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Incident management and on-call · October 2026 Edition

Grafana IRM vs Rootly

Zero of fourteen models named Grafana IRM first on the direct prompt; one named Rootly. Grafana IRM was named by ten of the fourteen models and Rootly by twelve and Grafana IRM carries 22 labels and Rootly 33, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Grafana IRM

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Rootly

accepted challenger

Named in two categories this edition.

First-choice share7%5%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate14%3%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#7A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels2233A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Grafana IRM reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.incident.io was named alongside these two in eleven of the fourteen direct answers. incident.io vs Grafana IRM · incident.io vs Rootly · PagerDuty vs Grafana IRM

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the incident management and on-call page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Grafana IRMFirst choices, of fourteen modelsRootly
Direct01
Paraphrase222 against Grafana IRM
Comparative00
Budget-constrained20
Scale-constrained001 against Rootly
Negative021 against Grafana IRM
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Grafana IRM and Rootly were named in the same answer twenty times, of the 43 answers naming Grafana IRM and the 106 naming Rootly. In those answers Rootly took the first choice three times and Grafana IRM one.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Grafana IRM and Rootly stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Grafana IRM Rootly first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Grafana IRM on the left and Rootly on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Grafana IRM and Rootly stood in it.

Rootly first, Grafana IRM not the choice

1 of 14 modelsGrafana IRM was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GLM 4.7 FlashXRootly, incident.io alternatives: Jira Service Management, PagerDuty

Neither was the first choice, one was named

6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Freshservice alternatives: HaloITSM, Hyperping, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, Rootly, Zenduty, ilert, incident.io
GPT-5.4 miniincident.io alternatives: PagerDuty, Rootly
Gemini 3.5 Flashincident.io alternatives: FireHydrant, Freshservice, Rootly
Perplexity SonarFreshservice alternatives: PagerDuty, Rootly, incident.io
GPT-6 Lunaincident.io alternatives: PagerDuty, Rootly
Muse Glimmer 30BFreshservice alternatives: PagerDuty, Rootly, incident.io

Neither was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Grok 4.1 FastFreshservice alternatives: InvGate Service Management, Jira Service Management, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, PagerDuty, incident.io
Mistral SmallFreshservice, PagerDuty alternatives: ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
DeepSeek V4 Flashincident.io alternatives: Freshservice, Jira Service Management
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Qwen 3.7 FlashPagerDuty alternatives: Datadog Incident Management, FireHydrant, Opsgenie
Kimi K2incident.io alternatives: Squadcast
MiniMax M2.5Freshservice, PagerDuty alternatives: Jira Service Management, incident.io

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Rootly leads by seven points.
Rootly7%#5 of 13
Grafana IRM0%#10 of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Grafana IRM leads at mid-market.
Grafana IRM7%#5 of 11
Rootly5%#7 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Grafana IRM0%#– of 9
Rootly0%#7 of 9
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Grafana IRM

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of seven in this category shown.

“Avoid Grafana OnCall Open Source” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“open-source version entered maintenance mode in March 2025 and is being replaced by Grafana Cloud IRM” Muse Glimmer 30B · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“be cautious if you're not already committed to that observability ecosystem” GPT-5.4 mini · negative prompt · soft negative
“start with Grafana OnCall if you're already in the Grafana ecosystem” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · first choice
“the pragmatic pick is Squadcast or Grafana Cloud IRM for cost control” Muse Glimmer 30B · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“🏆 Top Pick: Grafana OnCall (Free / Open Source)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Rootly

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of four in this category shown.

“some vendors (like Rootly) have separate pricing for on-call, AI, and status pages that can balloon your bill” DeepSeek V4 Flash · scale prompt · soft negative
“The Best All-Around Alternative: Rootly ... Choose Rootly if you want to improve your incident response processes and save money simultaneously.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Actively consider instead: For modern teams, look at incident.io, Rootly, FireHydrant” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · first choice
“Consider modern, Slack-native platforms like incident.io, Rootly” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.