Vendor
Airbyte
Airbyte prices everything in credits. Standard starts at $20 / month with 5 credits included and extra credits at $5 each; Plus starts at $189 / month for a fixed 40-credit package, with overage at $5.00 per credit. Pro and Enterprise Flex are capacity-based on Data Workers and quoted by sales. There is no free plan: the entry route is a 30-day trial carrying 400 credits, which Airbyte values at $2,000 of usage. Airbyte Core, the open source offering, is still free to self-host if the team can carry the 0.3-0.7 FTE of operational load.source - pulled 2026-09-22
Pricing model
Credit consumption: Standard from $20/month with 5 credits included and extra credits at $5 each; Plus buys fixed monthly credit packages from $189/month for 40 credits, overage $5.00/credit; Pro and Enterprise Flex are capacity-based on Data Workers and quoted by sales.
Cheapest published rate: Standard: from $20/mo, 5 credits includedAirbyte pricing page - pulled 2026-09-22
2026 changes
No free plan on the rate card: the entry route is a 30-day trial with 400 credits ($2,000 of usage). The Agent Operations unit is gone, and the $/GB meter with it; Standard and Plus are both priced in credits.
Verified 2026-09-22.
Pricing in detail
The credit is the only unit that matters on Standard and Plus. Airbyte meters it differently by source type, so the same credit buys a different amount of work depending on whether the source is an API, a database or a file. Airbyte's own pricing calculator puts 40 credits at 6,640,000 API rows or 10GB of database and file data, which is the closest thing to a published conversion rate.
Standard and Plus cross over at 40 credits. Airbyte says so on the card and its calculator agrees: 40 credits costs $195 on Standard (the $20 base plus 35 chargeable credits at $5) against $189 on the Plus 40-credit package. Above that the Plus packages step at 100 credits / $449, 250 / $999, 500 / $1,799, 1,000 / $3,199 and 2,000 / $4,999 per month.
Pro and Enterprise Flex drop the volume meter entirely and price capacity in Data Workers, each running roughly three concurrent syncs. Neither carries a published price. Enterprise Flex is the one to ask for when data has to stay inside the customer's own boundary, including on-premises and multi-region.
Sync frequency is a plan feature, not an add-on: 1 hour on Standard, 15 minutes on Plus, 5 minutes on Pro. Connector availability is stated as 700+ across all four plans.
When to pick Airbyte
Pick Airbyte Cloud when the team wants managed without Fivetran-class price tags and can tolerate slightly less mature connectors. Pick Airbyte Core or Enterprise Flex when self-hosting is acceptable and the team has a platform-engineer with Kubernetes experience.
Avoid Airbyte when the source mix is dominated by long-tail SaaS that the catalogue does not cover - Portable is faster to onboard niche sources than custom-building an Airbyte connector.
Mid-market estimate
For a 50M-MAR mid-market profile, the published rate produces an estimated subscription line of $1,500/mo. Standard at 50M API rows. Airbyte's own pricing calculator equates 40 credits to 6,640,000 API rows, so 50M rows is about 301 credits: 296 chargeable credits at $5 plus the $20 base.source - pulled 2026-09-22Run the full TCO at /tco-calculator.
Related
Written by Oliver Wakefield-Smith, Founder of Digital Signet. Independent reference, no vendor sponsorship.
Sources logged at /sources. Pricing-change history at /changelog. Last reviewed 2026-09-22.