Aiven restructures free plan with new throughput and topic limits
What happened
Between the Apr 13, 2026 and Apr 20, 2026 captures of Aiven's pricing page, Pulse recorded one 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. Pulse files it as a product change (feature change) with a neutral direction. Pulse's latest capture (Sep 21, 2026) lists Developer at $5, Hobbyist at $12, Startup at $75, Business at $180 and Premium at $270.
It lands 9 days after Aiven's previous change, "Aiven: networking no longer 'all cost included' across plans" (Apr 11, 2026). Aiven has been tracked since 2024-10-01.
In the same window MongoDB also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
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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.
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Feature | — | 5 | Feature change |
Values as written on Aiven's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Aiven's pricing page (aiven.io) from Apr 13, 2026 and Apr 20, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page.
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Aiven, the last 90 days
Full history- Jun 8, 2026packagingAiven simplifies Developer plan pricing to flat $35/month rate
- May 12, 2026packagingAiven raises Kafka Developer plan 21% to $35/month
- Apr 27, 2026packagingAiven Reveals Tiered Storage Pricing at $0.00012/GB-Hour
- Apr 20, 2026improvedAiven restructures free plan with new throughput and topic limits · this change
- Apr 11, 2026packagingAiven: networking no longer 'all cost included' across plans
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changesQuestions about this change
Did Aiven raise prices in April 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Apr 13, 2026 and Apr 20, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a product change: feature change.
What changed on Aiven's pricing page between Apr 13, 2026 and Apr 20, 2026?
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. Pulse compared the captures it took on Apr 13, 2026 and Apr 20, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Aiven change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 1 other pricing-page change for Aiven in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Aiven: networking no longer 'all cost included' across plans" on Apr 11, 2026; Aiven has been tracked since 2024-10-01.