Data Integration Tools
Qlik Talend: features, pricing and who it fits
Qlik Talend is Qlik's tiered cloud integration platform that grew out of Talend, and talend.com now redirects to Qlik. Log-based CDC begins at Standard, while transformations and lineage begin at Premium. Pricing is a subscribed usage capacity.
Who Qlik Talend is for
Best for
- Mid-size and large teams that need hybrid or on-premises plus cloud pipelines
- Teams that want data quality and lineage in the same product as integration
Look elsewhere if
- Small teams that want published, self-serve prices
- Buyers who only need simple SaaS-to-warehouse copying
Qlik Talend features
- Connector coverage
- Hundreds of sources and targets; SAP and mainframe connectivity only on Enterprise
- ETL / ELT approach
- ELT, ETL and streaming ingest from one product; ELT/ETL transformations from Premium
- Real-time sync and CDC
- Agentless log-based CDC for databases, SAP, mainframe and SaaS; CDC from Standard
- Transformation capabilities
- ELT/ETL transformations, Spark batch processing and data products on Premium
- Deployment options
- Cloud, client-managed or hybrid (hybrid from Standard); also on-premises per product page
- Governance and monitoring
- End-to-end and column-level lineage, profiling, data quality rules and stewardship, usage telemetry dashboard with alerts
- Pricing model
- Subscribed usage capacity measured by data volume moved, job executions and execution duration
- Target company size
- Starter projects up to enterprise-wide deployments
Qlik Talend pricing
| Plan | Price | Unit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Contact sales | subscribed usage capacity | Managed cloud pipelines, prebuilt SaaS and database connectors, data catalog |
| Standard | Contact sales | subscribed usage capacity | Adds real-time log-based CDC, cloud, client-managed or hybrid deployment, Qlik Open Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg |
| Premium | Contact sales | subscribed usage capacity | Adds ELT/ETL transformations, column-level lineage, Spark batch, API integration, data quality and stewardship, Trust Score |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | subscribed usage capacity | Adds comprehensive SAP and mainframe connectivity |
Trial length not stated on the page.
Prices as published by Qlik Talend on the date above. Quotes for larger teams often differ, which is what a request on SaaSBid surfaces.
Integrations, security and hosting
- Integrations
- Hundreds of sources and targets, including SAP, Mainframe, Apache Iceberg
- Security and compliance
- SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, HIPAA, Cyber Essentials Plus, UK G-Cloud v14
- Data residency
- Cloud regions page exists (qlik.com/us/regions); regions not read
Worth knowing before you buy
- Pricing is a subscribed usage capacity; usage is measured by data volume moved, job executions and execution duration, with alerts as you near the limit.
- Real-time CDC starts at the Standard tier, while transformations, lineage and data quality start at Premium and SAP/mainframe connectivity at Enterprise.
- Talend Cloud certifications are listed separately from Qlik Cloud ones on Qlik's trust page.
- talend.com now redirects to Qlik; Stitch is also under Qlik.
Qlik Talend alternatives
Vendor dossier
Fit by company size
| Category | 1-10 people | 11-50 people | 51-500 people | 500+ people |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Integration Tools | Poor fit | Poor fit | Strong fit | Strong fit |
Strong fitWorkablePoor fitNo data from the vendor
How buying Qlik Talend works
- How you buy
- Online or through sales
- Demo or quote needed for
- All tiers (Starter, Standard, Premium, Enterprise)
Security and data protection
- SOC 2
- Type II
- ISO 27001
- Yes
- HIPAA
- HIPAA listed for Talend Cloud
From Qlik Talend's trust center, security and legal pages. Anything not listed is not published.
About the company
- Ownership
- part of Qlik
Support and integrations
- Integrations
- Hundreds of sources and targets
- Notable integrations
- SAP, Mainframe
What vendors in this category ask before quoting
Answer these once in a SaaSBid request and Qlik Talend 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.