8x lower cloud costs

Bufstream replaces traditional disks with object storage, the most reliable and cost-effective cloud storage primitive. By eliminating expensive network-attached volumes and delegating cross-zone data replication to object storage Bufstream reduces cloud costs 8x compared to Apache Kafka — while remaining fully compatible with Kafka clients, connectors, and tools.

Chart showing Bufstream is 10 times lower in cost than out of the box Kafka

Apache Iceberg as your Kafka storage layer

Bufstream natively writes your data to S3-compatible object storage as Iceberg tables with zero copies. Eliminate the need for a costly ETL pipeline and start querying your data in seconds.

Fully air-gapped deployment

Bufstream runs fully within your AWS or GCP VPC, giving you complete control over your data, metadata, and uptime. Unlike the alternatives, Bufstream never phones home.

Guaranteed data quality

Bufstream eliminates bad data at the source: rather than hoping that every producer will opt into validation, Bufstream agents work with the Buf Schema Registry to enforce quality controls for all topics with Protobuf schemas. Bad data is immediately rejected, so consumers can trust that the data they receive will always match the appropriate schema and adhere to any semantic constraints.

Field-level RBAC

With Bufstream, you can enforce fine-grained access controls at the field level, ensuring that only the right people see the right data.

Simple Pricing

Bufstream pricing is simple and predictable: just $0.002 per uncompressed GiB written (about $2 per TiB).

We don't charge you for storage, reads, or any other per-core, per-agent, or per-call fees.