Spike.sh vs StillUp

Spike.sh is an incident-management and alerting service for calling responders when systems fail, then helping teams triage, fix, and close incidents. It groups and de-duplicates alerts, detects duplicate incidents and recoveries, and uses AI to draft titles and suggest severity and priority. On-call schedules and escalation policies route alerts through phone, SMS, Slack, or the mobile app; MCP connections support AI clients and agents. Status pages can use custom domains or private access and include live widgets, incident history, planned maintenance, and subscriber updates by email, Slack, RSS, or Atom. Spike says it connects to more than 80 monitoring tools, cloud platforms, and error trackers. Standard costs $7.00 per user per month and includes 100 total phone and SMS alerts, one one-person schedule, one central number, and five incoming calls monthly. Business is $14.00 per user per month with unlimited phone and SMS alerts, multiple teams, unlimited schedules, and unlimited live call routing. Enterprise pricing is by contact. There is no free plan; a 14-day trial is available.

StillUp is a web-based service for monitoring websites and HTTP or HTTPS endpoints, including REST APIs, GraphQL endpoints, health checks, and webhooks. Monitors run every minute on every plan, including Free. StillUp compares each response status with an expected code, defaulting to 200, and reports an outage when the code differs or a request times out after the default 10-second limit. Alerts are available by email, Slack, Discord, and Telegram on all plans, with detection alerts and recovery notices. Public status pages display monitor status, uptime percentages, and active incidents; dashboard users can post timestamped incident updates. Custom domains are available on every plan, with SSL provisioned after CNAME configuration. Free costs nothing for three monitors and seven days of history. Pro costs $9 a month for 50 monitors and 90 days; Business costs $29 a month for 200 monitors and 90 days.