How much does Airbyte cost?

Airbyte publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Open Source up to $500/month for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Airbyte have a free plan?

Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers self-hosted, community support, full features. Paying starts at $50/month for Cloud.

What is the difference between Open Source and Cloud on Airbyte?

Cloud costs $50/month against Free, and adds cloud hosted, email support.

Is the Enterprise plan on Airbyte worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is dedicated support, advanced features. It costs $500/month against $50/month for Cloud. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which automation & integration tools can I use without paying?

2 of the 7 automation & integration tools listed alongside Airbyte have a free tier: Automate.io, CrewAI.

What am I actually paying for with Airbyte?

The record lists 21 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for replicating data from saas applications into a warehouse, self-hosting an open source elt pipeline, managed data replication without running infrastructure.

Does Airbyte charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Airbyte prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Airbyte against before paying?

The closest automation & integration tools in this directory are HighLevel, Automate.io, CrewAI, Browserbase. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Airbyte covering price, platforms and features.

Automation & Integration · pricing

Airbyte pricing

Airbyte publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free
Model: Open-source
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

Airbyte plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Airbyte pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Open Source	Free	3	Entry tier
Cloud	$50/month	2	+$50/month, 2 more features
Enterprise	$500/month	2	+$450/month, 2 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Open Source

Free

The entry tier. It covers self-hosted, community support, full features.

Cloud

$50/month

Over Open Source, this tier adds:

Cloud hosted
Email support

Enterprise

$500/month

Over Cloud, this tier adds:

Dedicated support
Advanced features

Where Airbyte stops being free

Open Source, Free

Self-hosted
Community support
Full features

Cloud, $50/month

The first thing you pay for:

Cloud hosted
Email support

What the product covers

The full Airbyte feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

Data replication
Schema detection
ELT pipelines
Real-time sync
Data transformation
Monitoring
Custom connectors

Integrations

300+ connectors
Databases
SaaS apps
Data warehouses

Security

Self-hosted option
End-to-end encryption
GDPR

Deployment

Cloud deployment
Self-hosted deployment
Docker deployment

Platform

Web support
Self-hosted support

Localization

Python language support
Java language support

People bring Airbyte in for replicating data from saas applications into a warehouse, self-hosting an open source elt pipeline, managed data replication without running infrastructure, building connectors for sources without an off-the-shelf integration. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Airbyte are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Automation & Integration

Too few automation & integration tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Airbyte entry price against other Automation & Integration tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Airbyte (this page)	Free	open-source	-
HighLevel	On request	subscription	-	vs Airbyte
Automate.io	Free, then $15/month	usage-based	-	vs Airbyte
CrewAI	Free	freemium	-	vs Airbyte
Browserbase	On request	usage-based	-	vs Airbyte
Celigo	$400/month	subscription	-	vs Airbyte
Browser Use	On request	usage-based	-	vs Airbyte

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Airbyte badges page.

Before you pay for Airbyte

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $500/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Airbyte runs on web, self-hosted, and is published by Airbyte of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Airbyte review, and the rest of the category is under best automation & integration tools.

Airbyte pricing on the vendor's own site

Airbyte pricing questions

How much does Airbyte cost?: Airbyte publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Open Source up to $500/month for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Airbyte have a free plan?: Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers self-hosted, community support, full features. Paying starts at $50/month for Cloud.
What is the difference between Open Source and Cloud on Airbyte?: Cloud costs $50/month against Free, and adds cloud hosted, email support.
Is the Enterprise plan on Airbyte worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is dedicated support, advanced features. It costs $500/month against $50/month for Cloud. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which automation & integration tools can I use without paying?: 2 of the 7 automation & integration tools listed alongside Airbyte have a free tier: Automate.io, CrewAI.
What am I actually paying for with Airbyte?: The record lists 21 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for replicating data from saas applications into a warehouse, self-hosting an open source elt pipeline, managed data replication without running infrastructure.
Does Airbyte charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Airbyte prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Airbyte against before paying?: The closest automation & integration tools in this directory are HighLevel, Automate.io, CrewAI, Browserbase. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Airbyte covering price, platforms and features.