Airbyte vs Apache Airflow

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform for building ELT pipelines from APIs, databases, and files into data warehouses and lakes. It offers over 600 pre-built connectors with a connector builder for custom sources. Airbyte is available as a self-managed open-source deployment or as a fully managed cloud service with capacity-based pricing.

Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow orchestration platform for programmatically authoring, scheduling, and monitoring data pipelines. Workflows are defined as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) in Python, with a web-based UI for monitoring and management. Airflow is widely used for ETL/ELT workflows, ML pipelines, and data engineering tasks.