Talend / talend.com
AI-powered data integration and quality platform providing ETL, real-time data pipelines, data quality management, and AI-enhanced data governance for enterprise data teams.
Pricing
Free
Free plan
No
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Developer Tools
Platforms
2
Free plan
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API access
No
Open source
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Platforms
2
Talend is an enterprise data integration and quality platform — providing ETL, real-time data pipelines, API management, data cataloguing, and data quality tools that connect and cleanse data across enterprise environments. Talend was acquired by Qlik in 2023, positioning as the data integration foundation that feeds Qlik's analytics layer. Data Integration provides visual ETL and ELT development — connecting data sources, transforming data, and loading to destinations (data warehouse, data lake, databases) through a graphical interface with pre-built connectors. Data Quality applies AI and rule-based profiling to data quality — detecting missing values, format inconsistencies, duplicate records, and referential integrity violations. Trust Score quantifies data quality as a metric — providing a standardised measurement that data consumers can use to evaluate data fitness for purpose. Real-time data pipelines using Kafka integration and streaming processing enable event-driven integration alongside batch ETL. Data Catalogue provides metadata management and data lineage — showing where data originated, how it was transformed, and how it flows across systems for data governance and lineage tracking. With customers including Citi, Aetna, and Lenovo, Talend validates across financial services, insurance, and technology for enterprise data integration.
Talend AI runs as ml platform software built around data and text workflows. Users typically start with a prompt, upload, or connected data source, and the underlying model handles the heavy lifting before returning a result you can refine or export. It's available on web and api.
The capabilities that matter most for teams evaluating Talend AI.
Visual ETL/ELT with 900+ pre-built connectors providing visual data pipeline development without custom connector code — connecting enterprise data sources to analytics destinations.
Standardised data quality metric quantifying dataset quality — giving data consumers a score they can use to evaluate fitness for analytics and decision purposes.
Metadata management and data lineage showing where data originated and how it was transformed — essential for data governance, audit trails, and understanding data provenance.
Annual subscription. Per-user pricing. Owned by Qlik (acquired 2023). Demo available.
Model
Subscription
Starting price
Free
Free trial
Yes
Informatica (covered) is the enterprise data management leader. Fivetran provides modern ELT connectors. dbt provides data transformation. Azure Data Factory provides integration within Azure. AWS Glue provides serverless ETL within AWS.
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Key facts about model providers, platforms, and team support.
Model Provider
Talend
Platforms
Web, API
Deployment
SaaS, On-premise
Integrations
Snowflake, Databricks, SAP, Salesforce, Kafka, API
Team Collaboration
Yes
Launch Year
2022
Compliance signals and data-handling notes as reported by the vendor.
SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001. GDPR compliant. HIPAA eligible. Enterprise data handling agreements.
Enterprise data and integration metadata processed on Talend cloud or customer on-premise. Qlik ownership may evolve data handling under Qlik's trust framework.
Editorial Verdict
Talend is a strong AI data integration and quality platform for enterprises wanting ETL, real-time pipelines, AI data quality management, and data lineage within a Qlik-integrated data ecosystem.
Last verified July 24, 2026.
Annual subscription. Per-user pricing. Owned by Qlik (acquired 2023). Demo available.
Open source and free for self-hosted. Airbyte Cloud from $10/month (usage-based connector credits). Enterprise custom.
SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001. GDPR compliant. HIPAA eligible. Enterprise data handling agreements.
SOC 2 Type II (cloud). GDPR compliant. Enterprise data handling agreements for cloud. Self-hosted keeps data on customer infrastructure.
Enterprise data and integration metadata processed on Talend cloud or customer on-premise. Qlik ownership may evolve data handling under Qlik's trust framework.
Self-hosted Airbyte keeps all data on customer-controlled infrastructure. Airbyte Cloud transmits data through Airbyte's managed infrastructure. Review data handling for sensitive data sources.
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