Data Integration Tools
Matillion: features, pricing and who it fits
Matillion pushes transformation work into your own warehouse and sells credit-based annual packages in Developer, Teams and Scale editions. It suits warehouse-centric teams on Snowflake, AWS, Azure or Databricks. Hybrid deployment and custom SSO are available only on Scale.
Who Matillion is for
Best for
- Warehouse-centric teams on Snowflake, AWS, Azure or Databricks
- Enterprises that want hybrid SaaS with own agent infrastructure (Scale)
Look elsewhere if
- Buyers who want published prices
- Teams that need a free ongoing plan
Matillion features
- Connector coverage
- Prebuilt connector library plus custom connectors for any REST API returning JSON
- ETL / ELT approach
- Push-down ELT in your warehouse
- Real-time sync and CDC
- Streaming CDC on Scale only
- Transformation capabilities
- Visual transformation designer; Git integration
- Deployment options
- SaaS; hybrid with own Agent infrastructure on Scale
- Governance and monitoring
- Audit log on Teams and Scale; lineage on Scale; log retention 90 days (Teams), 180 days (Scale)
- Pricing model
- Consumption credits in annual packages
- Target company size
- Mid-market to enterprise
Matillion pricing
| Plan | Price | Unit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | Contact sales | credits | 1 developer user; community support; no audit log |
| Teams | Contact sales | credits | 5 developer users; audit log; standard support with SLA |
| Scale | Contact sales | credits | 5 developer users; custom SSO; hybrid; lineage and streaming CDC; 180-day log retention |
Credits consumed by task hours (only when running pipelines) and extra developer users. Bought direct or via AWS, Azure, Snowflake marketplaces. Free trial on all plans.
Prices as published by Matillion on the date above. Quotes for larger teams often differ, which is what a request on SaaSBid surfaces.
Integrations, security and hosting
- Security and compliance
- SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001:2022, PCI DSS 4.0.1, HIPAA (BAA), GDPR
Worth knowing before you buy
- Developer edition includes 1 developer user; Teams and Scale include 5; admins unlimited
- Custom SSO and hybrid deployment only on Scale
- Audit log not on Developer
- PrivateLink is a paid add-on
- Premium Support is an add-on on Scale
Matillion alternatives
Vendor dossier
Fit by company size
| Category | 1-10 people | 11-50 people | 51-500 people | 500+ people |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Integration Tools | No data | No data | Strong fit | Strong fit |
Strong fitWorkablePoor fitNo data from the vendor
How buying Matillion works
- How you buy
- Online or through sales
- Demo or quote needed for
- All editions (Try free or Talk to sales)
- Contract
- Fixed annual packages with included credits
Security and data protection
- SOC 2
- Type II
- ISO 27001
- Yes
- Single sign-on (SAML)
- Built-in SSO on all editions; custom SSO on Scale
- Audit logs
- Teams and Scale
- HIPAA
- BAA available
From Matillion's trust center, security and legal pages. Anything not listed is not published.
About the company
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- Denver, US and Manchester, UK
- Ownership
- venture-backed (Series E)
- Event
- Series E at $1.5B valuation
Support and integrations
- Support
- Community on Developer, standard on Teams, Premium Support add-on on Scale; SLA with annual subscription
What vendors in this category ask before quoting
Answer these once in a SaaSBid request and Matillion and its alternatives quote against the same facts.
- Which sources and destinations do you need to connect?Connector coverage and plan limits decide which tools qualify.
- How much data do you move each month, and how fast does it grow?Row, event and credit pricing scale differently.
- How fresh must the data be: hourly, every few minutes or near real time?Sync interval and CDC support vary by plan.
- Where must the data be processed, and are SSO or audit logs required?Region choice and governance features often sit in upper tiers.
- Who will build and maintain the pipelines, analysts or engineers?No-code tools and code-first frameworks suit different teams.
- Do you need transformation in the same tool, or will dbt handle it?The answer affects both the edition and the total cost.