Small business▼−6Since September 2026: 13% → 6%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 13% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 3 → 6 of 59
1 category · RankedSquadcast
60Judge labels
9First choices
5Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
8% in Incidents for mid-market buyers
Rank 4 of 65 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 4% of its 25 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Squadcast →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business4 of 63
7%29 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market4 of 65
8%25 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise42 of 44
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incident management and on-call | IT operations and endpoint | 8% | 4 of 65 | 4% | 25 | accepted challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 10% → 8%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Squadcast held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Incidents · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 10% → 8%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
8%from 10% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 3 → 4 of 57
Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 9 → 38 of 39
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incidents | 10% | 8% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 10% → 8%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 → 4 of 65 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Squadcast across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Squadcast across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct6 labels1
Paraphrase9 labels2
Comparative14 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained16 labels6
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative10 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative60 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 10 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 the cheapest credible option, with a free tier up to 5 users and Pro at $12/user/mo” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Incidents · budget prompt · first choice
“The best incident management platform for a company with a limited budget is Squadcast” Llama 4 Maverick · Incidents · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with Squadcast (if you have under 5 team members)” MiniMax M2.5 · Incidents · budget prompt · first choice
“the pragmatic pick is Squadcast or Grafana Cloud IRM for cost control” Muse Glimmer 30B · Incidents · paraphrase 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.
“Squadcast (now SolarWinds) — Be cautious” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Incidents · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Squadcast, over the 60 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Squadcast, over the 60 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 57 of the 60 answers that named Squadcast and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
incident.io39
rootly.com33
motadata.com30
complyjet.com27
g2.com22
hyperping.com21
monday.com20
expertinsights.com19
guideflow.com16
runframe.io16
243 of the 243 domain citations in answers naming Squadcast came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
squadcast.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Squadcast takes 8% of first choices and incident.io takes 32%.ShowHide
Search and answers
squadcast.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Squadcast takes 8% of first choices and incident.io takes 32%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “incident management platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “incident management platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,900 a month (“squadcast”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 41 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 47 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 82 · 0 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,043
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
8%
rank 4 of 65 in incidents
Segment leader
32%
incident.io
- First choices
- 9 across its categories
- Named in
- 60 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 57 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
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- where Squadcast is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Squadcast, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
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