# Erathos vs. Airbyte: Which Data Integration Platform Should You Use in 2026? > Compare Erathos and Airbyte on pricing, connectors, CDC and operations, with published numbers side by side to pick the right tool in 2026. Source: https://www.erathos.com/en/blog/erathos-vs-airbyte-data-integration-platform-2026 Em português: https://www.erathos.com/blog/erathos-vs-airbyte-data-integration-platform-2026 Published: 2026-09-30 Category: Tool Guides ![Which Data Integration Platform Should You Use](https://cms-media.erathos.com/Which Data Integration Platform Should You Use.png) Erathos and Airbyte both move data from your business tools and databases into a data warehouse. They do it with different operating models, different connector catalogs, and different pricing math. This guide puts the published facts side by side so you can pick based on your sources, your team, and your budget. ## What is the practical difference between Erathos and Airbyte? Erathos is a managed data ingestion platform: Erathos runs the connectors, schedules, retries, and monitoring, and you pay a flat monthly price by row volume. Airbyte is two products under one name: Airbyte Core, open-source software your team installs and runs, and Airbyte Cloud, a hosted version priced by credits or by compute capacity. That difference decides what you check first. With Erathos, the question is whether the [connector catalog](https://www.erathos.com/en/connectors?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=bydefault&utm_campaign=erathos-vs-airbyte-data-integration-platform) covers your sources and whether a row-based plan fits your volume. Erathos handles extraction and loading only. Transformations happen in your warehouse afterward, for example with dbt. With Airbyte, the first question is who operates it. Airbyte Core is [built to run in a Kubernetes cluster](https://docs.airbyte.com/deploying-airbyte/), and your team owns the install, the upgrades, and the infrastructure. Airbyte Cloud removes that work but adds usage-based billing on the Standard and Plus plans, or a sales-negotiated capacity contract on Pro and Enterprise Flex. Airbyte also [no longer sells Self-Managed Enterprise](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/enterprise-setup). If you want a supported Airbyte that keeps data inside your own cloud, the current path is Enterprise Flex, which pairs an Airbyte-managed control plane with data planes inside your own boundary. ## Which platform fits our required sources and destination? Pick the platform whose catalog lists your specific sources as available today. Airbyte publishes [700+ connectors](https://airbyte.com/pricing); Erathos publishes [141 connectors, of which 85 are available, 20 are in beta, and 26 are coming soon](https://www.erathos.com/en/connectors?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=bydefault&utm_campaign=erathos-vs-airbyte-data-integration-platform). The raw count favors Airbyte. The useful comparison is narrower: does the tool have a working connector for the five or ten systems your company runs on? Airbyte's catalog splits into four support levels. Airbyte-level connectors are maintained by Airbyte and are production ready. Marketplace connectors are [maintained by community members, carry no support service level agreement (SLA), and may ship breaking changes with no notice](https://docs.airbyte.com/integrations/connector-support-levels). Enterprise connectors cost extra and are only for Pro and Enterprise customers. Check which level your sources fall under before counting them. Erathos's catalog is smaller and skews toward tools used by companies in Brazil. These sources are listed as available: Omie, Bling ERP, Conta Azul, Tiny, Sankhya, RD Station CRM, RD Station Marketing, Asaas, Pagar.me, Vindi, Hotmart, Mercado Livre, VTEX, Pipefy, Movidesk, Ploomes, Piperun, Superlógica, Sienge, and Convenia. Global SaaS tools like HubSpot, Stripe, Shopify, Zendesk, Jira, Meta Ads, Google Ads, and TikTok Ads are listed as available too. Protheus, SAP, Salesforce, Google Analytics, and Google Sheets are listed as coming soon. On the database side, Erathos lists MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Firebird, and Neo4j as sources. Firebird and Neo4j are Pro-plan connectors. Destination Erathos Airbyte (Airbyte-maintained) Google BigQuery Available Yes Amazon Redshift Available Yes Databricks Available Yes ClickHouse Available Yes PostgreSQL Available Yes Supabase Available Not listed Azure SQL Server Available Yes (MS SQL Server) S3 (Iceberg) Available Yes (S3 Data Lake) Snowflake Coming soon Yes Azure Synapse Coming soon Not listed Airbyte's column comes from its [destination catalog](https://docs.airbyte.com/integrations/destinations/), counting only Airbyte-maintained connectors. Snowflake is the notable gap on the Erathos side today. If Snowflake is your warehouse, Airbyte is the only one of the two that can load into it right now. If a source is missing, both platforms give you a way to build it. Airbyte's [Connector Builder](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/connector-development/connector-builder-ui/overview) is a no-code UI inside the Airbyte app for building source connectors from an HTTP API; it cannot build destination connectors. Erathos's Custom Connector, on the Pro and Enterprise plans, works from a GitHub repository you own: you install the Erathos GitHub App on the repo, every push rebuilds the connector, and it shows up in your catalog with a Custom badge. You can also request a connector from the Erathos dashboard, and the team ships new ones monthly based on demand. ## How do Erathos and Airbyte differ in control, scheduling, and CDC? Erathos schedules and configures each table or API endpoint as its own job, with its own sync type, schedule, and column selection. Airbyte configures scheduling at the connection level, with a plan-based limit on how often a sync can run. In Erathos, a connection to a source holds many jobs, and [each job is tied to one table or endpoint](https://docs.erathos.com/platform/connections/jobs). That means your orders table can refresh every 5 minutes while your product catalog refreshes once a day, both from the same source connection. Retry strategies work at [both the connection and the job level](https://www.erathos.com/en/control?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=bydefault&utm_campaign=erathos-vs-airbyte-data-integration-platform), and you can edit the cursor on a job run to reprocess only a specific date range instead of running a full refresh. Erathos supports two update types: [full refresh and partial (incremental) updates](https://docs.erathos.com/platform/connections/sync-types). Partial updates need a primary key and a date or datetime column to use as the cursor. Change Data Capture (CDC), which reads inserts, updates, and deletes straight from a database's transaction log instead of querying tables, is a Pro-plan feature. The [MySQL CDC to BigQuery guide](https://www.erathos.com/en/blog/mysql-cdc-to-bigquery?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=bydefault&utm_campaign=erathos-vs-airbyte-data-integration-platform) shows the setup: binary logging in ROW format with full row images. In Airbyte, the schedule belongs to the connection, and [only one sync per connection runs at a time](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/using-airbyte/core-concepts/sync-schedules). A connection can run on a fixed interval, on a cron expression, or by hand. Airbyte also states that scheduled syncs may start up to 30 minutes early or late, so a 5-minute schedule is a target rather than a guarantee. The sync-frequency limit per plan is [1 hour on Standard, 15 minutes on Plus, and 5 minutes on Pro and Enterprise Flex](https://airbyte.com/pricing). Airbyte's CDC works on [Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, and MongoDB](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/understanding-airbyte/cdc), with Oracle, SAP HANA, and IBM Db2 available as paid Enterprise connectors. The first CDC sync takes a full snapshot, and later syncs read the log from the last saved position. Airbyte's Cloud plans also add governance features Erathos does not list: single sign-on (SSO) and field renaming on Plus, and role-based access control, row filtering, field hashing and encryption, and multiple data regions on Pro. Capability Erathos Airbyte Cloud Fastest schedule Daily (Freemium), hourly (Movement), 5 min (Pro, Enterprise) 1 hr (Standard), 15 min (Plus), 5 min (Pro, Enterprise Flex) Schedule granularity Per table or endpoint Per connection (interval, cron, or manual) CDC Pro and Enterprise plans Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB; Oracle, SAP HANA, Db2 as paid Enterprise connectors Retries Set per connection and per job Not listed on the pricing page Backfill a date range Edit the cursor on a job run (Custom Backfill on Pro) Refresh Stream (full re-snapshot of that stream) Column selection Per job Yes API access Pro and Enterprise Airbyte API, Terraform Provider, PyAirbyte Alerts Email; Slack and Discord on Pro Monitoring Integrations (tier-dependent) Access control Users per plan (1, 3, 5, custom) SSO on Plus; RBAC on Pro Orchestrator hooks Open API on Pro and Enterprise Integration with Airflow, Dagster, Prefect ## What will Erathos vs. Airbyte cost in 2026? Erathos publishes flat monthly prices by row volume: [US$ 0 for up to 1M rows, US$ 29 for 2M rows, and US$ 250 for 5M rows](https://www.erathos.com/en/pre%C3%A7os?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=bydefault&utm_campaign=erathos-vs-airbyte-data-integration-platform), with higher tiers up to 300M rows on the slider and Enterprise up to 1.5 billion. Airbyte Cloud bills Standard and Plus in credits, [6 credits per million API rows or 4 credits per GB of database data](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/cloud/managing-airbyte-cloud/manage-credits), and Pro and Enterprise Flex by negotiated compute capacity. ### Erathos plans A row on Erathos means a row written to your warehouse in that month, regardless of whether the source is an API or a database. The plan limits and features are: Plan Price Rows per month Users Update frequency Notable features Freemium US$ 0 Up to 1M 1 Daily 5 pipeline jobs, 4 manual runs per month, 24 hours of history Movement US$ 29 2M (scales to 300M) 3 Hourly Unlimited connectors and jobs, 30 days of history Pro US$ 250 5M (scales to 300M) 5 Every 5 minutes CDC, Custom Connector, Custom Backfill, custom retries, API access, full history, priority support Enterprise Custom Up to 1.5 billion Custom Every 5 minutes Everything in Pro plus a dedicated support channel On the yearly plan you pay for 10 months and get 12. The platform shows your current usage and a forecast to the end of the month. When the forecast passes the plan limit, Erathos emails you so you can adjust jobs or upgrade before anything is interrupted. There are no limits on the number of connectors or integrations on the paid plans. Erathos also lists [prices in BRL for Brazilian customers](https://www.erathos.com/pt-BR/pricing?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=bydefault&utm_campaign=erathos-vs-airbyte-data-integration-platform). ### Airbyte Cloud credits Airbyte meters usage in credits, and the credit rate depends on the source type: Source type Billed by Unit Credits APIs Rows 1 million rows 6 Custom sources Rows 1 million rows 6 Databases Volume 1 GB 4 Files Volume 1 GB 4 Two details in the metering rules change the bill. For API sources, incremental syncs charge only the rows added, edited, or deleted, but a full refresh charges every row synced. For database and file sources, Airbyte measures the data after it is serialized into its own record format in transit, which the docs say is [likely to be a larger representation than you see in your database](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/cloud/managing-airbyte-cloud/manage-credits). Airbyte does not publish a fixed price per credit. Its pricing calculator shows one worked example: 40 monthly credits, equal to 6,640,000 API rows or 10 GB of database data, costs [US$ 195 per month on Standard or US$ 189 per month on Plus](https://airbyte.com/pricing). Airbyte's own guidance is that Plus becomes the cheaper plan at 40 or more credits per month. To put the two models on the same scale, take a company loading 5M rows a month from API sources like HubSpot and Stripe: Erathos Pro: 5M rows/month = US$ 250/month (flat) Airbyte Standard: 5M rows × 6 credits per 1M rows = 30 credits/month `Airbyte at 40 credits (6.64M rows) = US$ 195/month, per Airbyte's calculator` At that volume Airbyte Cloud is cheaper on the sticker, with 6.64M rows for US$ 195 against 5M rows for US$ 250. The Erathos price buys the Pro features (CDC, 5-minute schedules, custom retries, API access) at a fixed number. That number does not change if a full refresh reruns, and it does not change if the source is a database, which Airbyte would meter in GB of serialized data rather than rows. If hourly updates without CDC are enough, the Movement plan starts at US$ 29 for 2M rows. What happens when you go over also differs. On Airbyte Standard and Plus, [syncs keep running and you are billed in arrears](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/cloud/managing-airbyte-cloud/manage-credits) for any credits past your plan. Airbyte charges your saved card automatically once usage passes US$ 10,000 in a billing period. Airbyte only accepts credit cards on the self-serve plans. On Erathos, going over your row limit triggers a forecast email and a plan upgrade decision. There is no per-row overage rate on the pricing page. ### Airbyte Pro and Enterprise Flex The two upper Airbyte tiers price by Data Workers, a compute unit that Airbyte says [can typically run about 3 syncs at once](https://airbyte.com/pricing). You buy capacity, and the bill does not move with row volume. There is no public price. Both plans go through sales. Airbyte positions these plans for large organizations with higher data volumes. ### Support included in the price Tier Erathos Airbyte Cloud Free / Standard Chat and email Community (Slack, GitHub), portal support 7am to 7pm EST Mid Chat and email (Movement) 24-hour first response SLA, 7am to 7pm EST (Plus) Upper Priority support (Pro) 24/5 hours, 12-hour critical and 24-hour general first response (Pro, Enterprise Flex) Top Dedicated support channel (Enterprise) Priority add-on: 6-hour critical, 12-hour general ## What operational work comes with Airbyte Core versus a managed platform? Airbyte Core has no license fee, but your team supplies the machines, the Kubernetes cluster, the Helm install, the external storage and database, and the periodic upgrades. Erathos and Airbyte Cloud include all of that in the subscription. Airbyte's quickstart runs Core on a laptop with Docker Desktop and the abctl command, and recommends [4 or more CPUs and at least 8 GB of memory](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/using-airbyte/getting-started/oss-quickstart) for good performance. A low-resource mode runs on 2 CPUs and 8 GB, but it disables the Connector Builder. For production, Airbyte is [built to be deployed into a Kubernetes cluster](https://docs.airbyte.com/deploying-airbyte/) with Helm. A real deployment usually adds an object store like S3 or GCS for logs and state, an external database for Airbyte's own metadata, a secrets manager, and an ingress. Each of those needs a Kubernetes secret created ahead of time and a matching entry in your values file. Helm chart versions do not match Airbyte versions one to one, so upgrades mean checking the chart-to-app mapping before each bump. Airbyte's docs state plainly that you will need to do periodic upgrades. None of that is exotic for a team that already runs Kubernetes. For a team without one, it is a new platform to learn and keep alive. Integrate.io, a competitor to both products, estimates the cloud infrastructure alone for self-hosted Airbyte at [US$ 500 to US$ 3,000 or more per month](https://www.integrate.io/blog/airbyte-cost/). That figure is one vendor's estimate, and it gives a sense of the range before any engineering time. Erathos publishes its own scale numbers as a company statement: [more than 8 billion rows processed monthly and 10,000 jobs executed daily, at a success rate above 98%](https://www.erathos.com/en/about?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=bydefault&utm_campaign=erathos-vs-airbyte-data-integration-platform). Erathos monitors every pipeline and sends automatic alerts when a run fails. The company started as a data consultancy in 2018 and turned the platform into a product in 2024. ## Which platform should a Brazil or LatAm data team choose? Choose Erathos when your sources include Brazilian ERPs, CRMs, and payment tools such as Omie, Bling, Conta Azul, Tiny, RD Station, or Asaas, and you want a flat monthly price with per-table scheduling. Choose Airbyte when you need Snowflake as a destination, a source only Airbyte's 700+ catalog covers, or governance features like RBAC and multiple data regions, and you either have a platform team to run Core or a budget for Cloud. A few concrete checks before signing anything: - List your sources and look each one up in both catalogs. On the [Erathos catalog](https://www.erathos.com/en/connectors?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=bydefault&utm_campaign=erathos-vs-airbyte-data-integration-platform), note the Available, Beta, or Coming soon label. On [Airbyte's catalog](https://docs.airbyte.com/integrations/), note the support level. - Estimate your monthly rows written to the warehouse. That number maps straight to an Erathos tier. For Airbyte, split it into API rows and database GB and convert to credits with the table above. - Decide whether you need updates faster than hourly. On Erathos that means the Pro plan; on Airbyte Cloud it means Plus (15 min) or Pro (5 min). - If you need CDC on a database, both require it on a paid tier and both need database-side setup such as binary logging on MySQL. - Confirm data residency, LGPD terms, and support language in writing with whichever vendor you pick. Neither vendor's public pricing page settles those questions, so they belong in the sales conversation. Erathos's [customer stories](https://www.erathos.com/en/clientes?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=bydefault&utm_campaign=erathos-vs-airbyte-data-integration-platform) show the profile it fits: UoouShop centralized data from 6 sources in one day without a dedicated data team, and Kamino cut its data costs by more than 90% after moving to Erathos. ## FAQ ### Is Erathos an Airbyte alternative or a different kind of tool? Both are ELT tools that extract data from sources and load it into a warehouse, so yes, they compete for the same job. The difference is the operating model: Erathos is managed-only with flat row-based pricing, while Airbyte offers self-hosted open source plus a hosted Cloud with credit or capacity pricing. ### Does Erathos have a free plan? Yes. The Freemium plan covers up to 1M rows per month with 1 user, 5 pipeline jobs, daily updates, and 4 manual runs per month. New accounts also get the Pro plan free for 14 days with no credit card, and each new connection you create gets a 2-week test window so you can measure its row usage before it counts against your plan. ### Does Airbyte Cloud have a free trial? Yes. The trial lasts [30 days or 400 credits, whichever comes first](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/cloud/managing-airbyte-cloud/manage-credits), and it starts after your first successful sync. 400 credits equals about 66M API rows or 100 GB of database data at the published rates. You need a credit card on file to keep syncing after the trial. ### Can I run Erathos on my own servers? No. Erathos is a hosted platform only. Database connections support open access, a fixed IP allowlist, or an SSH tunnel. Airbyte Core is the option if you need to self-host, and Enterprise Flex is the option if you need Airbyte's data plane inside your own cloud with a managed control plane. ### Does either tool transform data? Both are extract-and-load tools. Erathos loads raw tables into your warehouse and you run transformations afterward, for example with dbt. Airbyte Cloud offers field renaming on Plus and field hashing, encryption, and row filtering on Pro, which are in-flight adjustments rather than modeling. ### How does Airbyte's 5-minute sync compare to Erathos's 5-minute updates? They match on paper: both top out at a 5-minute interval on their upper tiers. The difference is where you set it. On Erathos the 5-minute schedule applies per job, so one table can run that fast while others run daily. On Airbyte Cloud the schedule applies per connection. ### What if my source is not in either catalog? On Airbyte, the Connector Builder lets you build a source connector from an HTTP API with no code, and community review typically takes under a week if you want to publish it. On Erathos, the Pro plan's Custom Connector runs your own connector code from a GitHub repository, and you can request a new catalog connector from the dashboard. ## Try Erathos free for 14 days New accounts get the full Pro plan for 14 days, no credit card needed, so you can connect your real sources and see the row counts before you pick a tier. [Create your Erathos account](https://app.erathos.com/signup?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=bydefault&utm_campaign=erathos-vs-airbyte-data-integration-platform) and load your first table today.