Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 12 → 15 of 61
1 category · RankedMeltano
26Judge labels
1First choices
5Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in ETL for mid-market buyers
Rank 7 of 75 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 13 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Meltano →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business12 of 62
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market7 of 75
2%13 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise68 of 72
0%4 labels
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.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETL and ELT | Data platform | 2% | 7 of 75 | 0% | 13 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Meltano held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · ETL · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 17 → 7 of 69
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 54 → 60 of 64
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETL | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 17 → 7 of 75 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Meltano across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Meltano across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labels1
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.
“Airbyte and Meltano are excellent choices for small businesses with some technical ability” Mistral Small · ETL · budget prompt · first choice
“Meltano or Airbyte's developer-centric SDKs allow your engineers to treat data pipelines like standard software code” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ETL · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“opt for open-source self-hosted alternatives like Airbyte or Meltano” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ETL · negative prompt · alternative
“Best ultra-low software cost for a technical team: Meltano” GPT-5.4 mini · ETL · budget 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 26 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Meltano, over the 26 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 23 of the 26 answers that named Meltano and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
airbyte.com14
blog.coupler.io13
hevodata.com12
integrate.io12
fivetran.com11
skyvia.com11
sqream.com11
estuary.dev8
sarasanalytics.com8
coalesce.io7
107 of the 107 domain citations in answers naming Meltano came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
meltano.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Meltano takes 2% of first choices and Fivetran takes 40%.ShowHide
Search and answers
meltano.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Meltano takes 2% of first choices and Fivetran takes 40%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “etl tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “etl tools”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 480 a month (“meltano”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 7 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,371 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 287 · 13 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 951
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 7 of 75 in ETL
Segment leader
40%
Fivetran
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 26 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 23 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on meltano.com
524
subdomains included
Content
362
counted in the table below
Documentation
140
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 293 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 24 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 22 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 12 | undated | |||
| Case study | 6 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page meltano.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.
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.
Meltano / Singer 1Meltano / dlt (data load tool) 1
Follow Meltano
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Meltano is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Meltano is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The only EL tool built for data engineers
- For
- data engineers
- Price stated
- Open source and free to use, with paid support options meltano.com
- Starting price
- 200 compute hours / mo meltano.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Open source and free to use meltano.com/case-studies
- Integrations claimed
- 600 meltano.com
- Customers named
- CitySprintLittle Bike CompanyResident AdvisorMVFConsilIFGLotus LabsSession Climbing
- Not stated on the pages read
- Certifications, hosting
What Meltano's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: meltano.com, meltano.com/pricing, meltano.com/case-studies, meltano.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Meltano by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Meltano is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Meltano, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.