# airbytehq/airbyte

Open-source data movement for ELT pipelines and AI agents — from APIs, databases & files to warehouses, lakes, and AI applications. Both self-hosted and Cloud.

Repository: https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/airbyte
Homepage: https://airbyte.com
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: data, pipeline, data-analysis, data-engineering, java, python, etl, change-data-capture, data-collection, data-integration, elt, bigquery, redshift, snowflake, data-pipeline, mssql, mysql, postgresql, s3, self-hosted
Last push: 2026-08-27T00:24:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 79/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2228, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 322, "gap_med": 32, "n_releases_24m": 16}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 21960, forks 5321 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:32.236911+00:00)

## What it is
Airbyte is an open-source data movement platform providing 600+ connectors for replicating data from APIs, databases, and files into warehouses, lakes, and databases (ELT). It also offers Airbyte Agents, a context layer giving AI agents real-time access to business data via CLI, SDK, API, and MCP interfaces.

## Use cases
- sync data from postgres to snowflake
- build elt pipelines from saas apis to a data warehouse
- replicate mysql database into a data lake
- give ai agents access to crm and support data
- load stripe and salesforce data into bigquery
- run self-hosted data integration with docker
- move files and api data into a warehouse on a schedule

## When to choose
- you need connectors for many data sources without writing custom scripts
- you want self-hosted or cloud ELT replication into warehouses, lakes, or databases
- you're building AI agents that need governed, real-time access to business data
- you want MCP, CLI, SDK, or API interfaces to data for agent harnesses

## When to avoid
- you need lightweight single-source scripts where a simple Python ETL script suffices
- you require strict OSI licensing - parts are ELv2/proprietary
- you need real-time streaming with sub-second latency rather than scheduled replication
- you can't run Docker/Kubernetes for the self-managed platform

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: etl, data-science, mcp, agent-framework, self-hosted, developer-tools
- domain: big-data, databases, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, cloud, python, go, cli
- tags: elt, data-integration, connectors, change-data-capture, data-replication, context-layer, pyairbyte, data-warehouse, data-lake, data-engineering, ai-agents, automation, docker, kubernetes, web-server

## Member repositories
- airbytehq/airbyte (main) score 79

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:32.236911+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:57:44.909959+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:32.236911+00:00, sha cc70d9f49e9a)
  - homepage: https://airbyte.com (fetched 2026-08-29T07:56:09.025330+00:00, sha f48e13089e0a)
  - site_page: https://docs.airbyte.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T07:56:09.034927+00:00, sha f6989ba08c45)
  - site_page: https://docs.airbyte.com/ai-agents/interfaces/cli (fetched 2026-08-29T07:56:09.038990+00:00, sha bb84fe5fb0aa)
  - site_page: https://airbyte.com/company/about-us (fetched 2026-08-29T07:56:09.044391+00:00, sha 5a13be540cb5)
  - site_page: https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/using-airbyte/getting-started/oss-quickstart (fetched 2026-08-29T07:56:09.046026+00:00, sha 9b23a75b8b41)
  - site_page: https://airbyte.com/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T07:56:09.036865+00:00, sha 4e9518642f1d)
  - site_page: https://airbyte.com/pricing?tab=agent (fetched 2026-08-29T07:56:09.040929+00:00, sha 4e9518642f1d)
  - site_page: https://airbyte.com/pricing?tab=replication (fetched 2026-08-29T07:56:09.042679+00:00, sha 4e9518642f1d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.