# Conduktor Pricing Model | Console and Gateway Plans Conduktor Pricing Start free and scale when you're ready. Pay only for the Console seats and Gateway clusters you use. Choose your productConsoleGatewaySchema Registry Proxy Console The modern self-hosted Kafka UI and API. Smarter AI because you hold the context, safer AI because you hold the permissions. Community Built for developers and teams to move faster with Kafka. Troubleshoot issues, explore data, and monitor streams through one interface. Free [Install Free Edition](https://www.conduktor.io/get-started) Up to 50 users and 3 clusters Insights (topic health, cost, VIP topics) Full Kafka operations Message reprocessing Advanced data explorer API, CLI, and Terraform provider Agentic workflows via MCP and Skills Real-time metrics and consumer lag SSO/LDAP authentication Email support, plus docs and Slack Team Editionbuy online Unlock team governance, Insights, and automation: federated ownership with approval workflows and cost chargeback. Purchased online. Monthly Annual $125$1,200/seat/month [Buy Now](https://buy.stripe.com/9B6eVe8Fn1dgczd0Ef1ZS00) Everything in Community Federated ownership with approval workflows Unlimited audit logs Unlimited clusters Topic policies enforcement Advanced Insights chargeback Unlimited custom alerts Group-level RBAC DLQ reprocessing and message replay Applications catalog Unlimited data masking Connector auto-restart Standard Support: priority response, business hours Already an online customer? [Manage subscription →](https://billing.stripe.com/p/login/9B6eVe8Fn1dgczd0Ef1ZS00) Licensing or pricing questions? [Contact us →](https://www.conduktor.io/contact) Enterprise For teams that need volume pricing, dedicated support, and a custom contract. [Contact Us](https://www.conduktor.io/contact) Everything in Team Edition Volume pricing Dedicated customer success Custom contract and SLA Silver Support included, Gold (24/7) available Gateway license bundling Gateway Kafka proxy for routing, resilience, multi-tenancy, security, and data sharing. Community A Kafka proxy that connects clients to clusters sitting in other VPCs, clouds, or private networks, with no changes to your brokers or credentials. A license-restricted mode of Conduktor Gateway, scoped to network access only. Free [Install Free Edition](https://www.conduktor.io/gateway/community-edition#request-license) Reach Kafka across networks without adding peerings Reach private clusters from outside (GCP Managed Kafka, Confluent Cloud) Single egress point for many internal clients Authentication and Authorisation transparently delegated to your Kafka provider Works with any Kafka 2.7+ Deploys via Docker or Kubernetes Enterprise Proxy layer for routing, resilience, multi-tenancy, security, and data sharing. Per-cluster pricing (3 cluster minimum). Per-cluster (3 cluster min.) [Contact Us](https://www.conduktor.io/contact) Everything in Community Kafka Proxy and Schema Registry Proxy SQL Topics, Caching, and Large Message Handling Centralized Authentication and Audit Trails Virtual Clusters and Multi-tenancy Topic Concentration and Aliases Partner Zones and Secure Data Sharing Dedicated Partner Credentials Internal Naming Protection ADD-ONS + DR & Failover Resilience and continuity across Kafka clusters. Requires Enterprise Gateway. Cluster Switching and Transparent Failover Zero-Downtime Migrations Chaos Engineering (Latency Injection, Broker Failures, Network Partitions) Protect Guardrails, data security, and quality enforcement. Requires Enterprise Gateway. Configuration Guardrails and Traffic Control Producer and Consumer Policies Data Quality Detection and Enforcement Field-Level and Full Payload Encryption Multi-Cloud KMS Integration (Vault, AWS, Azure, GCP) Tokenization and Crypto-Shredding (GDPR) Cryptographic Signing Schema Registry Proxy Add authentication, authorization, and metrics collection to the schema registry you already run. No client changes. Enterprise A proxy that sits in front of any Confluent-API-compatible schema registry. Per-subject permissions, using the identities you already run. Per-cluster pricing. Per-cluster [Contact Us](https://www.conduktor.io/contact) Per-subject read and write permissions OAuth2/OIDC authentication (Keycloak, Auth0, Okta, Entra ID) Kafka-native permissions from Kafka ACLs or Console ownership OpenTelemetry traces and Prometheus metrics Works with any Confluent-API-compatible schema registry Single container, runs on-premises, in the cloud, or air-gapped ## Frequently Asked Questions **How is Conduktor priced?** 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 Enterprise Gateway. **What's the difference between Community, Team Edition, and Enterprise?** 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. Enterprise adds volume pricing, dedicated customer success, custom contracts, SLA, and priority support. **Are any Console tiers cloud or SaaS?** 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. **What's included with Team Edition?** 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 support for license, billing, and product configuration questions, plus public docs, release notes, and community Slack. Production uptime SLA and dedicated support come with Enterprise. **What's the difference between Console and Conduktor Gateway?** 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 Community Edition, the free tier, is a license-restricted mode that connects clients to clusters across networks only, with no governance or encryption. [See Gateway Community Edition →](https://www.conduktor.io/gateway/community-edition) **Do I need Conduktor Gateway if I have Console?** 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. **What is the Schema Registry Proxy?** A proxy that sits in front of the schema registry you already run and adds access control, metrics, and policy enforcement, with no client changes. It checks per-subject read and write permissions on every request, using identities from your OAuth2/OIDC provider, Kafka ACLs, or Console ownership. Priced per cluster. [Learn more →](https://www.conduktor.io/schema-registry-proxy) **What Kafka providers and deployment models are supported?** 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. **Can I operate Kafka with AI and agents?** 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 →](https://www.conduktor.io/mcp) **How do you keep AI from breaking production?** 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. **What type of support is provided?** Three tiers. **Community** users get public docs, the community Slack, and best-effort email support. **Team Edition** customers get Standard Support: email support (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. ## Still have questions? Have a complex setup or additional questions around pricing? Contact our sales team for help and to get more information on Conduktor pricing. [Contact Us](https://www.conduktor.io/contact) [Not sure what you need? Get your score →](https://www.conduktor.io/kafka-assessment)