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confluent cloud (kafka) Storage

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Free tier	'New signups receive $400 to spend during their first 30 days.' The documentation adds 'Your free credit expires 30 days after you receive it.' unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	the credit expires 30 days after it is received, or when it is spent, whichever comes first (30 days)
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email the signup form asks for a full name, a company, an email address and a country, or a Google, GitHub or Marketplace sign-in; a payment method is entered only after the trial credit is spent
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	USD 400 in credit, and it expires 30 days after it is received; the credit is denominated in dollars rather than bytes. Kafka is append-only with retention, so the balance is not a storage quota.
Notes	Corrected on 2026-10-23 from 60 days to 30. The credit buys Kafka and the managed connectors, not a machine.
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-24 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-07

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-23	confluent.cloud/signup	quoted: 'New signups receive $400 to spend during their first 30 days.'
2026-10-23	docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/get-started/free-trial.html	quoted: 'Your free credit expires 30 days after you receive it.'
2026-10-23	www.confluent.io/pricing/	quoted tiers: Basic 'Starting at $0/Month', Standard '~$385/Month', eCKU 'First eCKU free, then $0.14'

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "retention",
  "why": "USD 400 in credit, and it expires 30 days after it is received; the credit is denominated in dollars rather than bytes. Not a free tier; a trial.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded

Corrections

2026-10-23 The credit ladder was widened to twenty, and nine more claims moved