Skyvia review

Skyvia is a no-code platform for moving, syncing, and working with data across apps, databases, and warehouses. It combines several jobs that are often split across separate tools: scheduled integrations, workflow automation, backups, data access, and querying. It is an integration layer, not a database host—a distinction that matters if you are considering it as a replacement for a hosted database.

For data movement, Skyvia offers ELT and Reverse ETL pipelines, change capture, incremental updates, SQL transformations, and CSV import and export. Its visual workflows use triggers, actions, and logic components. For access and analysis, it offers connections to Excel, Google Sheets, and Looker Studio, plus API endpoints using OData, ADO.NET, ODBC, or MCP without moving the underlying data. The product information says it supports more than 200 data sources.

Skyvia sells separate offerings for integration, automation, backup, query, and connections. The published pricing information lists monthly and annual billing, with annual billing advertised at 20% off, but does not publish dollar prices.

Skyvia’s appeal is breadth: a team can handle scheduled transfers, backups, and some access or workflow needs within one platform rather than assembling a separate tool for each job. The no-code setup may also suit marketers or operations teams who need routine data movement but do not want to build every connection themselves.

• Integration plans vary by schedule frequency. The Free plan includes 2 scheduled integrations that run once a day; Standard lists 50 integrations running hourly; Professional lists unlimited scheduled integrations running as often as once a minute.
• The listed free allowance is 10,000 records per month, with a 30-day schedule expiration and 400 MB of uploaded files. That gives teams a way to try basic integrations before committing, though the record cap needs careful monitoring.
• Standard and Professional include advanced mapping. Their listed additional-record charges are $0.06 per 1,000 records and $0.02 per 1,000 records, respectively.
• Separate plans cover workflow automation and backup, with higher tiers listing features such as unlimited active automations, longer log retention, automatic backups, and unlimited snapshot retention.

One commenter on r/MSAccess said the free tier can work better for controlled scheduled syncs when loads are incremental and queries are filtered tightly. That is a more realistic fit than treating Skyvia as a general-purpose database backend.

The first issue is cost visibility. The published pricing information lists plan limits but no dollar amounts, so it is hard to compare the paid tiers before speaking with Skyvia. One Reddit thread reported paid plans starting at $79 per month, but that is a user report, not a confirmed current price. The page information advertises 20% off annual billing without showing the underlying prices.

The free tier is also easy to outgrow. It allows 10,000 records per month, and a commenter on r/MSAccess reported hitting the cap while running queries that returned only a few dozen records. Another commenter explained that processed rows—not just returned rows—can count toward the limit. That makes the free plan a poor fit for casual, broad queries unless you control what gets scanned.

Other caps depend on the product and tier. Free allows only 2 daily integrations; Basic lists 5 daily integrations and 400 MB of uploaded files; Standard lists 50 hourly integrations; Professional lists unlimited scheduled integrations but still lists 400 MB of uploaded files. The Automation plan for 1,000 tasks allows 2 active automations and a minimum one-day interval. In an older r/salesforce discussion, a user also reported jobs waiting in a queue for days; that is an anecdote from roughly two to three years before the post, not evidence of current performance.

Skyvia’s listed plan prices are not shown on the vendor's site, so we can’t calculate the dollar jump between tiers. The pricing page lists monthly and annual billing, with annual billing advertised at 20% off; confirm the actual quote before comparing costs.

The free Data Integration plan allows 10,000 records a month and two daily schedules, but schedules expire after 30 days. Basic raises the cap to five daily schedules and removes that expiration limit. Standard allows 50 hourly schedules; Professional allows unlimited schedules with one-minute intervals. Both include 400 MB for uploaded files. Extra records cost $0.06 per 1,000 on Standard and $0.02 per 1,000 on Professional.

Those are capability changes, not a published price ladder. Prices for Automation, Backup, Query, Connect, and Data Studio Connector plans are also not shown. Check task, record, traffic, storage, and schedule limits against your expected usage; the listed annual discount does not tell you the final bill.

The published information does not spell out a migration service, project export, or a way to transfer pipeline definitions to another platform. Skyvia supports CSV work, and its Backup offering lists CSV export and one-click restore, but that is not evidence that all integrations, mappings, or workflow logic can be exported. Treat portability as an open question and confirm it with Skyvia before moving production jobs.

Before switching in, inventory each source and target, transformation, schedule, and expected record volume. Rebuilding mappings and automation logic elsewhere may take work; that is a risk to assess, not a documented migration estimate. Before switching out, check whether your data and configuration can be exported in usable formats.

We don’t have Reddit posts or comments in the published material, so we can’t responsibly report why Reddit users leave Skyvia. Ask vendors for export details and test a representative workflow before committing; the available sources don’t establish migration time, data portability beyond the listed CSV export, or exit costs.