# Redpanda

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

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/redpanda
- **Category:** Message Queues
- **Homepage:** https://www.redpanda.com
- **Also known as:** redpanda
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-05T13:34:01.681Z

## Vioscale score

**72.4 / 100**, confidence 45% (low).

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

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 80 | 0.047 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| reliability | 99.5 | 0.175 | 17.4 | ✓ |
| capabilities | 91.6 | 0.07 | 6.4 | ✓ |
| github_stars | 77.2 | 0.029 | 2.2 | ✓ |
| integrations | 71.3 | 0.094 | 6.7 | ✓ |
| github_activity | 63.1 | 0.105 | 6.6 | ✓ |
| release_cadence | 96.1 | 0.058 | 5.6 | ✓ |
| security_posture | 45 | 0.129 | 5.8 | ✓ |
| package_downloads | 0 | 0.152 | 0 | - |
| pricing_transparency | 25 | 0.07 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| stackoverflow_activity | 0 | 0.07 | 0 | - |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-05, [verify at source](https://www.redpanda.com). Independently observed._

Hybrid · Free tier

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

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Serverless | Free | ✓ | monthly |
| Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) | Contact sales | - | annual |
| Enterprise Edition | Contact sales | - | - |

### Serverless

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

**Included limits:** 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) (Contact sales)

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

**Included limits:** 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 (Contact sales)

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

**Included limits:** 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

## About

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.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **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

## Capabilities

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

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **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 | ✓ |
| **Consumption** | |
| Consumer groups / competing consumers | ✓ |
| Dead-letter queue | - |
| **Scale** | |
| Geo / cross-region replication | ✓ |
| **Deployment** | |
| Managed cloud offering exists | ✓ |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Processing** | |
| Built-in stream processing | ✓ |

## Facts

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

### activity

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | [link](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pulse) | 2026-08-01 | 65% (medium) |

### adoption

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| adoption.github_stars | 12,400 | [link](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda) | 2026-08-01 | 90% (high) |

### integrations

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| integrations.count | 300 | [link](https://www.redpanda.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |

### language

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| language.primary | C++ | [link](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda) | 2026-08-01 | 90% (high) |

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://www.redpanda.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.model | commercial | [link](https://www.redpanda.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | low | [link](https://www.redpanda.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | no | [link](https://www.redpanda.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |

### release

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| release.cadence_days | 7 | [link](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/releases) | 2026-08-01 | 70% (medium) |

### reliability

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.99 | [link](https://www.redpanda.com/sla) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| reliability.status_page | yes | [link](https://status.redpanda.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | [link](https://www.redpanda.com/.well-known/security.txt) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| security.soc2 | yes | [link](https://www.redpanda.com/security) | 2026-08-01 | 75% (high) |

### market

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | [link](https://www.redpanda.com) | 2026-08-05 | 75% (high) |

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