# Confluent Cloud

> Confluent Cloud, a Fully Managed Apache Kafka® Service

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/confluent-cloud
- **Category:** Message Queues
- **Homepage:** https://www.confluent.io/confluent-cloud/
- **Also known as:** confluent-cloud
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-03T22:35:28.267Z

## Vioscale score

**55.7 / 100**, confidence 36% (low).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 0 | 8 | 0 | - |
| reliability | 50 | 30 | 1500 | ✓ |
| capabilities | 86.7 | 12 | 1040.6 | ✓ |
| integrations | 66.2 | 16 | 1059.8 | ✓ |
| security_posture | 5 | 22 | 0 | - |
| pricing_transparency | 25 | 12 | 300 | ✓ |

## About

A fully managed, cloud-native Apache Kafka service for building real-time data architectures with stream processing and data governance.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** CLI, Web
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS, Hybrid, On-premise, Self-hosted

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for Message Queues. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Core** | |
| Messaging paradigm | Pub/sub |
| **Correctness** | |
| Delivery guarantee | - |
| Ordering guarantee | Per-partition |
| **Durability** | |
| Durable replayable log | ✓ |
| Message replay / rewind | ✓ |
| **Interop** | |
| Wire protocol | Kafka |
| Kafka-protocol compatible | ✓ |
| **Scale** | |
| Partitioned horizontal scaling | ✓ |
| **Consumption** | |
| Consumer groups / competing consumers | ✓ |
| Dead-letter queue | - |
| **Scale** | |
| Geo / cross-region replication | - |
| **Deployment** | |
| Managed cloud offering exists | ✓ |
| Hosting | Cloud only |
| **Processing** | |
| Built-in stream processing | ✓ |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### integrations

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| integrations.count | 200 | [link](https://www.confluent.io/confluent-cloud/) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://www.confluent.io/confluent-cloud/) | 2026-08-03 | 48% (low) |
| pricing.model | freemium | [link](https://www.confluent.io/confluent-cloud/) | 2026-08-03 | 80% (high) |

### reliability

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reliability.status_page | yes | [link](https://www.confluent.io/status) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | [link](https://www.confluent.io/.well-known/security.txt) | 2026-08-03 | 60% (medium) |

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