Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 18 → 17 of 81
Astronomer · 1 category · RankedAstronomer Astro
45Judge labels
2First choices
4Negative labels
10 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in Orchestration for enterprise buyers
Rank 17 of 79 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 6% of its 16 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Astronomer Astro →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business17 of 86
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market17 of 79
0%16 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise8 of 108
4%21 labels
accepted challenger
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.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workflow orchestration | Data platform | 0% | 17 of 79 | 6% | 16 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Astronomer Astro held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Orchestration · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 16 of 72, unchanged
Enterprise▼−6Since September 2026: 10% → 4%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 10% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 2 → 8 of 103
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orchestration | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 16 → 17 of 79 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Astronomer Astro across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Astronomer Astro across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | 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 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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
Direct5 labels1
Paraphrase17 labels1
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained5 labelsNone
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative45 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.
“Managed Airflow (e.g., Astronomer or AWS MWAA): If you specifically want the industry-standard Airflow” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Orchestration · scale prompt · alternative
“Start with managed Airflow (Astronomer or cloud-native options) to reduce operational burden” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Orchestration · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Use managed options (Astronomer from ~$0.35/hr) to skip self-hosting pains.” Grok 4.20 · Orchestration · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Astronomer provides a fully managed, enterprise-ready version of Airflow.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Orchestration · direct 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 options such as MWAA, Cloud Composer or Astronomer exist but "the pricing is hard to justify for smaller teams."” Muse Glimmer 30B · Orchestration · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Astronomer Astro, over the 45 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Astronomer Astro, over the 45 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 41 of the 45 answers that named Astronomer Astro and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
kestra.io22
getorchestra.io20
cognism.com16
tech-insider.org13
wrike.com12
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com11
elementum.ai11
devopsschool.com10
medium.com10
datamation.com9
134 of the 134 domain citations in answers naming Astronomer Astro came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
astronomer.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Astronomer Astro takes 0% of first choices and Prefect takes 21%.ShowHide
Search and answers
astronomer.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Astronomer Astro takes 0% of first choices and Prefect takes 21%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “workflow orchestration tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “workflow orchestration tools”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 170 a month (“astronomer astro”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 12 a month
- Its company's site
- astronomer.io shared with Astronomer's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 77,826 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,019 · 445 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,103
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 11 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 17 of 79 in orchestration
Segment leader
21%
Prefect
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 45 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 41 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
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 12Astro 1Astro by Astronomer 1Astro/Astronomer 1Astronomer Cloud 1
Follow Astronomer Astro
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
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The company
Astronomer is the company behind Astronomer Astro.ShowHide
The company
Astronomer is the company behind Astronomer Astro.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- a modern data orchestration platform powered by Apache Airflow®
- For
- data teams
- Customers named
- Custom InkTrellixCollibraFaire
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Astronomer Astro's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: astronomer.io/accelerate-astro. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Astronomer Astro by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Astronomer Astro is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Astronomer Astro, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.