GTM AI Index
Index Vendors › Airship · September 2026 Edition
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Airship

169Judge labels
9First choices
41Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
4Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
12% in Mobile & push for enterprise buyers
Rank 25 of 75 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 32% of its 22 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In mobile & push · 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 Airship 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
Mobile marketing and pushMarketing0%25 of 7532%22criticized challenger
Mobile appsMarketing0%20 of 13615%13accepted challenger
In-app messaging and customer communicationsCustomer0%108 of 11350%8under 10 labels · led by Intercom at 20%
Retail, proximity and IoT marketingMarketing0%27 of 1310%6under 10 labels · led by Radar at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Airship yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. 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 Airship across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500202
GPT-5.4 mini12104
Gemini 3.5 Flash00213
Perplexity Sonar01124
Grok 4.1 Fast02316
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash02338
Llama 4 Maverick01102
Qwen 3.7 Flash01135
Kimi K204037
GLM 4.7 FlashX01203
MiniMax M2.501203

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
Direct17 labels3
Paraphrase20 labels2
Comparative54 labels6not counted in share
Budget-constrained23 labels1
Scale-constrained31 labels3
Negative24 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative169 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 18 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.

“Choose Airship if your priority is mobile app push + rich mobile engagement.” GPT-5.4 mini · Mobile & push · comparative prompt · first choice
“Type B: The "Marketing Powerhouses" ... Braze, Airship, Branch ... Cons: Expensive. Implementation can take months.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Mobile & push · scale prompt · alternative
“For Mobile-First/App-Led B2B: Airship ... Airship or Braze for deep mobile engagement” Kimi K2 · Mobile apps · direct prompt · alternative
“Known for predictive send-time, lifecycle tooling, and broad mobile channels including SMS.” Perplexity Sonar · Mobile & push · comparative 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.

“flag Braze, Airship, CleverTap, Iterable, and often MoEngage as platforms to avoid initially unless you truly need enterprise-grade omnichannel automation” Perplexity Sonar · In-app messaging · negative prompt · hard negative
“steer clear of "Enterprise" giants (like Salesforce Marketing Cloud or Airship)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Mobile & push · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Airship, Iterable — also enterprise-oriented, opaque quote pricing” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Mobile apps · direct prompt · hard negative
“Airship | Complex, expensive, mobile-first (not B2B-optimized)” Kimi K2 · Mobile apps · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Airship, over the 169 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Airship was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Braze154 of 16951Not in the top three
OneSignal108 of 16929Not in the top three
CleverTap82 of 1693Not in the top three
MoEngage70 of 1693Not in the top three
Iterable68 of 1691Not in the top three
Attentive34 of 1696Not in the top three
Twilio Programmable Messaging32 of 1691Not in the top three
Pushwoosh31 of 1694Not in the top three
Klaviyo29 of 1691Not in the top three
AppsFlyer24 of 1698Not 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 Airship. 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 33 of the 169 answers that named Airship and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com13
pushwoosh.com13
airship.comYour site12
businessofapps.com10
braze.com9
g2.com8
knock.app7
userpilot.com7
courier.com6
hellyeahai.com6

Seventy-nine of the ninety-one domain citations in answers naming Airship came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

The company

Airship.
Website
airship.com
Headquarters
Portland, United States
Founded
2009

From Wikidata, fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · Crunchbase

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