Redpanda
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Redpanda, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Redpanda's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Community Edition | Free | Core features · source-available · cannot be offered as a commercial streaming or queuing service · Free |
| Bring Your Own Cloud | Priced on request | 2 GB/s max write · 4 GB/s max read · 112,500 partitions · 99.99% SLA · AWS, Azure or GCP VPC · tiered storage · Iceberg topics · audit logging · Annual commitment |
| Enterprise Edition | Priced on request | Self-managed deployment · 30-day trial · HTTP proxy and schema registry · tiered storage · Iceberg topics · shadowing · disaster recovery · SSO/RBAC · audit logging · Contact sales |
| Serverless | Priced on request | 100 MB/s max write · 300 MB/s max read · 5,000 partitions · 99.9% SLA · limitless storage · 300+ connectors · Pay as you go, or Annual Commit plan |
The facts
Each one read from Redpanda's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Architecture
- The platform uses a native C++ architecture, single-binary deployment, and no external dependencies.checked 30 Sep 2026
- CLI and SDK extensibility
- The rpk command-line tool manages clusters, topics and data, while Kafka API compatibility enables use of the broad Kafka client ecosystem.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Cloud deployment models
- Cloud clusters are offered as Redpanda-hosted Dedicated service or Bring Your Own Cloud deployments in customer AWS or GCP accounts.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Compliance basis
- Redpanda Data maintains information-security policies and processes based on AICPA SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Connectors
- Redpanda Connect provides more than 300 pre-built connectors for sources, sinks, processors, databases, APIs, cloud services, and AI pipelines.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Data lakehouse
- Redpanda provides native Apache Iceberg support and Iceberg topics for materializing streams into lakehouse-ready tables.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- Redpanda can run as Serverless, fully managed BYOC on AWS, GCP, or Azure, or self-managed on bare metal, virtual machines, Kubernetes, or Docker.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Disaster recovery
- The product includes shadowing, regional disaster recovery and automated backup and restore capabilities in qualifying deployments.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation site provides guides, concepts, API references, configuration properties, rpk command references and cloud deployment instructions.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Funding news
- TechCrunch reported on June 27, 2023 that Redpanda raised a $100 million Series C led by Lightspeed after a $50 million Series B.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Kafka compatibility
- Existing Kafka producers, consumers, tools and integrations can generally connect without application rewrites.checked 15 Oct 2026
- License
- Community Edition is free but source-available under the Business Source License, which changes to Apache 2.0 four years after each code merge; enterprise features use the Redpanda Community License.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Capterra pricing visibility
- Capterra lists Redpanda as having no public starting price and says a free trial is unavailable on its profile.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: G2 management and ecosystem
- G2 reviewers report that management navigation, documentation for advanced layers, Terraform support, error visibility and the surrounding ecosystem can need improvement.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Performance
- Redpanda states that its platform delivers 10x lower tail latencies than open-source Kafka.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Performance architecture
- Redpanda states that its C++ thread-per-core design delivers up to 10x lower latency and uses fewer compute resources than Kafka for comparable workloads.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Praise: G2 usability and support
- G2 reviewers repeatedly praise ease of use, Kafka compatibility, intuitive interfaces, operational simplicity, performance and responsive support.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Benthos acquisition
- Redpanda announced on May 30, 2024 that it acquired Benthos and made its connector technology the basis of Redpanda Connect.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- Redpanda Data, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and was founded in 2019.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Company facts
- LinkedIn lists Redpanda Data as privately held, founded in 2019, headquartered in San Francisco and employing 51–200 people.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- The licensing documentation identifies the licensor as Redpanda Data, Inc.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2019checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Limit: Gartner price and edition gap
- Gartner feedback cites pricing that can be far above competitors and a large gap between community and enterprise editions.checked 15 Oct 2026
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