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Redpanda

High-performance Kafka-compatible streaming platform for real-time data and AI agents

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redpanda

Available worldwide

What is Redpanda?

Redpanda is a unified, high-throughput, low-latency streaming platform with Kafka-compatible architecture, featuring a C++ engine with zero dependencies, 300+ data connectors, and PostgreSQL-compatible distributed OLAP querying for real-time data streaming.

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Redpanda pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

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HybridFree tier

Free tier available (Serverless). BYOC and Enterprise require annual commitment and contact sales.

Serverless

Free
Free
monthly

Multi-tenant managed platform for moderate, sustained traffic with optional enterprise support

sla
99.9%
partitions
5000
read_throughput
300 MB/s
write_throughput
100 MB/s
  • Multi-tenant on AWS and GCP
  • 100 MB/s max write throughput
  • 300 MB/s max read throughput
  • 5000 partitions
  • 99.9% SLA
  • Public or private networking (AWS)
  • SSO (Google, GitHub) and Kafka ACLs
  • Fully managed with limitless storage and 300+ connectors
  • Enterprise support available with annual commitment

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)

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annual

Production clusters hosted in your cloud account with highest throughput and enterprise security

sla
99.99%
partitions
112,500
read_throughput
4 GB/s
write_throughput
2 GB/s
  • Hosted in your cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • 2 GB/s max write throughput
  • 4 GB/s max read throughput
  • 112,500 partitions
  • 99.99% SLA
  • Public or private networking
  • Intelligent tiered storage
  • Automatic partition rebalancing
  • Apache Iceberg topics
  • Audit logging
  • OpenMetrics support
  • SSO (Google, GitHub, OIDC), role-based access control, audit logs
  • Dedicated account manager
  • 24x7 helpdesk with SLAs
  • Direct Slack channel
  • Access to solutions experts
  • Fully managed with limitless storage and 300+ connectors

Enterprise Edition

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Self-hosted platform with complete control, or managed deployment with advanced governance and support

storage
limitless
  • Run your own Redpanda platform
  • Limitless data storage
  • Built-in HTTP proxy and schema registry
  • Prometheus support
  • Fine-grained ACLs and TLS encryption
  • Intelligent tiered storage
  • Apache Iceberg topics
  • Shadowing
  • Regional disaster recovery
  • Redpanda Console with SSO/RBAC
  • External authentication (Kerberos, OIDC)
  • Audit logging
  • 24x7 helpdesk with SLAs
  • Direct Slack channel
  • Designated account manager
  • Access to solutions experts

What Redpanda does

The capabilities that matter for message queues, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Core
Messaging paradigm
Pub/sub
Correctness
Delivery guarantee
At-least-once
Ordering guarantee
Per-partition
Durability
Durable replayable log
✓
Message replay / rewind
✓
Interop
Wire protocol
Kafka
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 + self-hosted
Processing
Built-in stream processing
✓
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Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Hybrid
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (9)

Independently observed
  • Kafka
  • PostgreSQL
  • Apache Iceberg
  • Snowflake
  • BigQuery
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Azure

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Redpanda, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 72 / 100
low · 45%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Reliability1000.1717.4✓
Integrations710.096.7✓
Github Activity630.106.6✓
Capabilities920.076.4✓
Security Posture450.135.8✓
Release Cadence960.065.6✓
Price Level800.053.8✓
Github Stars770.032.2✓
Pricing Transparency250.071.8✓
Package Downloads00.150.0-
Stackoverflow Activity00.070.0-

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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Activity

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d100mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars12,400highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"hosting":"both","ordering":"per_partition","paradigm":"pubsub","protocol":"Kafka","message_replay":true,"persistent_log":true,"consumer_groups":true,"geo_replication":true,"kafka_compatible":true,"managed_offering":true,"stream_processing":true,"delivery_guarantee":"at_least_once","horizontal_scaling":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count300mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryC++highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
Availability{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
TransparentNomediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Release

AttributeValueEvidence
Cadence days7mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Sla pct99.99mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
Soc2Yeshighsource · 2026-08-01 · 75%