Portable and Weld side by side: price, connectors and features, where each one is the better choice, and what Weld replaces.
Portable
WeldAn animation of the migration. Your apps and databases sync through Portable while Weld's team maps every connector, then both run in parallel into your warehouse until the row counts match, and finally Portable is switched off while Weld keeps syncing and orchestrates the dbt run after each sync.
Portable.io is a cloud-based extract-and-load (EL) platform focused on supporting long-tail data sources. Weld puts ingestion, transformations, orchestration and reverse ETL in one product, with 300+ connectors built in house.
You need the widest connector catalog (1000+ against 300+).
You want ingestion, transformations, orchestration and reverse ETL in one product, on one bill.
To cover what Weld does, a team running Portable adds these tools, each set up and monitored on its own.
| Capability | Weld | Portable |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $99/mo, billed annually | Flat per connector (no volume fees) |
| Free tier | Free trial | Included |
| Connectors | 300+ | 1000+ |
| Reverse ETL | Included | Not offered |
| Fastest sync frequency | 5 min | 1 hour |
| Log-based CDC | Included, Business add-on or Enterprise | Not offered |
| History tables (SCD) | Included, from Business | Not offered |
| Transformations | Included | Not offered |
| dbt Core | Included | Not offered |
| dbt Cloud | Included | Not offered |
| AI and agents | Native AI agent, MCP server, Connect API | Not offered |
| MCP server | Included, from Premium | Not offered |
| CLI | Included | Not offered |
| Orchestration | Included | Not offered |
| Data lineage | Included | Not offered |
| Version control | Included | Not offered |
| Start for free | Book a demo |
Both include: data ingestion (ELT), full refresh, incremental, REST / OpenAPI.
Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial. Connect a source and a warehouse, and your first sync runs the same day. If you would rather see it first, a data engineer will walk you through it on your own setup.
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