Conduktor Pricing

Console is available in three tiers: Community (free), Team Edition ($1,200/seat/year or $125/seat/month), and Enterprise (contact sales). Conduktor Gateway uses per-cluster pricing with a 3-cluster minimum. Disaster Recovery & Failover and Protect are optional add-ons to Core Gateway.

Community is the free edition for developers and small teams, with core Kafka operations for up to 50 users and 3 clusters. Team Edition adds team governance, advanced Insights, federated ownership, and unlimited clusters. Buy online, license delivered by email within 1 business day. Enterprise adds volume pricing, dedicated customer success, custom contracts, SLA, and priority support.

No. Every Console tier (Community, Team Edition, and Enterprise) is self-hosted. You deploy Console on your own infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, or cloud VMs. The tiers differ in what features are unlocked and how you purchase. Community is free, Team Edition is a self-serve online purchase, Enterprise is a custom contract with dedicated support.

A self-hosted Console license covering your seat count, with access to all paid features including Insights, ownership, governance, and automation. Includes Standard Support: email response within 1 business day for license, billing, and product configuration questions, plus public docs, release notes, and community Slack. Production uptime SLA and dedicated support come with Enterprise.

Console is our self-hosted platform for Kafka operations, monitoring, and governance: you point it at your clusters to observe and manage them. Conduktor Gateway is a proxy that sits in front of your brokers to enforce things in the data path: traffic control, encryption, data quality, multi-tenancy, and secure data sharing. They are independent products, and many teams run both. Gateway's free Community tier, Passthrough, is a license-restricted mode that connects clients to clusters across networks only, with no governance or encryption. See Passthrough Gateway →

No, Console and Conduktor Gateway are independent products. Many teams start with Console for operations and monitoring, then add Conduktor Gateway when they need enforcement capabilities like encryption, data quality rules, or partner data sharing.

Both Console and Conduktor Gateway work with any Kafka provider: Confluent, AWS MSK, Redpanda, and more. Both are deployed on-premise or on Kubernetes; there is no cloud-hosted dependency. Metrics can be exported via Prometheus, and all features are accessible through the OpenAPI and CLI.

Yes. Console embeds a read-only MCP server and the CLI handles changes, so an LLM can troubleshoot incidents, enrich metadata, generate topic descriptions from schemas, clean up environments, and surface cost, using the ownership, schemas, lineage, and monitoring context Conduktor already holds. See the MCP server →

Every AI, MCP, or CLI action inherits the exact RBAC permissions of the human using it. You decide what's read-only versus read-write, per cluster and per team, so AI works inside the governance you already trust.

Three tiers. Community users get public docs, the community Slack, and best-effort email support. Team Edition customers get Standard Support: email response within 1 business day (Mon–Fri, business hours) for license, billing, and configuration questions. Enterprise customers get Silver Support by default: priority response during EMEA/US business hours and a dedicated support team. Gold Support (24/7 coverage for critical incidents) is available as an upgrade.