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Budget ETL & data pipelines

Moving data into a warehouse shouldn't start with a consumption bill that's hard to predict. This shortlist ranks ETL/ELT tools by value, surfacing affordable and open-source data integration. Weigh connector breadth for your sources, CDC and ELT support, and self-hosting against price, and look closely at how consumption-based pricing behaves at your data volumes before committing.

Airbyte

airbyte.com

ETL / Data Pipelines

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform with one of the largest connector catalogs, available both self-hosted and as a managed cloud service.

$ Budgetusage-based pricing
Relevant for
Free tierOpen-sourceSelf-hostablePrebuilt connectors

AWS Glue

aws.amazon.com/glue

ETL / Data Pipelines

AWS Glue is Amazon's serverless data-integration service for discovering, preparing, and combining data: Spark and Python ETL jobs, a central Data Catalog, crawlers, and the visual Glue Studio.

$ Budgetusage-based pricing
Relevant for
Free tierPrebuilt connectors

Azure Data Factory

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/data-factory

ETL / Data Pipelines

Azure Data Factory is Microsoft's managed cloud data-integration service, providing pipelines, 90+ prebuilt connectors, visual mapping data flows, and change data capture for moving and transforming data across cloud and on-premises sources.

$ Budgetusage-based pricing
Relevant for
Prebuilt connectorsBudget tier

Boomi Data Integration (formerly Rivery)

rivery.io

ETL / Data Pipelines

Boomi Data Integration (formerly Rivery) is a fully managed, no-code cloud ELT and data pipeline platform with more than 200 prebuilt connectors, plus transformation and workflow orchestration.

$$ Midusage-based pricing
Relevant for
Prebuilt connectorsMid tier

Dataddo

www.dataddo.com

ETL / Data Pipelines

Dataddo is a no-code, fully managed data integration platform with more than 400 connectors, supporting ETL, reverse ETL, and database replication with change data capture (CDC) to and from warehouses, dashboards, and apps.

$ Budgetusage-based pricing
Relevant for
Free tierPrebuilt connectors

dbt

www.getdbt.com

ETL / Data Pipelines

dbt is a transformation tool that lets analysts and analytics engineers build, test, and document data models in SQL directly within the warehouse, handling the transform step of ELT.

$ Budgetusage-based pricing
Relevant for
Free tierOpen-sourceSelf-hostable

Estuary

estuary.dev

ETL / Data Pipelines

Estuary Flow is a real-time data integration platform supporting change data capture (CDC), streaming, and batch ETL and ELT, with more than 200 connectors across databases, SaaS systems, and warehouses.

$ Budgetusage-based pricing
Relevant for
Free tierSelf-hostablePrebuilt connectors

Fivetran

www.fivetran.com

ETL / Data Pipelines

Fivetran is a managed data integration service that moves data from sources into warehouses using a large catalog of prebuilt connectors.

$$$ Premiumusage-based pricing
Relevant for
Free tierPrebuilt connectors

Hevo Data

hevodata.com

ETL / Data Pipelines

Hevo Data is a no-code data pipeline platform for moving and transforming data into warehouses in near real time through prebuilt connectors.

$$ Midusage-based pricing
Relevant for
Free tierPrebuilt connectors

Matillion

www.matillion.com

ETL / Data Pipelines

Matillion is a cloud data transformation and integration platform for building ELT pipelines on cloud data warehouses, pushing transformations down into the warehouse for performance.

$$ Midusage-based pricing
Relevant for
Free tierPrebuilt connectors

Meltano

meltano.com

ETL / Data Pipelines

Meltano is an open-source, code-first data integration platform built around the Singer connector ecosystem, positioned as a DataOps CLI and orchestrator.

$ BudgetFree · Last reviewed May 2026
Relevant for
Free tierOpen-sourceSelf-hostablePrebuilt connectors

Stitch

www.stitchdata.com

ETL / Data Pipelines

Stitch is a cloud ETL service for moving data from sources into warehouses with minimal setup, built on the open-source Singer specification.

$$$ Premiumfrom $100/mo · Last reviewed May 2026
Relevant for
Prebuilt connectorsOperating 10 years