I usually go for bareroots because the shipping for a lighter box without dirt is cheaper. Also, bareroots are available to me earlier in the season and I can get them in the ground before everything else in the yard is actively growing & needing maintenance. Locally, if I'm buying a potted & active rose at a nursery, they are all grafted plants, usually on Huey, and not available until frost danger has passed.

One big advantage to getting the potted version is that you'll be able to tell more rapidly if the rose you've purchased really is what's on the tag. I have to admit that sometimes immediate gratification is pretty fun.

Potted roses from boutique nurseries are rooted cuttings that are a few months old (in band pots) or around a year old (in 1-gal pots).

So the category "potted roses" encompasses everything from grafted roses 2-1/2 years old to barely rooted cuttings. Large potted roses from the garden center are about the same as bareroots, if you plant the bareroots in March and the potted roses in early May.

Then the category "bareroots" includes everything from top-quality plants available for planting at the optimum time, to freezer-burned sale roses in June and body-bag roses that have spent all their energy growing white sprouts on the Walmart counter.

So maybe the question as phrased needs some work ;)

Potted have the benefit of being able to see the flower to make sure it is correctly identified; they've already broken dormancy, eliminating that issue; and it provides you instant gratification, color in your garden, and/or a more impressive gift plant, but usually at higher prices and often a narrower selection. Not absolutes, but generally the way it has long worked in many instances. Kim

All of my successful plantings with roses that came in dirt - did better when I removed the dirt and pretended that they were bare roots.