Is confluent Kafka 6.2.0 is free to use for enterprise level

Architecture and Design
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Hi,

I am working in a small-scale organization, We are planning to do POC using confluent 6.2.0 Kafka . I need clarification on the below points

1> Is Confluent Kafka 6.2.0 is free to use for commercial purposes?
2> Before actual use can we do POC or we need to buy a license ?
3> For small-scale commercial reasons. Can we use Confluent Kafka 6.2.0 without buying any paid support

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You are talking about the broker itself, right? It has both paid and free versions.

confluentinc/cp-kafka is the community version docker image to use Apache Kafka and is suitable for on-premise deploy where you will need to manage the clusters

https://hub.docker.com/r/confluentinc/cp-kafka

confluentinc/cp-server is the enterprise version docker image that includes Kafka and additional commercial features. Probably for the use case where your broker is on the cloud created with the Confluent platform.
https://hub.docker.com/r/confluentinc/cp-server

Let me know if this is the answer that you wanted.