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Alternatives · 2026

The best IBM Event Streams alternatives

The rest of Best Event Streaming Platforms, in this site's order: each with what it costs, where it runs and its record score.

1
Aiven for Apache Kafka

It suits teams that want managed Apache Kafka across supported cloud providers.

WebLinuxAPI+1 $35 a month Record6.0 Visit
2
Lightstreamer

Lightstreamer may suit teams building business-critical real-time applications in areas such as finance, gaming, aerospace, logistics, and media.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+5 Free plan Record5.8 Visit
3
Confluent Cloud

Confluent Cloud suits teams building real-time streaming, event-driven applications, analytics, or AI/ML workloads.

WebLinuxAPI $385 a month Record5.7 Visit
4
Solace PubSub+ Event Broker

Solace describes the Event Broker for enterprises with demanding messaging and streaming needs, and for connecting applications, customers, partners,…

WebLinuxAPI+1 Free plan Record5.7 Visit
5
Apache RocketMQ

RocketMQ suits developers and operators building asynchronous messaging systems who can run and configure self-hosted software.

WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record5.4 Visit
6
Redpanda

Redpanda suits teams building event-streaming systems that want Kafka API compatibility and multiple deployment choices.

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record5.3 Visit
7
Wisembly

Wisembly may suit organizers coordinating in-person, virtual, or hybrid events who need registration, attendee engagement, and reporting tools.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb €79 a month Record5.2 Visit
8
RisingWave

RisingWave may suit teams building streaming data pipelines with SQL and PostgreSQL-compatible tools.

WebMacLinux+2 $0.23 usage-based Record5.1 Visit
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Apache Pulsar

Apache Pulsar may suit organizations building distributed messaging or streaming systems that need self-hosting, multi-region replication, or…

WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record4.7 Visit
10
Keen Product Analytics

Keen may suit developers building in-product analytics for SaaS customers, from startups to Fortune 500 businesses.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+1 $149 a month Record4.7 Visit
11
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

MSK is intended for developers and DevOps or platform engineers building streaming data applications on AWS.

WebLinuxAPI $0.75 a month Record4.6 Visit
12
StreamNative

It suits teams working across real-time systems, data platforms, and AI initiatives.

WebAPISelf-hosted $73 a month Record4.5 Visit
13
AutoMQ

AutoMQ fits teams needing Kafka-compatible streaming with cloud-object storage, hybrid deployment, connectors, and lakehouse table access.

WebLinuxAPI+1 $300 a month Record4.4 Visit
14
DataStax Astra Streaming

It suits teams building streaming, pub/sub, queuing, real-time processing, or change-data-capture workloads.

WebAPISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.4 Visit
15
Pravega

Pravega is suited to developers building streaming or real-time applications, handling IoT data, or running batch and interactive analytics on large…

LinuxAPISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.3 Visit
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Apache Kafka

Kafka suits teams building event-streaming systems for data pipelines, integration, analytics, and related applications.

APISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.1 Visit
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StreamHouse

It suits developers building event pipelines into PostgreSQL or other listed sinks.

WebAPISelf-hosted — Record3.7 Visit
18
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

It suits teams building real-time streaming, analytics, event-driven, or machine-learning applications on AWS.

WebAPI — Record3.5 Visit
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Hadron

Hadron suits teams building distributed applications with many microservices and event or telemetry signals.

Self-hosted — Record3.5 Visit
20 Web — Record2.5 Visit
24 Web — Record2.3 Visit