Outbound-only connections
No inbound firewall rules. The data plane initiates every connection to the control plane.
Airbyte Enterprise Flex
Own your data plane.
Not the ops.
Airbyte Flex offers a hybrid deployment model, with Airbyte's data plane running in your cloud, VPC, or on-prem environment. You get 600+ connectors and a fully managed experience, while your data never touches our servers.
Trusted by data teams at
239%
Forrester TEI ROI
20%
of the F500 uses Airbyte
2M+
pipelines synced daily
Architecture
How Flex works.
The data plane runs in your environment, not ours. We run the control plane so you don't have to. Your records, credentials, and keys stay inside your environment; the control plane receives configuration and job metadata only.
Your environment
DataConnectorsCredentialsKeysEncryption keys
Outbound
Metadata
Airbyte
Control planeOrchestrationMonitoringUI
Where your data lives
Stays in your environment
- Your records
- Credentials and secrets
- Encryption keys
- Network access
Reaches Airbyte
- Pipeline configuration
- Job status and logs metadata
- Sync schedules
Customer-managed keys
Bring your own KMS. Airbyte never holds credentials or encryption material.
Region pinning
Pin the data plane to a specific cloud, region, or on-prem site to satisfy residency requirements.
Why Flex
A better way to run
sovereign pipelines.
Without Flex
Self-hosted tooling
- Security scans and approval of new technology
- Installing and manually patching software
- Owning upgrades and incident response
DIY pipelines
- Specialized resources and skills
- Build, QA, troubleshooting, and ongoing maintenance
- Engineering time pulled from other projects
SaaS-only ELT
- Data leaves your environment
- Security reviews stall procurement
- Sovereignty mandates unmet
With Flex
- Runs in your environment on your existing infrastructure
- 600+ connectors with the control plane managed by Airbyte
- Supported and maintained by Airbyte's team
Deployment models
Choose how you run Airbyte.
Who runs the data plane
Airbyte
You
You
Who runs the control plane
Airbyte
Airbyte
You
Where your data lives
Airbyte's cloud
Your environment
Your environment
Who owns upgrades
Airbyte
Airbyte
You
Compliance fit
Standard
Regulated, sovereign
Depends on your ops
Agents on Sovereign Data
Build agents where your data lives.
The same environment that holds your data can run your AI.
Bring your own models: open-weight, fine-tuned, or fully self-hosted. Your agents' context never leaves your environment either.
Sovereignty & Compliance
Sovereign by architecture,
not by promise.
Compliance is the downstream consequence of the environment, not a contractual add-on.
Financial services
Keep customer records, PII, and transaction data inside your regulated network segment while still moving them at scale.
Healthcare
Move PHI between EHRs, warehouses, and analytics without a HIPAA-covered vendor ever touching the payload.
Life sciences
Meet GxP and regional residency rules by running the data plane next to your validated systems.
Built for the enterprise
Enterprise capabilities.
SSO & RBAC
SAML and OIDC single sign-on with role-based access down to the workspace and connection level.
Audit logging
Every configuration change, sync run, and access event is captured and streamable to your SIEM.
Multi-region
Run data planes in multiple regions from a single control plane; pin workloads to residency zones.
Uptime SLA
99.9% control-plane availability, backed by financial credits.
Capacity-based pricing
Pay for sync frequency, not per-row or per-GB. Costs stay flat as volume grows.
Premium support
24×7 response with a named solutions architect and defined incident response times.
Raman Singh
Tech Lead at Symend
With our legacy framework, if one of the pipelines fails for one client, it will stop everything for the rest of our clients. But with Airbyte, things are run in parallel because of the platform’s distributed nature, which means that we can process multiple clients at the same time without impacting performance.
Sean Carver
Director of Data
The real ROI is in our ability to iterate quickly, especially at our increasing scale. At the end of the day, you want a tool like that to just work. We can forget about it and know that it's configured and it's connecting and it's working. That hands-free capability is a big appeal for the platform.
Amy Zhao
Sr. Manager of Data Engr.
What's different from Stitch Data or Informatica is the way that we can configure Airbyte connections and Airbyte entities through code. That's a huge plus to us as data engineers, because we are used to checking code and being able to manage changes from Github.
Mondor La Grange
Head of BI and Data Engr.
Unlike Fivetran's credit-based system that created budget uncertainty, Airbyte's pricing model allows Kuda to forecast expenses accurately and avoid surprise bills.
Franziska Ibscher
PM at Drivepoint
With Airbyte, our AI features have fresh, reliable data to work with. Whether we're running automated financial models or powering AI agents that answer questions about a brand's business, none of it works without trustworthy data flowing in, and that's what Airbyte gives us.
Andres Bravo Gorgonio
Director of Machine Learning & Data
With the quick and easy Airbyte setup process and with a few answers from the Airbyte community in Slack, Intellum was able to launch the new platform quickly and efficiently within two weeks. Airbyte worked out-of-the-box, and there was no long setup protocol like other tools.
Raman Singh
Tech Lead at Symend
With our legacy framework, if one of the pipelines fails for one client, it will stop everything for the rest of our clients. But with Airbyte, things are run in parallel because of the platform’s distributed nature, which means that we can process multiple clients at the same time without impacting performance.
Sean Carver
Director of Data
The real ROI is in our ability to iterate quickly, especially at our increasing scale. At the end of the day, you want a tool like that to just work. We can forget about it and know that it's configured and it's connecting and it's working. That hands-free capability is a big appeal for the platform.
Amy Zhao
Sr. Manager of Data Engr.
What's different from Stitch Data or Informatica is the way that we can configure Airbyte connections and Airbyte entities through code. That's a huge plus to us as data engineers, because we are used to checking code and being able to manage changes from Github.
Mondor La Grange
Head of BI and Data Engr.
Unlike Fivetran's credit-based system that created budget uncertainty, Airbyte's pricing model allows Kuda to forecast expenses accurately and avoid surprise bills.
Franziska Ibscher
PM at Drivepoint
With Airbyte, our AI features have fresh, reliable data to work with. Whether we're running automated financial models or powering AI agents that answer questions about a brand's business, none of it works without trustworthy data flowing in, and that's what Airbyte gives us.
Andres Bravo Gorgonio
Director of Machine Learning & Data
With the quick and easy Airbyte setup process and with a few answers from the Airbyte community in Slack, Intellum was able to launch the new platform quickly and efficiently within two weeks. Airbyte worked out-of-the-box, and there was no long setup protocol like other tools.
Pricing model
You shouldn't pay more because your data volume spikes.
Flex is priced on capacity, not volume, so costs stay predictable as data grows.
Frequently asked questions.
Didn't find your answer? Please don't hesitate to reach out.
What plans does Airbyte offer, and how do they differ?
Airbyte offers four Data Replication tiers. Core is self-managed open source, always free. Standard is fully managed cloud hosting starting at $10/month with volume-based pricing. Pro adds capacity-based pricing via Data Workers (so costs don't spike with data volume), 15-minute syncs, SSO, RBAC, multiple workspaces, and premium support. Enterprise Flex is the top tier: a hybrid architecture where Airbyte manages the control plane and you run data planes in your own infrastructure. It includes everything in Pro plus multi-region deployment, on-prem and air-gapped options, external secrets management, PrivateLink, and audit logging. Flex pricing is custom.
Can Flex run on-prem or air-gapped?
Yes. Flex decouples the control plane (managed by Airbyte) from the data plane (runs in your environment). You deploy data planes on-prem or in air-gapped networks using Helm on Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS) or using Airbox, a single-node deployment utility that runs on a VM with Docker. Your data and credentials never leave your boundary.
Which clouds and regions are supported?
Flex supports AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Deploy data planes on Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine, or Azure Kubernetes Service. You choose the region: create a cluster in the region you need (e.g. eu-west-1), and the data plane runs there. Each workspace maps to one region and data plane, so you can run multiple workspaces across different regions from a single control plane. Airbyte also offers fully managed data planes in US and EU regions for workloads that don't require self-managed infrastructure.
How do upgrades work?
Airbyte manages control plane upgrades automatically. For self-managed data planes, you upgrade via Helm or Airbox on your own schedule. Any Airbyte Cloud environment on Standard or Pro can upgrade to Enterprise Flex. The control plane transition is handled by Airbyte; data plane migration requires some infrastructure planning, but the technical process is straightforward. Talk to sales for a migration plan.
How is Flex different from self-managing open-source Airbyte?
Open-source Airbyte (Core) gives you the full replication engine, self-hosted, with community support. Flex adds the managed control plane so you don't maintain orchestration, UI, or API infrastructure yourself. On top of that, Flex includes SSO (Okta, Entra ID), RBAC at the org and workspace level, field-level transformations (hashing, encryption, filtering), external secrets management (AWS, GCP, Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault), PrivateLink, audit logging, and premium support with SLAs. You keep the same data sovereignty as self-hosted, without the operational overhead of running everything.
Can I run agents and my own models on Flex?
Flex is Airbyte's Data Replication tier, purpose-built for moving data to warehouses, lakes, and applications. You can bring your own models on top of Flex, using your native warehousing solutions. We recommend this if you must maintain sovereignty while building our your AI initiatives. You can also integrate Airbyte's open source agent connectors for any real-time agent actions. If you don't need a fully sovereign solution for AI, Airbyte offers a separate product line: Airbyte Agents. Agents gives your AI models pre-indexed context and read/write access to 50+ business systems through an MCP server, a Python SDK, or a no-code Automation builder. You can use both together: Flex handles sovereign data replication into your infrastructure, and Agents provides the context layer your models query at runtime. Agents has its own plans starting with a free tier (1,000 Agent Operations/month).