Automation Integration · pricing
Meltano pricing
Meltano publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the automation integration tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, Meltano pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Meltano 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.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meltano | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Meltano stops being free
Meltano, Free
- MIT licensed, self-hosted
- No paid Meltano Cloud tier; it was retired before the company wound down
- Community support via Slack and GitHub
- Commercial hosting available from Matatika and other third parties, priced separately
No paid tier on record
Meltano lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Meltano 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.
Other
- Singer plugin management
- Project as code
- Environments
- Incremental state
- dbt integration
- Custom taps
- Orchestrator hooks
- Container deployment
People bring Meltano in for a data team that wants to stop paying per-row connector fees on high-volume sources they can extract themselves, loading from an api that no commercial elt vendor supports, by writing a tap with the meltano sdk, keeping pipeline configuration in the same git repository and review process as the rest of the platform code, a regulated environment where extraction must run inside your own network with no data passing through a vendor. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Meltano 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.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meltano (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| HighByte Intelligence Hub | $18500/year | Per site per year | - | vs Meltano |
| Cyclr | $1595/month | Per month by API call volume | - | vs Meltano |
| jBPM | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Meltano |
| Alloy Automation | On request | quote | - | vs Meltano |
| Nango | Free, then $50/month | Per connection per month | - | vs Meltano |
| Decodable | Free | Per credit by task hour | - | vs Meltano |
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 Meltano badges page.
Before you pay for Meltano
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: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Meltano runs on linux, macos, docker, windows (via wsl), and is published by Matatika (steward of the Meltano project) of Bath, England, United Kingdom. The full record is on the Meltano review, and the rest of the category is under best automation integration tools.
Meltano pricing questions
- How much does Meltano cost?
- Meltano publishes a single tier, Meltano, at Free.
- Does Meltano have a free plan?
- Yes. The Meltano tier costs nothing and covers mit licensed, self-hosted, no paid meltano cloud tier; it was retired before the company wound down, community support via slack and github.
- Which automation integration tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 automation integration tools listed alongside Meltano have a free tier: jBPM, Nango, Decodable, Kogito.
- What am I actually paying for with Meltano?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a data team that wants to stop paying per-row connector fees on high-volume sources they can extract themselves, loading from an api that no commercial elt vendor supports, by writing a tap with the meltano sdk, keeping pipeline configuration in the same git repository and review process as the rest of the platform code.
- Does Meltano charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 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 Meltano 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 Meltano against before paying?
- The closest automation integration tools in this directory are HighByte Intelligence Hub, Cyclr, jBPM, Alloy Automation. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Meltano covering price, platforms and features.