Comparison
Quayen vs Artie for MySQL to BigQuery
Artie is a managed real-time CDC platform that replicates databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB into warehouses including Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift and Databricks, priced by billable rows. Quayen focuses only on MySQL to BigQuery, with lower entry prices for small and mid-size databases.
| Quayen | Artie | |
|---|---|---|
| How changes move | Continuous: changes reach a BigQuery change-history table within seconds; up-to-date tables refresh every 1 to 60 minutes | Continuous CDC from the MySQL binlog, merged into BigQuery tables; can create partitioned tables |
| Pricing | Monthly active rows; paid plans from $19/month; initial copies and re-copies free | Billable rows: Growth is usage-based from $500/month; Enterprise is custom |
| Free tier | Free during early access (fair use: 3 pipelines, 100M changed rows a month); afterwards a free plan with 1M monthly active rows | Free plan up to 1M billable rows a month and 2 active pipelines; 14-day free trial |
| Sources | MySQL (RDS, Aurora, Cloud SQL, Azure, self-hosted) | Databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB and SQL Server |
| Destinations | BigQuery | Several warehouses and databases, including BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks and ClickHouse |
| Deployment | Managed service; data written to your own BigQuery project | Managed, or in your own cloud (BYOC) on Enterprise |
Choose Artie if
- You replicate several database engines or into several warehouses
- You need CDC to run in your own cloud account (BYOC)
Choose Quayen if
- Your pipeline is MySQL to BigQuery and you want a lower monthly price
- You want a separate change-history dataset next to an up-to-date copy
- You want guided setup for each MySQL host
Artie details are based on its public documentation as of November 2026 and may have changed: Artie pricing, Artie BigQuery destination docs, Artie MySQL source docs.
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