Every category where a model named Squadcast 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Incident management and on-call	IT operations and endpoint	10%	3 of 53	0%	25	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Squadcast 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 Squadcast across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	4	1	5
Mistral Small	1	1	1	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	2
Kimi K2	1	2	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	0	2

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

Direct8 labels2

Paraphrase8 labels2

Comparative13 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained22 labels8

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative9 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative63 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 14 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.

“Squadcast is widely considered the top choice for startups because it balances robust enterprise features with accessible pricing.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Incidents · budget prompt · first choice

“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

“Squadcast — If you need a full-featured platform at the lowest realistic price point” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Incidents · budget prompt · first choice

“For budget-conscious DevOps teams that just need solid on-call, Squadcast stands out.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Incidents · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Squadcast, over the 62 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Squadcast was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

PagerDuty54 of 627Compare →

incident.io48 of 6219Compare →

Better Stack37 of 6210Not in the top three

Rootly33 of 625Not in the top three

Hyperping25 of 625Not in the top three

Opsgenie25 of 622Not in the top three

Grafana IRM21 of 620Not in the top three

Jira Service Management20 of 620Not in the top three

FireHydrant17 of 620Not in the top three

Spike.sh14 of 622Not 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 Squadcast. 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 55 of the 62 answers that named Squadcast and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hyperping.com43

rootly.com40

monday.com37

incident.io31

augmentcode.com26

xurrent.com25

complyjet.com21

g2.com21

guideflow.com21

runframe.io19

284 of the 284 domain citations in answers naming Squadcast came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

hyperping.com/blog/best-incident-management-tools37

monday.com/blog/service/incident-management-software37

augmentcode.com/tools/best-incident-management-software26

rootly.com/blog/15-best-incident-response-software-platforms-for-modern-engineering-teams-23

xurrent.com/blog/top-incident-management-software22

complyjet.com/blog/best-incident-management-software21

runframe.io/comparisons/best-incident-management-tools-for-startups18

guideflow.com/blog/incident-management-software17

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Squadcast

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

Squadcast Pro 1

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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 squadcast.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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