Upstash Kafka
Upstash Kafka provides a serverless, cost-effective, and fully managed Apache Kafka service.
Our verdict
Who it's for
Serverless Kafka for event streaming and real-time data processing.
Who should look elsewhere
May have higher latency than self-managed Kafka for very high-throughput, low-latency scenarios
Pros
- +Eliminates Kafka operational overhead
- +Cost-efficient for variable workloads
- +Easy to integrate with serverless functions
- +Quick setup and deployment
- +Good for event-driven architectures
Cons
- −May have higher latency than self-managed Kafka for very high-throughput, low-latency scenarios
- −Limited customization options compared to self-managed Kafka
- −Reliance on a third-party for infrastructure management
Key features
- ✓Serverless architecture
- ✓Fully managed Kafka clusters
- ✓Pay-per-request pricing
- ✓Automatic scaling
- ✓REST API for Kafka operations
- ✓TLS encryption
- ✓VPC peering
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | month | Data Size 256 MB; Monthly Commands 500 K |
| Pay as you go | $0.2 | month | Flexible pricing for variable traffic.; Data Size 100 GB; Monthly Bandwidth Unlimited |
| Fixed 250MB | $10 | month | No per-command pricing; For consistent loads with predictable costs.; Data Size 250 MB |
| Enterprise | — | month | Everything in Prod Pack; 100K+ commands per second; Unlimited bandwidth and database count |
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