Apache Kafka Self-Hosted

Explore this developer service’s free allowance, critical restrictions and official documentation before deploying.

INCLUDED FREE ALLOWANCE

Free Apache-2.0 self-hosted distributed event streaming platform with durable topics, consumer groups, Kafka Connect and Streams; no vendor-imposed software message or topic quota.

Plan details

Plan: Ongoing free allowance
Credit card: Not required
Commercial use: Allowed
Last checked: 2026-10-26

Important restrictions

Requires your own Kafka brokers/KRaft controllers, compute, disks, networking, monitoring, security, upgrades and backups. Managed Kafka, cloud infrastructure and third-party connectors may have separate charges.

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