# Matillion review (2026): is it worth it? > Cloud data integration and ETL with an AI data engineering agent Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Matillion is a data integration and ETL platform for cloud data warehouses. Its pipeline product, now called Maia Foundation, offers a low-code canvas with SQL and Python components and 150+ connectors. Maia is the company's agentic layer that plans, builds and fixes pipelines, with plans billed in credits. - **Category:** Automation - **Made by:** Matillion Ltd (since 2011) - **Website:** https://www.matillion.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want to see a dollar price before you start. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing Matillion's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - Data teams building warehouse pipelines on Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery or Redshift - Teams that want pipelines built partly by an AI agent ## Worth knowing - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Matillion builds data pipelines for warehouses such as Snowflake and BigQuery and charges through a credit system. Its pricing page shows no dollar amounts, credits are consumed by pipeline run time and extra developers, and the free trial's length isn't stated. - **Value for money: C.** No dollar prices published. Credits are spent on task hours and developer users beyond the included ones. - **Free plan and trial: D.** A free trial is offered on all three editions, but its length is not stated. - **Features: C.** Pipeline building across Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery and Redshift. An account holds one edition at a time. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You design pipelines and connect your own warehouse, so there's setup. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web with warehouse connections for Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery and Redshift. No desktop or phone apps. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Matillion's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among automation tools - Matillion's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 26 of the 134 other automation tools we grade, and level with 27. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 39 of 134) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 25). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/automation ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Matillion you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 81 of the 134 other automation tools grade higher. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift **Tags:** Workflow automation, AI agents, AI features ## Alternatives - [Fivetran](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fivetran): Managed data movement with a free plan and usage-based pricing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fivetran-vs-matillion) - [Informatica](https://toolgpa.com/tools/informatica): Cloud data management and integration platform, from Salesforce. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/informatica-vs-matillion) - [Hevo Data](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hevo-data): Managed data pipelines that load sources into a warehouse. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hevo-data-vs-matillion) - [Airbyte](https://toolgpa.com/tools/airbyte): Data integration with a free self-hosted core and a managed cloud. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/airbyte-vs-matillion) - [Integrate.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/integrate-io): Low-code data pipelines for ETL, ELT and reverse ETL. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/integrate-io-vs-matillion) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.matillion.com/pricing - https://www.matillion.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/matillion Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).