Pricing
Monitoring, paging, and the status page are free forever for one small product. The paid plans add the things that cost us money to run—phone calls, SMS, faster checks—and they are priced per product rather than per person, so growing the team does not grow the bill.
| Free plan | IncidentFlare | Elsewhere |
|---|---|---|
| Escalation policy with acknowledge | Free | $29 per responder / mo on Better Stack; PagerDuty free stops at 1 policy |
| Public status page | Free, own domain | Statuspage charges $29/mo for the domain; PagerDuty free has no page |
| Uptime checks that open the incident | Free | Statuspage and PagerDuty do not probe your URL at all |
| Inbound webhooks (Sentry, Grafana) | Free | Free on Better Stack, paid tier elsewhere |
| Slack alerting | Free | Paid plans on UptimeRobot |
| Routing by component and severity | Free | Opsgenie and Grafana gate routing rules behind paid tiers |
| HTTP monitors | 10 at 5 min | UptimeRobot 50, Better Stack 10 — they win here |
If you mainly need a lot of monitors, UptimeRobot or Better Stack will serve you better. We optimise for the paging loop and a page your customers trust. Vendor free tiers as published, checked August 2026. Longer write-ups: vs Statuspage and vs PagerDuty.
Free forever
$0
One product, one person on call.
- Escalation with acknowledge — as many steps as you need
- Unlimited alert channels: Slack, Telegram, webhook, browser push, email*
- Routing by component and severity, with separate escalation chains
- On-call rotations for up to 10 people, with cover swaps
- 1 status page on your own domain
- 10 HTTP and heartbeat monitors (5 min)
- Status badge + 90-day uptime chart
- Incidents, maintenance, 5 components
Pro
$19/mo
Per product, not per person. Up to 5 people.
- Everything in Free
- Phone calls and SMS: 100 calls and 200 texts a month
- Checks every minute, 200 monitors
- 5 status pages, no Powered by line
- 25 on-call contacts
- We move your on-call over from PagerDuty, Opsgenie or Grafana OnCall
Team
$79/mo
For 5 to 50 people. Still one price, not a seat count.
- Everything in Pro
- Up to 50 people
- 300 calls and 300 texts a month
- Checks every 30 seconds, 500 monitors
- 20 status pages
Enterprise
Let's talk
Over 50 people. We quote it once we know the call volume.
- Everything in Team
- People, monitors and pages without a cap
- Call volume and destinations priced with you
- SSO and private status pages
- DPA, security review, invoicing your way
* Slack, Telegram, webhooks and browser push work out of the box; email paging sends through your own SMTP credentials. Call and text allowances are a hard cap rather than a meter: when the month runs out we keep paging through Telegram and email instead of billing you for an overage you never agreed to. Premium-rate destinations are blocked, and a number has to confirm a code before it can be paged.
Your configuration downloads as JSON on every plan, including free. Components, monitors, channels, escalation steps, rotations and subscribers, in a file you can read and feed back in. Config you cannot take out is config you are locked into.