Software that moves data between systems: managed ELT services with prebuilt connectors, enterprise integration suites, cloud ETL services and open source pipeline and orchestration tools.
Last updated November 2026. Each listing links to its full profile or guide, which shows its own review date. No vendor paid for inclusion and the order is alphabetical, not a ranking.
All etl & data integration listings
Freemium
Airbyte
Connector platform, free to self-host under ELv2, with credit or capacity-priced cloud plans.
Free
Apache Airflow
Apache-licensed Python DAG orchestrator; Airflow 3 is current and Airflow 2 is end of life.
Free
Apache NiFi
Open source visual data flow tool with provenance, back pressure and clustering; NiFi 2 needs Java 21.
Paid
AWS Glue
Serverless Spark ETL, crawlers and the Glue Data Catalog on AWS, billed per second in DPU-hours.
Paid
Azure Data Factory
Pay-as-you-go Azure pipeline service with SSIS hosting; Microsoft now steers new users to Fabric Data Factory.
Freemium
Dagster
Asset-centred Python orchestrator with lineage and asset checks; free OSS, Dagster+ billed by plan and credits.
Freemium
Estuary Flow
Real-time CDC and batch pipelines (now branded Estuary), priced per GB plus per connector, with a free plan.
Freemium
Fivetran
Managed ELT with 750+ connectors, database CDC and a free plan, billed by Monthly Active Rows.
Paid
Google Cloud Data Fusion
Visual CDAP-based pipeline service on Google Cloud with lineage and replication into BigQuery, billed per instance-hour.
Paid
Hevo Data
No-code managed ELT with 190+ connectors, billed by events or at a fixed Enterprise price.
Paid
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
Enterprise integration, CDC, data quality and MDM platform, owned by Salesforce, priced in IPUs.
Paid
Matillion
Low-code ELT for Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery and Redshift, billed in credits; platform now named Maia Foundation.
Freemium
Prefect
Python flows and tasks with retries, caching and automations; free OSS and a free Prefect Cloud Hobby plan.
Paid
Stitch
Row-priced managed ELT now part of Qlik, which steers new users to Qlik Talend Cloud.
Paid
Talend Data Integration
Qlik's Talend integration, CDC and data quality, sold as Qlik Talend Cloud; Talend Open Studio is retired.
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Comparisons
AirbyteVSFivetran
Self-hostable data integration against a fully managed connector service.
Apache AirflowVSDagster
Task-based orchestration against an asset-based one.
ETLVSELT
Transform before loading, or after, and what changed with cloud warehouses.
ETLVSData pipeline
How ETL relates to the broader idea of a data pipeline.
AirbyteVSStitch
Self-hostable integration against Stitch, which Qlik now steers new customers away from.
AirbyteVSHevo Data
Self-hostable integration against a no-code, managed-only pipeline service.
AirbyteVSMatillion
A self-hostable ingestion tool against Matillion's transformation-centred platform.
AirbyteVSTalend
Source-available ELT against Qlik Talend Cloud and Talend Studio, after Talend Open Studio was discontinued.
FivetranVSStitch
Managed ELT against Stitch, now part of Qlik and being folded into Qlik Talend Cloud.
FivetranVSHevo Data
Two managed pipeline services compared on connectors and pricing.
FivetranVSMatillion
Managed ingestion against a pipeline and transformation platform.
FivetranVSTalend
Managed ELT against an enterprise data integration suite.
TalendVSInformatica
Two enterprise data integration suites, both now owned by larger vendors.
MatillionVSTalend
Matillion's Maia Foundation pushdown ELT against Qlik's Talend integration suite.
Apache AirflowVSAirbyte
An orchestrator against an ingestion tool, and why teams use both.
Apache AirflowVSFivetran
Writing your own pipelines against buying managed connectors.
Apache AirflowVSPrefect
Two Python workflow orchestrators with different models.
PrefectVSDagster
Two modern Python orchestrators compared.
Azure Data FactoryVSAWS Glue
Microsoft's pipeline and orchestration service against AWS's serverless Spark ETL with a shared Data Catalog.
Apache NiFiVSAirbyte
An Apache-licensed data flow engine for data in motion against a connector platform for ELT syncs.
EstuaryVSAirbyte
Continuous managed CDC with fan-out vs scheduled CDC syncs you can self-host, compared on replication behaviour.
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