Boomi vs. Matillion

Boomi vs. Matillion – Overview

About Boomi Data Integration

Boomi Data Integration — formerly Rivery — is the next-generation data platform built for the AI era.

Now part of the Boomi Enterprise Platform, Boomi Data Integration empowers organizations to build automated, end-to-end data pipelines that deliver trusted, governed, and near real-time data to analytics tools, AI models, and intelligent agents — all at scale.

From cloud data lakes to CRM, ERP, and bespoke SaaS applications, Boomi Data Integration gives your teams complete control and visibility over your data — so you can trust your data, move faster, and power your most ambitious AI and analytics initiatives.

About Matillion

Matillion was founded in 2011 with headquarters in Denver (US) and Manchester (UK). Their low-code, click-and-drag solution is known for its advanced transformation capabilities. It’s a self-hosted tool, which makes it a good candidate for on-premise deployments, and for those who have resources to manage the infrastructure running Matillion.

Matillion can be a powerful tool for larger data teams, however given that it’s not fully managed, you’ll have to perform error logging, server maintenance, software upgrades, API upgrades, etc.

Boomi vs. Matillion – Features

Boomi vs. Matillion – Product

Boomi

Boomi’s SaaS offering provides several data stack products in a single platform. This includes ELT (data ingestion) with over 200 fully-managed connectors, advanced workflow orchestration, data operations (full support for the development lifecycle), reverse ETL (data activation), and full Python support.

Matillion

Matillion provides two products: Matillion ETL, which is their full-featured ETL offering as well as Matillion Data Loader, which is a lighter weight offering.

Matillion supports 100+ data connectors and users can make new connector requests, but new connectors can only be built exclusively by the Matillion team. In terms of targets/destinations, Matillion Data Loader supports Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Delta Lake on Databricks for batch pipelines. In addition, Data Loader supports Amazon S3 and Azure Blob, but only for CDC pipelines.

Boomi vs. Matillion – Pricing

Boomi

Boomi Data Integration offers both on-demand (pay-as-you-go) pricing and annual contracts. All plans—Base, Professional, Pro Plus, and Enterprise—are available with either model.

Pricing is based on a credit system using Boomi Data Units (BDUs), formerly called RPUs.

Database, file storage, and webhook sources are priced by data volume transferred.

Application/API sources are priced by pipeline execution, with an option to shift to volume-based pricing for high-frequency syncs.

Boomi does not charge based on:

• Number of connectors or integrations
• Number of API executions or database tables
• Row count or sync frequency

All Boomi Data Integration plans include:

• Access to 200+ fully managed connectors
• Reverse ETL
• Change Data Capture (CDC) capabilities
• Support for both standard and high-frequency API replication
• Flexible, consumption-based pricing across all use cases

Learn more about Boomi Data Integration pricing on Boomi’s pricing page or contact sales to explore enterprise agreements.

Matillion

Matillion’s pricing uses credits and is based on virtual core (vCore) per -hour usage. One credit = 1 hour of vCore usage. Credits range between $2.00 and $2.70 an hour. This is in addition to the cost of running the servers themselves on your cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP).

Boomi vs. Matillion – Support

Boomi

Boomi offers 24/7 global support as well as onboarding services and dedicated customer success services, which vary by plan. Support is engineering-led and solutions focused.

Boomi’s Gartner Peer Insights user rating for quality of support is 4.6/5, with an overall score of 4.8/5.

Matillion

Matillion provides support through an online ticketing system. They do not provide any training services as part of their support offerings.

Matillion’s Gartner Peer Insights user rating for quality of support is 4.4/5, with an overall score of 4.5/5.

Boomi vs. Matillion – Summary

Matillion

Matillion ETL is basically sold as software, and is not a SaaS offering. This is suitable for organizations that require running all of their data pipelines on their own servers, but you’ll need a team to manage the servers software upgrades.

If you have a large data team, conduct on-premise deployments, and are looking for advanced transformation capabilities, Matillion may be for you, as long as you keep in mind that you’ll be responsible for managing the infrastructure running Matillion, which could make it difficult to scale.

Key benefits when evaluating Matillion include:

• Matillion licenses are relatively cheap and their compute runtime is based on cloud computing price.
• Strong transformation capabilities

Limitations of Matillion include:

• Host infrastructure management needs to be handled as your data pipelines grow.
• Cannot handle incremental updates automatically
• Database supportability

Boomi

Boomi is a cloud-native enterprise platform so users don’t need to worry about workload size, scaling usage, or managing the entire scaling infrastructure themselves. Matillion is known for robust transformation capabilities, however Boomi also offers its own mature transformation engine.

In regards to other data transformation capabilities, Boomi provides integration points with dbt and other API-based transformation tools, while Matillion does not provide these offerings.

In terms of data integration capabilities, Boomi has 200+ native connectors and a simple custom connector to any API source. With Matillion, you are limited to about 100 integrations found in their directory and cannot build new connectors through their software.