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Fivetran pros and cons

Vendor: Fivetran
4.1 out of 5

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PROS

Fivetran offers ease of usability, making it simple and quick to set up.
Fivetran's most valuable feature is its data replication capability, reducing the overhead for customers.
Fivetran is stable and reliable, with no stability issues encountered.
Fivetran's ability to scale in terms of data ingestion and utilization is highly valuable.
Fivetran's seamless connectors and better integration options make it an effective choice for data integration.

CONS

Fivetran is viewed as expensive, especially for data sources with large volumes like email data, and users suggest cheaper pricing structures.
There are concerns about the customization options in Fivetran, with users desiring a more development-friendly environment and better pipeline customization.
Fivetran's technical support has been criticized for delays, with room for improvement in the support provided to users.
The need for additional connectors, including those for popular or exotic platforms, and a focus on third-party API integration are seen as areas for enhancement in Fivetran.
There is a desire for Fivetran to include more in-flight transformations and real-time data handling capabilities, expanding the current transformation features.
 

Fivetran Pros review quotes

Hafiz Usman - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead Data Engineer at Data Pilot
Oct 14, 2025
Fivetran provides time savings, cost reductions, and improvements in data quality, and when the time investment decreases, fewer developers are needed, which means significant savings.
Vigneswar Jeyaraj - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at InfoCepts
Aug 27, 2025
The most valuable feature of Fivetran so far is the data replication; the real-time data replication is what I see best in the market where it reduces the overhead of customers needing to maintain the pipeline.
Mediha Šiljić - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Data Engineer at Sensilab
Apr 7, 2025
Overall, I would rate Fivetran nine out of ten.
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reviewer2396643 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
May 2, 2025
Fivetran is an easy-to-deploy solution for organizations looking at integrating a wide variety of data sources.
Manoj Bansal - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Data Engineering, Governance, Operation and Analytics Platform at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
May 29, 2024
Fivetran offers native connectivity with Sybase
Hrittik Saha - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Enterprise Architect(Data Analyst) at Dyson
Nov 7, 2024
The user interface is mostly UI-based, eliminating the need for a lot of coding.
Nicole  Jacobs - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Oct 11, 2024
The ease of setting up the connectors and transformations is highly valuable.
Erik Jones - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of BI and Analytics at HyperScience
Nov 14, 2022
For us, Fivetran has been able to scale both in terms of the data we bring into our warehouse and the amount of data that we use as well.
Radovan Bacovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Data Engineer at GitLab
Nov 30, 2022
The portal is very intuitive and easy to use.
Cledwyn Menezes - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Celebal Technologies
May 26, 2023
The simplicity of the solution is its valuable feature.
 

Fivetran Cons review quotes

Hafiz Usman - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead Data Engineer at Data Pilot
Oct 14, 2025
The experience of using SDK connectors can be improved, as it lacks computational power, which is an area that needs enhancement.
Vigneswar Jeyaraj - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at InfoCepts
Aug 27, 2025
If Fivetran can build in more transformations, that would be really helpful in my opinion.
Mediha Šiljić - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Data Engineer at Sensilab
Apr 7, 2025
Their pricing has increased over the years, so it's not seen as an advantage anymore.
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reviewer2396643 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
May 2, 2025
In our case, we ultimately did not end up using Fivetran because we were able to do custom connects at a lower cost compared to Fivetran. From a cost perspective, if the number of connectors is lesser, then Fivetran is not the most cost-efficient option.
Manoj Bansal - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Data Engineering, Governance, Operation and Analytics Platform at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
May 29, 2024
An in-line data quality checking capability is missing
Hrittik Saha - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Enterprise Architect(Data Analyst) at Dyson
Nov 7, 2024
There is not a lot of options to customize the pipeline, and the cost is high.
Nicole  Jacobs - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Oct 11, 2024
I would like to see an improvement in the support offered by Fivetran.
Erik Jones - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of BI and Analytics at HyperScience
Nov 14, 2022
We use a separate tool for "reverse ETL", which is the opposite of what Fivetran does; it pushes data from your data warehouse back out to business applications. If Fivetran pulls data from those same applications, they should also enable users to push it back. I would love to do both ETL and reverse ETL in the same tool.
Radovan Bacovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Data Engineer at GitLab
Nov 30, 2022
More connectors are needed for exotic, popular, and rising star portals.
Cledwyn Menezes - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Celebal Technologies
May 26, 2023
The solution is very expensive. I would like to have a better integration of the solution with Azure.