7 best Airship alternatives & competitors
The top Airship alternatives for push notification, compared on price, free tier, ratings and what each is best for, with Airship pinned so you can measure each option against it.
Updated July 2026
About Airship
Airship
PushAirship is a push notification service that enables you to send notifications to your users from anywhere. You can use Airship to send push notifications to all the major platforms, including iOS, Android, Web and Windows. It provides a variety of features such as A/B testing and segmentation.
enterprise mobile apps needing deep cross-channel push orchestration with dedicated budgets for five-figure contracts
- Starting price
- Custom
- Free tier
- No
- Rating
- 4.0 / 5
- HIPAA
- No
Company profile
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, USA
- Funding
- $92.6M raised
- Team size
- ~323
- Ownership
- Independent
- Reviews
- 4 / 5 on G2 (82)
Compliance
Official SDKs
iOS (Swift/Objective-C)
Android (Kotlin/Java)
Web (JavaScript)
React Native
Flutter
Cordova
Capacitor
Unity
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Strengths
Why teams look elsewhere
Side by side
Airship vs the alternatives
Sorted by rating · figures as of July 2026
Airship
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Starting price
Custom
Free tier
No
Rating
4.0
Starting price
$19/mo
Free tier
Yes
Rating
4.7
Starting price
Free
Free tier
Yes
Rating
N/A
Starting price
Free
Free tier
Yes
Rating
N/A
At a glance
What each Airship alternative is best for
- MagicBell
5.0 / 5
- teams wanting a polished, drop-in in-app notification inbox UI across React and other frameworks
- OneSignal Push
4.7 / 5
- teams wanting unlimited free mobile push sends with one of the market's most generous free tiers
- Pushwoosh
4.4 / 5
- game and cross-platform teams wanting broad SDK coverage, including Unity, with a generous free push tier
- AWS SNS
4.2 / 5
- AWS-native teams sending high-volume mobile push at very low per-notification cost without built-in campaign tooling
- Apple Push Notification
Not rated
- free, unlimited, highest-priority push delivery to Apple devices only, as a raw transport layer
- Expo
Not rated
- Expo and React Native apps wanting free, unified iOS and Android push delivery via one API
- Firebase FCM
Not rated
- Android and cross-platform apps wanting completely free, unlimited push delivery as a bare messaging transport
FAQ
Common questions
The strongest Airship alternatives depend on what you need. MagicBell rates highest among the options here; the comparison table covers price, free tier, and rating, and the "what each alternative is best for" section matches each option to a use case.
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Company facts, pricing and compliance were verified against each provider's public pricing and security or trust pages, plus G2 and Trustpilot, as of July 2026, and compiled by the Courier team. Details change often, so confirm with the provider before you buy.
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