Streamkap vs Confluent

Zero-Ops CDC vs
Managed Kafka

Confluent offers powerful Kafka infrastructure, but requires significant expertise to operate. Streamkap delivers end-to-end CDC without the complexity - no Kafka knowledge required.

Why Teams Switch

Complexity to Simplicity

Zero Kafka Expertise Required

Confluent requires understanding of topics, partitions, consumer groups, and retention policies. Streamkap abstracts all Kafka complexity - just connect your source and destination.

All-Inclusive vs Add-On Pricing

Confluent charges separately for CKUs, connectors, Flink, storage, and network egress. Streamkap includes everything in one predictable price - no surprise bills.

End-to-End CDC Platform

Confluent is infrastructure you build on. Streamkap is a complete CDC platform with pre-built connectors, transforms, and direct warehouse delivery out of the box.

Minutes to Production

Deploy production-ready pipelines in minutes, not weeks. No capacity planning, no partition sizing, no connector configuration - just real-time data.

Feature Comparison

Streamkap vs Confluent

Feature Streamkap Confluent Cloud
Setup Complexity Minutes, no Kafka knowledge Requires Kafka expertise
Pricing Model All-inclusive, predictable CKU + connectors + storage + network
CDC Connectors 50+ pre-built, managed 120+ (extra cost per connector)
Stream Processing Apache Flink included Flink available (additional cost)
Operational Overhead Zero-ops, fully managed Topic/partition management required
Direct Warehouse Integration Native Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks Via connectors (extra cost)
Schema Registry Included Included
Multi-Cloud AWS, GCP, Azure + BYOC AWS, GCP, Azure

Pricing Comparison

Simple vs Complex Billing

Confluent Cloud Costs Include:

  • CKU/eCKU charges $/hour
  • Storage costs $/GB-hour
  • Network egress $/GB
  • Connector tasks $/task-hour
  • Flink processing $/CFU-hour
  • Schema Registry $/schema
Complex pricing makes cost prediction difficult

Streamkap All-Inclusive:

  • Managed Kafka cluster
  • All source & destination connectors
  • Apache Flink transforms
  • Schema Registry
  • Monitoring & alerting
  • 24/7 support
One predictable price, everything included

Operational Simplicity

No Kafka Expertise Required

Confluent Cloud manages the infrastructure, but you still need to understand Kafka concepts: partitions, consumer groups, retention policies, compaction, exactly-once semantics, and more.

Streamkap is built for data engineers who want results, not infrastructure management. Connect your database, pick your destination, and start streaming - we handle the rest.

Confluent Requires Knowledge Of:

Topics Partitions Consumer Groups Retention Policies Compaction Offsets Replication Factor ACLs Schema Evolution Exactly-Once Semantics
Streamkap handles all of this for you

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