On-call & incidents
Paging, escalation and incident response. 7 vendors tracked, 4 with a verified free tier.
PagerDuty
PagerDuty’s free plan covers 5 users with one schedule and escalation policy — enough for a tiny team’s rotation. incident.io’s free plan is the better choice if you live in Slack/Teams and need a status page too. Rootly lists no free tier.
Based only on the plan limits recorded below; limits change — check sources.
All On-call & incidents vendors
FireHydrant
Free tierUp to 10 responders; 2 runbooks; Slack & Teams chatbot
ilert
Free tierUp to 5 users; on-call management; 1 status page; 100 SMS/voice notifications
incident.io
Free tierSlack/Teams incident response; single-team on-call; status page
PagerDuty
Free tier5 users; 1 on-call schedule & escalation policy; limited notifications
Rootly
No free tierNo free tier listed; Incident Response $20/user/mo
Squadcast
No free tier14-day fully functional trial
Zenduty
No free tier14-day trial, no credit card required
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