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Compare Fivetran and Snowplow 
At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (56.4% of reviews)
Mid-Market (50.0% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Free
Contact Us Per Year
Fivetran
Star Rating
(430)4.2 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (56.4% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Free
Free Trial is available
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Star Rating
(31)4.6 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (50.0% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Contact Us Per Year
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Fivetran vs Snowplow
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Fivetran easier to use, set up, and administer. However, reviewers preferred doing business with Snowplow overall.
- Reviewers felt that Snowplow meets the needs of their business better than Fivetran.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Snowplow is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Snowplow over Fivetran.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Fivetran
Free Plan
Free
For individuals automating ELT for small volumes of data.
- Access Standard Plan features, free up to 500,000 monthly active rows (MAR)
- Commitment free: No credit card required
Snowplow
Cloud BDP
Contact Us
Per Year
BDP Cloud is designed to help teams begin their journey with behavioral data. Access Snowplow’s Industry leading Behavioral Data Platform with your pipeline is hosted and managed by Snowplow. BDP Cloud offers entry level pricing to help you realize the power of Behaviour data.
- Access to Snowplow’s leading Behavioural Data Platform
- Securely share, manage, and evolve data from the console and APIs
- Up to 80 million events a month
Free Trial
Fivetran
Free Trial is available
Snowplow
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.4
306
9.2
28
Ease of Use
9.0
312
8.1
28
Ease of Setup
9.1
233
6.4
18
Ease of Admin
8.8
207
7.5
19
Quality of Support
8.0
287
8.9
25
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.2
203
9.0
16
Product Direction (% positive)
7.6
270
10.0
28
Features by Category
Metrics
Not enough data
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Reporting
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Other
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Agentic AI - Digital Analytics
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Administration
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Product Analytics
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Agentic AI - Product Analytics
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Functionality
8.4
143
Not enough data
8.5
137
Not enough data
8.3
121
Not enough data
7.0
108
Not enough data
8.8
130
Not enough data
6.5
103
Not enough data
Diverse Extraction Points
8.4
143
Not enough data
Administration
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Management
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Compliance
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Security
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Data Quality
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Maintainence
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Generative AI
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Agentic AI - Data Governance
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Management
7.5
89
Not enough data
7.0
83
Not enough data
Functionality
9.0
111
Not enough data
7.8
101
Not enough data
8.9
109
Not enough data
8.9
107
Not enough data
8.5
106
Not enough data
Management
7.3
63
Not enough data
8.2
56
Not enough data
8.5
74
Not enough data
8.1
79
Not enough data
Solution Provision
7.3
52
Not enough data
8.3
68
Not enough data
7.5
51
Not enough data
Management
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Reporting
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Security
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Database
Not enough data
9.0
17
Not enough data
8.8
13
Not enough data
8.3
12
Integrations
Not enough data
9.7
5
Not enough data
8.8
7
Platform
Not enough data
9.0
12
Not enough data
8.9
12
Not enough data
8.8
7
Processing
Not enough data
9.2
15
Not enough data
9.0
16
Building Reports
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Platform
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Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Fivetran and Snowplow share no categories
Unique Categories
Snowplow is categorized as Product Analytics, Big Data Processing and Distribution, Digital Analytics, and Data Governance
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Fivetran
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Snowplow
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Computer Software
14.9%
Information Technology and Services
13.5%
Financial Services
9.6%
Retail
5.5%
Marketing and Advertising
5.1%
Other
51.3%
Computer Software
16.7%
Retail
10.0%
Marketing and Advertising
10.0%
Information Technology and Services
10.0%
Financial Services
10.0%
Other
43.3%
Most Helpful Reviews
Fivetran
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Steven M.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Fivetran is very easy to set up and get going. I've used it to try out new data sources and do one off data pulls. It's generally reliable, emailing the admin team when there are issues. Overall, it's the best ETL tool I've used to get data into my warehouse.
Most Helpful Critical Review
jacob N.
Verified User in Machinery
I have been using Fivetran for three months now and have been through 3 Account managers (Due to restructuring). My current manager tricked me into an annual contract by promising me discounts which were never applied. The costing is calculated based on...
Snowplow
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Mark J.
Verified User in Higher Education
We've been using SnowPlow here at General Assembly for almost 7 years. We started with the opensource version and decided to move to Enterprise so we didn't have to use data engineering resources to maintain and upgrade the pipeline, which has saved us a...
Most Helpful Critical Review
Steven M.
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Fivetran is very easy to set up and get going. I've used it to try out new data sources and do one off data pulls. It's generally reliable, emailing the admin team when there are issues. Overall, it's the best ETL tool I've used to get data into my warehouse.
Mark J.
Verified User in Higher Education
We've been using SnowPlow here at General Assembly for almost 7 years. We started with the opensource version and decided to move to Enterprise so we didn't have to use data engineering resources to maintain and upgrade the pipeline, which has saved us a...
jacob N.
Verified User in Machinery
I have been using Fivetran for three months now and have been through 3 Account managers (Due to restructuring). My current manager tricked me into an annual contract by promising me discounts which were never applied. The costing is calculated based on...
Alternatives
Discussions
Is Fivetran an ETL tool?
2 comments
NV
Fivetran is an ELT Tool, specifically for Extracting the data from source and Loading the data into the Destination. This tool works in conjunction with...Read more
Can Fivetran implement a feature to auto download / refresh data into a spreadsheet ? That would be great.
1 comment
JL
Hi George,
Thanks for reaching out. All feature requests are logged via our Support Portal. Please submit your feature request here:...Read more
Do plan to partner with smaller software companies to add to your selection of available connectors?
1 comment
MP
Did you already asked their support? They offer a also cloud functions and other solutions to connect also other sources.Read more
Snowplow has no discussions with answers
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