# Conduktor Team Edition *Kafka UI and API.* A self-hosted Kafka UI and API with federated ownership, access control, stream lineage, guardrails and Flink SQL built in. Buy it online, monthly or yearly. [Buy Monthly: $125/seat](https://buy.stripe.com/9B6eVe8Fn1dgczd0Ef1ZS00) [Buy Annual: $1,200/seat](https://buy.stripe.com/3cI9AUf3L6xA0Qv4Uv1ZS01) Conduktor is used by platform teams at ## A Kafka UI and API for Every Team Conduktor Console connects to the Kafka you already run, whether that's Confluent, MSK, Aiven, Redpanda or your own, and gives your teams one place to browse topics, debug consumers, and manage schemas and connectors. Team Edition adds what you need once several teams share it: [federated ownership](https://www.conduktor.io/federated-ownership), access requests between teams, RBAC, stream lineage, guardrails, audit logs, masking and chargeback. ## Who It's For Smaller teams that share Kafka with other teams, and want the governance without an enterprise contract. - **You Need Another Team's Data** — Request access to a topic another team owns, with a reason attached, and the owning team approves it in Console. Sensitive fields stay masked for anyone who doesn't need them. - **You're a Small Team Serving Others** — You run Kafka for a handful of teams and every request lands on you. With federated ownership, each team owns its topics and grants access to the others, and you set the rules once. - **You've Outgrown Community** — You have more than 50 users or 3 clusters, or you need ownership, alerts, audit logs or masking. Add a license to the Console you already run, and your data and configuration carry over. - **You Don't Need an Enterprise Contract** — Buy seats online, monthly or annually, and get the license by email. When you need volume pricing or an SLA, Enterprise is there. ## What's Included Everything in the free [Community Edition](https://www.conduktor.io/community), including topics, schemas, connectors, consumer groups, monitoring, API and CLI, plus: - **Federated ownership with approvals** — Each application owns its topics, and other teams request access from the owner. Your rules are checked on every request. - **Stream lineage** — An interactive map of which applications and service accounts produce to and consume from each topic, so you know what's affected before you change it. - **Topic and connector templates** — Vetted starting points for partitions, retention, labels and naming, pre-filled in the create form. - **Chargeback** — Attribute Kafka costs to the teams and applications behind them, and let application owners see their own. - **Alerts and connector auto-restart** — Custom alerts that application owners manage themselves, and connectors that restart after a failure. - **Data masking and audit logs** — Mask sensitive fields in Console for the users and groups who don't need them, and keep an audit log of who did what. - **Group-level RBAC** — Map Console permissions to your SSO or LDAP groups instead of managing users one at a time. - **DLQ reprocessing and replay** — Reprocess messages from dead letter queues and replay messages from Console. - **Flink SQL for Confluent Cloud** — Write and run Flink SQL statements on Confluent Cloud from Console, in preview. ## What It Looks Like in Console ### Federated ownership and the application catalog Every application, its owner group and its topics in one catalog. Access requests go to the team that owns the data, not to the platform team. ### Stream lineage See which applications and service accounts produce to and consume from each topic, drawn from your ACLs and ownership, before you change anything. ### Chargeback Break Kafka cost down by application, from storage and partitions to ingress and egress, and export it as CSV. ### Flink SQL for Confluent Cloud Write and run Flink SQL statements on Confluent Cloud from Console, with access granted per compute pool. In preview. ## Watch It in Action Short demos, recorded on recent releases. - [Self-Service Topic Access Requests and Approvals](https://www.conduktor.io/product-demos/self-service-topic-access-requests-and-approvals) — Request access to another team's data with a reason attached, and let the data owner approve it in the UI. — 2026-05-27 — __TjXtndy8E — Console - [Topic Templates in Action](https://www.conduktor.io/product-demos/topic-templates-in-action) — A high-throughput topic template pre-fills the Create Topic form: partitions, replication, cleanup policy, retention and labels. — 2026-06-23 — 4phShkrzC6E — Console - [Kafka Stream Lineage End to End](https://www.conduktor.io/product-demos/kafka-stream-lineage-end-to-end) — Retire a topic, find a hot path, and turn up an unregistered consumer, using a dependency map built from ACLs and ownership. — 2026-09-04 — WvthWDaFYVE — Console ## How the Editions Compare - **Team Edition** — Community — Enterprise --- - **Price** — $125/seat/month, or $1,200/seat/year (20% less) — Free — Volume pricing - **How you buy** — Online, license by email — Download and run — Contract through sales - **Clusters and users** — ✓ Unlimited clusters, users by seat — ⚠ Up to 3 clusters and 50 users — ✓ Unlimited - **Features** — ✓ Everything, including federated ownership, lineage and chargeback — ⚠ Core Kafka operations, Insights, API and CLI — ✓ Everything - **Support** — Email, business hours — Docs and community Slack — Dedicated support and an SLA ## How Buying Works - **1. Pick monthly or annual** — $125 per seat each month, or $1,200 per seat for the year, 20% less than paying monthly. - **2. Check out online** — Pay online, and your license arrives by email. - **3. Add it to your Console** — Add the license to your Console deployment. Already on Community Edition? Your data and configuration carry over. [License docs](https://docs.conduktor.io/guide/conduktor-in-production/manage-licenses/console) ## Frequently Asked Questions **How much does Team Edition cost?** $125 per seat per month, or $1,200 per seat per year, which is 20% less than paying monthly. Clusters are unlimited. **Is there a free version?** Yes. [Community Edition](https://www.conduktor.io/community) is the free Kafka UI and API, for up to 50 users and 3 clusters. You can upgrade to Team Edition later without reinstalling. **How is Team Edition different from Enterprise?** The features are the same. Enterprise adds volume pricing, a custom contract with an SLA, and dedicated support. [Talk to us](https://www.conduktor.io/contact?src=team-edition) if that's what you need. **Can I upgrade from Community Edition?** Yes. Add your Team Edition license to the Console you already run, and your data and configuration carry over. **Is Team Edition hosted by Conduktor?** No. You deploy it on your own infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker or cloud VMs. **What support comes with Team Edition?** Email support during business hours for license, billing and configuration questions, plus the docs and community Slack. **Which Kafka providers does it work with?** Apache Kafka 2.7 and later, including Confluent, Amazon MSK, Aiven and Redpanda. **How do I manage an existing subscription?** From the [billing portal](https://billing.stripe.com/p/login/9B6eVe8Fn1dgczd0Ef1ZS00). # Buy Team Edition Online $125 per seat a month, or $1,200 per seat a year. Your license arrives by email. 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