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Best Airship alternatives in 2026

Data compiled by Toolradar Updated October 14, 2026 How we rate

Cite this list: Toolradar, best Airship alternatives 2026, toolradar.com/alternatives/airship

6 direct alternatives to Airship, compared on pricing, features, and best-for use cases. Pick the right replacement without the marketing fluff.

Quick answer

Braze is the top alternative to Airship on our list, followed by CleverTap and MoEngage.
2 of the 6 alternatives have a free plan, starting with Leanplum.
Highest rated: CleverTap, 4.5 out of 5 from 740 ratings, Sep 2026.

Publications that cover the tools tracked here

6 alternatives
2 with a free plan

Braze
#1 Top pick
Customer engagement platform for cross-channel campaigns
Pricing
Contact sales
4.4 /5 across SourceForge and G2 · 1,806 ratings, Sep 2026
Our take
Best overall
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CleverTap
#2
All-in-one customer engagement platform
Pricing
Contact sales
4.5 /5 across G2 and Capterra · 740 ratings, Sep 2026
Our take
Highest rated
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MoEngage
#3
Insights-led customer engagement platform
Pricing
Contact sales
4.5 /5 on G2 · 523 ratings, Mar 2026
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Airship vs 6 alternatives

Airship and its alternatives compared on starting price (cheapest paid plan, monthly, as of October 2026), free plan and average user rating.
Tool	Starting price (Oct 2026)	Free plan	Rating
Airship Compared tool	Price: Contact sales	Free plan: No	4.0 out of 5, from 83 ratings on G2 (83)
Braze	Price: Contact sales	Free plan: No	4.4 out of 5, from 1,806 ratings across SourceForge and G2 (1,806)
CleverTap	Price: Contact sales	Free plan: No	4.5 out of 5, from 740 ratings across G2 and Capterra (740)
MoEngage	Price: Contact sales	Free plan: No	4.5 out of 5, from 523 ratings on G2 (523)
Iterable	Price: Contact sales	Free plan: No	4.4 out of 5, from 887 ratings across G2 and Capterra (887)
Leanplum	Price: Free + paid	Free plan: Yes	4.2 out of 5, from 106 ratings across G2 and Capterra (106)
OneSignal	Price: $99/mo	Free plan: Yes	n/a

Why people consider alternatives to Airship

Airship (formerly Urban Airship) is a mobile-first customer engagement platform that pioneered push notifications. The company has evolved into a full customer engagement suite offering push, in-app, email, SMS, and mobile wallet passes.

Here are the real cost and limitation gotchas that push teams to look elsewhere:

Implementation and onboarding fees
Potential overage charges for high usage

The 6 alternatives below cover the same core job (marketing automation) with different trade-offs.

See full Airship review Best marketing automation tools How we rank

Airship by the numbers

Airship compared with 16 Push Notifications tools on Toolradar, as of Oct 2026
Metric	Airship	Peer median	Position (1 is best)
Free plan	No	12 of 16 have one	n/a
Listed as an alternative to	7 tools	3	#6 of 16 (joint)
User rating	4.0/5 (across the web, 83 ratings)	4.5/5	#11 of 11 tools with 20+ reviews

Each position is counted among the tools that have data for that row, as noted under it. All Push Notifications data · How we compute this. Advertising and placement fees are not inputs to any position.

Cite this: Toolradar, “Airship by the numbers”, Oct 2026.

Marketing Automation leaderboards from Toolradar data

Toolradar ranks Marketing Automation tools on one measure at a time, only where at least 8 tools have data. As of Oct 2026.

CSV

Lowest entry price, plans with no stated unit

Cheapest standard paid plan per month (annual prices divided by 12), read on vendor pages and compared only with tools priced on the same basis.

Counted among 149 tools with no stated price unit, verified price.

Lowest entry price, plans with no stated unit, Marketing Automation tools on Toolradar, as of Oct 2026
#	Tool	Entry plan
1	LadderFlow	$1.58/mo, billed yearly
2	Repostit	$4/mo, billed yearly
3	Moosend	$7/mo, billed monthly
4	Multilogin	$7.08/mo, billed yearly
5	Brevo	$9/mo, billed monthly

Lowest entry price, per-user plans

Cheapest standard paid plan per month (annual prices divided by 12), read on vendor pages and compared only with tools priced on the same basis.

Counted among 8 tools priced per user, verified price.

Lowest entry price, per-user plans, Marketing Automation tools on Toolradar, as of Oct 2026
#	Tool	Entry plan
1	EngageBay	$14.99/user/mo, billed monthly
2	Nutshell	$16/user/mo, billed monthly
3	Top Producer	$25/user/mo, billed monthly
4	Insightly	$29/user/mo, billed monthly
5	Vero	$54/user/mo, billed monthly

A position exists only when at least 8 tools have data for that metric. 157 of 351 Marketing Automation tools have a verified price; the others publish none we could read (often "contact sales"). Advertising and placement fees are not inputs to any position. Visit counts include visits from every source. How we compute this. Cite this: Toolradar, “Marketing Automation leaderboards”, Oct 2026. Data licensed CC BY 4.0. All Marketing Automation statistics.

6 alternatives to Airship

Ranked by G2 and Capterra ratings, media mentions, and editor review, plus how directly they replace Airship.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best alternative to Airship?

Based on real-signal scoring (G2 and Capterra ratings, media mentions, and editorial review), the top alternatives to Airship are Braze, CleverTap, MoEngage. Each solves the same core job with different trade-offs on pricing, features, and integrations.

Is there a free alternative to Airship?

There is no fully free alternative in this list. Leanplum is freemium: a permanent free tier plus paid plans (Supercharge customer lifetime value with an all-in-one customer engagement platform).

Why do people look for Airship alternatives?

Common reasons teams switch away from Airship: pricing that scales aggressively, missing integrations with the rest of their stack, performance or scale limits, or a specific feature gap in marketing automation. The alternatives on this page solve the same core problem with different trade-offs.

Side-by-side comparisons

In-depth comparison pages for Airship versus each alternative.

Airship vs Braze Airship vs CleverTap Airship vs MoEngage Airship vs Iterable Airship vs Leanplum Airship vs OneSignal

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Top 3 alternatives to Airship

Braze

CleverTap

MoEngage