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Fivetran alternatives
4 tools to consider instead of Fivetran, shown against it.
| Fivetran | Airbyte | Hevo Data | Matillion | Meltano | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Vendor | Fivetran, Inc. | Airbyte, Inc. | Hevo Data, Inc. | Matillion | Meltano, Inc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Usage-based | Usage-based | Quote only | Quote only | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud, Self-hosted | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud, Self-hosted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Open source | No | Yes (MIT) | No | No | Yes (MIT) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best for | Data teams who want a fully managed, low-maintenance ELT pipeline into a cloud warehouse without operating infrastructure. | Teams wanting an open-source ELT platform they can self-host for data control, or run as managed cloud, with a broad long-tail connector catalog. | Small-to-midsize data teams wanting fast no-code setup with predictable, event-volume-based pricing. | Analytics engineering teams wanting a visual, low-code ELT builder with warehouse-native transformation. | Data engineers who want a version-controlled, code-first ELT framework rather than a GUI-driven tool. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pricing | Consumption-based pricing billed in Monthly Active Rows (MAR) for connectors/activations and Monthly Model Runs for transformations, with a free tier and three paid plans.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Airbyte Core is free and open source to self-host; Airbyte Cloud bills by credits consumed, with a 30-day trial and several volume-based and capacity-based plans.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Priced by monthly events processed, with a free tier and three named plans scaling from 5M to 100M+ events, plus custom Business Critical pricing.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Consumption-based credit system tied to pipeline task hours and developer seats; only the entry Developer tier's trial is self-serve, the rest require a sales quote.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Meltano Open is free and self-hosted; Meltano Cloud is priced by monthly compute-hour allowance across four tiers, with no dollar figures published and pricing available only on request. Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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