Airbyte Announces Cloud Service With Pricing Adapted to Growing Data Volumes

Break from industry norm of volume-based pricing can be 10 times less expensive, makes database replication economically feasible

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Airbyte, creators of the fastest-growing open-source data integration platform, launched its cloud service for moving data, which will unify other data integration systems that companies use. It comes with pricing based on compute time, which can be 10 times less expensive. Airbyte Cloud moves away from the industry-norm volume-based pricing, which prevents companies from replicating data sources with high volumes, like databases, because the cost becomes prohibitive.

“Typically, companies use an ETL or ELT (extract, load, transform) technology to move data from the most common APIs (application programming interface), or they build in-house scripts for the less common ones, and have yet another technology for database replication. Now, companies can do it all from Airbyte Cloud at a fraction of the cost,” said Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte. “Using compute time as the basis for pricing is a well-understood concept and data processing platforms like Snowflake have already adopted that model.”

In addition to providing hosting and management, Airbyte Cloud enables companies to have multiple workspaces and access management for their teams. It also supports oAuth authentication to enable less technical users to connect their tools.

Today, Airbyte has over 5,000 companies using its technology, as compared with 250 at the end of January. The company is establishing the new standard of moving and consolidating data from different sources to data warehouses, data lakes, or databases in a process referred to as ELT. Businesses can create data pipelines from sources such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Facebook Ads, Salesforce, Stripe, and connect to destinations that include Redshift, Snowflake, and BigQuery.

With the introduction of Airbyte Cloud as an alternative to an on-premises deployment, the company announced a new licensing model last month where the user community and maintainers of data connectors have incentives to deliver new features and bug fixes for the continuously growing list of connectors.

Recently, Airbyte reached 130 data connectors just one year after the company began operations. More and more connectors are coming as contributions from the community, which now stands for 20% of the connectors built. At this pace, Airbyte’s data integration platform will have the most connectors in the industry by the end of this year.

Here is the complete list of connectors available for Airbyte. For any not yet available, it’s possible to quickly build a connector with the Airbyte CDK (Connector Developer Kit), which removes 75% of the code needed to build a new connector.

Using the Airbyte CDK enables users to build connectors to data sources in less than two hours, as compared with at least two days for most REST application programming interfaces (APIs). It standardizes the way connectors are built, maintained, and scaled, thus commoditizing data integration. There is no expectation for users to maintain the connectors they create. The intent is for Airbyte’s core team and the community to help maintain the connector.

With its approach, Airbyte resolves two long-standing issues: First, companies always had to build and maintain connectors on their own -- most “long tail” data connectors are not supported by closed-source ELT technologies, plus customizations are often required on common data connectors. Second, data teams always had to use a separate data replication system because volume-based pricing is cost prohibitive. Open-source addresses both issues with a growing user community that supports more and more connectors that can be shared and used widely. Airbyte Cloud delivers all of this as a service with an affordable pricing model.

The company is phasing in users for Airbyte Cloud starting in the U.S. To learn more, go here.

About Airbyte

Airbyte is the open-source data integration alternative running in the safety of your cloud and syncing data from applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses, lakes, and other destinations. Airbyte was co-founded by Michel Tricot (former director of engineering and head of integrations at Liveramp and RideOS) and John Lafleur (serial entrepreneur of dev tools and B2B). The company is based in San Francisco. To learn more, visit airbyte.io.