[Fivetran](https://www.fivetran.com/) is a SaaS platform for ingesting and transforming data which they describe as a "data movement platform." It is primarily used for ingesting data from a wide variety of data sources and you only pay for what you use. ## Fivetran Official Documentation https://fivetran.com/docs/getting-started ## Fivetran Advantages - Generous free tier - Only pay for data that has changed (they call this Monthly Active Rows or MAR) - Simple to set up and use - Dedicated support for connectors - Integration with dbt ## Fivetran Disadvantages - At large data volumes the usage-based pricing can be expensive - For some data sources you must ingest all objects ## [Fivetran Recent Posts](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataengineering/search/?q=fivetran&restrict_sr=1) %% wiki footer: Please don't edit anything below this line %% ## This note in GitHub <span class="git-footer">[Edit In GitHub](https://github.dev/data-engineering-community/data-engineering-wiki/blob/main/Tools/Data%20Ingestion/Fivetran.md "git-hub-edit-note") | [Copy this note](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/data-engineering-community/data-engineering-wiki/main/Tools/Data%20Ingestion/Fivetran.md "git-hub-copy-note")</span> <span class="git-footer">Was this page helpful? [👍](https://tally.so/r/mOaxjk?rating=Yes&url=https://dataengineering.wiki/Tools/Data%20Ingestion/Fivetran) or [👎](https://tally.so/r/mOaxjk?rating=No&url=https://dataengineering.wiki/Tools/Data%20Ingestion/Fivetran)</span>