FireHydrant vs Rootly
On the evidence we track, Rootly leads this comparison with a composite score of 77/100. 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
LeaderCloud-based platform for managing incidents and on-call rotations, with AI-powered automation to accelerate response and resolution. Teams coordinate incidents through Slack or Teams, and automated tools create incident documentation and retrospectives.
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
- Microsoft Teams
- Jira Cloud
- AWS CloudWatch
- Checkly
- Cortex
- Datadog
- GitHub
- Linear
- PagerDuty
- ServiceNow
- Zoom
- Jira
FireHydrant
- Jira Server
- AWS CloudTrail
- Alertmanager
- BugSnag
- CircleCI
- Cisco Webex Meetings
- FHCLI
- Google Cloud Stackdriver
- Google Meet
- Grafana
- Honeycomb
- Kubernetes
- New Relic
- Opsgenie
- Shortcut
- Site24x7
- Updown
- Webhook
- Zendesk Support
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
- Microsoft Intune
- Google Docs
- +7 more
FireHydrant or Rootly: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.