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Matillion Data Productivity Cloud vs Palantir Foundry comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 31, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Matillion Data Productivity...
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Palantir Foundry
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
14th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (19th), IT Operations Analytics (9th), Supply Chain Analytics (1st), Data Migration Appliances (4th), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (2nd), Data and Analytics Service Providers (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of Matillion Data Productivity Cloud is 3.4%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Palantir Foundry is 4.9%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Jacques Du Preez - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers good user interface and easy to navigate
Our experience is mainly around using Snowflake Data Cloud with Matillion. And the two of them combined, offer superior performance and price point benefits. Using them together is very efficient because Matillion's processing and Snowflake's own scalability and consumption based on pushing down code work well together. They are very efficient. We've used Azure Data Factory (ADF) for integration. So that's an alternative, depending on customer choice for the integration. And then on AWS, a few of the other services, like Terraform, and S3 storage, and that's about it. It's on a case-by-case basis. If they've chosen ADF as a technology, then we implement using that choice.
Rama Subba Reddy Thavva - PeerSpot reviewer
A low-code/no-code platform with a user-friendly UI
We couldn't implement or use some of the latest functionalities, like Spark. Palantir Foundry is scalable, but it is costly compared to other cloud providers. The solution is more suitable for small and medium businesses. It might be difficult for large enterprises. I rate the solution’s scalability a seven out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It is an incredibly user-friendly and intuitive tool, making the learning curve quite smooth"
"Matillion ETL helps manage data movement, ingestion, and transformation through pipelines."
"The most valuable feature of Matillion ETL is the UI experience in which you can drag and drop most of the transformation."
"It can scale to a great extent. It can handle the load that we are putting on it, which is about 5TBs."
"It's been able to do everything we require."
"The new version with the Productivity Cloud is very simple. It's easy to use, navigate, and understand."
"The tool's middle-dimensional structure significantly simplifies obtaining the right data at the appropriate level. This feature makes deploying our applications easier since we utilize a single source without publishing data from various sources."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the CDC (Change Data Capture) component."
"The AI engine that comes with Palantir Foundry is quite interesting."
"The solution provides an end-to-end integrated tech stack that takes care of all utility/infrastructure topics for you."
"It is easy to map out a workflow and run trigger-based scripts without having to deploy to another server."
"The interface is really user-friendly."
"The virtualization tool is useful."
"The solution offers very good end-to-end capabilities."
"The security is also excellent. It's highly granular, so the admins have a high degree of control, and there are many levels of security. That worked well. You won't have an EDC unless you put everything onto the platform because it is its own isolated thing."
"Palantir Foundry is a robust platform that has really strong plugin connectors and provides features for real-time integration."
 

Cons

"Matillion ETL should include more enhanced capabilities for extracting data from the SAP systems."
"Our main challenge currently is that Matillion runs on an EC2 instance, limiting us to running only two processes simultaneously at the entry level."
"The current version is a bit more limited because it's on a virtual machine, and everything executes on that one virtual machine."
"It needs integration with more data sources."
"The cost of the solution is high and could be reduced."
"The product's scalability needs improvement. Perhaps adding more connectors would be beneficial."
"Unlike Snowflake which automatically takes care of upgrading to the latest version and includes additional features, with Matillion ETL we need to do this ourselves."
"I found some of the more complex aspects of ETL challenging, but I grasped the concepts fairly quickly."
"Cost of this solution is quite high."
"If you want to create new models on specific data sets, computing that is quite costly."
"There is not a wide user base for the solution's online documentation so it is sometimes difficult to find answers."
"The solution could use more online documentation for new users."
"The frontend capabilities of Palantir Foundry could be improved."
"The solution’s data security could be improved."
"It requires a lot of manual work and is very time-consuming to get to a functional point."
"Some error messages can be very cryptic."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's pricing is not based on the licensing cost but on the running hours when the Matillion instance is up and running."
"It is cost-effective. Based on our use case, it's efficient and cheap. It saves a lot of money and our upfront costs are less."
"I think it is cost conscious. It used to be very cheap and they have more recently bumped up the pricing, so it is competitive now."
"I have heard from my manager and other higher ups, "This product is cheaper than other things on the market," and they have done the research."
"The pricing depends on what edition the customer opts for. For example, the standard edition is priced at $2.00 per credit. And you are only charged when you use it. You're not charged when it's idle."
"The product must improve its pricing."
"The absence of licensing commitments makes it easy to experiment with the tool, and if we decide it's not suitable, we can simply stop the ETL instance and cease incurring charges."
"It is not necessarily a cheap solution. However, it's reasonable priced, especially with the smaller machines that we run it on."
"Palantir Foundry is an expensive solution."
"It's expensive."
"The solution’s pricing is high."
"Palantir Foundry has different pricing models that can be negotiated."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Matillion ETL?
The new version with the Productivity Cloud is very simple. It's easy to use, navigate, and understand.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Matillion ETL?
The solution's pricing is not based on the licensing cost but on the running hours when the Matillion instance is up and running. Its pricing model is different from the traditional pricing models ...
What needs improvement with Matillion ETL?
Depending on the use case, the solution's pricing could be improved. Matillion ETL should include more enhanced capabilities for extracting data from the SAP systems.
What do you like most about Palantir Foundry?
Palantir Foundry is a robust platform that has really strong plugin connectors and provides features for real-time integration.
What needs improvement with Palantir Foundry?
The solution’s data security could be improved. We cannot use many Python packages with the solution. We were able to use only a few compatible Python packages.
What is your primary use case for Palantir Foundry?
Our use cases are mostly related to data analytics. We are building some dashboards and ETL pipelines on the Palantir side. Palantir Foundry is a low-code/no-code platform with a user-friendly UI. ...
 

Also Known As

Matillion ETL for Redshift, Matillion ETL for Snowflake, Matillion ETL for BigQuery
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Sample Customers

Thrive Market, MarketBot, PWC, Axtria, Field Nation, GE, Superdry, Quantcast, Lightbox, EDF Energy, Finn Air, IPRO, Twist, Penn National Gaming Inc
Merck KGaA, Airbus, Ferrari,United States Intelligence Community, United States Department of Defense
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