Build Your Data Infrastructure: Airbyte vs. Matillion

Airbyte is the #1 platform for your Data AI use cases

"For TUI Musement, Airbyte cut development time in half and enabled dynamic customer experiences."

Andres Exner

DIRECTOR OF CUSTOMER HUB AND COMMON ANALYTICS

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What data leaders say about us

50% Less Dev Time

"For TUI Musement, Airbyte cut development time in half and enabled dynamic customer experiences"

André Exner

Director Customer hub

Skip Infra, Ship Faster

“Airbyte saved us years, freeing us to focus on user value, not infra.”

Chase Zieman

Chief Data Officer

Symend Saved $900K/Year

“It's a huge win for our organization because it's basically a huge optimization opportunity for us in terms of cost and performance.”

Raman Singh

Data Architect

989,658

Pipeline jobs in the last 24 hours

18%

F500 companies use Airbyte

25,000+

Active community members

10,000+

Daily active companies

Why Choose Airbyte Over Matillion?

See how Airbyte stacks up against Matillion in terms of vision, use cases, connectors, deployment models, pricing, AI pipelines, and more.


Focus	ELT as a first step. Reverse-ETL coming in 2023.	Data ingestion, data transformation, and business intelligence.
Pricing	Cost effective Capacity-based pricing for Enterprise & Team versions and Volume-based pricing for Cloud edition.	Based on the number of Virtual Core Hours used.
Sources	600+ pre-built customizable connectors for both structured and unstructured sources.	More than 100.
Destinations	All data warehouses, lakes, databases, vector databases, LLMs, RAG and more.	All major data warehouses, lakes and databases.
Database replication	Full table and incremental via change data capture. Pricing adapted for this use case.	Full table and incremental via SELECT/replication key, timestamp or change data capture for AWS-hosted Matillion ETL instances.
Integration with data stack	Integrate deeply with Kubernetes, Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, and dbt. Airbyte will soon integrate with Great Expectations, and more. Integrations can be contributed by the community.	No.
Support SLAs	Available	Available
Security certifications	SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR	GDPR
Vendor lock-in	Airbyte Core and Connectors are open source.	Annual contracts. Self-hosting implies a higher lock-in.
Purchase Process	Self-service or sales for Airbyte Cloud. Open-source edition deployable in minutes.	Sales only.
Customizability of connectors	User can edit any pre-built connectors and build new ones with Airbyte’s AI Connector Builder	No.
API	Available through Airbyte Cloud and Airbyte’s open-source edition.	No.

Airbyte is the leading open data movement platform for the new AI revolution, while Stitch Data is the closed-source managed ETL solution for the modern data stack.

Why Airbyte is better than Matillion?

Benefits/USPs:

Modern GenAI workflows:

Streamline AI workflows with Airbyte: load unstructured data into vector stores like Pinecone, Weaviate, and Milvus. Supports RAG transformations with LangChain chunking and embeddings from OpenAI, Cohere, etc., all in one operation.

An Extensible Open-Source Standard

More than 1,000 developers contribute to Airbyte’s connectors, different interfaces (UI, API, Terraform Provider, Python Library), and integrations with the rest of the stack. Airbyte’s Connector Builder lets you edit or add new connectors in minutes.

Full Control & Security

Airbyte secures your data with cloud-hosted, self-hosted or hybrid deployment options. Single Sign-On (SSO) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) ensure only authorized users have access with the right permissions. Airbyte acts as a HIPAA conduit and supports compliance with CCPA, GDPR, and SOC2.

Capacity-Based Pricing Model

Capacity-based pricing is based on allocated compute capacity (e.g., credits or resource units), which is easier to forecast and budget. Teams can plan ahead based on capacity requirements, avoiding unexpected overages.