# Meltano: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 14 judge labels across 2 categories by 10 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/meltano

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [ETL and ELT](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/etl-and-elt/index.md) | 0% | 10 | 0% | 13 |
| [Workflow orchestration](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/workflow-orchestration/index.md) | 0% | 59 | 0% | 1 |

## What the models said for it

- "An open-source tool based on Singer, prioritizing command-line interfaces, and completely free of charge." (Llama 4 Maverick, ETL)
- "Choose Meltano when engineers want pipelines managed as code and integrated with DataOps practices." (Perplexity Sonar, ETL)
- "Very budget constrained? → Airbyte (self-hosted or Cloud), Meltano, or custom with open-source tools." (Grok 4.20, ETL)
- "If you have technical expertise: Meltano provides maximum control with zero licensing costs." (MiniMax M2.5, ETL)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Meltano, from 26 of the 34 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- airbyte.com: 14
- hevodata.com: 12
- weld.app: 9
- zapier.com: 9
- integrate.io: 8
- fivetran.com: 7
- reddit.com: 7
- datachannel.co: 6
- zoho.com: 6
- sarasanalytics.com: 5

### Pages cited

- https://airbyte.com/top-etl-tools-for-sources/etl-tools: 13
- https://hevodata.com/learn/etl-tools-for-small-businesses: 9
- https://weld.app/blog/etl-tools-compared: 9
- https://zapier.com/blog/etl-tools: 9
- https://reddit.com/r/ETL/comments/1kqcp6e/top_etl_tools_for_earlystage_startups_preferably: 6
- https://zoho.com/dataprep/the-best-etl-tools-2026.html: 6
- https://hevodata.com/learn/affordable-etl-tools: 5
- https://tapdata.io/blog/best-etl-tools-2024-seamless-integration-guide: 5

## In its own words

What Meltano's own pages state, read 2026-09-28. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: The only EL tool built for data engineers (https://meltano.com/)
- For: data engineers (https://meltano.com/)
- Price stated: Open source and free to use, with paid support options (https://meltano.com/)
- Starting price: 200 compute hours / mo (https://meltano.com/pricing)
- Free plan or trial: Open source and free to use (https://meltano.com/case-studies)
- Integrations claimed: 600 (https://meltano.com/)
- Customers named: CitySprint, Little Bike Company, Resident Advisor, MVF, Consil, IFG, Lotus Labs, Session Climbing

## What it publishes

Every page meltano.com exposes, read 2026-09-29: 524 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 293 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- case study: 6 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- report or ebook: 22 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- comparison: 12 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- template or tool: 2 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- glossary or explainer: 3 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- podcast or video: 24 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.