Vendor
Airbyte
Airbyte's 2026 pricing is a $/GB volume meter on Standard/Plus, capacity-based Data Workers on Pro, and new Agent Operations (AO) units for agent-driven workloads. OSS (MIT) is still free and remains the cheapest path at scale if the team can carry the 0.3–0.7 FTE of operational load.source - pulled 2026-06-21
Pricing model
Volume-based ($/GB moved) on Standard/Plus; capacity-based Data Workers on Pro; new Agent Operations (AO) units for agent workloads.
Cheapest published rate: Free plan: 1,000 Agent Operations / moAirbyte pricing page - pulled 2026-06-21
2026 changes
Launched Airbyte Agents and new Enterprise Flex plan; introduced Agent Operations pricing unit.
Verified 2026-06-21.
Pricing in detail
Airbyte moved away from row-based pricing in 2024 and now charges per GB moved on Standard/Plus tiers. The shift removes the wide-vs-narrow-table distortion of MAR but introduces a different forecasting question: GB throughput depends on row size, which is often unknown until production traffic runs.
The Pro tier prices capacity (Data Workers) for steady-state predictability. Enterprise Flex covers self-hosted deployments where Airbyte runs in the customer's VPC but with vendor support and upgrade pipelines.
The new Agent Operations (AO) unit, introduced with Airbyte Agents in 2026, prices agent-mediated pipeline operations independently of GB throughput. Free plan covers 1,000 AO / month.
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 OSS 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 $1,100/mo. Cloud Standard, est from $/GB at ~250GB equivalent of 50M MAR.source - pulled 2026-06-21Run 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 2026-06-21.