2 categories · RankedAstronomer Astro
Astronomer Astro is a data orchestration platform powered by Apache Airflow, offered as a managed Airflow service · astronomer.io ↗
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.
Make is first at 33%.
Prefect is first at 25%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Apache Airflow is first at 29%.
Why models recommend it
“Managed Airflow (Astronomer, MWAA, Cloud Composer) - If you want to reduce operational overhead, consider a managed service”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Use a managed provider like Astronomer, Google Composer, or AWS MWAA to offload ops.”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Instead, use a managed provider like Astronomer or Google Cloud Composer.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
“use managed services like AWS MWAA, Astronomer, or GCP Cloud Composer”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Astro, or Hugo. While excellent for documentation, treating them as an "Internal Developer Portal" is a mistake.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Managed/Cloud (Astronomer, Prefect Cloud, Dagster+) | $10–$100s/month”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Managed Airflow services can quickly become expensive for small budgets.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Astronomer Astro, over the 42 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 16 | View → | |
| 37 | 7 | View → | |
| 36 | 10 | View → | |
| 25 | 0 | View → | |
| 23 | 2 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 2 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Astronomer Astro →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Astronomer Astro's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- data teams
- Customers named
- Custom Ink, Trellix, Collibra, Faire
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 29 of the 42 answers that named Astronomer Astro and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ninety of the ninety domain citations in answers naming Astronomer Astro came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |