# Dagster alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 406 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where Dagster 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/dagster/alternatives

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

- Fivetran: 63
- Airbyte: 58
- Make: 30
- Hevo Data: 25
- Zapier: 19
- Integrate.io: 17

## Workflow orchestration

**Small business**: 61 of 84 answers did not name Dagster (Dagster is #6 of 10 at 2%).

- Make: first choice in 25 of those 61
- Zapier: first choice in 16 of those 61
- n8n: first choice in 7 of those 61
- Prefect: first choice in 2 of those 61
- Apache Airflow: first choice in 1 of those 61
- ONES.com: first choice in 1 of those 61
- Temporal: first choice in 1 of those 61
- n8n Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 61

**Mid-market**: 43 of 84 answers did not name Dagster (Dagster is #2 of 16 at 15%).

- n8n: first choice in 6 of those 43
- Make: first choice in 5 of those 43
- Workato: first choice in 4 of those 43
- Zapier: first choice in 3 of those 43
- Apache Airflow: first choice in 2 of those 43
- Prefect: first choice in 2 of those 43
- Camunda Platform 8: first choice in 1 of those 43
- Microsoft Power Automate: first choice in 1 of those 43

**Enterprise**: 57 of 84 answers did not name Dagster (Dagster is #5 of 20 at 5%).

- Camunda Platform 8: first choice in 9 of those 57
- Apache Airflow: first choice in 7 of those 57
- Temporal: first choice in 7 of those 57
- Workato: first choice in 3 of those 57
- Beta Systems ANOW! Suite: first choice in 2 of those 57
- Prefect: first choice in 2 of those 57
- BMC Control-M: first choice in 1 of those 57
- Frends: first choice in 1 of those 57

## ETL and ELT

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Dagster.

- Airbyte: first choice in 30 of those 84
- Hevo Data: first choice in 23 of those 84
- Fivetran: first choice in 16 of those 84
- Skyvia: first choice in 7 of those 84
- Stitch: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Talend: first choice in 2 of those 84
- Matillion: first choice in 1 of those 84
- Zapier/Make: first choice in 1 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Dagster (Dagster is #14 of 19 at 0%).

- Airbyte: first choice in 28 of those 81
- Fivetran: first choice in 27 of those 81
- Integrate.io: first choice in 7 of those 81
- dbt: first choice in 5 of those 81
- Kleene.ai: first choice in 3 of those 81
- Hevo Data: first choice in 2 of those 81
- Apache Airflow: first choice in 1 of those 81
- Pentaho Data Integration: first choice in 1 of those 81

**Enterprise**: 80 of 84 answers did not name Dagster.

- Fivetran: first choice in 20 of those 80
- Integrate.io: first choice in 10 of those 80
- Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud: first choice in 9 of those 80
- Informatica PowerCenter: first choice in 4 of those 80
- Talend: first choice in 3 of those 80
- dbt: first choice in 3 of those 80
- Etlworks: first choice in 2 of those 80
- Matillion: first choice in 2 of those 80

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