Matillion and Qlik Talend side by side: price, connectors and features, and where each one is the better choice.
Matillion
Qlik TalendMatillion is a cloud-first ETL/ELT tool designed for building pipelines and transformations in platforms like Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift.
Qlik Talend Cloud is Qlik’s enterprise ETL and ELT data integration platform (following Qlik’s acquisition of Talend in 2023).
| Capability | Matillion | Qlik Talend |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Credit-based, prices on request | Tiered subscription + capacity-based (quote-based) |
| Connectors | 150+ | Not offered |
| Deployment | SaaS, Hybrid | SaaS, On-premise, Hybrid |
| Reverse ETL | Output components (e.g. Salesforce) | Via Qlik Automate |
| Fastest sync frequency | 1 min | Real-time |
| History tables (SCD) | Not offered | Included |
| dbt Core | Included | Not offered |
| dbt Cloud | Included | Not offered |
| AI and agents | Included | AI SQL assistant |
| MCP server | Included | Qlik MCP server, analytics tools |
| G2 rating | 4.3 | 4 |
Both include: data ingestion (ELT), full refresh, incremental, log-based CDC, transformations, CLI, REST / OpenAPI, orchestration, data lineage, version control.
Weld does ingestion with 300+ connectors, and adds transformations, orchestration, lineage and reverse ETL in the same product, on a flat monthly tier from $99.
