Product Comparison

Nexla vs Fivetran

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 Fivetran 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 Fivetran. See the differences between the two platforms.

Overview

ELT Platform

AI-powered Integration Platform

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

B2B, External Data

Only external data (custom dbt)

EDI, external data, B2B

Integration Styles

ELT, batch CDC, replication (HVR)

ELT/ETL/R-ETL, CDC, streaming, API integration, API proxy, (S)FTP, bring your own (BYO)

Connector Types

250+ connectors for Saas, files, databases, data warehouses (DW), lakes, 300+ lite connectors (APIs) Harder to add new connectors

500+ connectors for SaaS, apps, data warehouses, lakes, Iceberg, streaming, Webhooks, APIs, databases, files, unstructured docs, and more

Data Movement Topology

One-way ELT

Bidirectional read/write

Latency

1/5/15+ intervals depending on plan

Real-time, any batch interval

Data Variety

Maps connector to relational format

Any structured, semi, unstructured

Data Products

Yes, on data fabric

Marketplace

Yes

Data Governance

Schema evolution only

Data validation and data quality, lineage approval workflows, schema evolution, RBAC

Destinations

Single destination (DB/DW/lake)

Multi-destination read/write

Deployment Options

SaaS, limited private (DB only), self-hosted HVR

SaaS, private, self-hosted

Extensibility

Limited (SDK)

High (new connectors, data)

Cost

High

Med (30-50% decrease in deployment costs)

Ease of Use

HIGH (no-code)

HIGH (no-code, AI powered)

Productivity

HIGH (limited flexibility)

HIGH (HIGH flexibility)

Reliability

MED-HIGH (some reported issues)

HIGH

SLA

HIGH (several exclusions–read SLA policy for more)

HIGH

4 Reasons Why Leading Enterprises Choose Nexla over Fivetran

Fivetran is easy to use for batch-based ELT of commonly used data. But that’s not everything you need for analytics, and it’s certainly not everything you need for integration in other projects.

Companies have chosen Nexla over Fivetran, 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

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 30-50% vendor cost savings vs Fivetran
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 Fivetran
Proven performance and scalability
Trusted by top global brands like Carrier Global, DoorDash, Instacart, Johnson & Johnson, and LinkedIn

With Nexla’s innovative technology, leading cybersecurity company achieved 10x productivity and 560x faster data integration.

"Nexla has all the major integrations that you would ever want, and is very fast at creating custom integrations and connectors."

VP of Data, Analytics & Data Governance

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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