Aiven

Products

The open source data tools you already use, fully managed.

Try Aiven for…

Free tier

Build for free on Aiven

The Aiven Free Tier gives you always-on Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and OpenSearch on the same infrastructure as our paid plans. Build, learn, prototype - no credit card, no time limit.

Platform

The data platform for engineers

  • Run on any cloud, or bring your own — we handle the connections, security, and scaling across clouds.
  • Manage all your services from a single API and console.
  • Deploy services directly into your own cloud account for data residency and VPC peering.

Why Aiven?

Aiven Platform

DIY/Self-hosted

Basic Cloud Service

Infra ops

Zero

Fully managed, 99.99% uptime SLA

Constant

You manage patching, scaling, failures, etc.

Partial

You still tune, and manage versions and plugins

Cloud

Any

AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean, EU Sovereign Cloud, etc.

One

Locked to your hardware/VPC

One

Locked to the provider’s ecosystem

Cost

Predictable


All-inclusive TCO

Unpredictable


High ops, infra, and downtime costs

Nightmarishly complex

Pay-per-API-call, I/O, etc.

Migrations

Easy


No-downtime tools

Hard


High-risk, manual process

Hard

High friction to migrate out

Support

24/7


Expert developer support

You


(And community forums)

Account-level

(Often a paid add-on)

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