# Kestra vs Rivery

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Rivery

| Attribute | Kestra | Rivery |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 59 (54% (medium)) | 78.6 (74% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"An open-source platform designed for orchestrating complex, long-running workflows across data pipelines, AI systems, and infrastructure operations. Supports multiple languages and deployment models (cloud, self-hosted, air-gapped), with built-in reliability features like retries, backfills, and comprehensive observability. It is indexed under Data Engineering Tools.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"What is Kestra?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Kestra offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Open Source, Kestra Cloud and Kestra Enterprise. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"Is Kestra free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Kestra supports the web, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"What platforms does Kestra support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Kestra can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"Can Kestra be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 40 integrations for Kestra, including Ansible, dbt, Spark, Airbyte, Dremio, Arrow Flight SQL, Git and Kubernetes, plus 32 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"What does Kestra integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Kestra. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Kestra not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://kestra.io/docs/configuration/security-and-secrets","question":"What security certifications does Kestra have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Kestra is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"Where is Kestra available?","confidence":0.5}]` | `[{"answer":"Cloud ELT platform for building end-to-end data pipelines with data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, reverse ETL, and CDC replication. Supports no-code and custom Python code for analytics and AI use cases. It is indexed under Data Engineering Tools.","source":"https://rivery.io","question":"What is Rivery?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Rivery does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 4 plans (Base, Professional, Pro Plus and Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://rivery.io","question":"How much does Rivery cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Rivery. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://rivery.io","question":"What platforms does Rivery support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Rivery, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://rivery.io","question":"Can Rivery be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 9 integrations for Rivery, including Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Tableau, Snowflake, BigQuery, Amazon Redshift and Azure Synapse Analytics, plus 1 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://rivery.io","question":"What does Rivery integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 for Rivery. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Rivery not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://rivery.io","question":"What security certifications does Rivery have?","confidence":0.6}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | Rivery is a SaaS ELT platform that enables users to extract data from multiple sources (apps, databases, APIs) and load it into data warehouses with SQL or Python transformations. It includes reverse ETL capabilities to push processed data back into business applications. |
| features.capabilities | `{"cdc":false,"role":"orchestrator","lineage":true,"paradigm":"both","iso_27001":false,"dbt_native":true,"data_quality":true,"elt_pushdown":true,"python_first":true,"soc2_type_ii":true,"managed_cloud":true,"connector_count":"1900+","self_hosted_oss":true,"incremental_runs":true,"distributed_executor":true,"builder_ui_architecture":"visual_node_canvas","custom_http_webhook_catch_and_triggering":true,"native_llm_nodes_anthropic_openai_gemini":true,"on_premise_self_hosted_deployment_option":true,"bring_your_own_key_byok_for_llm_inference":true,"web_scraping_and_browser_automation_nodes":false,"sub_workflow_calling_and_reusable_templates":true,"human_in_the_loop_approval_steps_via_slack_email":true,"dynamic_conditional_routing_via_llm_classification":true,"unstructured_document_extraction_pdf_image_to_json":true}` | `{"cdc":true,"role":"elt","paradigm":"both","data_quality":true,"elt_pushdown":true,"python_first":true,"managed_cloud":true,"connector_count":"200+","incremental_runs":true,"reverse_etl_addon":true,"custom_connector_sdk":true,"self_hosted_available":false}` |
| integrations.count | 2,000 | 200 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Ansible"},{"name":"dbt"},{"name":"Spark"},{"name":"Airbyte"},{"name":"Dremio"},{"name":"Arrow Flight SQL"},{"name":"Git"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Azure Data Lake Storage"},{"name":"Postgres"},{"name":"JDBC databases"},{"name":"HTTP APIs"},{"name":"Polars"},{"name":"Python"},{"name":"Bash"},{"name":"Node.js"},{"name":"Go"},{"name":"Apache Kafka"},{"name":"Apache Spark"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Google Gemini"},{"name":"Perplexity"},{"name":"Google Analytics"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Facebook Ads"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"Yahoo Finance"},{"name":"AWS Secrets Manager"},{"name":"HashiCorp Vault"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"Google BigQuery"},{"name":"R"},{"name":"Java"},{"name":"Julia"},{"name":"Ruby"},{"name":"Shell"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Dataform","native":true,"category":"data_transformation","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Apache Tika","native":false,"category":"document_processing","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Gemini","native":true,"category":"ai_llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Azure Key Vault","native":true,"category":"secrets_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Secret Manager","native":true,"category":"secrets_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Kafka","native":true,"category":"streaming","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Elasticsearch","native":true},{"name":"Datadog","native":true},{"name":"Splunk","native":true},{"name":"MySQL","native":true}]` | `[{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"HubSpot"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Tableau"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"BigQuery"},{"name":"Amazon Redshift"},{"name":"Azure Synapse Analytics"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"NetSuite","native":true,"category":"erp","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"dbt","native":true,"category":"transformation","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Airflow","native":true,"category":"orchestration","direction":"bidirectional"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Open Source","summary":"Free, self-hosted","description":"Self-hosted open-source version","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Kestra Cloud","summary":"Managed cloud with enterprise support","features":["Fully Managed Platform (Hosting, Upgrades, Monitoring)","Built-in Security and Governance Features","Customer Success Program & Enterprise Support with SLA","Audit Logs"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Fully managed cloud platform","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Kestra Enterprise","summary":"Enterprise self-hosted with advanced governance","features":["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"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Self-hosted enterprise edition","contactSales":true}],"currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://kestra.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-06T16:17:51.489Z","billingPeriods":["year"]}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Starter","summary":"$0.75 per RPU (PAYG), lower rate with annual commitment","features":["Basic ETL functionality","Unlimited users","Orchestration workflows"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"RPU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.75,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For smaller businesses with smaller data volumes","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Professional","summary":"$1.20 per RPU (PAYG or annual)","features":["Advanced transformation capabilities","Unlimited users","Multiple workflows"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"RPU"},"kind":"metered","amount":1.2,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For fast-growing organizations needing advanced transformation capabilities","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Unlimited users, environments, workspaces","SSO, VPN","Built-for-you connectors","Dedicated solutions engineers"],"description":"For advanced data teams handling large data loads, migrations, strict security needs","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"High Sync Frequency"}],"summary":"From $0.75 per RPU. Usage-based pricing (100MB data = 1 RPU). Free tier available. Annual and pay-as-you-go options.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://rivery.io/blog/rivery-unlimited-pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-06T22:12:35.460Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"RPU","amount":0.75,"currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":0.75,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2","status":"active"}]` | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO/IEC 27001","level":"2013","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA","status":"active"},{"name":"GDPR","status":"active"}]` |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://kestra.io/docs/configuration/security-and-secrets | https://rivery.io/product/security-policy/ |

## Capabilities (Data Engineering Tools)

| Capability | Kestra | Rivery |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Tool role | Orchestrator | ELT / ingestion |
| Processing paradigm | Batch + streaming | Batch + streaming |
| **Connectivity** |  |  |
| Connector count | 1900+ | 200+ |
| 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 2026-10-16T21:25:57.976Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*