Azure Event Hubs is ranked #18 of 24 in event streaming platforms on The Geeks Club. It runs on Web. There is no free plan.
Azure Event Hubs plans and pricing
All plansBasic Not published Capacity is priced per throughput unit per hour; displayed price varies by region and currency. 1 day maximum retention · 1 consumer group per event hub · 32 partitions per event hub · 10 event hubs per namespace azure.microsoft.com · 20 Sept 2026
Standard Not published Capacity is priced per throughput unit per hour; Capture is billed monthly per throughput unit. 7 days maximum retention · 20 consumer groups per event hub · 32 partitions per event hub · 10 event hubs per namespace azure.microsoft.com · 20 Sept 2026
Premium Not published Capacity is priced per processing unit per hour. 90 days maximum retention · 100 consumer groups per event hub · 100 partitions per event hub · 16 processing units azure.microsoft.com · 20 Sept 2026
Dedicated Not published Usage is charged in one-hour increments with a minimum charge for four hours. 90 days maximum retention · 1,000 consumer groups per event hub · 1,024 partitions per event hub · 10 capacity units azure.microsoft.com · 20 Sept 2026
Compared on event streaming platforms
- Free plan
- No
- Deployment model
- cloud
- Maximum retention
- 1 days
- Stream processing
- No
- Schema registry
- Yes
- Delivery guarantee
- at-least-once
- Supported client languages
- .NET, Java, Python, JavaScript, Go, C
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