How does AutoMQ Pricing Work?
Pay as you go
AutoMQ offers true usage-based pricing for data transfer. Costs scale with your usage, and volume-based discounts apply automatically.
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Estimated Monthly Cost
AutoMQ offers transparent pricing: you pay your cloud provider directly for compute and storage resources, and only pay AutoMQ a usage-based subscription fee. Volume discounts apply automatically. Learn more at Unit Prices.
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Zero Operations Overhead
Our pricing comparison excludes operational costs—because engineering time matters most. AutoMQ eliminates manual tasks like partition reassignment, freeing your team from on-call burdens and letting them focus on what's important.
Calculator Assumptions
The estimate uses standard defaults. to match your current cluster's real-world performance and see a precise cost comparison.
Detailed Cost Breakdown
Compare cost components between AutoMQ and Apache Kafka®
| Category | Component Item | AutoMQ | Apache Kafka® | Savings | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Component | Category Total | Component | Category Total | |||
Cloud Provider Infrastructure Costs Infrastructure costs billed by your cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure). 51% less infra($1,380 saved) | ||||||
Compute Resources | Compute (EC2/VM) Hourly cost of virtual machines running brokers. | $500 m6i.large × 3 | $500 23.8% | $1,200 m5.xlarge × 6 | $1,200 44.0% | $700 58% less |
Storage Resources | EBS Storage Block storage for KRaft metadata and single-AZ WAL, charged by storage and IOPS; minimal capacity required. | $100 500.00 GiB | $650 31.0% | $400 1.95 TiB | $630 23.1% | $300 75% less |
S3 Storage Per-GiB-month cost for object storage. | $200 9.77 TiB | $150 7.32 TiB | $50 33% more | |||
S3 Requests Per-request cost for PUT/GET/LIST operations against object storage. | $50 5.00M requests | $80 8.00M requests | $30 38% less | |||
NFS Storage NFS-based WAL for multi-AZ deployments, enabling low-latency writes and cross-AZ traffic reduction; minimal capacity for AutoMQ. | $300 | $0 N/A | $300 | |||
Cross-AZ Traffic | Produce Cross-AZ Per-GB cost when producers write to brokers in different availability zones. | $80 800.00 GiB | $200 9.5% | $200 1.95 TiB | $900 33.0% | $120 60% less |
Consume Cross-AZ Per-GB cost when consumers read from brokers in different availability zones. | $120 1.17 TiB | $300 2.93 TiB | $180 60% less | |||
Broker Replication Cross-AZ Per-GB cost for replicating data between broker replicas across availability zones. | $0 0.00 GiB | $400 3.91 TiB | $400 100% less | |||
Managed Service Fees Platform subscription billed by your Kafka vendor. | ||||||
Managed Service Fees | Cluster Uptime Hourly fee for keeping the cluster operational, regardless of data throughput. | $150 730 hours | $750 35.7% | $0 730 hours | $0 0.0% | $150 |
Data Ingress Per-GB charge for processing incoming write requests from producers. | $180 2.93 TiB | $0 2.93 TiB | $180 | |||
Data Egress Per-GB charge for processing outgoing read requests to consumers. | $270 8.79 TiB | $0 8.79 TiB | $270 | |||
Data Retention Per-GiB-month charge for storing and managing retained data. | $100 4.88 TiB | $0 4.88 TiB | $100 | |||
Partition Fee Per-partition-hour charge for maintaining partition metadata and coordination. | $50 500 partitions | $0 500 partitions | $50 | |||
| Total Monthly Cost | $2,100 | $2,730 | $630 (23% less) | |||
Unit Prices
| Dimension | Price |
|---|---|
Data Ingress $0.008 - $0.0065 / GiB | |
Data Egress Free Tier Free - $0.005 / GiB | |
Data Retention $0.008 - $0.003 / GiB | |
Cluster Uptime $0.025 - $0.12 / 15min | |
Example
Let's say you run a production AutoMQ cluster with the following workload characteristics:
- Average write throughput: 60 MiB/sec (compressed)
- Peak write throughput: 200 MiB/sec (occurs once per day for 1 hour)
- Read throughput: 2× the write throughput (120 MiB/sec average, 400 MiB/sec peak)
- Data retention: 7 days
- Tier: Pro Tier
In this case, you would pay the following for the month (31 days):
| Charges | Usage | Rate | Sub totals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Ingress | 31 days × [(23 hrs × 60 MiB/sec) + (1 hr × 200 MiB/sec)] × 3,600 sec/hr ÷ 1,024 MiB/GiB = 151,463 GiB | $0.008 per GiB | 151,463 GiB × $0.008 = $1,211.70 |
| Data Egress | Total: 302,926 GiB. Free tier (≤ ingress): 151,463 GiB. Billable excess: 302,926 - 151,463 = 151,463 GiB | $0.006 per GiB | 151,463 GiB × $0.006 = $908.78 |
| Data Retention (7 days avg) | 151,463 GiB ingress/month × 7 days / 31 days = 34,207 GiB average retention | $0.008 per GiB | 34,207 GiB × $0.008 = $273.66 |
| Cluster Uptime (Pro Tier) | 31 days × 24 hours × 4 intervals/hour = 2,976 intervals | $0.06 per 15min | 2,976 intervals × $0.06 = $178.56 |
| Total = | $2,572.70 | ||
Note: All throughput and storage metrics are based on compressed data volumes. AutoMQ automatically compresses your data for optimal cost efficiency. Tiered pricing applies automatically based on your monthly usage.
Cluster Tier
| Feature | Dev$100/month | Pro$500/month | Enterprise$1500/month |
|---|---|---|---|
Performance & Scale | |||
| Max Throughput | 100 MB/s | 500 MB/s | Unlimited |
| Max Partitions | 1,000 | 10,000 | Unlimited |
| Max Message Retention | 7 days | 30 days | Unlimited |
Availability & Durability | |||
| SLA | 99.5% | 99.9% | 99.99% |
| Multi-AZ Deployment | Single-AZ | Multi-AZ (3 AZs) | Multi-AZ (3 AZs) |
| Automatic Failover | - | ✓ | ✓ |
Support & SLA | |||
| Support Level | Community | Business Hours | 24/7 Premium |
| Response Time | Best Effort | 4 hours | 1 hour |
| Dedicated Support Engineer | - | - | ✓ |
Advanced Features | |||
| S3-based Tiered Storage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-Scaling | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advanced Monitoring & Metrics | Basic | Advanced | Premium + Custom |
| Custom Network Configuration | - | - | ✓ |
| Dedicated Cluster | - | - | ✓ |
Note: All tiers include AutoMQ's core features: S3-based storage, zero cross-AZ traffic costs, and Kafka® API compatibility. Choose the tier that best matches your performance, availability, and support requirements.
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