Astro by Astronomer vs. Confluent

Confluent

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Astro by Astronomer	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	For data teams looking to increase the availability of trusted data, Astronomer provides Astro, a data orchestration platform, powered by Airflow. Astro enables data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to build, run, and observe pipelines-as-code. Astronomer is the driving force behind Apache Airflow™, the de facto standard for expressing data flows as code. Airflow is downloaded more than 8 million times each month and is used by hundreds of thousands of teams around the world.	N/A
Confluent	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Confluent Cloud is a cloud-native service for Apache Kafka used to connect and process data in real time with a fully managed data streaming platform. Confluent Platform is the self-managed version.	$0

Pricing

Astro by Astronomer

Confluent

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Basic: $0
Standard: Starting at ~$385
per month
Enterprise: Starting at ~$1,150
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Astro by Astronomer	Confluent
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/hour), networking ($/GB), and storage ($/GB-hour). Connect: Use of connectors is billed based on throughput ($/GB) and a task base price ($/task/hour). Process: Use of stream processing with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is calculated based on CFUs ($/minute). Govern: Use of Stream Governance is billed based on environment ($/hour). Confluent storage and throughput is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB). Please also note that all prices are stated in United States Dollars unless specifically stated otherwise. All billing computations are conducted in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Community Pulse
	Astro by Astronomer	Confluent

Features

Astro by Astronomer

Confluent

Streaming Analytics

Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Astro by Astronomer - Ratings	Confluent 9.1 Ratings 13% above category average
Real-Time Data Analysis	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Low Latency	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Data Enrichment	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Astro by Astronomer	Confluent
Small Businesses	Skyvia Score 9.9 out of 10	IBM Streams (discontinued) Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Astera Data Pipeline Builder (Centerprise) Score 8.7 out of 10	Tealium Customer Data Hub Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprises	Control-M Score 9.3 out of 10	Spotfire Streaming Score 6.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Astro by Astronomer	Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Astro by Astronomer	Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	Astronomer is well suited for workflow and dependency management for enterprise-level data lakes. It is not a product for data processing though. Different source systems can be integrated, it also provides powerful interfaces for alerting and monitoring. Easy to build DAGs, graphical UI, API support makes the product more user-friendly as well. Astronomer also does a great job on user training. Incentivized Uddipan Mukherjee Big Data Specialist Read full review	If your company needs to build event-driven applications, like in healthcare industry, you need to enhance interoperability, and you are seeking a reliable service with enterprise-grade support, Confluent is the best on the market you can get. Their product works great and they provide very good customer service. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Workflow management Wide availability of plugins Dependency management on upstream Incentivized Uddipan Mukherjee Big Data Specialist Read full review	Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	More language agnostic Flexible fork and join capabilities Near real time UI updates in case of deployment of enhanced DAGs Incentivized Uddipan Mukherjee Big Data Specialist Read full review	Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	The support from the Confluent platform is great and satisfying. We have been working with Confluent for more than a year now. They sent out resident architects to help us set up Confluent cluster on our cloud and help us troubleshoot problems we have encountered. Overall, it has been a great experience working with the Confluent Platform. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Astronomer is a fast, secure, scalable workload management solution. It provides world-class user training along with easy to interact support. Incentivized Uddipan Mukherjee Big Data Specialist Read full review	For our use case it was very important that the technology we were working with fit into our Azure architecture, and met our data processing size requirements to stream data within certain SLAs. Confluent more than met our performance requirements and compared to the others scale options and cost to run it was more than financially viable as a platform solution to our global operations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	It helps to build scalable, available and low maintenance workloads Integrated Alerts and notifications helps to detect load issues in the early stages Ensures meeting data SLAs Incentivized Uddipan Mukherjee Big Data Specialist Read full review	Confluent replaced Microsoft Event Hubs in our environment and unblocked data platform services rollout globally. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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