Hevo Data vs Meltano
No clear leader: Hevo Data (65.6) and Meltano (63.4) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
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.
Hevo Data
A cloud-native ELT platform that automates data movement from 150+ sources into data warehouses with built-in dbt-based transformations, automatic schema drift handling, and enterprise security controls.
Meltano
Meltano provides teams with an open-source data integration engine that orchestrates extraction, loading, and transformation from multiple sources. It supports various replication methods and includes automatic data quality monitoring, with flexibility to deploy either in a managed cloud environment or as self-hosted infrastructure.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Hevo Data
From $0 (Free). Starter $265–$299/month. Professional $750–$849/month. Custom plans available.
- FreeFree
- 1-hour scheduling
- Up to 5 users
- Starter$299/month (monthly) or $265/month (annual, 12% off)
- Everything in Free, plus
- Up to 10 users
- 150+ connectors
- dbt integration
- SSH/SSL
- +1 more
- Professional$849/month (monthly) or $750/month (annual, 12% off)
- Everything in Starter, plus
- Unlimited users
- Hevo APIs for Pipeline automation
- Reverse SSH
- Add-ons available
- Business CriticalContact sales
- Everything in Professional, plus
- Streaming Pipelines
- Role Based Access Control
- Single sign-on
- Multiple Workspaces
- +2 more
Meltano
Free open-source version. Managed cloud plans from Starter (200 compute hrs/mo) to Enterprise (unlimited). Pay for compute, not rows.
- Starter-
- 200 compute hours/mo
- Managed infrastructure
- 25 workspaces
- Unlimited users
- 600+ connectors
- +5 more
- Growth-
- 2000 compute hours/mo
- Everything in Starter
- 100 workspaces
- 8 hours of engineering on demand/mo
- Shared account management
- Scale-
- 5000 compute hours/mo
- Everything in Growth
- Unlimited workspaces
- 15 hours of engineering on demand/mo
- Dedicated account management
- +1 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Unlimited compute hours/mo
- Everything in Scale
- Custom connectors
- Custom hours of engineering on demand/mo
- Custom SLA
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.
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Oracle
- BigQuery
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
- Zendesk
- Google Ads
- Facebook Ads
- Amazon S3
- Google Cloud Storage
- Snowflake
- Google Analytics
- Databricks
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Slack
- Kafka
- Google Sheets
- NetSuite
- Mailchimp
- Klaviyo
- Intercom
- ElasticSearch
Hevo Data
- SQL Server
- Redshift
- MariaDB
- Shopify
- Azure Blob
- SFTP
- Google Cloud
- dbt Core
- Azure Synapse Analytics
- Segment
- Amplitude
- Firebase Analytics
- Mixpanel
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud
- TikTok Ads
- Pinterest Ads
- Amazon Ads
- Apple Search Ads
- QuickBooks Online
- Freshsales
- Pardot
- SendGrid
- AWS Opensearch
- Apify
- +2 more
Meltano
- Singer
- dbt
- Airflow
- Great Expectations
- Dagster
- Superset
- dbt Cloud
- Jira
- Amazon Redshift
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Freshdesk
- Apache Kafka
- AWS S3
- Looker
- Data.world
- Monday.com
- Asana
- LinkedIn Ads
- Airtable
- ActiveCampaign
- Marketo
- Amazon Advertising
- Auth0
- +15 more
Hevo Data or Meltano: 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.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.