What people previously said about Fivetran

“Fivetran is plug‑and‑play and charges on rows. Skyvia is more manual but flat priced. Airbyte, Hevo, Rivery and others are also in reach.”

“My company recently implemented fivetran and it is ridiculous how quickly we were able to replicate our source systems.”

“I've been reading some of the negatives here about Fivetran, but honestly, I tried their trial version and it gave me a monthly estimate of $50 USD, which is far cheaper than other alternatives. Any other suggestions?”

“Each has strengths—Fivetran for managed pipelines, Airbyte for flexibility, DLT for developer-friendliness but the game is shifting.”

“Fivetran is ideal when you’re happy paying for hands-off syncs, Airbyte fits if you need to fork and hack new API sources, DLT makes sense for code-first shops that test everything in Git. LLMs can spit out connector scaffolds or dbt models, but they won’t babysit retries, quotas, or schema drift, so pick the runtime you’re willing to patch.”

“About 30% cheaper than Fivetran and migration was pretty quick and straightforward.”

“Easier to use Fivetran for this than keeping track of changes in API ourselves.”

“Best way to replace expensive fivetran pipelines (MySQL → Snowflake)?”

“Otherwise, Fivetran does what it does really well.”

“Fivetran: Best for plug-and-play, fully managed pipelines. Great for teams that want reliability and low maintenance.”

“Fivetran is not only expensive, but uses a very confusing and opaque pricing mechanism.”

“Fivetran is crazy expensive imho.”

“If you want a hands-off, fully managed service, Fivetran is your safest bet; Airbyte is great if you like open-source and want to build custom connectors yourself; and Databricks DLT makes sense if you’re already using their Lakehouse stack and want tight integration.”

“Between Fivetran, Airbyte, and DLT, which do people recommend? Likely, it depends on the use case, so I would be curious when people recommend each.”

“We switched from Fivetran to skyvia.com when costs got too high.”

“Pay special attention to any custom transformations or complex data types you're currently using with Fivetran, these are usually where migration challenges surface.”

“This is the reason I will always strongly not recommend Fivetran to anyone, ever. They are the highest cost by a long shot.”

“Yes, this is the reason I'd never recommend Fivetran to anyone, ever. Stay away.”

“If the Fivetran pricing shift is a dealbreaker, Skyvia might be worth a look. It has built-in transformations, so you could skip some of the dbt overhead.”

“Snowflake + dbt + Fivetran is a powerful stack, but it has a lot of moving parts, and with Fivetran’s recent price increases, it’s getting pretty expensive. If you're still early-stage, you could also look at Skyvia, it’s simpler to get started with and more affordable for basic ETL into Snowflake.”

“It is cheaper than Fivetran and easier to set up without a ton of overhead. Might not cover 100% of your use cases, but good for getting quick wins while you sort the bigger picture.”

“NetSuite’s API permissions and roles can be a nightmare, even small misconfigs will break Fivetran’s sync. If the issues drag on, you might check Skyvia, too. It supports NetSuite and sometimes plays nicer with simpler setups.”

“I had evaluated fivetran before picking hevo - didn’t use it extensively but a couple of folk in my network shared frustrations around billing and support, which made me lean towards Hevo even more. no regrets so far.”

“The Fivetran part of it works fine. It does what it did with the NetSuite.com schema: it pulls all the tables and fields you tell it into your data warehouse.”

“Fivetran should be updating whatever objects they are using to work with NetSuite2.com. Do you have a dedicated account manager there?”

“I'm working with Fivetran support but not making progress. The level of effort to clean this up is a little terrifying.”

“Most of the pg extractors (including Fivetran’s) are using the wal-replication slots. You can even set your own connector up using something like airbyte/Meltano or even debezium (might be a lot of coming though)”

“Trueclassic , which is one of the famous apparel brand had actually migrated from fivetran to daton because of the same.”

“Continue using Fivetran but supplement it with a secondary extraction process (perhaps using Airflow as you mentioned previously) for critical metrics. This creates redundancy and allows you to cross-validate the data.”

“Hope this piece helps: [https://www.datachannel.co/blogs/is-fivetrans-new-pricing-model-too-high-a-deep-dive](https://www.datachannel.co/blogs/is-fivetrans-new-pricing-model-too-high-a-deep-dive)”

“How will it differ from Fivetran or Airbyte?”

“I'm seeing how many teams are getting hit hard by these Fivetran pricing changes. I’m working on a data integration product and trying to understand where data engineers are running into the most friction.”

“But the TCO has now become so painful that I'm constantly being questioned for that technical choice.”

“The reason I used to recommend Fivetran is that Fivetran in my experience had the fewest bugs”

“FiveTran is the Cadillac in the ingestion tool space and sometimes we don’t need to spend that kind of money.”

“Fivetran's too expensive for us.”

“The product is good but the pricing, model, and service seems to be super unpredictable!”

“This makes it difficult to get a good estimate of the price per connector despite knowing the MARs. I would appreciate some insight into computing the price per connector based on the MARs.”

“Former Fivetran user here. Switched back to custom API integration for the same reason.”

“I've worked w stitch, fivetran and the FB api. The only common denominator of issues was the api itself.”

“To be fair to Fivetran the Facebook APIs are awful to work with, the data is often different to the UI or not available at all (or suddenly deprecated). I've mostly only worked with the Page and Video end-points but the hoops you have to jump through to often end up at dead ends is hugely frustrating.”

“It sounds like the issue is with FB Ads API itself. Not the integration.”

“With frameworks like dlt around, you can easily move off Fivetran to something you built and can control.”

“If you don't get the response you want, you can present options to the client of 1) staying as-is with an example difference of the period you exported compared to the fivetran output and 2) additional engineering/operations cost to get full data yourself via API and see if they're okay with the difference.”

“It’s been an absolute horror show.”

“Circumvent fivetrans worthless charges with dagster”

“I am fairly happy with what we have, but the Fivetran move to start charging for DBT transformations will mean a sudden bill of around $900 a month. FWIW the CEO is probably willing to pay this, but I don't think it is good value.”

“Setting up Snowflake with DBT and Fivetran”

“I often hear fivetran as an example is so expensive but when you take into consideration the maintenance and infra of open source or some self hosted custom solution you need to think long term, especially for what's arguably minimal business value of simply ingesting the data into your data platforms.”

“I'd recommend adding Rivery.io to your list (I'm with them).”