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title: "incident.io alternative with uptime monitoring"
description: "Spectate vs incident.io: incidents, on-call and status pages plus the uptime, DNS and server monitoring that triggers them. Unlimited members from €48 a month, in euros."
url: https://spectate.net/compare/incident-io-alternative
last_updated: 2026-10-26
---

# The incident.io alternative with monitoring included

> Incidents, on-call and status pages, plus the uptime checks and server monitoring that start them. One price per monitor, whether five or fifty people are on call.

**incident.io** (https://incident.io, United Kingdom (London, with offices in New York and San Francisco)): incident.io is an incident management platform built around Slack and Microsoft Teams, with on-call, status pages, workflows and AI investigations. It takes alerts from your monitoring tools and doesn't run uptime checks itself.

**incident.io pricing:** incident.io has a free Basic plan. Team is $19 per user a month ($15 billed yearly) plus $10 per user for on-call; Pro is $25 per user plus $20 for on-call; on-call alone is $20 per user (checked October 2026).

**Spectate pricing:** Starter €0.75 per monitor (from €15 a month), Team €0.60 per monitor (from €48 a month), Business €0.50 per monitor (from €125 a month); whole team included from Team. Prices exclude VAT.

## Spectate vs incident.io

### Monitoring

|  | Spectate | incident.io |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Built-in uptime monitoring (incident.io receives alerts from monitoring tools.) | Yes | No |
| Server monitoring agent | Yes | No |
| SSL certificate and domain expiry | Yes | No |

### Alerting and on-call

|  | Spectate | incident.io |
| --- | --- | --- |
| On-call schedules (incident.io: single-team on-call free on Basic; +$10 per user on Team, +$20 on Pro.) | Team and Business | Paid add-on |
| Escalation paths with branches | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts from Grafana, Prometheus and Sentry | Yes | Yes |
| SMS and phone calls | Included credits (10, 50 or 200 a month per plan) | Yes |
| Microsoft Teams | Notifications | Full app |

### Incidents

|  | Spectate | incident.io |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Slack channel per incident | Yes | Yes |
| Roles, timeline and postmortems | Yes | Yes |
| Custom fields, workflows and catalog | No | Yes |

### Status pages

|  | Spectate | incident.io |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Public status pages | 1, 5 or unlimited | 1, unlimited on Enterprise |
| Private or internal status pages | Team and Business | 1 on Pro |

### Pricing

|  | Spectate | incident.io |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price for 50 monitors and 5 responders | €48 a month (Team: 50 monitors is under the 80-monitor minimum, so 80 × €0.60 = €48 a month (€480 a year). Unlimited members, so 5 or 50 responders cost the same.) | $145 a month, plus a monitoring tool (Team with on-call: 5 × ($19 + $10) = $145 a month; billed yearly 5 × ($15 + $10) = $125. Pro: 5 × ($25 + $20) = $225. Uptime checks need a separate service.) |
| Per-user pricing | No | Yes |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Billing currency | EUR | USD |

### Data and compliance

|  | Spectate | incident.io |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Headquarters | Netherlands | United Kingdom |
| Invoiced from the EU, in euros | Yes | No |
| SAML SSO | No | From Pro |

## Which one to choose

Choose Spectate when:

- You want monitoring and incident response in one tool, without a separate uptime service.
- You want everyone on call without paying per user: Team and Business have unlimited members.
- You want server monitoring, certificate and domain checks, and failure screenshots.
- You want status page subscribers, private pages and 6 languages on a small budget.

Choose incident.io when:

- You need deep incident workflows: custom fields, automated workflows, catalogs and AI investigations.
- You need SAML, SCIM or a public API today.
- You already have monitoring you're happy with and only need incident response.
- You run a large engineering organisation and want an established incident process product.

## Switching from incident.io

1. Start a 14-day trial; no card needed. It runs on Team, with on-call.
2. Add monitors for the services your current monitoring tool watches, or point Grafana, Prometheus Alertmanager or Sentry at a Spectate alert source.
3. Recreate your on-call schedules and escalation paths. There is no importer; help@spectate.net can help.
4. Install the Slack app, so incidents open their own channel, then move your status page domain with one DNS record.

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Spectate cheaper than incident.io?

For on-call teams, yes. Five responders on incident.io Team with on-call cost $145 a month, before you pay for uptime monitoring. Spectate Team is €48 a month for unlimited members, and includes 80 monitors.

### Does Spectate do incident management like incident.io?

Spectate covers the core: declare from the dashboard or Slack, a channel per incident, roles, a timeline, updates, status page publishing and postmortems. It doesn't have incident.io's custom fields, workflow builder, catalog or AI investigations.

### Can I import my schedules from incident.io?

There is no importer. Rotations, overrides and escalation paths take a few minutes each to recreate, and help@spectate.net can help.

### Can I keep my current monitoring tools?

Yes. Grafana, Prometheus Alertmanager, Sentry, any webhook and email can fire alerts in Spectate, and they run through the same escalation paths as Spectate's own monitors.

Facts about incident.io checked in 2026-10 from: https://incident.io/pricing, https://incident.io/careers. Report a mistake to hello@spectate.net.