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

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 190 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Rootly 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/rootly/alternatives/

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

- PagerDuty: 45
- incident.io: 39
- Better Stack: 14
- Opsgenie: 11
- Squadcast: 7
- Jira Service Management: 4

## Incident management and on-call

**Small business**: 68 of 84 answers did not name Rootly (Rootly is #5 of 13 at 7%).

- incident.io: first choice in 21 of those 68
- Better Stack: first choice in 10 of those 68
- Opsgenie: first choice in 5 of those 68
- PagerDuty: first choice in 4 of those 68
- Squadcast: first choice in 3 of those 68
- Hyperping: first choice in 2 of those 68
- Spike.sh: first choice in 2 of those 68
- Zenduty: first choice in 2 of those 68

**Mid-market**: 58 of 84 answers did not name Rootly (Rootly is #7 of 11 at 5%).

- PagerDuty: first choice in 13 of those 58
- incident.io: first choice in 12 of those 58
- Opsgenie: first choice in 4 of those 58
- Squadcast: first choice in 4 of those 58
- Better Stack: first choice in 3 of those 58
- Freshservice: first choice in 3 of those 58
- Grafana IRM: first choice in 3 of those 58
- FireHydrant: first choice in 1 of those 58

**Enterprise**: 64 of 84 answers did not name Rootly (Rootly is #7 of 9 at 0%).

- PagerDuty: first choice in 28 of those 64
- incident.io: first choice in 6 of those 64
- Jira Service Management: first choice in 4 of those 64
- ServiceNow ITSM: first choice in 3 of those 64
- Opsgenie: first choice in 2 of those 64
- Better Stack: first choice in 1 of those 64
- Incident IO: first choice in 1 of those 64
- ServiceNow ITOM: first choice in 1 of those 64

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