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

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 214 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Squadcast 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/squadcast/alternatives/

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

- PagerDuty: 63
- incident.io: 53
- Rootly: 12
- Better Stack: 11
- Opsgenie: 8
- Freshservice: 6

## Incident management and on-call

**Small business**: 63 of 84 answers did not name Squadcast (Squadcast is #4 of 13 at 7%).

- incident.io: first choice in 22 of those 63
- Better Stack: first choice in 8 of those 63
- PagerDuty: first choice in 5 of those 63
- Rootly: first choice in 5 of those 63
- Opsgenie: first choice in 4 of those 63
- Hyperping: first choice in 2 of those 63
- Spike.sh: first choice in 2 of those 63
- FireHydrant: first choice in 1 of those 63

**Mid-market**: 68 of 84 answers did not name Squadcast (Squadcast is #4 of 11 at 8%).

- incident.io: first choice in 20 of those 68
- PagerDuty: first choice in 19 of those 68
- Freshservice: first choice in 6 of those 68
- Rootly: first choice in 5 of those 68
- Better Stack: first choice in 2 of those 68
- Grafana IRM: first choice in 2 of those 68
- Opsgenie: first choice in 2 of those 68
- FireHydrant: first choice in 1 of those 68

**Enterprise**: 83 of 84 answers did not name Squadcast.

- PagerDuty: first choice in 39 of those 83
- incident.io: first choice in 11 of those 83
- ServiceNow ITSM: first choice in 6 of those 83
- Jira Service Management: first choice in 4 of those 83
- Opsgenie: first choice in 2 of those 83
- Rootly: first choice in 2 of those 83
- Better Stack: first choice in 1 of those 83
- Incident IO: first choice in 1 of those 83

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