How much does Aiven cost?

Aiven publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free Trial up to $19/month for Startup. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Aiven have a free plan?

Yes. The Free Trial tier costs nothing and covers $300 credits, 30 day trial, all services. Paying starts at $19/month for Startup.

What is the difference between Free Trial and Startup on Aiven?

Startup costs $19/month against Free, and adds single node, basic support, daily backups.

Does Aiven charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Aiven prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Aiven against before paying?

Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Aiven to make a useful price comparison.

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Aiven pricing

Aiven publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free
Model: Usage-based
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Aiven plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Aiven pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free Trial	Free	3	Entry tier
Startup	$19/month	3	+$19/month, 3 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Free Trial

Free

The entry tier. It covers $300 credits, 30 day trial, all services.

Startup

$19/month

Over Free Trial, this tier adds:

Single node
Basic support
Daily backups

Where Aiven stops being free

Free Trial, Free

$300 credits
30 day trial
All services

Startup, $19/month

The first thing you pay for:

Single node
Basic support
Daily backups

What the product covers

The full Aiven feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

Multi-cloud Support
Automated Backups
Seamless Upgrades
VPC Peering
End-to-end Encryption
Compliance
Observability

Integrations

PostgreSQL
MySQL
Redis
Kafka
Elasticsearch

Platform

Web support
Aws support
Azure support
Gcp support
Do support

People bring Aiven in for running managed open source databases without operating them, multi-cloud deployment across aws, google cloud, azure, digitalocean, ovh and upcloud, highly available data services with automatic failover, prototyping on a small free instance before scaling up. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Aiven are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

Before you pay for Aiven

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $19/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Aiven runs on web, aws, azure, gcp, do, and is published by Aiven Ltd. of Helsinki, Finland. The full record is on the Aiven review.

Aiven pricing on the vendor's own site

Aiven pricing questions

How much does Aiven cost?: Aiven publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free Trial up to $19/month for Startup. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Aiven have a free plan?: Yes. The Free Trial tier costs nothing and covers $300 credits, 30 day trial, all services. Paying starts at $19/month for Startup.
What is the difference between Free Trial and Startup on Aiven?: Startup costs $19/month against Free, and adds single node, basic support, daily backups.
What am I actually paying for with Aiven?: The record lists 17 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for running managed open source databases without operating them, multi-cloud deployment across aws, google cloud, azure, digitalocean, ovh and upcloud, highly available data services with automatic failover.
Does Aiven charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Aiven prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Aiven against before paying?: Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Aiven to make a useful price comparison.

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