Airbyte vs Kestra
On the evidence we track, Airbyte leads this comparison with a composite score of 68/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for data engineering tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Airbyte
LeaderA 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.
Kestra
A language-agnostic platform that lets teams define and run business-critical workflows declaratively as code, with built-in scheduling, event-driven triggers, retries, failure handling, and full observability across cloud, on-premise, and air-gapped deployments.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Airbyte
LeaderFree tier available. Agent pricing from $29/month to $299/month. Data Replication from $10/month to enterprise custom pricing.
- Free (Agents)Free
- Single user
- API and MCP access
- Context Store refreshes daily (hourly for first 14 days)
- Community and AI support
- No overage available
- Individual (Agents)$29/month
- Single user
- API and MCP access
- Context Store with hourly refresh
- Standard and AI support
- Overage AOs available
- Team (Agents)$299/month
- Everything in Individual
- Parallel workflow execution
- Multiple users and workspaces
- Standard and AI support
- Overage AOs available
- Custom (Agents)Contact sales
- Everything in Team
- Custom AO limits
- Custom Context Store refresh frequency
- Dedicated Solutions Architect
- Dedicated support with SLA
- Core (Data Replication)Free
- Self-managed
- Open source
- Always free
- Standard (Data Replication)Starting at $10/month
- Fully managed cloud hosting
- Volume-based pricing
- Quick deployment
- Pro (Data Replication)Contact sales
- Fully managed cloud hosting
- Capacity-based pricing
- Multiple Workspaces
- SSO and RBAC
- Premium Support
- +2 more
- Enterprise Flex (Data Replication)Contact sales
- Sovereign data movement inside your boundary
- On-premises and multi-region options
- Hybrid deployment with Airbyte managed control plane
- All Pro features
- Premium support
Kestra
- Open SourceFree
- Kestra CloudManaged cloud with enterprise support
- Fully Managed Platform (Hosting, Upgrades, Monitoring)
- Built-in Security and Governance Features
- Customer Success Program & Enterprise Support with SLA
- Audit Logs
- Kestra EnterpriseContact sales
- Run anywhere Cloud, On-Prem, Air-Gapped
- RBAC, audit logs, secrets management, asset lineage
- AI Copilot (Any LLM Cloud or Self-Hosted)
- Human-in-the-Loop Approvals
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Salesforce
- GitHub
- Google Analytics
- Slack
- OpenAI
Airbyte
Leader- Zendesk
- Stripe
- HubSpot
- Gong
- Linear
- ActiveCampaign
- Azure Blob Storage
- BigQuery
- Facebook Marketing
- GitLab
- Google Drive
- Snowflake
Kestra
- Ansible
- dbt
- Spark
- Airbyte
- Dremio
- Arrow Flight SQL
- Git
- GitHub Actions
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- S3
- Azure Data Lake Storage
- Postgres
- JDBC databases
- HTTP APIs
- Polars
- Python
- Bash
- Node.js
- Go
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Spark
- PagerDuty
- +29 more
Airbyte or Kestra: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
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Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.