# Apache Airflow alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 386 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where Apache Airflow holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/apache-airflow/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Fivetran: 61
- Airbyte: 53
- Make: 27
- Hevo Data: 24
- Zapier: 19
- Prefect: 18

## Workflow orchestration

**Small business**: 69 of 84 answers did not name Apache Airflow (Apache Airflow is #5 of 10 at 4%).

- Make: first choice in 24 of those 69
- Zapier: first choice in 16 of those 69
- Prefect: first choice in 10 of those 69
- n8n: first choice in 5 of those 69
- Dagster: first choice in 2 of those 69
- ONES.com: first choice in 1 of those 69
- n8n Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 69

**Mid-market**: 45 of 84 answers did not name Apache Airflow (Apache Airflow is #3 of 16 at 13%).

- Dagster: first choice in 8 of those 45
- Prefect: first choice in 6 of those 45
- Workato: first choice in 4 of those 45
- Make: first choice in 3 of those 45
- Zapier: first choice in 3 of those 45
- n8n: first choice in 3 of those 45
- Microsoft Power Automate: first choice in 1 of those 45
- ONES.com: first choice in 1 of those 45

**Enterprise**: 39 of 84 answers did not name Apache Airflow (Apache Airflow is #1 of 20 at 29%).

- Temporal: first choice in 4 of those 39
- Camunda Platform 8: first choice in 3 of those 39
- Prefect: first choice in 2 of those 39
- Workato: first choice in 2 of those 39
- Astronomer Astro: first choice in 1 of those 39
- BMC Control-M: first choice in 1 of those 39
- Beta Systems ANOW! Suite: first choice in 1 of those 39
- Dagster: first choice in 1 of those 39

## ETL and ELT

**Small business**: 82 of 84 answers did not name Apache Airflow (Apache Airflow is #14 of 15 at 0%).

- Airbyte: first choice in 29 of those 82
- Hevo Data: first choice in 22 of those 82
- Fivetran: first choice in 16 of those 82
- Skyvia: first choice in 6 of those 82
- Stitch: first choice in 3 of those 82
- Talend: first choice in 2 of those 82
- Matillion: first choice in 1 of those 82
- Zapier/Make: first choice in 1 of those 82

**Mid-market**: 73 of 84 answers did not name Apache Airflow (Apache Airflow is #6 of 19 at 2%).

- Fivetran: first choice in 26 of those 73
- Airbyte: first choice in 24 of those 73
- Integrate.io: first choice in 5 of those 73
- dbt: first choice in 4 of those 73
- Kleene.ai: first choice in 3 of those 73
- Hevo Data: first choice in 2 of those 73

**Enterprise**: 78 of 84 answers did not name Apache Airflow (Apache Airflow is #8 of 14 at 2%).

- Fivetran: first choice in 19 of those 78
- Integrate.io: first choice in 10 of those 78
- Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud: first choice in 9 of those 78
- Informatica PowerCenter: first choice in 4 of those 78
- Talend: first choice in 3 of those 78
- dbt: first choice in 3 of those 78
- Etlworks: first choice in 2 of those 78
- Matillion: first choice in 2 of those 78

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