In this Azure article, we will discuss Azure Event Hub vs Event Grid. Basically, here we will discuss the key difference between Azure Event Hub and Event Grid.
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Azure Event Hub vs Event Grid
Well, let’s do a tabular comparison between Azure Event Hub and Event Grid.
| Based On | Azure Event Hub | Event Grid |
| Azure Event Hub is responsible for the ingestion of data without sending data back to the publishers. | Responsible for notifying the events that occurred on the publisher’s end with the help of HTTP requests. | |
| Handles a massive number of events along with data. | Handles the events. No data. | |
| Order of events | You can get the order of events inside the partitions. | There is no guarantee on the order of events. |
| Pricing | A bit costly compared to Event Grid. | Event Grid is cheaper as compared to Azure event hubs. |
| In terms of Usage | Use Azure Event Hub when you have the requirement to deal with massive data. | Go for the event grid when you don’t have the requirement to deal with massive data. |
Azure Event Hub vs Event Grid Pricing Comparision
Let’s compare the pricing structure for Azure Event Hub and Azure Event Grid.
Check out Azure event hub pricing for more details. Now let’s quickly discuss Azure Event Grid pricing model.
Azure Event Grid Pricing
Let’s discuss the pricing model of Azure Event Grid. There are different tiers, you will come across while using Azure Event Grid in terms of pricing.
Event Grid (Basic tier)
You just need to pay based on the pay-per-use model.
You need to pay $0.60/million operations. At the same time you will get 100,000 operations/month at free of cost.
For the complete information, check out Event Grid Pricing now.
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Wrapping Up
In this article, we discussed the key differences between Azure Event Hub and Azure Event Grid. Basically, when you have the requirement to deal with more data along with events go with Azure Event Hub and if you have the requirement to deal with only events and no requirement dealing with data then in that case go with Event Grid. Now the choice is yours. Thanks for reading this article !!!