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

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 187 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Roadie 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/roadie/alternatives/

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

- Port: 67
- Backstage: 31
- Port.io: 10
- Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud: 8
- OpsLevel: 6
- Red Hat Developer Hub: 5

## Internal developer portals

**Small business**: 71 of 84 answers did not name Roadie (Roadie is #4 of 7 at 2%).

- Port: first choice in 32 of those 71
- Backstage: first choice in 11 of those 71
- Port.io: first choice in 7 of those 71
- Qovery: first choice in 2 of those 71
- Atlassian Compass: first choice in 1 of those 71
- Configure8: first choice in 1 of those 71
- Confluence: first choice in 1 of those 71
- DuploCloud: first choice in 1 of those 71

**Mid-market**: 58 of 84 answers did not name Roadie (Roadie is #6 of 9 at 0%).

- Port: first choice in 23 of those 58
- Backstage: first choice in 9 of those 58
- Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud: first choice in 3 of those 58
- Port.io: first choice in 3 of those 58
- OpsLevel: first choice in 2 of those 58
- Humanitec: first choice in 1 of those 58
- Qovery: first choice in 1 of those 58
- Spotify's Backstage: first choice in 1 of those 58

**Enterprise**: 58 of 84 answers did not name Roadie (Roadie is #3 of 9 at 10%).

- Port: first choice in 12 of those 58
- Backstage: first choice in 11 of those 58
- Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud: first choice in 5 of those 58
- Red Hat Developer Hub: first choice in 5 of those 58
- OpsLevel: first choice in 4 of those 58
- Humanitec: first choice in 3 of those 58
- Atlassian Compass: first choice in 1 of those 58
- Backstage.io: first choice in 1 of those 58

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