Airbyte vs Hatchet
Both are Grade B and 1.9 points apart, so choose on what you weigh most. Airbyte leads on adoption; Hatchet leads on supply-chain integrity and transparency.
Open-source data movement for ELT pipelines and AI agents — from APIs, databases & files to warehouses, lakes, and AI applications. Both self-hosted and Cloud.
Choose Airbyte if adoption matters most.
- +1.0Adoption: 22.3k GitHub stars against 8.2k
🪓 An orchestration engine for background tasks, AI agents, and durable workflows
Choose Hatchet if supply-chain integrity and transparency matter most.
- +1.1Safety / Integrity: OSSF Scorecard 6.5 against 5.6
- +0.7Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 6.5 against 5.6
Where they differ
2 dimensions identical: Identity 10.8 · Maintenance 20.0 · Full evidence table
An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Airbyte and Hatchet, two Workflow Platforms projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.
Full evidence
| Signal | Airbyteairbytehq/airbyte | Hatchethatchet-dev/hatchet |
|---|---|---|
| HVTrust score | 65.9 | 67.8 |
| Evidence grade | B | B |
| Coverage grade | C | C |
| Overall rank | #489 | #427 |
| Rank in Workflow Platforms | #9 | #8 |
| GitHub stars | 22.3k | 8.2k |
| Last updated | today | today |
| Build provenance | No | No |
| OSSF Scorecard | 5.6 / 10 | 6.5 / 10 |
| License | NOASSERTION | MIT |
| Downloads | — | — |
| Trust dimensions (points earned) | ||
| Safety / integrity / 25 | 12.0 | 13.1 |
| Identity & provenance / 18 | 10.8 | 10.8 |
| Transparency / 17 | 13.3 | 14.0 |
| Maintenance / 20 | 20.0 | 20.0 |
| Adoption / 20 | 10.4 | 9.4 |
| Runtime capability surface (full matrix) | ||
| MCP server | Declared | Implemented |
| External providers | — | 4 — Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, … |
| Requires API keys | No | No |
| Plugin surface | extensions | — |
| Provenance drift | — | — |
How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.4 →