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PagerDuty

186Judge labels
35First choices
69Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
50% in Incidents for enterprise buyers
Rank 2 of 53 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
5 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 31% of its 59 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In incidents · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named PagerDuty for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Incident management and on-callIT operations and endpoint22%2 of 5331%59criticized challenger
Infrastructure monitoringIT operations and endpoint0%53 of 650%1under 10 labels · led by Site24x7 at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for PagerDuty yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated PagerDuty across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510214
GPT-5.4 mini13105
Gemini 3.5 Flash11046
Perplexity Sonar12115
Grok 4.1 Fast41016
Mistral Small20103
DeepSeek V4 Flash02046
Llama 4 Maverick00303
Qwen 3.7 Flash40015
Kimi K230216
GLM 4.7 FlashX01124
MiniMax M2.520237

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct38 labels12
Paraphrase33 labels16
Comparative36 labels17not counted in share
Budget-constrained28 labels4
Scale-constrained22 labels3
Negative29 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative186 labels in all, every segment counted; 35 of the 55 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“PagerDuty is the most mature platform on the market... Go with PagerDuty if budget is not an object and you need maximum customization.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Incidents · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“PagerDuty tops many lists (e.g., Viewpoint Analysis, Rootly blogs) for proven reliability in tech-forward B2B, but evaluate cost” Grok 4.1 Fast · Incidents · direct prompt · first choice
“PagerDuty | Mature on-call/enterprise | $21/user/mo | 700+ integrations, AI noise reduction | Pricey add-ons” Grok 4.1 Fast · Incidents · scale prompt · first choice
“If you need broad enterprise alert routing and mature on-call, PagerDuty is usually the safer option” Perplexity Sonar · Incidents · negative prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“One of the most widely used platforms, but has received significant criticism for: High costs... Poor support” MiniMax M2.5 · Incidents · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid PagerDuty unless you have substantial budget” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Incidents · budget prompt · hard negative
“most battle-tested paging platform at enterprise scale, but it does not natively cover incident coordination, postmortems, or status pages” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Incidents · comparative prompt · soft negative
“frequent complaints include expensive pricing ... Best for large enterprises but overkill/pricey for smaller teams.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Incidents · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as PagerDuty, over the 186 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PagerDuty was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Opsgenie106 of 1862Not in the top three
Rootly102 of 18612Not in the top three
Jira Service Management69 of 1860Not in the top three
Better Stack56 of 18616Not in the top three
FireHydrant49 of 1860Not in the top three
ServiceNow40 of 1861Not in the top three
Grafana IRM39 of 1861Not in the top three
Splunk On-Call39 of 1860Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named PagerDuty. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 152 of the 186 answers that named PagerDuty and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

rootly.com100
incident.io93
hyperping.com86
monday.com69
xurrent.com60
augmentcode.com58
guideflow.com44
complyjet.com43
pagerduty.comYour site43
expertinsights.com37

590 of the 633 domain citations in answers naming PagerDuty came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as PagerDuty

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as PagerDuty; a claim can dispute any of them.
PagerDuty Free 1Pagerduty 1
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