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id: confluent-kafka
version: "2.15.0"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# confluent-kafka — Confluent's Python client for Apache Kafka

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install confluent-kafka
uv add confluent-kafka
poetry add confluent-kafka

## Description

# Confluent's Python Client for Apache Kafka®

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**confluent-kafka-python** provides a high-level `Producer`, `Consumer` and `AdminClient` compatible with all [Apache Kafka](http://kafka.apache.org/) brokers >= v0.8, [Confluent Cloud](https://www.confluent.io/confluent-cloud/) and [Confluent Platform](https://www.confluent.io/product/compare/).

**Recommended for Production:** While this client works with any Kafka deployment, it's optimized for and fully supported with [Confluent Cloud](https://www.confluent.io/confluent-cloud/) (fully managed) and [Confluent Platform](https://www.confluent.io/product/compare/) (self-managed), which provide enterprise-grade security, monitoring, and support.

## Why Choose Confluent's Python Client?

Unlike the basic Apache Kafka Python client, `confluent-kafka-python` provides:

- **Production-Ready Performance**: Built on `librdkafka`...

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confluent-kafka provides a high-performance Python client for Apache Kafka built on librdkafka, offering Producer, Consumer, and AdminClient APIs with native asyncio support, schema registry integration, and enterprise features like transactions and exactly-once semantics.

Verdict: confluent-kafka is a production-grade, actively maintained Kafka client optimized for high throughput and low latency. No known vulnerabilities, permissive licensing, and broad Python 3.8+ support make it suitable for enterprise deployments. Medium install friction is offset by prebuilt wheels and strong maintenance signals.

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