# FireHydrant alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 226 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where FireHydrant holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/firehydrant/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- incident.io: 62
- PagerDuty: 55
- Better Stack: 16
- Opsgenie: 10
- Rootly: 10
- Squadcast: 9

## Incident management and on-call

**Small business**: 78 of 84 answers did not name FireHydrant (FireHydrant is #9 of 13 at 2%).

- incident.io: first choice in 29 of those 78
- Better Stack: first choice in 12 of those 78
- Opsgenie: first choice in 5 of those 78
- PagerDuty: first choice in 5 of those 78
- Rootly: first choice in 5 of those 78
- Squadcast: first choice in 4 of those 78
- Hyperping: first choice in 2 of those 78
- Spike.sh: first choice in 2 of those 78

**Mid-market**: 72 of 84 answers did not name FireHydrant (FireHydrant is #8 of 11 at 2%).

- incident.io: first choice in 24 of those 72
- PagerDuty: first choice in 14 of those 72
- Freshservice: first choice in 6 of those 72
- Squadcast: first choice in 5 of those 72
- Grafana IRM: first choice in 4 of those 72
- Opsgenie: first choice in 4 of those 72
- Rootly: first choice in 4 of those 72
- Better Stack: first choice in 3 of those 72

**Enterprise**: 76 of 84 answers did not name FireHydrant (FireHydrant is #9 of 9 at 0%).

- PagerDuty: first choice in 36 of those 76
- incident.io: first choice in 9 of those 76
- ServiceNow ITSM: first choice in 6 of those 76
- Jira Service Management: first choice in 3 of those 76
- Better Stack: first choice in 1 of those 76
- Incident IO: first choice in 1 of those 76
- Opsgenie: first choice in 1 of those 76
- Rootly: first choice in 1 of those 76

Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.