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Spike.sh

21Judge labels
3First choices
2Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in Incidents for small business buyers
Rank 9 of 53 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 3 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Spike.sh 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 endpoint2%9 of 530%3under 10 labels · led by incident.io at 25%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Spike.sh 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 Spike.sh across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K210001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase5 labels1
Comparative5 labelsNone
Budget-constrained7 labels2
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative2 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative21 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.

“For most budget-constrained companies, Spike at $7/user or Squadcast with its free tier offer the best balance of features and affordability.” Kimi K2 · Incidents · budget prompt · first choice
“combines on-call, escalations, incidents, and status pages in one product at a lower entry price, with a Starter plan at $7/user/month” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Incidents · budget prompt · alternative
“Cheapest Per-User Option ... Perfect for very small teams” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Incidents · budget prompt · alternative

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Spike.sh, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spike.sh was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Better Stack17 of 216Not in the top three
PagerDuty17 of 211Not in the top three
incident.io16 of 215Not in the top three
Squadcast14 of 214Not in the top three
Grafana IRM8 of 210Not in the top three
Rootly8 of 210Not in the top three
Hyperping7 of 210Not in the top three
Opsgenie7 of 210Not in the top three
Jira Service Management5 of 210Not in the top three
Runframe3 of 212Not 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 Spike.sh. 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 20 of the 21 answers that named Spike.sh and are not a share of its labels.

Names read as Spike.sh

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Spike.sh; a claim can dispute any of them.
Spike 1
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 Spike.sh'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 Spike.sh, 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 spike.sh 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.

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