Incident management and on-call · October 2026 Edition
incident.io vs Opsgenie
Six of fourteen models named incident.io first on the direct prompt; zero named Opsgenie. Both were named by all fourteen models and incident.io carries 57 labels and Opsgenie 50, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in two categories this edition.
Named in four categories this edition.
First-choice share32%7%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate5%72%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#6A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels5750A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, incident.io reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.PagerDuty was named alongside these two in nine of the fourteen direct answers. incident.io vs PagerDuty · incident.io vs Freshservice · incident.io vs Squadcast
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.
incident.ioFirst choices, of fourteen modelsOpsgenie
Direct605 against Opsgenie
Paraphrase646 against Opsgenie
Comparative309 against Opsgenie
Budget-constrained402 against Opsgenie
Scale-constrained303 against Opsgenie
Negative503 against incident.io · 11 against Opsgenie
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, incident.io and Opsgenie were named in the same answer 102 times, of the 176 answers naming incident.io and the 153 naming Opsgenie. In those answers Opsgenie took the first choice three times and incident.io forty-two.
Every model, every framing
The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where incident.io and Opsgenie stood in it.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | | | | | |
incident.io Opsgenie first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, incident.io on the left and Opsgenie on the right.The direct prompt
The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where incident.io and Opsgenie stood in it.
incident.io first, Opsgenie not the choice
6 of 14 modelsOpsgenie was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.GPT-5.4 miniincident.io alternatives: PagerDuty, Rootly
Gemini 3.5 Flashincident.io alternatives: FireHydrant, Freshservice, Rootly
DeepSeek V4 Flashincident.io alternatives: Freshservice, Jira Service Management
Kimi K2incident.io alternatives: Squadcast
GLM 4.7 FlashXRootly, incident.io alternatives: Jira Service Management, PagerDuty
GPT-6 Lunaincident.io alternatives: PagerDuty, Rootly
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
Perplexity SonarFreshservice alternatives: PagerDuty, Rootly, incident.io
Grok 4.1 FastFreshservice alternatives: InvGate Service Management, Jira Service Management, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, PagerDuty, incident.io
Qwen 3.7 FlashPagerDuty alternatives: Datadog Incident Management, FireHydrant, Opsgenie
MiniMax M2.5Freshservice, PagerDuty alternatives: Jira Service Management, incident.io
Muse Glimmer 30BFreshservice alternatives: PagerDuty, Rootly, incident.io
Neither was named
2 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Mistral SmallFreshservice, PagerDuty alternatives: ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
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
incident.io leads by twenty-seven points.
incident.io35%#1 of 13Opsgenie7%#6 of 13Mid-marketThe figures above
incident.io leads by twenty-five points.
incident.io32%#1 of 11Opsgenie7%#6 of 11Enterprise
incident.io leads by fourteen points.
incident.io18%#2 of 9Opsgenie4%#5 of 9What the models said about incident.io
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of seven in this category shown.
“missing features in incident.io, particularly in reporting capabilities and SLA tracking” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · soft negative
“if your teams don't want incident workflows tied to Slack or Microsoft Teams” GPT-6 Luna · negative prompt · soft negative
“Pricing surprises: Costs spike sharply after small-team thresholds” Qwen 3.7 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“Small team ≤5-10 responders and wants zero cost: incident.io free, FireHydrant free up to 10 responders, Better Stack free, or Opsgenie free up to 5 users.” Muse Glimmer 30B · budget prompt · first choice
“Choose incident.io if your team is Slack-centric and values speed of implementation, modern UX, and transparent all-in-one pricing.” Kimi K2 · direct prompt · first choice
“Highly recommended for mid-market/scale-up companies. It is highly polished, opinionated, runs seamlessly inside Slack/Teams” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
What the models said about Opsgenie
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.
“Do not buy standalone Opsgenie right now unless you are fully committing to migrating to the broader, consolidated Jira Service Management (JSM) ecosystem.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · hard negative
“Opsgenie's wind-down reshaped the 2026 market, with end of support set for April 5, 2027, so organizations using that platform should plan a migration.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · comparative prompt · hard negative
“Opsgenie is sunsetting: Atlassian stopped selling Opsgenie to new customers in June 2025, with end-of-support scheduled for April 2027.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · direct prompt · hard negative
“PagerDuty or Opsgenie are the top choices due to their flexibility, strong feature sets, and broad integrations” Mistral Small · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend Opsgenie (now integrated into Atlassian Jira Service Management) as a strong starting point.” Grok 4.1 Fast · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“For a mid-sized B2B company, Opsgenie often offers the best balance of features and cost” Claude Haiku 4.5 · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Also compared
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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.