Confluent Cloud Free Trial

You can try Confluent Cloud with a free trial. When you sign up for Confluent Cloud, your organization automatically receives free credit in your billing account.

This credit expires after 30 days. Your free trial ends when you use all the credit or when the credit expires, whichever comes first.

When the free trial ends, Confluent suspends your organization. While your organization is suspended, you cannot use Confluent Cloud features, and your data is inaccessible. To reactivate a suspended organization, log in to the Confluent Cloud Console and either enter a payment method or claim a promotional code for more free credit.

If you do not enter a payment method or claim a promotional code within 30 days of suspension, Confluent deletes your resources but preserves your organization and users. After this period, you can reactivate your organization by entering a payment method in the Confluent Cloud Console.

Important

If you claim a promotional code but do not enter a payment method before the promotional code credit is consumed or expires, Confluent suspends your organization again, which can result in disruption or data loss.

For more information about promotional codes, see Redeem a promo code or view balance. To add a payment method during your free trial, see Add payment methods later on this page.

View your free credit balance

To view your free credit balance and time remaining until your free credit expires, navigate to the Payment details & contacts tab on the Billing & payment page in the Confluent Cloud Console.

Estimate costs

Confluent provides a cost-estimation tool that provides you with an estimate of your costs. The tool allows you to specify your requirement for throughput, retention, and other cost-related factors and then generates an estimate. To get an estimate, see Confluent Cost Estimator.

Add payment methods

During the free trial, you can add a payment method by navigating to the Billing & payment page in the Confluent Cloud Console. To avoid disruption and possible data loss, enter a payment method before the end of your free trial. For more information, see Manage your payment method.

Any remaining free credit stays in your organization and is used before billing starts. After you use the free credit, your consumption is billed at the end of each monthly billing cycle.

To enter a payment method or claim a promotional code, your user account must have the OrganizationAdmin role. For more information, see Role-based Access Control (RBAC) on Confluent Cloud.

Free trial notifications

During your free trial, Confluent sends email notifications about the status of your free trial. Confluent sends these emails to the person who originally signed up for Confluent Cloud.

Confluent sends emails based on the following events during the free trial:

  • You have consumed 50% of the free trial credit.

  • 50% of the free trial credit expiration period has elapsed.

  • You have consumed 80% of the free trial credit, or the credit expires in less than three days.

  • The organization is suspended because the free trial has ended.

The following exceptions apply to free trial emails:

  • If you enter a payment method before the end of your free trial, Confluent stops sending you free trial email notifications.

  • If you redeem a promo code before the end of your free trial, Confluent stops sending most free trial email notifications. You receive email notifications when:

    • One promotional code remains that is 80% consumed or expires in less than three days.

    • The organization is suspended because the free trial has ended.