Portable vs. Airbyte ETL Comparison: 2023 Mega Showdown

Should you use Portable or Airbyte for ETL?

The main difference between Portable and Airbyte is that Portable focuses on long-tail, custom ETL connectors and builds them for you within a matter of days. Meanwhile, Airbyte is focused on servicing more mainstream data sources.

Portable builds no-code ETL connectors

• Portable builds and maintains long-tail ETL connectors.

• If you need a no-code ETL connector to a bespoke application, Portable will build it for you in less than a week.

• We don't believe it's your job to read the API documentation or navigate an open source framework.

• We've been in your shoes - I used to run Business Intelligence at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) - We want to save you time, not bog you down with scripts and API documentation.

In-house customer support

• As a buyer of data tools myself, I always ask: 'Who will be woken up if things break?'

• At Portable, our team is on call. We get the pager duty alerts late at night, and it doesn't matter if it's a common system that everyone's heard of, or a custom build for a single client.

• Outsourcing development and maintenance to an open source community doesn't help 'you' as the data analyst in a time of need. We pride ourselves on maintainability and reliability.

Long-tail ETL connectors

• Both Airbyte and Portable believe long tail connectors are critical to modern data analytics.

• At Portable, we're dogmatic - it's all we think about. I've personally built over 200+ no-code connectors for clients as the CEO.

• We're not a change data capture (CDC) tool, and we don't lean on the community for the long tail. We build long tail connectors lightning fast.

• The next time you have a bespoke system you need to connect to, we'll get you live with a production-grade connector faster than any Airbyte alternative.

Agility and extreme ownership

• Our team is lean. Our mandate isn't to expand from 30 to 200 people in a matter of months.

• We are selective with who we work with, what we build, and how we spend our time.

• All of that empowers us to truly solve problems when they arise. If you need a new connector, we'll get back to you in hours or days.

• If a data flow fails, we'll email you immediately. Capital is nice, but we believe ownership is more important.

Portable turns products into connected solutions. Teams combine our no-code integrations with existing products and services to power analytics and automate workflows. We load data from 200+ business applications into data warehouses, so you can focus on insights.