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Astronomer Astro

38Judge labels
5First choices
5Negative labels
10 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
10% in Orchestration for enterprise buyers
Rank 16 of 86 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 13 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In orchestration · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Astronomer Astro for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Workflow orchestrationData platform0%16 of 868%13accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Astronomer Astro yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Astronomer Astro across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash02103
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00213
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00303
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00202
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500101

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase17 labels4
Comparative4 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained7 labels1
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative38 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 5 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Only choose Airflow if you are willing to pay for a managed SaaS provider like Astronomer” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Orchestration · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“look at modern, lightweight, or fully managed alternatives (like Dagster, Prefect, or Astro)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Orchestration · negative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Managed (Astronomer/MWAA) $1,500+/month—skip those.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Orchestration · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Astronomer Astro, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Astronomer Astro was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Prefect35 of 388Not in the top three
Dagster35 of 387Not in the top three
Apache Airflow35 of 385Not in the top three
Temporal16 of 381Not in the top three
Zapier11 of 383Not in the top three
Make11 of 381Not in the top three
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow10 of 380Not in the top three
Camunda10 of 380Not in the top three
AWS Step Functions9 of 380Not in the top three
n8n8 of 381Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Astronomer Astro. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 27 of the 38 answers that named Astronomer Astro and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

getorchestra.io16
aimultiple.com14
cognism.com13
reddit.com13
datavidhya.com11
elementum.ai10
andreinita.co9
zapier.com9
devopsschool.com8
ovaledge.com7

110 of the 110 domain citations in answers naming Astronomer Astro came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Astronomer Astro

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Astronomer Astro; a claim can dispute any of them.
Astronomer 10Astro 2Astronomer Cloud 1
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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Astronomer Astro's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Astronomer Astro, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at astronomer.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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