# Airbyte vs dlt

| Attribute | Airbyte | dlt |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 68 (73% (medium)) | 64.7 (46% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 36 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 7 | 23 |
| adoption.github_stars | 22,223 | 5,969 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 269,893 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Infrastructure that connects your business systems, pre-indexes and unifies their data, and serves it to AI agents through a managed context layer. Supports both real-time queries and pre-materialized context, with built-in OAuth, connector management, and data activation to operational tools. It is indexed under Data Engineering Tools.","source":"https://airbyte.com","question":"What is Airbyte?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Airbyte offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.00. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://airbyte.com","question":"Is Airbyte free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Airbyte supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://airbyte.com","question":"What platforms does Airbyte support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Airbyte can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://airbyte.com","question":"Can Airbyte be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 14 integrations for Airbyte, including Salesforce, Zendesk, Stripe, HubSpot, Gong, Linear, ActiveCampaign and Azure Blob Storage, plus 6 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://airbyte.com","question":"What does Airbyte integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for Airbyte. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Airbyte not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://trust.airbyte.com","question":"What security certifications does Airbyte have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Airbyte is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://airbyte.com","question":"Where is Airbyte available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"A hosted service combining the open-source dlt Python library with managed infrastructure, observability, data quality testing, and team collaboration features for building and running data pipelines. It is indexed under Data Engineering Tools.","source":"https://dlthub.com/pricing","question":"What is dlt?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"dlt is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $0.80. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://dlthub.com/pricing","question":"Is dlt free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"dlt supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://dlthub.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does dlt support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. dlt can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://dlthub.com/pricing","question":"Can dlt be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 28 integrations for dlt, including Salesforce, PostgreSQL, HubSpot, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, MotherDuck and DuckDB, plus 20 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://dlthub.com/pricing","question":"What does dlt integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for dlt. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as dlt not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://dlthub.com/privacy-policy","question":"What security certifications does dlt have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. dlt is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/dlt-hub/dlt","question":"Is dlt open source?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"dlt is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in Germany.","source":"https://dlthub.com/pricing","question":"Where is dlt available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A platform that connects hundreds of data sources and moves data to analytics warehouses or AI applications, with flexible deployment options including cloud, self-hosted, and hybrid models. | A managed platform that enables teams to build, deploy, and monitor data pipelines with AI assistance, built on the open-source dlt library. It provides runtime management, observability, data quality monitoring, and team collaboration features for moving data from any source to any destination. |
| features.capabilities | `{"cdc":true,"role":"elt","soc2":true,"paradigm":"both","python_first":true,"managed_cloud":true,"connector_count":"50+","self_hosted_oss":true,"incremental_runs":true,"reverse_etl_addon":true,"custom_connector_sdk":true,"self_hosted_available":true,"managed_cloud_available":true,"pii_masking_at_ingestion":true}` | `{"cdc":true,"role":"elt","lineage":true,"paradigm":"both","dbt_native":true,"data_quality":true,"elt_pushdown":true,"python_first":true,"managed_cloud":true,"connector_count":"5,000+","self_hosted_oss":true,"incremental_runs":true,"reverse_etl_addon":true,"custom_connector_sdk":true,"schema_drift_handling":true,"self_hosted_available":true,"managed_cloud_available":true,"pii_masking_at_ingestion":true}` |
| integrations.count | 50 | 5,000 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Zendesk"},{"name":"Stripe"},{"name":"HubSpot"},{"name":"Gong"},{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"ActiveCampaign"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage"},{"name":"BigQuery"},{"name":"Facebook Marketing"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Google Analytics"},{"name":"Google Drive"},{"name":"Snowflake","native":true,"category":"data_warehouse","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"OpenAI","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"outbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"HubSpot"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"BigQuery"},{"name":"MotherDuck"},{"name":"DuckDB"},{"name":"SQLite"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure"},{"name":"SFTP"},{"name":"Parquet"},{"name":"Apache Delta"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"DuckLake"},{"name":"Pydantic Logfire"},{"name":"Arize"},{"name":"Langfuse"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Apache Airflow"},{"name":"Dagster"},{"name":"AWS Lambda"},{"name":"Marimo"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"Postgres","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Redshift","native":true,"category":"data_warehouse","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Athena","native":true,"category":"query_engine","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Azure Storage","native":true,"category":"cloud_storage","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Delta Lake","native":true,"category":"data_format","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Claude Code","native":true,"category":"agentic_development","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Codex","native":true,"category":"agentic_development","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Cursor","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"communication","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"GitHub","native":true,"category":"version_control","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"LanceDB","native":false,"category":"vector_database","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"DataHub","native":false,"category":"metadata_platform","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Amazon Athena","native":true,"category":"data_warehouse","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Microsoft SQL Server","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"ClickHouse","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Airflow","native":true,"category":"orchestration","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Claude","native":true,"category":"ai_assistant","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Streamlit","native":true,"category":"app_framework","direction":"outbound"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | Python |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true,"linux":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free (Agents)","summary":"Free","features":["Single user","API and MCP access","Context Store refreshes daily (hourly for first 14 days)","Community and AI support","No overage available"],"minSeats":1,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Get started for free before picking a plan","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"agent_operations":"1000/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Individual (Agents)","summary":"$29/month","features":["Single user","API and MCP access","Context Store with hourly refresh","Standard and AI support","Overage AOs available"],"minSeats":1,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"AO"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.004,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For personal use and small scale workflows","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"agent_operations":"5000/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team (Agents)","summary":"$299/month","features":["Everything in Individual","Parallel workflow execution","Multiple users and workspaces","Standard and AI support","Overage AOs available"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":299,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"AO"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.005,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For teams building agents in production","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"agent_operations":"10000/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Custom (Agents)","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Everything in Team","Custom AO limits","Custom Context Store refresh frequency","Dedicated Solutions Architect","Dedicated support with SLA"],"description":"For companies with enterprise needs","contactSales":true},{"free":true,"name":"Core (Data Replication)","summary":"Free (self-managed)","features":["Self-managed","Open source","Always free"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For data engineering orgs comfortable running open source entirely on their own","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Standard (Data Replication)","summary":"Starting at $10/month","features":["Fully managed cloud hosting","Volume-based pricing","Quick deployment"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For practitioners looking for fully managed software with volume-based pricing","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Pro (Data Replication)","summary":"Capacity-based pricing (talk to sales)","features":["Fully managed cloud hosting","Capacity-based pricing","Multiple Workspaces","SSO and RBAC","Premium Support","15-minute syncs","Custom mappings"],"description":"For organizations needing scalability, governance, and security","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Flex (Data Replication)","summary":"Custom pricing (talk to sales)","features":["Sovereign data movement inside your boundary","On-premises and multi-region options","Hybrid deployment with Airbyte managed control plane","All Pro features","Premium support"],"description":"For enterprises in regulated industries requiring full control of sovereign data","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier available. Agent pricing from $29/month to $299/month. Data Replication from $10/month to enterprise custom pricing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://airbyte.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-05T14:24:37.249Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.004,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"dlt","summary":"Free, open-source Apache 2.0","features":["Open source ingestion library","Reliable ingestion and loading","Limited verified OSS connectors","AI help and community support"],"description":"Open-source Apache 2.0 licensed data loading library","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Hub","summary":"$12,000/month with 5,000 credits included. Tiered overage pricing: $1.00–$0.80 per credit depending on volume.","features":["Everything in dlt","AI Harness (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor)","Managed runtime for ingestion","Transformations & Data apps","Data quality metrics & checks","Observability dashboard","Collaboration workflows for teams","Unlimited pipelines and notebooks","Data freshness triggers","Automatic backfilling","dbt model generator","Data apps (marimo and Streamlit)","Declarative quality checks per dataset, table or row","Schema and data contracts","PII redaction before load","Runs, schemas and lineage in dashboard","Stream logs from CLI or web UI","Slack alerting","Organisation and workspace roles","Secrets management","Environment variable manager","Regional data plane selection","Role-based access control (RBAC)"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":12000,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"credit"},"kind":"metered","amount":1,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Managed platform with observability and team collaboration","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"credits_per_month":"5000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing. Contact sales.","features":["Custom credits and volume pricing","Enterprise security and governance controls","Role-based access control (RBAC) and audit logs","SLA and tailored support options","Custom onboarding and architecture guidance"],"description":"Custom pricing with enterprise governance and support","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Credit bundles","components":[{"kind":"one_time","amount":100,"currency":"USD"},{"kind":"one_time","amount":190,"currency":"USD"},{"kind":"one_time","amount":360,"currency":"USD"},{"kind":"one_time","amount":700,"currency":"USD"},{"kind":"one_time","amount":1360,"currency":"USD"},{"kind":"one_time","amount":2640,"currency":"USD"},{"kind":"one_time","amount":5120,"currency":"USD"},{"kind":"one_time","amount":9920,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free open-source tier. Hub plan from $12,000/month with 5,000 included credits. Tiered overage pricing. 14-day free trial.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dlthub.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-15T20:27:28.149Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":12000,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | high |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":12000,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 7 | 12 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.9 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 4.8 | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=airbyte-source-typeform&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=dlt&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Data Engineering Tools)

| Capability | Airbyte | dlt |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Tool role | ELT / ingestion | ELT / ingestion |
| Processing paradigm | Batch + streaming | Batch + streaming |
| **Connectivity** |  |  |
| Connector count | 50+ | 5,000+ |
| CDC / log-based replication | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Transformation** |  |  |
| In-warehouse transformation (push-down) | - | ✓ |
| dbt-native orchestration | - | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Self-hosted / open-source available | ✓ | ✓ |
| Managed cloud available | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Governance** |  |  |
| Data lineage / asset catalog | - | ✓ |
| **Authoring** |  |  |
| Python-first authoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Execution** |  |  |
| Incremental / partition-aware runs | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Quality** |  |  |
| Built-in data quality / tests | - | ✓ |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Horizontal scale (distributed executor) | - | - |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:22:03.724Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*