Pentaho Data Integration vs Apache Hop
Comparing PDI with Apache Hop under the Apache License 2.0: how Hop handles projects, environments and metadata, run targets such as Spark and Beam, licensing against Pentaho's editions, and support options.

Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) is sold as a Developer Edition, formerly Community Edition, and paid editions. Pages here cover moving transformations and jobs to Apache Hop, which imports PDI transformations, jobs and shared connections.
Comparing PDI with Apache Hop under the Apache License 2.0: how Hop handles projects, environments and metadata, run targets such as Spark and Beam, licensing against Pentaho's editions, and support options.
Moving PDI to Apache Hop: running hop-import on .ktr and .kjb files, shared.xml and kettle.properties, reviewing duplicate connections, replacing steps without a Hop equivalent, testing converted pipelines against PDI output, and moving schedules.
Pentaho lists its free Developer Edition, formerly Community Edition, as for non-production use only. This page is for teams running it in production: the paid Starter and Enterprise routes, and moving to Apache Hop under the Apache License 2.0.
Cost of ownership by component: Pentaho Starter or Enterprise licensing and support, against Apache Hop's free license, servers, conversion effort and the support you buy or staff. Pentaho publishes no prices, so the page covers what to ask for in a quote.

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