FireHydrant vs Rootly
On the evidence we track, Rootly leads this comparison with a composite score of 74/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for incident management. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
FireHydrant
A comprehensive incident management system combining on-call scheduling, automated workflows, real-time collaboration in Slack or Microsoft Teams, AI-powered meeting transcription and retrospectives, and incident analytics to accelerate response times and improve reliability.
Rootly
LeaderAn AI-native incident management platform that integrates with your monitoring, code, and infrastructure to help teams quickly detect, manage, and resolve incidents. Includes incident response coordination, on-call scheduling, and automated status pages.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
FireHydrant
From $25/responder/month, billed annually. Free tier with up to 10 responders.
- FreeFree
- Up to 10 responders
- 2 runbooks
- Slack & Teams chatbot
- 1 public status page
- 3 integrations
- Pro$25/responder/month, billed annually
- 5 runbooks
- 1 retrospective template
- Unlimited public status pages
- Service catalog
- 10 custom fields
- +8 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Everything in Pro
- Viewer licenses
- Unlimited runbooks
- Private incidents
- FireHydrant AI – summaries, meeting transcripts, triage, retros, follow ups
- +15 more
Rootly
LeaderFrom $20/user/mo. Free 14-day trial. Startups with <100 employees, <$50M raised, <5 years old qualify for up to 50% discount.
- Essentials$20/user/mo
- Response with Slack
- @Rootly AI Chat
- AI Similar Incidents
- AI Scribe Meeting Bot
- Retrospectives
- +4 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Everything in Essentials
- Custom and Dynamic Forms
- Custom Incident Types
- Private Incidents
- Native Secrets Management
- +10 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Slack
- AWS CloudWatch
- Checkly
- Datadog
- GitHub
- Zoom
FireHydrant
- Microsoft Teams
- Jira Cloud
- Jira Server
- AWS CloudTrail
- Alertmanager
- BugSnag
- CircleCI
- Cisco Webex Meetings
- Cortex
- FHCLI
- Google Cloud Stackdriver
- Google Meet
- Grafana
- Honeycomb
- Kubernetes
- Linear
- New Relic
- Opsgenie
- PagerDuty
- ServiceNow
- Shortcut
- Site24x7
- Updown
- Webhook
- +1 more
Rootly
Leader- AWS EventBridge
- Notion
- Terraform
- Google Cloud
- Prometheus Alertmanager
- Azure OpenAI
- Google Gemini
- Mistral AI
- OpenAI
- Superplane
- Zapier
- Pylon
- Webex
- Chronosphere
- StatusCake
- uptime.com
- Confluence Cloud
- HashiCorp Vault
- Looker
- Zendesk
- Claude
- Backstage
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.