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Index Vendors › Rollbar · September 2026 Edition
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Rollbar

167Judge labels
10First choices
19Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
14% in Error monitoring for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 44 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
2 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 13% of its 63 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
In error monitoring · 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 Rollbar 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
Error and crash monitoringDeveloper platform14%2 of 4413%63accepted challenger
Application performance monitoringIT operations and endpoint0%55 of 700%1under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 54%
Incident management and on-callIT operations and endpoint0%29 of 530%1under 10 labels · led by incident.io at 25%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Rollbar 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 Rollbar across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.512205
GPT-5.4 mini03104
Gemini 3.5 Flash05016
Perplexity Sonar02114
Grok 4.1 Fast05016
Mistral Small12216
DeepSeek V4 Flash03126
Llama 4 Maverick10405
Qwen 3.7 Flash15208
Kimi K214016
GLM 4.7 FlashX04015
MiniMax M2.513004

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
Direct30 labels3
Paraphrase22 labels2
Comparative32 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained24 labels4
Scale-constrained30 labels1
Negative29 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative167 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 of the 13 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.

“Rollbar: Offers a free plan with 5,000 occurrences and 1,000 session replays a month, with real-time alerts, intelligent grouping” Llama 4 Maverick · Error monitoring · budget prompt · first choice
“the two strongest recommendations are Sentry and Rollbar” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Error monitoring · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Sentry or Rollbar typically emerge as the top choices” Kimi K2 · Error monitoring · scale prompt · first choice
“Best overall for most mid-market B2B companies: Rollbar” Mistral Small · Error monitoring · direct 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.

“avoid SaaS-only tools like Rollbar” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Error monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative
“Tools like Sentry, Rollbar, Bugsnag, Datadog, and New Relic are US-incorporated and subject to the CLOUD Act” Kimi K2 · Error monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative
“Even industry leaders like Sentry and Rollbar have been criticized for this pricing model at scale.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Error monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative
“Tiered per-event billing forces upgrades or charges overages; "sticker shock" during bursts common.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Error monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Rollbar, over the 167 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Rollbar was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Sentry165 of 167103Compare →
Bugsnag110 of 1671Not in the top three
Datadog93 of 1677Not in the top three
Honeybadger67 of 16710Not in the top three
New Relic66 of 1673Not in the top three
Raygun37 of 1670Not in the top three
LogRocket33 of 1670Not in the top three
Airbrake29 of 1670Not in the top three
Datadog Error Tracking16 of 1672Not 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 Rollbar. 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 125 of the 167 answers that named Rollbar and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

scoutapm.com84
rollbar.comYour site81
guideflow.com50
raygun.com50
worldmetrics.org49
observeone.com37
radartrek.com33
sentry.io33
apistatuscheck.com32
ones.com32

400 of the 481 domain citations in answers naming Rollbar came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Rollbar's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Rollbar, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at rollbar.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.