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Product Comparison
Nexla vs Matillion
Compare the two vendors across 20 categories, including use cases, core capabilities, reliability, support, costs, ease of use, productivity, and customer ratings.
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Nexla vs Matillion by the Numbers
10X
Greater productivity for adding new connectors, data sources, data types
40X+
Faster time to new insights from weeks down to hours or less
10X
Less maintenance, freeing up more time to innovate
2X
Lower costs on staff, infrastructure, and vendors
Head-to-Head Comparison
Nexla continues to outperform Matillion. See the differences between the two platforms.
Overview
ETL Platform
AI-powered Integration Platform
AI
Can invoke OpenAI, Bedrock, Vertex LLMs; use OpenAI, Bedrock encoding; use data from Pinecone, Postgres, load Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift with results
Can invoke 20+ LLMs, use multiple encoding, extract context from leading vector databases or directly from any sources, move results anywhere, including chatbots
Analytics
Yes, but batch only
Yes
Operations
No real-time. Limited API support (custom connector.) Only DW targets
Yes
B2B, External Data
No EDI , limited API support (custom connector), only DW targets
EDI, external data, B2B
Integration Styles
ETL, ELT, CDC, and streaming are all batch only, and data warehouses are only targets
ELT/ETL/R-ETL, CDC, streaming, API integration, API proxy, (S)FTP, bring your own (BYO)
Connector Types
150+ connectors
500+ connectors for SaaS, apps, data warehouses, lakes, Iceberg, streaming, Webhooks, APIs, databases, files, unstructured docs, and more
Data Movement Topology
One-way ETL, ELT, CDC, streaming, and limited reverse ETL
Bidirectional read/write
Latency
Batch only (5+ minutes)
Real-time, any batch interval
Data Variety
Data mapped to internal structured formats
Any structured, semi, unstructured
Data Products
No
Yes, on data fabric
Marketplace
No
Yes
Data Governance
Data quality handled using pushdown SQL and audit trails, with limited support for schema evolution
Data validation and data quality, lineage approval workflows, schema evolution, RBAC
Destinations
Multi-destination read/write
Multi-destination read/write
Deployment Options
SaaS, private , self-hosted but more focus on Cloud today
SaaS, private, self-hosted
Extensibility
Custom connectors
HIGH (new connectors, data)
Cost
HIGH
MEDIUM (30-50% decrease in deployment costs)
Ease of Use
MEDIUM
HIGH (no-code, AI powered)
Productivity
MEDIUM with limited flexibility; uses AI (Copilot) to create pipelines (new) and is only available for Snowflake
HIGH (HIGH flexibility)
Reliability
HIGH
HIGH
SLA
HIGH
HIGH
4 Reasons Why Leading Enterprises Choose Nexla over Matillion
Matillion is a proven ETL and ELT integration platform for analytics, and has started to add GenAI RAG support. But even with its new Cloud platform, the enterprise tool is still the original on premises ETL, and the only destinations are data warehouses, with limited LLM support for RAG and Snowflake as the only RAG destination
Companies have chosen Nexla over Matillion, and added Nexla to access and govern all their data, integrate faster, implement GenAI, and do it all up to 10x faster without coding, powered by AI.
Flexible and Customizable
- Support for any source or destination via APIs, and any data, in minutes
- Easily change destination formats
- Hundreds of pre-built connectors available out-of-the-box
- 3-8 hours for a new custom connector vs 1-3 months with others
More Than ELT and API Integration
- Use any integration style – ELT/ETL, R-ETL, streaming, (S)FTP, API integration and proxy, and more
- Support for real-time and batch
- Support multiple destinations
- Used for integration in AI, analytics, B2B, and operations projects
Cost Savings
- Transparent pricing with over 2x vendor cost savings vs Matillion
- Eliminates additional personnel and the associated infrastructure costs – up to 10X ROI from adopting Nexla
- All-in-one integration platform – no need to buy multiple products
Trust and Experience
- Committed to customer success with a 96% recommend rate
- 5-star support – higher than Matillion
- Proven performance and scalability
- Trusted by top global brands like Carrier Global, Doordash, Instacart, Johnson & Johnson, and LinkedIn
With Nexla’s innovative technology, Instacart complements its existing systems to support additional data sources and formats.
"Nexla helps us make the integration process generic and scalable."
Elliot Schmuckler, Vice President, Product, Instacart
