Replace Stitch and Move Data Faster with Airbyte
"Predictable, straightforward pricing model that simplified budgeting and significantly reduced overall spend."
Trusted by the world's leading companies
Immediate ROI and productivity gains for your data teams.
"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."
Raman Singh, Tech Lead at Symend
"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.”"
Sean Carver, Director of Data at Petvisor
"Unlike Fivetran's credit-based system that created budget uncertainty, Airbyte's pricing model allows Kuda to forecast expenses accurately and avoid surprise bills."
Mondor La Grange, Head of BI and Data Engineering
"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."
Amy Zhao, Senior Manager of Data Engineering at Peloton
"Airbyte allows us to stay flexible while scaling from hundred-million to billion-dollar enterprise clients."
Franziska Ibscher, Product Manager at Drivepoint
Why Choose Airbyte Over Stitch Data?
See how Airbyte stacks up against Stitch in terms of vision, use cases, connectors, deployment models, pricing, AI pipelines, and more.
| Focus | Data movement (including AI support), governance. | Data ingestion, ELT. |
| Pricing | Cost effective Capacity-based pricing for Enterprise & Team versions and Volume-based pricing for Cloud edition. | Volume-based pricing with new added or edited rows. |
| Sources | 600+ pre-built customizable connectors for both structured and unstructured sources. | 130+ connectors for structured data only. |
| 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 change data capture. Pricing is indexed on rows. |
| Integration with data stack | Kubernetes, Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, dbt, LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Cohere. | No. |
| Support SLAs | Available. | Available. |
| Security certifications | SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA Conduit | HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2 |
| Vendor lock-in | Airbyte Core and Connectors are open-source. | Annual contracts. Can leverage Singer's open-source connectors when used (but connectors are of low quality). |
| Purchase Process | Self-service or sales for Airbyte Cloud. Open-source edition deployable in minutes. | Self-service or sales. |
| Customizability of connectors | User can edit any pre-built connectors and build new ones within minutes with Airbyte's AI Connector Builder. | Stitch's Import AI enables their users to push data from anywhere to their destination. |
| API | Available through Airbyte Cloud and Airbyte's open-source edition. | Available. |
| Flexibility to Develop Python Data Pipelines | Available through PyAirbyte open-source library. | 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 Stitch?
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.
Trusted by AI leaders and Innovators
Franziska Ibscher
Product Manager at Drivepoint
"Without Airbyte, we'd be stitching together bespoke connectors for every integration, which would slow us down dramatically. 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."
Nate Chambers
Chief Product Officer
"Airbyte Agents has massively accelerated our roadmap. What we thought would take 6+ months, we were testing in the first week of the beta program. They're shipping everything we need for agentic workflows, and launching new connections faster than we can build them into our product. The team is awesome, both technically and as humans. If you're building an AI product, you can stop rolling your own pipelines and start shipping."
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