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ApsaraMQ for Kafka:Overview

Last Updated:Jul 07, 2025

This topic describes the editions, billable items, and pricing of ApsaraMQ for Confluent to help you better understand its billing. You can select a billing method for your instance based on the description of this topic.

Editions

Note

A purchased ApsaraMQ for Confluent instance corresponds to Confluent Platform 7.8.0.

ApsaraMQ for Confluent provides two instance editions with different features and prices. The following table describes the features of the editions.

Feature

Professional Edition

Enterprise Edition

Deployment environment

Stage and product

Stage and product

Deployment pattern

Multi-zone deployments

Multi-zone deployments

Schema Registry

Supported

Supported

ksqlDB

Supported

Supported

Connector

Open source connectors

All connectors

Kafka Rest Proxy

Supported

Supported

Cluster Linking

Source and destination

Source and destination

Schema Linking

Supported

Supported

User management

Built-in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) configurations

Built-in or custom LDAP configurations

Authentication method

SASL_SSL

SASL_SSL

Permission management

ACL and RBAC

ACL and RBAC

Exactly Once semantics

Supported

Supported

Data storage compression based on keys

Supported

Supported

Graphical management interface

Supported

Supported

Metrics in the Prometheus format

Supported

Supported

Integration with Simple Log Service

Supported

Supported

Support

Regular support

Support from Alibaba Cloud experts

SLA

99.9%

99.9%

Maximum writes

50 MB/s per 4 CUs.

250 MB/s per instance.

50 MB/s per 4 CUs.

The limit is affected by other factors and is not guaranteed.

Maximum reads

150 MB/s per 4 CUs.

750 MB/s per instance.

150 MB/s per 4 CUs.

The limit is affected by other factors and is not guaranteed.

Connections

1,000 per 4 CUs.

10,000 per instance.

1,000 per 4 CUs.

10,000 per instance.

Connection frequency

50 per second per broker.

50 per second per broker.

If you require a higher connection frequency, submit a ticket.

Request frequency

7,500 per second per 4 CUs.

37,500 per second per instance.

15,000 per second per 4 CUs.

The limit is affected by other factors and is not guaranteed.

Request size

100 MB

100 MB

Fetch size

55 MB

55 MB

Maximum message size

20 MB

20 MB

Maximum partitions

Standard: 5,000.

Compact: 600.

4,500 per 4 CUs.

100,000 per instance.

Partition creation or deletion frequency

5,000 per 5 minutes.

5,000 per 5 minutes.

Billable items

You are charged for computing and storage resources in ApsaraMQ for Confluent. The following table describes the computing and storage resources required by each component of Confluent.

Note
  • One capacity unit (CU) represents a computing resource with one CPU core and 4 GB of memory.

  • After you purchase an ApsaraMQ for Confluent instance, you cannot request a refund for the instance. Before you place an order, make sure that the specified information is correct.

Component

Computing resource (CU)

Storage resource (GB)

Replicas

Minimum CUs

Required

Kafka broker

4 to 20

800 to 30,000

3 to 20

12

Yes

ZooKeeper

2 to 20

100 to 30,000

3

6

Yes

Control Center

8 to 20

300 to 30,000

1

8

Yes

Schema Registry

1 to 20

None

2 to 3

2

Yes

Connect

1 to 20

None

1 to 20

1

No

ksqlDB

5 to 20

100 to 30,000

1 to 20

5

No

Kafka Rest Proxy

4 to 20

None

2 to 20

8

No

For information about the billing formulas and unit prices of ApsaraMQ for Confluent, see Subscription.