# Airbyte: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 77 judge labels across 2 categories by 14 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/airbyte

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [ETL and ELT](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/etl-and-elt/index.md) | 40% | 1 | 4% | 75 |
| [Workflow orchestration](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/workflow-orchestration/index.md) | 0% | 77 | 50% | 2 |

## What the models said for it

- "Most mid-market teams land on a combination like Fivetran or Airbyte (ingestion) + dbt (transformation) + an orchestrator (Airflow/Dagster)" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, ETL)
- "Go with Airbyte Cloud + dbt Cloud + BigQuery/Snowflake if you want the best balance of cost efficiency, scalability, and flexibility." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, ETL)
- "Best default on a tight budget: Airbyte Core, if your team can host and maintain it. It's free and open source, with 600+ connectors" (GPT-6 Luna, ETL)
- "If you want the most flexibility and don't mind operating the infra, start with Airbyte (open-source) and pair it with dbt" (MiniMax M2.5, ETL)

## And against it

- "infrastructure, upgrades, monitoring, connector fixes, and incident response create substantial engineering costs" (Perplexity Sonar, ETL)
- "Self-Hosted Airbyte/OSS ... this path is often discouraged for startups and mid-market companies" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, ETL)
- "These can be good products, but usage-based billing may rise sharply with data volume" (Perplexity Sonar, ETL)
- "Operational burden increases over time; connector quality is inconsistent" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, Orchestration)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Airbyte, from 156 of the 189 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- airbyte.com: 95 (its own site)
- hevodata.com: 73
- integrate.io: 69
- weld.app: 55
- fivetran.com: 50
- skyvia.com: 41
- zapier.com: 34
- g2.com: 27
- techvendorindex.com: 27
- reddit.com: 26

### Pages cited

- https://weld.app/blog/etl-tools-compared: 50
- https://airbyte.com/top-etl-tools-for-sources/etl-tools: 43
- https://hevodata.com/learn/etl-tools-for-small-businesses: 40
- https://zapier.com/blog/etl-tools: 33
- https://dataquest.io/blog/etl-tools-practical-guide-with-examples: 25
- https://tapdata.io/blog/best-etl-tools-2024-seamless-integration-guide: 24
- https://hevodata.com/learn/affordable-etl-tools: 23
- https://informationweek.com/data-management/the-top-etl-tools-for-2024: 23

## In its own words

What Airbyte's own pages state, read 2026-09-28. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Data Movement for Analytics and AI Agents (https://airbyte.com/)
- For: Analytics and AI Agents (https://airbyte.com/)
- Price stated: Starting at $20/month (https://airbyte.com/pricing)
- Starting price: 20 (https://airbyte.com/pricing)
- Free plan or trial: Try it free (https://airbyte.com/)
- Integrations claimed: 700 (https://airbyte.com/)
- Certifications: SOC 2
- Hosting: Cloud, on-premises, multi-region
- Customers named: Symend, Petvisor, Kuda, Peloton, Drivepoint

## What it publishes

Every page airbyte.com exposes, read 2026-09-29: 5983 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 562 pages, 14 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-25
- case study: 27 pages, 2 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-07-23
- conference or event: 12 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-08-25
- report or ebook: 30 pages, 7 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-22
- comparison: 207 pages, 4 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-03
- template or tool: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- glossary or explainer: 56 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-07-28
- podcast or video: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- news or press: 50 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-03-31
- Recent: 2026-09-25 blog: Agentic upgrades zoho crm reddit ads https://airbyte.com/blog/agentic-upgrades-zoho-crm-reddit-ads
- Recent: 2026-09-22 report or ebook: Facebook marketing to clickhouse https://airbyte.com/data-engineering-resources/facebook-marketing-to-clickhouse
- Recent: 2026-09-22 report or ebook: Facebook marketing to clickhouse warehouse https://airbyte.com/how-to-sync/facebook-marketing-to-clickhouse-warehouse
- Recent: 2026-09-21 report or ebook: Facebook pages to bigquery https://airbyte.com/data-engineering-resources/facebook-pages-to-bigquery
- Recent: 2026-09-21 report or ebook: Facebook pages to bigquery https://airbyte.com/how-to-sync/facebook-pages-to-bigquery
- Recent: 2026-09-16 blog: Linear gong youtube data certified connectors https://airbyte.com/blog/linear-gong-youtube-data-certified-connectors

## Record

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