Matillion vs Stitch (2026): which should you pick?

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

Pick Stitch if

• Fits if you want a printed monthly price for one warehouse
• Works for a small team with one destination

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you grow past Standard, because Advanced is $1,500 a month billed annually
• Tight if you need more than 1 destination or 10 standard sources on Standard
• Watch out: the site says Stitch is now part of Qlik and points new users to Qlik Talend Cloud
• Watch out: the page says prices are US only

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.

Stitch

• The site says Stitch is now part of Qlik and points new users to Qlik Talend Cloud.
• Standard allows 1 destination and 10 standard sources; unlimited enterprise sources start at Advanced.
• Advanced and Premium are billed annually, and the page says the prices are US only.
• The Standard annual price was not readable; the figure here is the monthly-billing one.

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.

Stitch

Row-based plans

Standard is priced by a slider from 5 to 300 million rows a month. Advanced and Premium add row and destination add-ons.

Historical sync

Each new integration gets a 7-day grace period in which its rows do not count toward the limit, so history can be loaded.

Extensibility options

The plan table lists post-load webhooks, advanced scheduling and Connect API access among its advanced features.

Security and connectivity

Plans list SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 compliance, with VPN, AWS PrivateLink, reverse SSH and VPC peering as connectivity options.

Agency platform

A separate Stitch Platform offering gives agencies isolated pipelines for each client, sold through sales.

Matillion

Pricing could not be confirmed. See matillion.com.

Stitch

• Standard$100

  per month for 5M rows, monthly billing

  5 to 300M rows a month, 1 destination, 10 standard sources, 5 users. Price rises with the row slider; annual billing is offered.

• Advanced$1,500

  per month, billed annually

  100M rows a month, 3 destinations, unlimited enterprise sources and users, 60-day extraction log retention. Sold through sales.

• Premium$3,000

  per month, billed annually

  1 billion rows a month, 5 destinations, unlimited sources and users. Sold through sales.