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Portable alternatives
4 tools to consider instead of Portable, shown against it.
| Portable | Fivetran | Airbyte | Hevo Data | Rivery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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.
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.
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. | 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.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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