Product change·Apr 13 → Apr 20, 2026·Week 17, 2026·Cloud & DevOps
Aiven restructures free plan with new throughput and topic limits
What changed
Feature change
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.
Before and after
Apr 13, 2026 vs Apr 20, 2026Pulse.
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What changed
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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