What's a credit?
A credit is a data operations unit. Depending on the operation, it can be measured in million rows or in GBs:
Which discount for high volumes?
We charge you at the end of every month. You can also choose to buy bulk credit packages upfront to get access to large discounts. Reach out to our sales team to access those discounts. The bigger the credit package is, the bigger the volume discount will be.
In the meantime, you can see what your Airbyte costs would look like with our cost estimator and how it compares with other monthly-active-row alternatives. You will get a sense of how our discounts work.
Fair pricing policy
We only charge credits when we provide value:
- We don’t charge for normalization. Users often expect to receive the data in their original structure at the destination.
- We don’t charge for cancelled jobs when no data has been synced, but will charge for the data synced in the partial sync.
Why volume-based consumption
Databases and APIs should be treated differently
Databases are where we’ve got most of our data. We usually have 100+GB databases with millions and millions of rows.
If you use an ETL / ELT tool, replicating them will cost north of $100,000 per year, as their pricing is common for APIs and databases, even though database replication can have 10x more throughput. This is also true for files, as they replicate faster than APIs too. That’s why we’re distinguishing our credit pricing for APIs, databases and files, and making it a lot cheaper to replicate databases and files.
We’re part of your infrastructure
We consider Airbyte to be part of your data infrastructure, so a transparent consumption-based model makes more sense. Credits are non-committing and let you be in control of your costs.
Credits displayed and charged for
We store up to 6 decimal places for your remaining credits. So, let’s say, you replicate 1,000 rows from an API source for a sync. The sync would cost 0.006 credits.
However, we will only display the rounded number of credits you have in your account in the web app. So if you actually have 200.65 credits, we will display that you have 200 credits.
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