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Aiven

Aiven is a SaaS company that provides managed open-source data infrastructure services, including databases, messaging systems, and data streaming platforms.

Entry price

Developer · /mo

Plans tracked

1 add-on

Pricing changes

Latest Wk 39 '26

Pricing model

Subscription

Free tier available

Pricing Change History

10 changes

202610 changes

Sep 21, 2026

Improvement

Weekly

Aiven expands product-tab selector with DataHub, Runtime services

Pricing page product-tab selector expanded to include two new services, DataHub and Aiven Runtime, alongside existing PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, ClickHouse, etc.

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Jul 2, 2026

Packaging

Quarterly

Aiven: Tiered Storage add-on pricing revealed ($0.00012/GB/hour)

Tiered Storage add-on pricing now disclosed for Business and Premium plans: "Starting from $0.00012 per GB/hour" (previously listed by name only with no price shown).

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Jun 8, 2026

Packaging

Weekly

Aiven simplifies Developer plan pricing to flat $35/month rate

Developer plan display changed from 'starting from $35/month $0.05/hour' to a fixed '$35/month', removing the variable-pricing qualifier and hourly rate. Compare table also dropped 'starting from' for Developer.

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May 12, 2026

Packaging

Weekly

Aiven raises Kafka Developer plan 21% to $35/month

Apache Kafka Developer plan data retention reduced from a range of 1-7 days to a fixed maximum of 3 days. Apache Kafka Developer plan starting price increased from $29/month ($0.04/hour) to $35/month ($0.05/hour), a 21% increase.

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Apr 27, 2026

Packaging

Weekly

Aiven Reveals Tiered Storage Pricing at $0.00012/GB-Hour

Tiered Storage add-on for Business and Premium plans now displays explicit pricing of $0.00012 per GB/hour, previously shown with no price visible on the plan cards.

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Apr 20, 2026

Improvement

Weekly

Aiven restructures free plan with new throughput and topic limits

Free plan bullets restructured: Data IN/OUT combined into single 250 KiB/s throughput line, topic limit added (up to 5 topics, 2 partitions each), region restriction removed from card display.

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Apr 11, 2026

Packaging

Quarterly

Aiven: networking no longer 'all cost included' across plans

Networking changed from 'all cost included' to metered consumption with fair usage policy. New 'Network & Data Transfer' section added; high-volume users must contact Sales for rates.

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Jan 10, 2026

Improvement

Quarterly

Aiven Boosts Premium and Business Plans with 4x Increase in Cluster Storage Capacity

Business plan total cluster storage maximum increased from 4500 GB to 18432 GB (4x increase) Premium plan total cluster storage maximum increased from 45000 GB to 184320 GB (4x increase)

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Jan 10, 2026

Improvement

Quarterly

Aiven Doubles RAM Capacity for Startup Plan VMs from 2 GB to 4 GB

Startup plan RAM per VM increased from 2 GB to 2-4 GB (upper limit doubled)

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Jan 10, 2026

Packaging

Quarterly

Aiven Removes AWS Transit Gateway and PrivateLink Add-ons from Kafka Plans, Introduces Aiven for Valkey

Aiven for Valkey introduced as new service offering AWS Transit Gateway add-on removed from all Kafka plans