Airbyte

Moving data from your sources into a warehouse or database, and keeping it in sync, is the job Airbyte handles.

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform for ELT and replication, and it also positions itself as a way to prepare AI-ready data.

The core product is free forever when you host it yourself, which suits practitioners who want full control over their pipelines and have no governance requirements.

There are four plans, and the split is mostly about who runs the infrastructure.

The self-hosted Open Source edition costs nothing.

Cloud is hosted by Airbyte, uses volume-based pricing, and is meant for practitioners who want managed pipelines without the infrastructure work.

Team is also cloud-hosted, uses capacity-based pricing, and adds scalability, governance and security for organizations.

Enterprise is self-hosted with capacity-based pricing, built for organizations that need security, compliance and full control over their infrastructure.

If you want to start small and keep everything on your own servers, the open-source version is the obvious place to begin.