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

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

Yes, on data fabric

Marketplace

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

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

SLA

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

Ready the Full Story

4.9

4.6

4.9

“Processing has gone up from 10 files to 10000+ files every month and have had no critical concerns.”

Data Engineering Manager - Insurance

“I’m not worried about the pipelines breaking and they assisted in a key piece of automation allowing us to discontinue an entire product.”

FPA Lead - Transportation

“Best way to simplify data in manageable way. Easy to deploy and manipulate data the way we would like to interact with it”

Verified User - Insurance

“Nexla’s Converged Data Integration helps make a business impact on the bottom line by making data readily available for decision making.”

Software Development Engineer - Banking

“Business and data teams get a collaborative, developer-friendly experience to integrate, transform, provision, and monitor data at scale.”

Software Engineer - Financial Services

“Nexla has played a critical role for us in onboarding new customers by offering a suite of flexible tools to manipulate bespoke data sets into an evolving standard.”

Director, Partner Integrations - Software

“The platform manages all of my data migration and transformation needs with ease.”

Data Analyst

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