Apache Kafka via Confluent Platform
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Size Redpanda Self-Managed on Azure
Extra Small — starter three-broker production cluster for durable event streaming
Monthly cost
$875.52
Annual cost
$10,506/year
Line-item breakdown
| Compute | $455.52 |
| Storage | $420.00 |
| Other | $0.00 |
Components provisioned
| Role | Instance | vCPU | GB RAM | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broker | 3 × Standard_D4s_v5 | 4 | 16 | 1 TB |
Why this sizing
Redpanda Self-Managed at the extra small tier maps to the three-broker-small reference architecture on Azure in eastus. Compute is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 52% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Broker carries the heaviest storage footprint at 1 TB on each of its 3 nodes.
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Sources
Reference architecture: Redpanda Self-Managed for three-broker-small, version Redpanda current production requirements, retrieved April 13, 2026.
https://docs.redpanda.com/current/deploy/redpanda/manual/production/requirements/
Pricing: Azure pricing snapshot, retrieved April 12, 2026.
Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.
Not included in this estimate
- Vendor licensing and support
- Professional services
- Network egress
- Compliance controls
- Backup storage
- Monitoring
Based on Redpanda self-managed production requirements and translated into VM-based planning tiers.
Estimate excludes Redpanda Console, Connect workloads, tiered storage object costs, and the producer and consumer applications that use the cluster.
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