Introducing Airbyte Plus
Thanks for reading this installment of the Airbyte Newsletter! We have some incredibly exciting updates to share with you, including:
Thanks for reading this installment of the Airbyte Newsletter! We have some incredibly exciting updates to share with you, including:
- The New Airbyte Plus Plan
- Snowflake Destination Updates
- Apache Polaris Support
- MSSQL Speed Updates
- Michel Tricot at Sifflet Signals
Introducing Airbyte Plus
Airbyte Plus is a new pricing plan designed for growing teams looking for core functionality with the predictability of annual pricing and accelerated support.
Plus is identical to the Standard plan but offers annual billing instead of monthly usage-based pricing, eliminating cost fluctuations and making it easier to plan data infrastructure budgets for the year.
The plan also includes accelerated support with prioritized response times, perfect for small and mid-sized teams running mission-critical data pipelines who need extra support at a reasonable price.
Same product, same features, just predictable costs and faster support when you need it.
Snowflake Destination: Now Faster and Cheaper
We just shipped major performance improvements to our Snowflake destination that deliver dramatic speed and cost benefits:
- Up to 10x faster syncs
- Up to 95% cost reduction
This massively improves scaling as time-sensitive pipelines and dashboards get dramatically faster refresh rates at a fraction of the cost. These optimization principles are being rolled out across other destinations to make data movement so fast and affordable that cost and latency stop being concerns.
Read the full blog post.
Apache Polaris Support for S3 Data Lakes
Airbyte now supports Apache Polaris catalog integration in its S3 Data Lake Destination, bringing open table format management directly into your data pipelines.
This means you can write data to S3 while automatically registering tables in Polaris, enabling seamless interoperability across your data lakehouse tools like Spark, Trino, and Flink.
For teams building modern data architectures, this eliminates the manual catalog management overhead and ensures your S3 data is immediately queryable and discoverable across your entire stack.
MSSQL Speed Updates
Airbyte's MSSQL connector just got a massive performance upgrade, delivering 84% faster syncs after migrating to the new CDK with built-in speed mode. As Airbyte's third-largest database source by volume, SQL Server is now also one of their fastest connectors.
The enhancement is rolling out to customers soon. If you're syncing SQL Server data at scale, expect dramatically faster pipeline performance.
Read our CEO's post on it here.
Airbyte CEO Michel Tricot at Sifflet Signals
Airbyte CEO Michel Tricot is speaking at Signals Summit 2025 on November 19 about how sovereign data movement changes this equation.
The core challenge: AI agents need access to comprehensive, real-time data across your entire infrastructure. But traditional approaches force you to choose between AI capabilities and data control.
Michel will break down:
- How sovereign architectures let AI access data without exposing it
- Maintaining security boundaries while enabling agent workflows
- Meeting compliance requirements without blocking AI deployment