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RudderStack Cloud vs. RudderStack Open Source

Detailed guide comparing features available in RudderStack's two offerings - Cloud and Open Source.

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This guide compares the features present in the two primary offerings - and . It will help you in choosing the best option suited to your requirements.

RudderStack also offers three plans as a part of : Free, Pro, and Enterprise. Refer to the page for detailed comparison and additional information on these plans.

Feature comparison

Setup and customizability

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For more information on the data plane and control plane setup options in RudderStack Cloud and Open Source, refer to the section below.

Event-related features

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Event-related metrics

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Get information on the number of events ingested during a specified timeframe.

✓

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RudderStack-hosted object storage

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You can use the RudderStack-hosted bucket to temporarily store your events before forwarding them to your warehouse destination.

✓

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Maintaining event ordering

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✓

  • Event ordering is supported in an open source setup but not guaranteed.

✓

✓

  • Pro and Enterprise users can set up unlimited transformations.

ETL and Reverse ETL

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✓

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Data syncs scheduling

✓

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✓

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Models let you define and run custom SQL queries on your warehouse and send the resulting data to specific destinations.

Data governance

Feature
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✓

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✓

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✓

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Deployment and security

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Multi-node scaling

✓

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Available for Pro and Enterprise users.

Single sign-on(SSO)

✓

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VPC deployment

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Monitoring and observability

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Grafana dashboards for monitoring

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Available for Pro and Enterprise users.

Alerting and error notifications

✓

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Auditing and user management

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Ability to add other team members in the workspace

✓

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Audit logs

✓

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FAQ

What is the data plane and control plane in RudderStack? How do I set them up?

The data plane is RudderStack's core engine responsible for receiving the event data, transforming it into the required destination format, before relaying those events to the destination.

The control plane manages the configuration of your sources and destinations in RudderStack.

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in your own environment

Cloud uses the RudderStack-hosted .

in your own environment

Cloud uses the RudderStack-hosted to manage your connections.

Customize the data plane

RudderStack can manage it for you as a part of the .

This feature is applicable only for destinations.

This is an feature.

For Cloud, this is an feature.

In case of Open Source, this feature is only applicable for the and users can set upto 3 transformations.

In case of , users can set upto 3 transformations.

It can be used only for destinations.

users can set up only 1 Cloud Extract source. Pro and Enterprise users can set up unlimited sources.

users can set up only 1 Reverse ETL source. Pro and Enterprise users can set up unlimited sources.

This is an feature.

This is an feature.

This is an feature.

This is an feature.

This is an feature.

This is an feature.

You can invite upto 3 members in your workspace in , upto 10 members in Pro, and unlimited members in the Enterprise plan.

This is an feature.

For more information on the data plane and control plane in RudderStack, refer to the guide.

In case of , RudderStack self-hosts the data plane and the control plane so you don't have to worry about their setup.

For , you get the following data plane and control plane setup options:

You need to in your own environment. RudderStack will not host it for you.

For the control plane, you can either use the or .

Features like and are not available if you self-host the control plane.

For more information or queries on this guide, you can or start a conversation in our community.

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