Comparison

Confluent Cloud vs Inngest

On the evidence we track, Confluent Cloud leads this comparison with a composite score of 91/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Confluent Cloud91

Inngest61

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Confluent CloudLeader	Inngest
Vioscale score	91 / 100medium · 72%	61 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	freemium	commercial
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	low
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	130	5
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	✓
Fedrampsecurity.fedramp	✓	-
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	-
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	✓
Iso27001security.iso27001	✓	-
Pcisecurity.pci	✓	-
Soc2security.soc2	✓	✓
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	-	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=inngest-cli&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0
Reliability
Sla pctreliability.sla_pct	99.99	-
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	-	2
Github starsadoption.github_stars	-	5,765
Package downloads weeklyadoption.package_downloads_weekly	-	1,746,391
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	-	88
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	-	1
Historyrelease.history	-	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	-	Apache-2.0
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	-	Go
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide · Popular in US, GB · HQ US	-

Score

Vioscale score

Confluent Cloud91 / 100medium · 72%

Inngest61 / 100medium · 74%

Pricing

Free tier

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✓

Model

Confluent Cloudfreemium

Inngestcommercial

Price level

Confluent Cloudlow

Inngestlow

Transparent

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✓

Integrations

Count

Confluent Cloud130

Inngest5

Security

Disclosure policy

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✓

Fedramp

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest–

Gdpr

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest–

Hipaa

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✓

Iso27001

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest–

Pci

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest–

Soc2

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✓

Vulnerabilities

Confluent Cloud–

InngestCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=inngest-cli&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

Reliability

Sla pct

Confluent Cloud99.99

Inngest–

Status page

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

Confluent Cloud–

Inngest2

Github stars

Confluent Cloud–

Inngest5,765

Package downloads weekly

Confluent Cloud–

Inngest1,746,391

Activity

Commits last 30d

Confluent Cloud–

Inngest88

Release

Cadence days

Confluent Cloud–

Inngest1

History

Confluent Cloud–

Inngest20 items

License

Spdx

Confluent Cloud–

InngestApache-2.0

Language

Primary

Confluent Cloud–

InngestGo

Market

Availability

Confluent CloudAvailable worldwide · Popular in US, GB · HQ US

Inngest–

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for message queues. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Message Queues
Capability	Confluent Cloud	Inngest
Core
Messaging paradigm	Pub/sub	Durable execution
Correctness
Delivery guarantee	-	At-least-once
Ordering guarantee	Per-partition	-
Durability
Durable replayable log	✓	✓
Message replay / rewind	✓	✓
Interop
Wire protocol	Kafka protocol, REST API	HTTPS
Kafka-protocol compatible	✓	✗
Scale
Partitioned horizontal scaling	✓	✓
Geo / cross-region replication	✓	-
Consumption
Consumer groups / competing consumers	✓	✗
Dead-letter queue	-	-
Deployment
Managed cloud offering exists	✓	✓
Hosting	Cloud only	Cloud + self-hosted
Processing
Built-in stream processing	✓	✗

Core

Messaging paradigm

Confluent CloudPub/sub

InngestDurable execution

Correctness

Delivery guarantee

Confluent Cloud-

InngestAt-least-once

Ordering guarantee

Confluent CloudPer-partition

Inngest-

Durability

Durable replayable log

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✓

Message replay / rewind

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✓

Interop

Wire protocol

Confluent CloudKafka protocol, REST API

InngestHTTPS

Kafka-protocol compatible

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✗

Scale

Partitioned horizontal scaling

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✓

Geo / cross-region replication

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest-

Consumption

Consumer groups / competing consumers

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✗

Dead-letter queue

Confluent Cloud-

Inngest-

Deployment

Managed cloud offering exists

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✓

Hosting

Confluent CloudCloud only

InngestCloud + self-hosted

Processing

Built-in stream processing

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✗

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Confluent Cloud

Leader

Confluent Cloud is a fully managed Apache Kafka service enabling organizations to stream high-volume, low-latency events between systems in real-time. It eliminates operational overhead through automatic scaling, multi-region replication, and costs significantly less than self-managed Kafka deployments.

Independently observed

Inngest

Provides an execution layer that automatically handles durability, retries, and state management for background jobs, scheduled tasks, and AI workflows through code-based function definitions.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Confluent Cloud

Leader

Usage-basedFree tier30-day trial

Usage-based pay-as-you-go pricing with free tier option

BasicFree
StandardPay-as-you-go
- infinite storage
- audit logs
- 20%+ throughput savings
EnterprisePay-as-you-go
- private networking
- autoscaling to GBps+ throughput
- 32%+ throughput savings

as of 2026-08-14verify ↗

Inngest

from $0.50/moSubscriptionFree tier

Free tier available. Pro from $99/mo + metered usage.

HobbyFree
- 50k executions
- 5 concurrent executions
- 500 MB span data ingested
- 10K scores
- 500k events ingested
- +6 more
ProStarting at $99/mo + metered usage
- 1M executions included
- Pay as you go up to 20M
- 100+ concurrent executions
- 5 GB span data ingested
- 50K scores
- +8 more
EnterpriseContact sales
- Custom executions
- Custom concurrent executions
- Custom span data ingested
- Custom scores
- Custom events ingested
- +5 more

as of 2026-08-03verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Confluent Cloud	Inngest
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✗	✓
HybridDeployment	✓	✗

Platforms

Web

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✓

CLI

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✓

Self-hosted

Confluent Cloud✗

Inngest✓

Hybrid

Confluent Cloud✓

Inngest✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Confluent Cloud

Leader

10 total

Salesforce
Google Ads
Google Analytics
Hotjar
Quickbooks
MySQL
Apache Flink
Schema Registry
Apache Iceberg
Delta Lake

Independently observed

Inngest

5 total

Datadog
Vercel
OpenAI
Discord
Deno

Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.