Hevo Data vs Matillion (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Hevo Data if

• Fits if you want hosted pipelines with no servers of your own
• Makes sense if your event counts are predictable

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you're small, at $265 a month for Starter
• Watch out: every insert, update or delete counts as one event, and overage is charged
• Tight if you need syncs faster than hourly on Starter
• Skip it if you need self-hosting, because it's hosted only

Pick Matillion if

• Fits if your data already sits in Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery or Redshift
• Makes sense if you'd buy through an AWS, Azure or Snowflake account

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want to see a dollar price before you start
• Watch out: credits follow pipeline run time, so the bill moves with use
• Tight if you want to mix editions, as one account holds one
• Watch out: the trial length isn't stated

Hevo Data

• Billing counts every insert, update or delete in the destination as one event, and events beyond the plan are charged on-demand.
• Starter has no add-ons, and its scheduling is limited to hourly syncs.
• Unlimited data volume, streaming pipelines, SSO and role-based access control need the custom-priced Enterprise plan.
• Hevo is a hosted service only; the pages describe no self-hosted edition.

Matillion

• The pricing page publishes no dollar amounts; it says plans are paid through a consumption-based credit system.
• Credits are consumed by task hours, which count pipeline run time, and by developer users beyond the included ones.
• The page says Matillion can be bought directly or through an AWS, Azure or Snowflake account.
• An account can hold one edition at a time; separate accounts are needed to mix editions.

Hevo Data

Pre-built connectors

Hevo lists 190+ connectors for databases, SaaS applications and file storage, and offers to build a missing one.

Database replication with CDC

Databases can be synced in near real time using change data capture, as the vendor describes it, without querying the production tables.

Transformations

dbt, SQL and Hevo Transformer jobs can run alongside the pipelines. dbt integration is part of the Starter plan.

Alerts and logs

The platform shows pipeline activity through logs and sends alerts, and it handles schema drift and failed records automatically.

Pipeline APIs

Hevo APIs for pipeline automation are included from the Professional plan upward.

Matillion

Low-code pipeline canvas

Pipelines are built visually on a canvas, with SQL and Python components for custom transformations and a built-in Git repository.

Maia agents

Maia is described as an agentic data team that plans, builds, tests, runs and fixes pipelines, with the user reviewing each plan before it runs.

Connectors

Maia Foundation lists 150+ connectors and works with Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery and Redshift.

Editions

Developer has one developer user, Teams and Scale have five. Scale adds custom SSO, hybrid deployment, data lineage and streaming change data capture.

Matillion ETL

The older Matillion ETL product for cloud data warehouses remains supported and listed on the site.

Hevo Data

• Starter$265

  per month for 5M events, billed annually ($299 billed monthly)

  Hourly scheduling, up to 10 users, dbt integration. $440 a month at 20M events and $835 at 50M, billed annually.

• Professional$750

  per month for 20M events, billed annually ($849 billed monthly)

  Unlimited users, Hevo APIs, reverse SSH and add-ons. $1,320 a month at 50M events and $1,935 at 100M, billed annually.

• EnterpriseCustom

  One fixed price for unlimited data volume per pipeline, streaming pipelines, SSO, role-based access control and VPC peering.

Matillion

Pricing could not be confirmed. See matillion.com.

Hevo Data

• Annual discount

  12% off with annual billing

  The pricing page shows Starter at $265 a month billed annually against $299 billed monthly, and the page labels annual payment as 12% off.

Matillion

No public discounts listed.