use, Configurable and with a built in setup of monitoring. > > **Cons**: Some of the parameters like consumer lag are not added in the monitoring graphs. > > Overall its good to quickly implement kafka for a fast paced environments and migrations. ----- Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.in/software/167938/aiven-kafka?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.in/software/167938/aiven-kafka) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | ja | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pl | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | | tr | | ----- ## Structured Data