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The mid-market ETL tool between Fivetran and Airflow

Commercial intent

83/100

Confidence

80%

Trend

+11.6%

The complaint

Companies outgrowing Fivetran/Stitch's limitations (cost, transformation capability) face a massive jump to Airflow/dbt. The middle ground, affordable, managed ETL with basic transformations, doesn't exist. You either pay $500/mo for Fivetran or hire a data engineer.

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Existing solutions

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