3 categories · RankedAWS Glue
AWS Glue is a serverless ETL service, including streaming ETL, that runs on AWS · aws.amazon.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.
Starburst Galaxy is first at 25%.
Denodo is first at 31%.
Denodo is first at 84%.
Why models recommend it
“Stack B: Cloud-Native / Low-Code (Cost: Pay-as-you-go) 1. Pipeline & Transformation: Azure Data Factory or AWS Glue.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Choose Glue, Data Factory, or Dataflow when most infrastructure already runs on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“Choose AWS Glue / Azure Data Factory if your infrastructure is strictly hosted on a single cloud platform”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“For specific clouds: Stick to the native tool (e.g., AWS Glue) to minimize integration friction.”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Usage-based pricing (pay-as-you-go) can keep costs low for cloud-native companies... Avoid if you're not already in AWS.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“AWS Glue lacks built-in version control for scripts, workflows, and job configurations”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“AWS Glue (outside AWS) | Deep vendor lock-in; limited if you're multi-cloud”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“AWS Glue + Step Functions (if deep in AWS, but more engineering-heavy)”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as AWS Glue, over the 89 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 17 | View → | |
| 52 | 8 | View → | |
| 48 | 10 | View → | |
| 46 | 2 | View → | |
| 46 | 0 | View → | |
| 35 | 0 | View → | |
| 30 | 3 | View → | |
| 26 | 4 | View → | |
| 26 | 0 | View → | |
| 23 | 2 | View → |
What the models named instead of AWS Glue →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on AWS Glue's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- applications in production
- Price stated
- AWS Glue 6.0 is also priced 30 percent lower per DPU-hour than AWS Glue 5.1
- Integrations
- 20
- Hosting
- all regions where Glue is offered, every AWS Region where Amazon Q is available
- Also from AWS
- AWS ACM, AWS ALB/ELB, AWS ALB/NLB, AWS API Gateway HTTP APIs, AWS Amazon Aurora, AWS App Runner and 84 more
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 78 of the 89 answers that named AWS Glue and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
216 of the 216 domain citations in answers naming AWS Glue 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 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |