Talend pricing guide details
Pricing Overview
Qlik publishes no prices for Talend. Talend is now part of Qlik, and its cloud product, Qlik Talend Cloud, comes in four editions: Starter, Standard, Premium and Enterprise. Each one is marked Contact Us on qlik.com, with no amount, currency or term shown.
What Qlik does publish is the pricing basis. Customers subscribe to a capacity of usage for the chosen edition. Usage is measured by a combination of three things: data volume moved, number of job executions and execution duration. Qlik says the formal definitions of these price metrics are in its Product Descriptions.
So any dollar figure you see quoted for Talend elsewhere did not come from Qlik. The only reliable number is the quote Qlik gives you for your own volumes. Talend Data Fabric, in the cloud and on-premises, is also still sold, and Qlik says it remains available for trial and purchase.
Plan Comparison
The four editions build on each other. Price is by quote for all of them, so the useful question is which features you need.
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| Edition | Price | What it adds | Fits teams that |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Contact Us | Pre-built SaaS and warehouse connectors, managed cloud pipelines, ready-to-query schemas, data catalog | Move data from SaaS apps into a cloud warehouse |
| Standard | Contact Us | Everything in Starter, plus log-based change data capture (CDC), database and file connectors, cloud, client-managed or hybrid deployment | Need real-time sync from databases, or private network access |
| Premium | Contact Us | Everything in Standard, plus ELT or ETL transformations, warehouse and lakehouse automation, column-level lineage, data quality, data stewardship, API integration | Need transformation, lineage and data quality in one platform |
| Enterprise | Contact Us | Everything in Premium, plus pipelines for AI and generative AI, LLM extensibility, SAP and mainframe connectivity | Run SAP or mainframe systems |
The edition line matters more than it looks. Real-time CDC starts at Standard, and data quality and lineage start at Premium. A team that buys Starter to save money and later needs CDC must move up a whole edition, and the new quote will reflect that.
Hidden Costs and Considerations
- You pay for capacity, not only for use. You subscribe to a set amount of capacity. Size it with care, because the quote is built on it.
- Three meters, not one. Usage counts data volume, job runs and run time. A job that runs every few minutes but moves little data still uses capacity through its run count and duration.
- Watch the limits. Qlik offers a self-serve telemetry dashboard and sends alerts as usage nears the subscribed limit. Ask what happens when you go over before you sign.
- Client-managed means your infrastructure. If you run Talend on your own servers, the hardware and cloud costs are yours.
- Services and training are not priced publicly. Talend is a broad platform. Ask Qlik to quote implementation help and training with the licence.
Cost Estimates by Team Size
We cannot give a cost for any team size, because Qlik publishes no rates to calculate from. Team size is also not one of Qlik's price metrics: the quote depends on usage, not headcount.
To get a quote you can compare, bring these numbers for each team:
- Small team: the SaaS sources you load, the data volume moved per month and how often jobs run. Starter may be enough.
- Mid-size team (around 20 people): add the databases you need to sync in real time. That points to Standard or Premium.
- Large team: add data quality, lineage and SAP or mainframe needs, and the deployment model. That points to Premium or Enterprise.
Ask Qlik to price at least two editions so you can see the cost of each step up.
How Talend Pricing Compares
All competitor prices below come from each vendor's current pricing record.
- Stitch, another Qlik product, does publish prices. Standard starts at $100 per month, scaling with monthly row volume. Advanced is $1,500 per month and Premium $3,000 per month, both shown as monthly figures but billed annually.
- Hevo Data: Free covers limited connectors and up to 1M events/month. Starter starts at $299/month billed monthly or $265/month billed annually for 5M events/month. Professional starts at $849/month billed monthly or $750/month billed annually for 20M events/month. Hevo counts each destination insert, update or delete as an event; usage above the plan quota incurs extra On-Demand fees.
- Fivetran prices on monthly active rows through its own estimator and publishes no per-plan price.
- Informatica Cloud charges in Informatica Processing Units and publishes no rate.
Compare Talend's quote at the required data-quality, governance and integration scope. Hevo publishes ingestion entry rates, but those do not price an equivalent Talend deployment. Check connectors, transformations, support and operating responsibilities before comparing totals.