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Fivetran

Fivetran is a SaaS platform for ingesting and transforming data which they describe as a “data movement platform.” It is primarily used for ingesting data from a wide variety of data sources and you only pay for what you use.

Fivetran Official Documentation

https://fivetran.com/docs/getting-started

Fivetran Advantages

  • Generous free tier
  • Only pay for data that has changed (they call this Monthly Active Rows or MAR)
  • Simple to set up and use
  • Dedicated support for connectors
  • Integration with dbt

Fivetran Disadvantages

  • At large data volumes the usage-based pricing can be expensive
  • For some data sources you must ingest all objects