# Apache Airflow: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 4 judge labels across 3 categories by 3 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/apache-airflow

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Data warehouse and reverse ETL for marketing](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/gtm-data/data-warehouse-reverse-etl/index.md) | 0% | 28 | 0% | 2 |
| [Data management platforms](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/gtm-data/data-management-platforms/index.md) | 0% | 104 | 0% | 1 |
| [Workflow automation and iPaaS](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/gtm-data/workflow-automation-and-ipaas/index.md) | 0% | 54 | 100% | 1 |

## What the models said for it

- "Dagster or Airflow (open-source)" (Grok 4.20, Warehouse & ETL)

## And against it

- "Apache Airflow (if you can't enforce log masking)" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Automation & iPaaS)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Apache Airflow, from 8 of the 12 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- aboutmartech.com: 3
- datachannel.co: 3
- hevodata.com: 3
- zoho.com: 3
- dremio.com: 2
- g2.com: 2
- improvado.io: 2
- integrate.io: 2
- leadjourney.io: 2
- reddit.com: 2

### Pages cited

- https://datachannel.co/blogs/top-reverse-etl-tools-2024: 3
- https://hevodata.com/etl-tools/reverse-etl: 3
- https://zoho.com/dataprep/top-reverse-etl-tools.html: 3
- https://datachannel.co/blogs/top-reverse-etl-tools: 2
- https://improvado.io/blog/best-reverse-etl-tools: 2
- https://integrate.io/blog/census-vs-hightouch: 2
- https://leadjourney.io/blog/best-marketing-data-warehouse: 2
- https://twilio.com/en-us/products/connections/reverse-etl: 2

## The company

Apache Airflow; https://airflow.apache.org. From Wikidata, fetched 2026-09-14.

## What it publishes

Every page airflow.apache.org exposes, read 2026-09-29: 85 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 38 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-07-06
- conference or event: 3 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2022-05-16
- news or press: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2020-08-08
- Recent: 2026-07-06 blog: Airflow 3.3.0 https://airflow.apache.org/blog/airflow-3.3.0
- Recent: 2026-04-15 blog: Agentic workloads airflow 3 https://airflow.apache.org/blog/agentic-workloads-airflow-3
- Recent: 2026-04-15 blog: Ai survey analysis pipelines https://airflow.apache.org/blog/ai-survey-analysis-pipelines
- Recent: 2026-04-14 blog: Common ai provider https://airflow.apache.org/blog/common-ai-provider
- Recent: 2026-04-07 blog: Airflow 3.2.0 https://airflow.apache.org/blog/airflow-3.2.0
- Recent: 2026-03-19 blog: Airflow registry https://airflow.apache.org/blog/airflow-registry

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/gtm.