AI Indexes
IT AI Index
Index › IT operations and endpoint › Incidents › Opsgenie vs FireHydrant
Incident management and on-call · October 2026 Edition

Opsgenie vs FireHydrant

Zero of fourteen models named Opsgenie first on the direct prompt; zero named FireHydrant. Opsgenie was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and FireHydrant by ten and Opsgenie carries 50 labels and FireHydrant 21, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Opsgenie

criticized challenger

Named in four categories this edition.

FireHydrant

accepted challenger

Named in two categories this edition.

First-choice share7%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate72%10%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#6#8A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels5021A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Opsgenie 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 Opsgenie · incident.io vs FireHydrant · PagerDuty vs Opsgenie

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.
OpsgenieFirst choices, of fourteen modelsFireHydrant
Direct005 against Opsgenie
Paraphrase406 against Opsgenie
Comparative009 against Opsgenie
Budget-constrained012 against Opsgenie
Scale-constrained003 against Opsgenie
Negative0011 against Opsgenie · 2 against FireHydrant
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, Opsgenie and FireHydrant were named in the same answer thirty-seven times, of the 153 answers naming Opsgenie and the 51 naming FireHydrant. In those answers FireHydrant took the first choice one time and Opsgenie one.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Opsgenie and FireHydrant 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
Opsgenie FireHydrant first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Opsgenie on the left and FireHydrant on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Opsgenie and FireHydrant stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

2 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Gemini 3.5 Flashincident.io alternatives: FireHydrant, Freshservice, Rootly
Qwen 3.7 FlashPagerDuty alternatives: Datadog Incident Management, FireHydrant, Opsgenie

Neither was named

12 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Freshservice alternatives: HaloITSM, Hyperping, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, Rootly, Zenduty, ilert, incident.io
GPT-5.4 miniincident.io alternatives: PagerDuty, Rootly
Perplexity SonarFreshservice alternatives: PagerDuty, Rootly, incident.io
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
Kimi K2incident.io alternatives: Squadcast
GLM 4.7 FlashXRootly, incident.io alternatives: Jira Service Management, PagerDuty
MiniMax M2.5Freshservice, PagerDuty alternatives: Jira Service Management, incident.io
GPT-6 Lunaincident.io alternatives: PagerDuty, Rootly
Muse Glimmer 30BFreshservice alternatives: PagerDuty, Rootly, 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
Opsgenie leads by five points.
Opsgenie7%#6 of 13
FireHydrant2%#9 of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Opsgenie leads by five points.
Opsgenie7%#6 of 11
FireHydrant2%#8 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Opsgenie leads by four points.
Opsgenie4%#5 of 9
FireHydrant0%#9 of 9
The full enterprise standing →

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

What the models said about FireHydrant

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

“potentially fine products, but be cautious if you're sensitive to ownership changes, product consolidation, or roadmap uncertainty” GPT-5.4 mini · negative prompt · soft negative
“FireHydrant was acquired by Freshworks... acquisitions often trigger shifts in pricing” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“The Best All-Rounder: FireHydrant ... widely considered the best modern alternative to expensive enterprise platforms” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“Best for: Teams wanting an all-in-one platform spanning alerting, on-call, incident response, and retrospectives” DeepSeek V4 Flash · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for ITIL & Customer Support Alignment ... the Freshworks ecosystem is highly compelling.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · direct prompt · alternative
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.