Overview

incident.io brings alert handling, incident coordination and customer updates into one reliability platform. It is best suited to engineering and operations teams that run response through Slack or Microsoft Teams and want their on-call process connected to incident workflows. Teams looking only for schedules and alert routing may find the broader platform more than they need.

Key features

On-call and alerting

Its on-call product routes alerts, supports schedules and escalation, and provides alert insights. The standalone On-call plan adds flexible schedules, cover requests and overrides, making it a focused option for teams that need paging without the full response suite. In Team and Pro, on-call is an add-on rather than part of the core price, so buyers should include that extra cost when comparing plans.

Incident response and investigations

Responders can coordinate from Slack or Microsoft Teams, assign roles and automate workflows. That keeps incident actions close to the tools teams already use, though it makes less sense for organizations that do not work in either platform. After an incident is declared, the Investigations agent analyzes signals and produces a structured root-cause hypothesis. Investigations requires Response, so it is an extension of incident coordination rather than a separate, lower-cost starting point.

Status updates and integrations

Status Pages can update customers as an incident progresses, while post-incident reviews and stakeholder updates support work beyond the immediate response. Integrations include Jira, Linear, GitHub, GitLab, PagerDuty, Datadog, Grafana, Zoom, Google Meet and Slack. The breadth connects common tracking, code, monitoring, paging and meeting tools, but teams should judge it against the systems they actually rely on.

Security

incident.io states that it is SOC 2 Type I and II and GDPR compliant. It says customer data is encrypted with AES-256, passwords use a SHA-256 one-way hash, and it conducts annual third-party penetration tests and weekly vulnerability scans. Enterprise includes a 99.99% uptime SLA.

Pricing

The Basic plan costs 0.00 USD per free, billed Forever. It includes native Slack or Microsoft Teams incident response, single-team on-call, a status page and essential incident automation. The no-cost option gives smaller teams a way to begin, but its single-team scope limits its fit as on-call needs spread across teams.

Team costs 15.00 USD per month per user, billed per user / month; the annual discount is shown from $19 to $15. It adds multi-team on-call and alerting, workflows, and native response in Slack and Teams. On-call costs an additional $10 per user / month, so the headline price does not cover the full on-call product.

The standalone On-call plan costs 20.00 USD per month per user, billed per user / month. It includes alert routing, grouping and insights, flexible schedules, cover requests and overrides. It is the more direct fit for buyers prioritizing paging and scheduling over coordinated response.

Pro costs 25.00 USD per month per user, billed per user / month. It includes everything in Team, advanced insights and custom dashboards, customizable post-incident processes and postmortems, private incidents and policies. Its On-call add-on is $20 per user / month, a material addition for teams that need it. Enterprise has custom pricing and adds a dedicated customer success manager, advanced access control, multiple environments, enterprise security and compliance, and a 99.99% uptime SLA.

Check plan requirements for Investigations and include any On-call add-on in the per-user budget before choosing a tier.

Platforms

Platforms include Android, iOS, macOS, web and API. The maker also describes Slack, Teams, mobile and desktop interfaces, with links to a Mac app and mobile app changelog.

Who it's for

incident.io suits teams that want chat-based coordination, on-call alerting, workflows and customer-facing status updates tied together. Basic is a sensible starting point for a single team; Team fits organizations coordinating across teams, while Pro is aimed at those needing richer insights and customizable post-incident processes. Choose standalone On-call if paging is the main requirement. The platform is less compelling when a team wants only lightweight scheduling or does not use Slack or Teams for response.

Pros and cons

Connected response workflow: Chat-based coordination, role assignment and automation link response to on-call operations.
Useful post-incident and customer-facing tools: Status Pages, stakeholder updates and postmortems cover work during and after an incident.
Tier costs can understate the full bill: Team and Pro charge separately for On-call, and the add-on price differs by plan.
Investigations is not a standalone purchase: It requires Response, which narrows the options for teams seeking only the analysis agent.

Alternatives

FireHydrant is worth considering for teams whose needs fit its free plan of up to 10 responders, two runbooks, Slack and Teams chatbot, one public status page and three integrations; its Pro plan is 25.00 USD per month.

TalkOps is a free, open-source option with no license, seat or feature fees, though LLM API tokens and cloud infrastructure are billed separately by providers.

HealR offers a free Starter plan with one data-source integration, 100 Agent Chat queries per month, three Agentic War Room sessions per month and seven-day data retention.

Kestrel has an always-free plan with a topology map, cloud inventory, integrations, audit log, SDK, CLI and MCP.

Hermes Agent offers free models with standard rate limits and $0 monthly credits, or a Plus plan at 20.00 USD per month.

TigerOps has a free tier for one user, up to five hosts, one-day log and metric retention, 1 GB of logs per day and 10,000 synthetic checks per month.

Nova AI Ops starts at 16.00 USD per month, billed annually at $16 per user / month, with a $20 monthly price; its Basic plan covers one user, five hosts, 25 services and 60-day retention.

UniDeploy offers a free plan with 10 AI requests, bring-your-own-model support, full CLI access and community support.

For more options, browse Incident Management Software, IT Incident Management Software, On-Call Management Software, On-Call Scheduling Software and AI DevOps Assistants.

Verdict

Choose incident.io if your team wants incident response, on-call operations and customer updates joined around Slack or Microsoft Teams. Its clearest advantage is that connection; the main reason to look elsewhere is cost and complexity when you need only paging, especially once a Team or Pro plan needs the separate On-call add-on.

	incident.io	Wachd
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Free trial	No	No
Paid from	$15/mo	Free
Open source	No	No
Platforms	Android, api, iOS, macOS, Web	api, self-hosted, Web
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Paid from	15 /user/mo	—

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