Portable alternatives

4 tools to consider instead of Portable, shown against it.

Portable Fivetran Airbyte Hevo Data Rivery
Vendor Portable.io, Inc. Fivetran, Inc. Airbyte, Inc. Hevo Data, Inc. Rivery Ltd. (a Boomi company)
Pricing model Subscription Usage-based Usage-based Usage-based Usage-based
Free tier No Yes Yes Yes No
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud Cloud
Open source No No Yes (MIT) No No
Best for Teams needing a specific niche or long-tail connector that mainstream ELT vendors don't offer. 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. Teams wanting ingestion, transformation orchestration and reverse ETL bundled in one consumption-billed platform.
Pricing

Flat monthly subscription tiers based on the number of enabled data flows, not data volume; no metered overage charges.

Standard $1,800/month
Pro $2,800/month
Advanced $4,200/month
Enterprise Contact sales

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

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.

Free $0/month
Standard Usage-based, $5/month minimum per connection (1–1M MAR)
Enterprise Usage-based, contact for rates
Business Critical Usage-based, contact for rates

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.

Standard From $20/month
Plus From $189/month for 40 credits
Pro Capacity-based, contact sales
Enterprise Flex Capacity-based, contact sales

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.

Free $0/month
Starter $265–$299/month
Professional $750–$849/month
Business Critical Contact sales

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Pay-as-you-go pricing metered in BDU/RPU credits at $0.9 per credit for the entry tier, with higher tiers quote-based; a 14-day trial includes 1,000 free credits.

Base $0.9 per BDU credit
Professional Contact sales
Pro Plus Contact sales
Enterprise Contact sales

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • 700+ long-tail SaaS connectors
  • New connectors built on customer request
  • Flat, volume-independent pricing
  • Scheduled, on-demand or API-triggered flows
  • Managed cloud delivery with no infrastructure to run
  • Integration engineering support on higher tiers
  • 700+ prebuilt, managed connectors
  • Automated schema drift handling
  • Log-based change data capture for databases
  • dbt Core/dbt Cloud-based transformations
  • Column-level hashing and blocking for sensitive fields
  • Column- and table-level lineage
  • REST API for programmatic management
  • Annual contract discounts up to 22%
  • 600+ pre-built and community connectors
  • Low-code and no-code Connector Builder
  • Log-based CDC for major databases
  • PyAirbyte for programmatic pipelines
  • Self-hostable on Docker or Kubernetes
  • dbt-based post-load transformations
  • Credit-based usage billing on Cloud
  • No-code pipeline configuration
  • 150+ prebuilt connectors
  • Near real-time and scheduled sync
  • Automated schema mapping and drift handling
  • Python-based in-flight transformations
  • dbt integration for post-load modeling
  • Pipeline monitoring and alerting
  • Visual and SQL/Python pipeline building
  • Multi-storage ingestion and transformation
  • Built-in orchestration and scheduling
  • Reverse ETL to operational tools
  • Log-based CDC for databases
  • Credit-based consumption pricing

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