--- title: Decodable Reviews meta_title: 'Decodable Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 16 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Decodable works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.7 review_count: 16 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-24' parent_category: name: Cloud Data Integration url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-data-integration --- # Decodable Reviews **Vendor:** Decodable **Category:** [iPaaS Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/ipaas) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 ## About Decodable Decodable radically simplifies real-time ETL with a powerful, easy-to-use real-time ETL platform. By removing the challenges of building and maintaining infrastructure and pipelines, Decodable enables data teams to eliminate overhead, easily connect sources, perform real-time transformations, and reliably deliver data to any destination. ## Decodable Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **automation capabilities** of Decodable, making pipeline migration and management effortless and efficient. (2 reviews) - Users find Decodable to be a **very easy to use platform** , enabling quick and efficient pipeline migrations with minimal adjustments. (2 reviews) - Users find Decodable's **easy setup** impressive, allowing for quick migrations and efficient real-time data handling. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use and real-time capabilities** of Decodable, making pipeline migration and testing efficient and straightforward. (2 reviews) - Users find Decodable's **implementation ease** remarkable, allowing quick migration and streamlined pipeline management effortlessly. (2 reviews) - Real-Time Data (2 reviews) - Real-Time Processing (2 reviews) - Users find Decodable to be a **simple solution** for real-time data processing and streamlining infrastructure management. (2 reviews) - Time-saving (2 reviews) - Affordable (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **FAQ poorly organized** , leading to frequent support requests despite quick responses. (1 reviews) - Users report significant **performance issues** with Decodable, processing only 1 to 2 records per second. (1 reviews) - Users find the **poor customer support** experience frustrating, although responses are quick when contacted. (1 reviews) - Users experience **poor performance** , with streams processing only 1 to 2 records per second, limiting efficiency. (1 reviews) - Users find Decodable's **resource intensive learning** can hinder performance with limited processing speed for tasks. (1 reviews) - Resource Management (1 reviews) - Slow Data Loading (1 reviews) - Slow Processing (1 reviews) ## Decodable Reviews ### 1. Onboarding could not be more easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martin S. | Chief Curiosity Counselor, Non-Profit Organization Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Decodable?** I planned on trying out Decodable to maybe some later day migrate a previously batched pipeline. It worked fine and was cheap, but I never had real-time data for testing. After about 3 hours of tinkering on a slow Tuesday afternoon, not only did I finish my tests, but actually migrated the whole pipeline. And reduced technical debt in the meantime, as there now are fewer systems to maintain. I checked in with my stream a few times, but never had to adjust anything (so far). It just works. **What do you dislike about Decodable?** My stream only processes about 1 to 2 records per second - even the small tasks are overpowered for that. To save energy and resources, even smaller task sizes (maybe by sharing task resources?) would be cool :) **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** By using Decodable I can access real-time data and having reduced overhead at the same time: One stream replaced 1 intermediate storage, 1 batch pipeline and a couple SQL scripts no longer necessary. **Official Response from Sharon Xie:** > Thank you, Martin, for sharing your experience with Decodable! We're very happy to hear that your onboarding process was smooth. Our goal has always been to make stream processing as easy as batch processing, and feedback like yours reinforces our commitment to that goal. Improving resource utilization is on top of mind. We’ve recently introduced a tech preview of Scale to Zero (https://docs.decodable.co/administer/scale-to-zero.html), which enables cost savings with the latency tradeoff. We’d love for you to try it out and share your thoughts! ### 2. Unlocks AI applications by Simplifying Real-time Streaming and Infrastructure **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin K. | Senior AI Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Decodable?** Decodable is a tool that unlocks a lot of use cases for us that were previously not achievalable for our team. With our AI pipelines, we require customer updates to take effect immediately. For example, if they change a document (PDF, DOCX), we need it to be updated and reindexed in our vector databases so that the new information can be surfaced in AI pipelines. It would be impossible to perform these updates in a timely manner if we rely on batch jobs. Decodable is very effective at simplifying the monitoring of these updates (through Change Data Capture), and running the updates through a custom pipeline for us. For use cases that literally only need to move data from point A to point B, Decodable is a lot simpler and doesn't need much code maintenance. Real time streaming will always take effort and require different thinking. The Deodable team has done a very good job in abstracting a huge amount of the complexity, allowing us to focus on our business logic. The support has been great all the way, which is important for a team like ours that wasn't used to Flink. When it comes to simplifying infrastructure for streaming needs, this is where Decodable really shines. We are not bothered by keeping uptime of Kafka and Flink infrastructure, which can be a lot of work. **What do you dislike about Decodable?** The Decodable team moves fast but as one of the earlier adopters, we certainly had to adjust to some of the limitations. For example, we used Java Flink even if our team was more comfortable in Python. A month after that decision, PyFlink Beta was rolled out. We also had to do some extra work around CI/CD. At the pace of the Decodable though, I am confident that they will have a significantly refined product in the next few months. The support team has been super responsive for us. If only our timeline were one to two months later, we would have had a much easier time. Similar to above, the process around updating pipelines isn't quite refined yet. It requires a bit of extra work on our end to write some scripts to help. Batch vs streaming can also require a mindset change that takes getting used to. For example, joins are significantly more complicated. This is not the fault of the Decodable team though, it's just a fact of life that streaming will be a bit more complicated. **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data teams need to move data from transactional databases to data warehouses. Or in our case, we additionally need to move the records to our vector databases for AI applications. There are two options to do this, a batch job, or a streaming pipeline. Batch jobs are a lot simpler, at the expense of the data only being upto date every time the batch is run (every few hours or daily). For AI use cases in our organization, we needed data to be consistently upto date. Decodable simplifies the complexity of streaming pipelines by handling the change data captures (CDC) stream, and the infrastructure to move the data from point A to point B in real time (through Kafka and Flink). This allows us to always provide upto date data in our AI applications because we are able to index the data in our vector databases in real time. Without Decodable, we'd need to manage too many things rather than focusing on the business logic. **Official Response from Sharon Xie:** > Wow Kevin, thank you so much for your detailed review! We're absolutely delighted to hear how Decodable powers your AI applications and real-time streaming needs. It's fantastic to know that our platform has made such a difference in simplifying your processes and allowing your team to focus on your business logic. I really appreciate your candid feedback about the challenges you've faced. As early adopters, you’ve been pioneers, and your insights are incredibly valuable to us. We’re leveraging your feedback and working hard to refine the developer experience and make things smoother for you and all our users. Your confidence in our team's ability to improve is truly motivating. We're committed to making Decodable even better and are excited about what’s to come. Thanks again for your support and for being part of our journey. ### 3. Easy to use managed kafka service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Decodable?** Decodable makes creating streaming data pipelines easy. They provide all the Debezium, Kafka, and Flink infrastructure with none of the complexity. Their API and CLI make it simple to manage your infrastructure in a consistent way. The team at Decodable is very responsive and always willing to dive in and help out when needed. I was able to get up and running very quickly as compared to standing up my own Debezium/Kafka infrastructure. **What do you dislike about Decodable?** Some of the advanced functionality exposed by the Debezium is not available in Decodable. Setting up destination streams and database tables could be more automated or streamlined. **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streaming data into a data warehouse for analytics. **Official Response from Sharon Xie:** > Thank you for sharing how Decodable is helping you stream data into your data warehouse for analytics. We’re so glad to hear that our API and CLI made managing your infrastructure easy - delivering a great developer experience is exactly what we designed our platform for! Your feedback on advanced Debezium functionality is appreciated. Expanding support for CDC is a top priority for us, as it will definitely further enhance our platform’s capabilities. We continue to improve Decodable workflows through automation. Some connectors, like Snowflake, already support auto database creation, and we’re actively working to extend this feature to more connectors. Automated schema evolution is also coming soon! ### 4. Powerful and extendable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Max A. | Senior Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Decodable?** Our team was able to abstract away an intensive 5000+ schema union using decodable. We are now deploying custom Flink pipelines - the ETL capabilities are very broad and can be as complex or as simple as we need. **What do you dislike about Decodable?** Some small UI/documentation improvements would make getting up and running easier. **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its making event based streaming very quick and easy to develop and deploy. **Official Response from Sharon Xie:** > Thank you, Max, for your review! We’re excited to hear that Decodable has helped you manage your 5000+ schema union and deploy custom Flink pipelines. We designed our product to be flexible, and it’s great to see it working well for your team’s needs. I appreciate your feedback on our UI and documentation. Enhancing usability is always a priority for us, and I hope you notice improvements each time you log in 🙂. ### 5. Very useful and powerful realtime engine **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Decodable?** Very easy to use real time SaaS platform, that makes prototype assembly quick and easy and shows flow of data using simple dashboards. **What do you dislike about Decodable?** FAQ is not very well laid out, making us reach out to support, but they are very quick to answer nevertheless. **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Makes it very easy to visualise data flow and locate information across various connectors. Does everything we need and does it at scale. ### 6. Had great experience with Decodable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Decodable?** - Ease of use and very intuitive UI - Great team, they helped us throughout our journey from POC to actual implmentation on Production - Special mentions to Andrew, Gunnar and Nico for helping with our usecase of migrating Full-Text search from MySQL to ElasticSearch - Customer support is very quick and regular weekly connects. **What do you dislike about Decodable?** - Nothing as such, Andrew and team always made sure that we never face any issues. **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Decodable helped us in migrating our full-text search from MySQL to Elasticsearch, replicating data from mysql to elasticsearch in real time and doing stream processing along the way. **Official Response from Sharon Xie:** > Thanks for your great review! We're glad you found Decodable easy to use with an intuitive UI. Big shoutout to my awesome colleagues Andrew, Gunnar, and Nico for assisting with your MySQL to Elasticsearch migration. We’re committed to providing top-notch assistance to all our users and it’s great to hear that our customer support and regular check-ins made a difference. ### 7. Decodable as realtime platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Khushi K. | Computer Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Decodable?** Decodable has the best UI, and real time metrics, and preview data feature is the best **What do you dislike about Decodable?** Running multiple in a single pipeline and defining lineage **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Monitoring and Metrics 2. scaling out of the box **Official Response from Sharon Xie:** > Khuski, thank you for your detailed review! We’re thrilled to hear that you find it easy to set up pipelines for real-time metrics and that you love our pipeline preview feature. Your feedback on setting up multi-query in a pipeline is valuable. We have plans to support statement sets in the pipeline to enhance usability and efficiency. Stay tuned! ### 8. Fastest way of streaming **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjay Kumar C. | Senior Web Application Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Decodable?** Delivery of processed data without any duplicacy and without any loss of data. **What do you dislike about Decodable?** Documentation need bit more clarification as i have to struggled in searching few things. **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data streaming with any other tool have lots of data loss with totally reduced to 0. **Official Response from Sharon Xie:** > Thank you, Sanjay, for your review! We chose Flink as the backbone of our platform for its robust stream processing and exactly-once delivery capability and it’s fantastic to hear that Decodable has completely eliminated data loss for you. I appreciate your feedback on our documentation. We’re always working to improve clarity and usability. ### 9. Decodable A Self Served Real Time Data Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav M. | Data engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Decodable?** The Best Thing that I like about the decodable is the preview data and its ability to auto-scale without any manual intervention. Another feature that I like is real-time source, sink throughput, memory, and disk usage dashboards. **What do you dislike about Decodable?** There are so many configurations that we need to do while creating streams in decodable, for example, a user might be unknown to the watermark column, but it should be pre-populated and schema and format from Kafka as soon as the user selects a topic can also be prepopulated. Also, sometimes SQL errors are directly from flink SQL parser, we can wrap them and the user might get a good idea of where the error is. There is also no way to connect multiple sql queries one by one, this might be a good feature **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Decodable is pro at what it does, for me, it is solving auto-scaling and self-heal problems. As a user, now I don't need to worry when I need to manually stop the job and start with higher parallelism ### 10. One of the best products I've seen in a long time **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kenny S. | Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Decodable?** There are two things I like best: 1) Decodable makes it super easy to do prototyping, sandboxing, etc. 2) Decodable abstracts away the difficult parts of operating Flink. Decodable, as a company, is doing so many things well: it has a great architecture based on solid theory and proven open-source technologies. It's fully cloud-native, and they have built a team of industry experts with deep experience in the underlying technologies. **What do you dislike about Decodable?** The only downside is that it's still maturing in a relatively new space. There's still much ground to be taken, but the team is bringing new functionality at a very impressive rate. **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick iterating and prototyping is one of my favorite things about the product. It allows for rapid trying out of ideas. ### 11. Decodable - A complete solution for real time data problems **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tanu M. | Web Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Decodable?** I like decodable easy-to-use interface. It supports many sources and sinks pre-built connectors out of the box. Also, these connectors perform well at scale. Also, I like the preview feature, which can be used to debug on the fly **What do you dislike about Decodable?** I have not found any issues while working with the platform, but some configurations like source schemas can be prepopulated out of the box. Also, as an analyst need some time to understand watermark configuration, so it will be helpful if decodable provides some example link to watermark configuration understanding **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Decodable solves all real-time problems for us, like real-time ingestion, data enrichment via API, data massaging, multiple sinks. The best part is it performs well at scale. **Official Response from Sharon Xie:** > Tanu, thank you for your review! We’re delighted to hear that Decodable is effectively addressing your real-time data challenges and performing well at scale. It’s wonderful to know that you find our interface and pre-built connectors easy to use, and that the preview feature has been helpful for debugging on the fly. Regarding your feedback on pre-populating source schemas, we’ve already implemented this feature for several connectors, including MySQL, Snowflake, Postgres, Oracle, and SQL Server and more to come. We’ve also introduced schema registry integration to auto-fetch schema definitions. Check them out and I’d love to hear your experience. Your suggestion about providing more resources for watermark configuration is spot-on. We are already working on creating relevant blogs, documentation, and code examples to help with this. ### 12. Easily create data-driven applications with real-time data. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arun V. | Associate Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Decodable?** Decodable is a fantastic real-time data platform that helps to build pipelines super fast. Data pipelines for data-driven apps can be built effortlessly and deployed thanks to its data engineering services. **What do you dislike about Decodable?** There is nothing to dislike. I really liked its functions and how effortless it is to create a pipeline in minutes that are really fast and purposeful for data driven applications. **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Decodable pre-built connectors for messaging, storage, and database engines makes it simple to connect to and locate available data. It is helping to eliminate roadblocks to quick results and fast-tracking ideas into production. ### 13. Decodable - A Real Time Extraction and Processing Engine **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kiran K. | Marketing Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Decodable?** 1. Decodable Real-Time Monitoring And Auto Scaling 2. Less and Easy Configuration 3. Preview data and copy 4. A number of source and sink connectors **What do you dislike about Decodable?** 1. The only thing that I dislike about decodable is currently, we can connect only one SQL in a pipeline; there should be a way to combine multiple sql in parallel or one by one, just like any other ETL platform 2. There should be a way to write custom udf and attach to pipeline. **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Decodable is entirely abstracting the management of flink servers and monitoring, just create a pipeline, connect streams, and you are done. Also while creating a pipeline, you can easily preview data and debug on the fly . ### 14. Decodable as self served realtime engine **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav M. | SDE 2, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Decodable?** The best thing that i like about decodable is data lineage and showing real-time input rpm. Also, I really like the preview feature as well. **What do you dislike about Decodable?** We cannot connect the dots and write more than one sql after a sql. Although it can be done via nested queries and all, it will be cumbersome to write a big single query for big pipelines **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Adhoc realtime requirements 2. easy configuration 3. self serve and scaling 4. Data Lineage ### 15. Decodable a Complete SaaS platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** KSHITIZ G. | Software engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Decodable?** Decodable cli is the best thing, it is just matter of typing some commands and you can create fully fledged production pipeline. Preview data feature is very fast and easy to use **What do you dislike about Decodable?** The only thing I didn't like about decodable is that there are too many configuration when defining stream,for example the schema should be pre populated when user select Kafka or some other source for some catalogue service **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Decodable takes away effort to scale and monitor job, framework is fast and quick to debug and no more headache of managing servers ### 16. Amazing product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jordan M. | Operations Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Decodable?** I like that you only pay for what you use. Also, it's easy to connect and find available data. **What do you dislike about Decodable?** I have not found any downsides or anything that I dislike yet. **What problems is Decodable solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy configuration, as well as pre-built connections for storage and database engines. - [View Decodable pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/decodable/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-26+03%3A27%3A33+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=0c6cd04e-905b-4c62-b665-af7a1b90d1a1&secure%5Btoken%5D=db7abb561bb9c6f3a6a8a9737758240a73b9c67a4b48bf424e16a4332463a353&format=llm_user) ## Decodable Features **Data** - Data Processing - Data Sources - Integration - Real-Time Processing **Functionality** - Diverse Extraction Points - Data Structuring - Consolidation - Data Cleaning - Cloud Extraction - Visualization **Management** - Reporting - Auditing **Management** - Real-Time Analytics - Solution Integration - Infrastructure Compatibility - Monitoring **Development ** - Real-Time Integration - API Designer - Pre-Built Connectors - Custom Connectors - Reusable connectors - Multi - tenant architecture **Management** - Disaster Recovery - Remote Backup - Storage Formats - Scheduled Backups - On-Demand Restoration **Database** - Real-Time Data Collection - Data Distribution - Data Lake **Analytics** - Reporting & Analytics **Functionality** - Extraction - Transformation - Loading - Automation - Scalability **Solution Provision** - System Failover - Pay by Usage - Service Provision **Management ** - Monitoring & Notification - Routing And Orchestration - Data Mapping - Data Transformation - API Management **Diverse Extraction Points** - Diverse Extraction Points **Reporting** - Activity Monitoring - Documentation - Alerts/Notifications **Integrations** - Hadoop Integration - Spark Integration **Security** - Data Encryption - Security Standards - Communication Protocol **Security** - Data Encryption - Security and Compliance - Deduplication **Platform** - Machine Scaling - Data Preparation - Spark Integration **Integration Options** - Data Virtualization - Managed File Transfers - Big Data Processing - EDI **Processing** - Cloud Processing - Workload Processing **Deployment ** - Hybrid - Cloud to Cloud **Building Reports** - Data Transformation - Data Modeling - WYSIWYG Report Design - Integration APIs **Platform** - Mobile User Support - Customization - User, Role, and Access Management - Internationalization - Sandbox / Test Environments - Performance and Reliability - Breadth of Partner Applications ## Top Decodable Alternatives - [Fivetran](https://www.g2.com/products/fivetran/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (782 reviews) - [Workato](https://www.g2.com/products/workato/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (748 reviews) - [Google Cloud BigQuery](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,147 reviews)