Our take
Pick Estuary if data teams who will stay on Developer Free at $0 (10 GB / month, 2 connector instances) while they open a first Captures list, then buy Cloud at $0.50 / GB + $100 / connector / month when they outgrow 10 GB or need a third instance. Pick Fivetran if data teams who will stay on Standard’s free bucket (500,000 connection MAR / 3,500 activation MAR / 5,000 model runs) while they open a first Connections
Best for
Estuary CDC pipelines you start at $0
Fivetran Source-to-warehouse syncs you meter in monthly active rows
Free plan
Estuary $0 · free up to 10 GB / month. 2 concurrent connector instances. No card on the Free tile we fetched
Fivetran $0 · introductory plan for low volumes. “Only pay for what you use.” Core platform functionality. Exact leftover dollars after the free bucket are on the estimator, not a printed seat
Lowest paid
Estuary Cloud $0.50
Fivetran Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Estuary Worked example on the page $100
Fivetran
Runs where
Estuary Hosted
Fivetran Hosted
Watch out
Estuary Free is 10 GB and 2 connector instances
Fivetran Standard’s free bucket is 500,000 connection MAR
Last checked
Estuary 2026-10-23 · estuary.dev/pricing
Fivetran 2026-10-23 · fivetran.com/pricing
data teams who will stay on Developer Free at $0 (10 GB / month, 2 connector instances) while they open a first Captures list, then buy Cloud at $0.50 / GB + $100 / connector / month when they outgrow 10 GB or need a third instance.
Read the Estuary pagedata teams who will stay on Standard’s free bucket (500,000 connection MAR / 3,500 activation MAR / 5,000 model runs) while they open a first Connections list, then pay list-price MAR (pricing-page examples: Facebook Ads $22.06, Google Analytics 4 $15.88, four-connector total $511.15) when they outgrow the free rows.
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