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Meltano

19Judge labels
0First choices
2Negative labels
8 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
9 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Meltano was named 9 times in ETL, where Airbyte led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business12 of 56
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market16 of 66
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise59 of 67
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In etl · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Meltano for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
ETL and ELTData platform0%16 of 660%9under 10 labels · led by Airbyte at 32%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Meltano yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Meltano across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash02002
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00101
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX02002
MiniMax M2.500000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative6 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative19 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Choose Meltano + dbt Core if you have a developer-heavy team that wants a code-first, version-controlled pipeline” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ETL · budget prompt · alternative
“Meltano: An open-source, CLI-first tool built on the Singer standard.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ETL · scale prompt · alternative
“Code‑first, Git‑managed, covers extraction → loading → orchestration” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ETL · comparative prompt · alternative
“Open-source with better architecture | Meltano, Apache Airflow” Kimi K2 · ETL · negative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Meltano, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Meltano was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Airbyte19 of 197Not in the top three
Fivetran18 of 197Not in the top three
dbt14 of 190Not in the top three
Hevo Data11 of 194Not in the top three
Stitch10 of 191Not in the top three
Talend9 of 190Not in the top three
Apache Airflow8 of 190Not in the top three
Informatica7 of 190Not in the top three
Matillion7 of 190Not in the top three
Skyvia5 of 191Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Meltano. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 11 of the 19 answers that named Meltano and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

airbyte.com8
fivetran.com8
hevodata.com8
integrate.io8
dataexpert.io5
estuary.dev5
skyvia.com5
sqream.com5
checkthat.ai4
datacamp.com4

Sixty of the sixty domain citations in answers naming Meltano came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

integrate.io/blog/top-7-etl-tools8
dataexpert.io/blog/open-source-etl-tools-comparison-guide-20265
estuary.dev/blog/etl-tools-list5
sqream.com/blog/best-etl-tools5
datacamp.com/blog/a-list-of-the-16-best-etl-tools-and-why-to-choose-them4
fivetran.com/learn/etl-tools4
hevodata.com/learn/top-free-open-source-etl-tools-to-consider4
stacksync.com/blog/26-best-etl-tools-2025-curated-list4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Meltano

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Meltano; a claim can dispute any of them.
Stitch/Meltano 1
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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Meltano's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Meltano, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at meltano.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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