2 categories · RankedAirbyte
Airbyte is a data movement platform that moves data from sources such as analytics, ad and CRM tools into data warehouses for analytics and AI agents · airbyte.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
BigQuery is first at 44%.
Hightouch is first at 38%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Hightouch is first at 47%.
Why models recommend it
“ELT / Ingestion | Airbyte (open-source) or Meltano | Open-source ELT with 300+ connectors”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Airbyte (open-source, self-hosted) is a top pick for budget-conscious teams.”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“ELT/ETL (Data Ingestion): Airbyte — *$0–$50/month* ... Completely free”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Ingestion + light transformation: Airbyte”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Opting for self-hosted tools (like the self-hosted version of Airbyte or Castled) thinking it saves money... Self-hosting Reverse ETL is a massive engineering undertaking”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“their reverse ETL capabilities are still developing and may not have the performance or reliability needed”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Avoid building your own (e.g., custom Airbyte + dbt + cron) unless your team is engineering-heavy”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
“Airbyte, Fivetran, or Boomi solely for reverse ETL without validating activation depth.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Airbyte, over the 126 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 115 | 91 | Compare → | |
| 112 | 63 | Compare → | |
| 107 | 15 | Compare → | |
| 105 | 43 | Compare → | |
| 80 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 79 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 78 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 1 | View → | |
| 45 | 0 | View → | |
| 39 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Airbyte →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Airbyte's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Analytics and AI Agents
- Price stated
- Starting at $20/month
- Starting price
- 20
- Free plan or trial
- Try it free
- Integrations
- 700
- Certifications
- SOC 2
- Hosting
- Cloud, on-premises, multi-region
- Customers named
- Symend, Petvisor, Kuda, Peloton, Drivepoint
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 105 of the 126 answers that named Airbyte and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
364 of the 399 domain citations in answers naming Airbyte came from a third party's page. Thirty-five were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 562 | 14 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| Comparison | 207 | 4 | 2026-09-03 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 56 | 1 | 2026-07-28 | ||
| News or press | 50 | 0 | 2026-03-31 | ||
| Report or ebook | 30 | 7 | 2026-09-22 | ||
| Case study | 27 | 2 | 2026-07-23 | ||
| Conference or event | 12 | 1 | 2026-08-25 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-25Agentic upgrades zoho crm reddit ads blog
- 2026-09-22Facebook marketing to clickhouse report or ebook
- 2026-09-22Facebook marketing to clickhouse warehouse report or ebook
- 2026-09-21Facebook pages to bigquery report or ebook
- 2026-09-21Facebook pages to bigquery report or ebook
- 2026-09-16Linear gong youtube data certified connectors blog
Events in person
- August 4, 2026Ai4 2026Las Vegas
- June 29, 2026AI Engineer World's Fair 2026San Francisco
As the event pages on airbyte.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page airbyte.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.