Airbyte vs Looker
What each one’s own pages state, side by side. Every value is a quote AirStack found on that product’s pages; “Not observed” means AirStack has not found it on that product’s pages.
| Airbyte | Looker | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | Airbyte | Open-Source Autonomous Data Movement Platform airbyte.com | The agentic BI platform built on a trusted semantic layer cloud.google.com |
| Starting at | $20 Standard / month | Not observed |
| Deployment | Airbyte Cloud, VPC, Your VPC, on-prem, or multi-region airbyte.com | Not observed |
| Integrations | ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Airtable, BigQuery, Amplitude airbyte.com | BigQuery, AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Amazon Redshift, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake cloud.google.com |
| Free plan | Yes airbyte.com | Yes cloud.google.com |
| Plans | Enterprise Flex, Plus, Pro, Standard airbyte.com | Standard, Enterprise, Embed cloud.google.com |
| Open source | Yes airbyte.com | Not observed |
| Pricing basis | Pick the model that fits: fixed capacity on Pro and Enterprise Flex, or volume-based on Standard and Plus. airbyte.com | Looker pricing has two components: platform pricing and user pricing. cloud.google.com |
| Customers (their claim) | 25,000+ airbyte.com | Not observed |
Where they differ
- Airbyte’s pages state that it is open source; AirStack has not found that on Looker’s pages.
Prices are list prices as written on each pricing page; check them before you buy. Nothing here is a ranking or a recommendation.