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Airship vs Expo Push Notifications: which is more reliable? (2026)
Expo Push Notifications is more reliable than Airship, scoring 90.8 vs 79.8 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Airship reported 3 incidents and Expo Push Notifications reported 4, with effective uptime of 99.81% and 99.93% respectively. Expo Push Notifications resolves incidents faster on average (2h 20m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Airship | Expo Push Notifications |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 79.8 | 90.8 |
| Rank (push notification services) | #7 | #4 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.81% | 99.93% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 3 | 4 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 8h 54m | 2h 20m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Airship and Expo Push Notifications differ
- Expo Push Notifications reported 33% more incidents than Airship over the last 90 days (4 vs 3).
- Expo Push Notifications fixes problems faster: 2h 20m on average, against 8h 54m for Airship (3.8× quicker).
- Airship's longest incident on record lasted 3d (Apr 17, 2026); Expo Push Notifications's lasted 4h 41m (Sep 8, 2026).
90-day uptime
Airship
Expo Push Notifications
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Airship incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 7, 2026 · resolved in 2h 23m
- MaintenanceSep 30, 2026 · resolved in 30m
- Degraded performanceSep 10, 2026 · resolved in 2h 31m
- MaintenanceAug 28, 2026 · resolved in 1h
- Degraded performanceAug 4, 2026 · resolved in 21h 49m
Recent Expo Push Notifications incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 5, 2026 · resolved in 2h 13m
Website and services partially unavailable due to high database load
Affected: Website, Dev Tools API, Push Notifications Broker
- Degraded performanceSep 8, 2026 · resolved in 4h 41m
iOS push notification degraded performance
Affected: Push Notifications Broker
- Degraded performanceSep 5, 2026 · resolved in 1h 1m
Delayed iOS push notification delivery
Affected: Push Notifications Broker
- Degraded performanceAug 4, 2026 · resolved in 1h 24m
iOS Push Notifications partial outage
Affected: Push Notifications Broker
Other push notification services to consider
- Novu · #1 · 100% uptime
- Pushwoosh · #2 · 99.99% uptime
- Courier · #3 · 99.99% uptime
- Firebase Cloud Messaging · #5 · 99.91% uptime
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