Hevo Data vs Portable
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of Hevo Data and Portable built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
Choose Hevo Data if…
A capped bill at low volume with real support attached to it. $299 a month covers 5 million events, and 24x7 email and live chat come with the cheapest paid plan rather than an upgrade. SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and per-region residency — EU, US or APAC, never crossed — are stated platform-wide.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose Portable if…
A bill that does not move and a long tail of obscure sources. 1,500+ connectors is the largest catalogue here, data volume is unlimited on every plan, and the only thing that changes the price is enabling another flow — so a nightly full reload of a huge table costs exactly what a small one does.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- Hevo Data: Rows are rewritten often. An event is every insert, update and delete landing in the destination, so a row touched thirty times in a month is thirty events where a monthly-active-row meter reads one. Governance arrives late too: RBAC and SSO are Business Critical, which is quote-only.
- Portable: You have a handful of pipelines, or want to start without committing. $1,800 a month for six flows is the floor and there is no free tier, only a 14-day trial — one pipeline here costs what a light Fivetran connection costs 360 times over. Standard also syncs hourly; 15 minutes means Pro at $2,800.
10 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
Hevo Data 0
Portable 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Hevo Data | Portable |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Kind of free offer | Free tier | Free trial |
| When the free offer ends | A 14-day free trial with 24x7 support and no credit card, offered beside the standing free plan rather than instead of it. | A 14-day trial on both paid plans. It is the only free access — the plan table has no $0 row. |
| Entry paid plan | $299 a month for Starter at 5 million events, or $265 a month billed annually. | $1,800 a month for Standard, which enables 6 data flows and includes unlimited data volume. |
| Pricing model | Tiered subscription by monthly event volume, where an event is each record inserted, updated or deleted in the destination. A row that changes repeatedly is billed each time it changes. | A fixed monthly fee set by the number of enabled data flows, with unlimited data volume on every plan. Each unique source-destination pair counts as one flow. |
| When you exceed a cap | Events above the plan quota are treated as On-Demand and charged on top of the plan rather than blocking the pipeline. | There is no volume overage. Data volume is unlimited on both plans, so the bill moves only when another flow is enabled. |
| Pipelines | ||
| Connectors published | 150+ connectors from Starter. The Free plan is limited to a subset of them. | 1,500+ no-code ETL connectors, the largest published catalogue of the four. |
| Sync frequency | 1-hour scheduling on the Free plan. Streaming pipelines arrive on Business Critical, which is quote-only. | Every 1 hour on Standard. Every 15 minutes, or at a chosen time by cron, from Pro. |
| Support | ||
| Support on entry paid plan | 24x7 email and live chat support from Starter, the cheapest paid plan. | 9-5 priority support on Standard. 24x7 premium support and a joint Slack channel arrive on Pro. |
| Compliance | ||
| Role-based access control | Role-based access control arrives on Business Critical, the quote-only top plan — three tiers above the entry paid plan. | Role-based access control and multi-factor authentication are described as platform-wide practice, with no plan gating stated. |
Where they differ.
Free tier
- Hevo Data
- Yes
- Portable
- No
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Hevo Pricing ↗
“Free forever for limited connectors Upto 1M events/month”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- Portable Pricing ↗
“ELT Capabilities Free trial 14 day Unlimited data volumes”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
Kind of free offer
- Hevo Data
- Free tier
- Portable
- Free trial
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Hevo Pricing ↗
“Free forever for limited connectors Upto 1M events/month”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- Portable Pricing ↗
“ELT Capabilities Free trial 14 day Unlimited data volumes”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
When the free offer ends
- Hevo Data
- A 14-day free trial with 24x7 support and no credit card, offered beside the standing free plan rather than instead of it.
- Portable
- A 14-day trial on both paid plans. It is the only free access — the plan table has no $0 row.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Hevo Pricing ↗
“Get a 14 day free trial with 24x7 support. No credit card required.”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- Portable Pricing ↗
“Start a 14-Day Trial Access to Standard sources”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
Entry paid plan
- Hevo Data
- $299 a month for Starter at 5 million events, or $265 a month billed annually.
- Portable
- $1,800 a month for Standard, which enables 6 data flows and includes unlimited data volume.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Hevo Pricing ↗
“Starter starts at $265/month”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- Portable Pricing ↗
“$1,800 billed monthly Start a 14-Day Trial Access to Standard sources Access to data warehouse and database destinations Unlimited data volumes”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
Pricing model
- Hevo Data
- Tiered subscription by monthly event volume, where an event is each record inserted, updated or deleted in the destination. A row that changes repeatedly is billed each time it changes.
- Portable
- A fixed monthly fee set by the number of enabled data flows, with unlimited data volume on every plan. Each unique source-destination pair counts as one flow.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Hevo Pricing ↗
“Each record that is inserted, updated or deleted in the destination (data warehouse, database, etc.) is counted as one event.”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- Portable Pricing ↗
“If you have multiple sources or destinations, each unique source-destination pair counts as a separate flow. [...] Unlimited data volumes”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
When you exceed a cap
- Hevo Data
- Events above the plan quota are treated as On-Demand and charged on top of the plan rather than blocking the pipeline.
- Portable
- There is no volume overage. Data volume is unlimited on both plans, so the bill moves only when another flow is enabled.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Hevo Pricing ↗
“Events usage above your subscription plan's quota is considered On-Demand and is charged additionally on top of your Plan.”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- Portable Pricing ↗
“Unlimited data volumes Sync data every 1 hour Incremental syncing [...] each unique source-destination pair counts as a separate flow”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
Connectors published
150+ connectors from Starter. The Free plan is limited to a subset of them.
1,500+ no-code ETL connectors, the largest published catalogue of the four.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Hevo Pricing ↗
“Everything in Free, plus: Up to 10 users 150+ connectors dbt integration [...] Free forever for limited connectors”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- Portable Connectors ↗
“1500+ No-Code ETL Connectors”
Read 2026-09-15 · official site
Sync frequency
- Hevo Data
- 1-hour scheduling on the Free plan. Streaming pipelines arrive on Business Critical, which is quote-only.
- Portable
- Every 1 hour on Standard. Every 15 minutes, or at a chosen time by cron, from Pro.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Hevo Pricing ↗
“Free plan features: 1-hour scheduling [...] Everything in Professional, plus: Streaming Pipelines”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- Portable Pricing ↗
“Unlimited data volumes Sync data every 1 hour Incremental syncing [...] Unlimited data volumes Sync data every 15 minutes Sync data at a specific time via Cron scheduling”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
Support on entry paid plan
- Hevo Data
- 24x7 email and live chat support from Starter, the cheapest paid plan.
- Portable
- 9-5 priority support on Standard. 24x7 premium support and a joint Slack channel arrive on Pro.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Hevo Pricing ↗
“Everything in Free, plus: Up to 10 users 150+ connectors dbt integration SSH/SSL 24*7 email & live chat support”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- Portable Pricing ↗
“9-5 priority support First 3 months integration services included [...] 24x7 premium support Developer API & Webhooks access”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
Role-based access control
- Hevo Data
- Role-based access control arrives on Business Critical, the quote-only top plan — three tiers above the entry paid plan.
- Portable
- Role-based access control and multi-factor authentication are described as platform-wide practice, with no plan gating stated.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Hevo Pricing ↗
“Everything in Professional, plus: Streaming Pipelines Role Based Access Control Single sign-on Multiple Workspaces”
Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing
- Portable Security ↗
“We implement role-based access control, multi-factor authentication, and other best practices”
Read 2026-09-15 · official site
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
Documented by only one.
These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.
Questions this comparison answers.
Entry paid plan: Hevo Data or Portable?
Hevo Data: $299 a month for Starter at 5 million events, or $265 a month billed annually.
Portable: $1,800 a month for Standard, which enables 6 data flows and includes unlimited data volume.
Free tier: Hevo Data or Portable?
Hevo Data: Yes
Portable: No
When you exceed a cap: Hevo Data or Portable?
Hevo Data: Events above the plan quota are treated as On-Demand and charged on top of the plan rather than blocking the pipeline.
Portable: There is no volume overage. Data volume is unlimited on both plans, so the bill moves only when another flow is enabled.
Should I choose Hevo Data or Portable?
Pick Hevo Data if A capped bill at low volume with real support attached to it. $299 a month covers 5 million events, and 24x7 email and live chat come with the cheapest paid plan rather than an upgrade. SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and per-region residency — EU, US or APAC, never crossed — are stated platform-wide.
Pick Portable if A bill that does not move and a long tail of obscure sources. 1,500+ connectors is the largest catalogue here, data volume is unlimited on every plan, and the only thing that changes the price is enabling another flow — so a nightly full reload of a huge table costs exactly what a small one does.