Yes, for up to 5 users and one free plan per company, with on-call management, one status page and 100 SMS and voice notifications a month for the whole account.

ilert alternative with ilert pricing and ilert competitors compared

IncidentBot is an ilert alternative for US engineering and IT teams that want on-call schedules, escalation, SMS and voice paging, Slack incident channels with roles, a status page and postmortems on one published seat price. ilert is a German incident management platform with a strong free tier and a low Pro price, but incident channels, conference bridges and private status pages start on its Scale plan, and status pages beyond the first are priced by subscriber count. IncidentBot runs /incident in Slack on every plan and includes one public status page on Starter and three public or private pages on Team. Plans start at 24 USD per user billed annually.

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What pushes teams to compare ilert

Engineering lead and an IT manager reviewing an incident tool contract next to a laptop

ilert does the core job well. It routes alerts from more than 150 monitoring tools, runs on-call schedules, pages by push, SMS, voice, WhatsApp and Telegram, and its Pro plan includes unlimited SMS and voice for 19 USD per user per month billed yearly. Plenty of teams should stay on it.

The teams that start comparing usually hit one of these points.

The incident part sits on the second plan. Pro is built around alerting and on-call. Incident channels, conference bridges, the incident timeline, AI-assisted postmortems and internal stakeholder updates are listed under Scale, which is 39 USD per user billed yearly and 49 USD monthly.
The Scale price is a promotion. ilert labels the 39 USD Scale price a limited time offer for new users. Ask in writing what the renewal price will be before you budget a three year plan around it.
Status pages are priced by audience. Public pages are an add-on priced by subscriber count, from 15 USD a month for 250 subscribers to 750 USD a month for 25,000 on annual billing. Private pages need Scale and cost 125 USD a month each, and audience-specific pages 50 USD a month.
Hosting and contracts are German. ilert is made and hosted in Germany, which is a plus for EU teams under GDPR. Some US buyers would rather sign with a vendor that bills in USD by default, invoices on US terms and offers US data residency.

Who switches, and who should stay

Teams that switch are usually 10 to 150 engineers at US companies who run incidents in Slack, keep customers informed on a status page and want one price that covers both without a subscriber meter. Teams that should stay on ilert: EU companies that need hosting in Germany, small teams of up to 5 that live comfortably on the free plan, teams that only need paging and want unlimited SMS and voice at the lowest price, and teams that rely on WhatsApp or Telegram notifications. On seat price alone ilert Pro is cheaper than IncidentBot, and the tables below say so.

ilert vs IncidentBot at a glance

ilert details come from the public pricing page on ilert.com, checked in October 2026, in USD. Confirm on their site before you sign, since packaging changes.

What you check	ilert	IncidentBot
Seat price	Free up to 5 users. Pro 19 USD per user a month yearly, 24 monthly. Scale 39 yearly (limited time offer for new users), 49 monthly. Enterprise from 49 yearly. Minimum 3 users on paid plans	Starter 24 USD per user annual, 49 monthly. Team 49 annual, 99 monthly. Business 99 annual, 199 monthly. No minimum seat count
SMS and voice	Free 100 a month for the whole account. Pro and above unlimited	Starter 100 SMS and voice notifications per user a month. Team and Business unlimited (fair use)
Incident response in chat	ChatOps for alerts on every plan. Incident channels, conference bridges, timeline and AI-assisted postmortems on Scale	`/incident` in Slack on every plan, with commander, comms and scribe roles from Team. Microsoft Teams on Business
Status pages	1 included on Free and Pro. Extra public pages by subscriber count, 15 to 750 USD a month. Private pages on Scale at 125 USD a month each	1 public page on Starter, 3 public or private on Team, unlimited on Business, no subscriber meter
Stakeholders	Unlimited read-only viewers on Pro. Internal stakeholder updates on Scale at 1 USD per stakeholder a month	Stakeholders follow updates on the status page or as subscribers at no seat cost
Call routing hotline	Add-on at 10 USD per user a month yearly	Not offered as a phone hotline; alerts arrive by webhook, email and integrations
Single sign-on	Pro and above	SSO and SAML on Business
Hosting	Germany, GDPR, ISO 27001	US or EU data residency on Enterprise
Trial	14 day trial, no credit card	No free plan; the incident simulator runs without an account

Where ilert wins: a real free plan, a lower seat price, unlimited SMS and voice from Pro, SSO from Pro, a phone call routing add-on, messenger notifications and hosting in Germany. Where IncidentBot wins: Slack incident channels with roles on the entry plan, private status pages on the second plan with no subscriber pricing, no three seat minimum, and a published price that is not tied to a new customer offer.

ilert pricing compared for a 10 and a 40 responder team

List prices per month with annual billing. Every responder carries the pager. Row two adds one private status page for internal stakeholders, which on ilert needs Scale. Prices come from ilert.com/pricing.

Setup	10 responders, per month	40 responders, per month
ilert Pro (1 status page, unlimited SMS and voice)	190 USD	760 USD
ilert Scale (incident channels, conference bridges)	390 USD	1,560 USD
ilert Scale plus one private status page	515 USD	1,685 USD
ilert Scale plus one private page and 50 stakeholders	565 USD	1,735 USD
IncidentBot Starter (1 public page, 100 SMS and voice per user)	240 USD	960 USD
IncidentBot Team (3 public or private pages, unlimited SMS and voice)	490 USD	1,960 USD

Read it honestly. For paging alone, ilert Pro is cheaper than every IncidentBot plan at both sizes and comes with unlimited SMS and voice. Once you need incident channels plus a private status page, the two land close together: IncidentBot Team is cheaper at 10 responders (490 against 515 to 565 USD) and ilert Scale is cheaper at 40. The ilert Scale rows use the promotional 39 USD price; at the monthly 49 USD price, 40 responders cost 1,960 USD before the private page. If your public status page has thousands of subscribers, add the ilert subscriber tier (50 USD a month for 1,000, 200 USD for 5,000) to the ilert rows.

IncidentBot pricing has a seat calculator if your team size is somewhere in between.

From an alert to a customer update in one record

Your monitoring stays where it is. Only the place alerts are sent changes.

Datadog, Prometheus Alertmanager, Grafana, CloudWatch, Sentry and anything that can call a webhook or send an email open alerts on the matching service. Repeat alerts group into one on Team and above. See incident alerting for the routing rules.
The alert pages the on-call engineer through an escalation policy by push, SMS, voice, email and Slack, and moves to the next tier if nobody acknowledges.
/incident opens a dedicated channel in Slack, sets severity SEV1 to SEV4, assigns commander, comms lead and scribe, and posts the runbook attached to the service. The Slack incident management app page shows the commands.
The comms lead drafts the customer update from the live incident and publishes it on the status page app. Subscribers are notified on Team and above, and nothing goes out without a person approving it.
When the incident closes, the timeline becomes a blameless incident postmortem draft with the impact window, response times and action items synced to Jira or Linear.

Moving off ilert in five steps

Engineer at a desk testing a page on a phone while rebuilding escalation rules

A paging migration is a translation, not a rebuild. Most teams of 10 to 50 responders finish in two to three weeks, and nobody is unreachable in between because both tools page in parallel.

Inventory: export your ilert alert sources, escalation policies, schedules and services. Note support hours, alert templates and any event filters, since those decide which alerts wake someone up.
Rebuild rotations: recreate schedules with on call scheduling software, keep the names your responders know, and copy escalation policies tier by tier.
Re-point alerts: add the IncidentBot webhook or inbound email address in each monitoring tool next to the ilert one, one service at a time, so both receive the same alerts.
Parallel run: keep both paging for one to two weeks, and have every engineer install the mobile app and confirm a test page by push, SMS and voice.
Cut over: remove the ilert alert sources, move status page subscribers, publish the page (on your own domain from Team) and cancel before the ilert renewal date.

Other ilert alternatives and competitors

The usual ilert competitors are PagerDuty, Opsgenie (end of support April 5, 2027), SIGNL4, Squadcast, xMatters, AlertOps, incident.io and Better Stack. PagerDuty is the paging-first incumbent and the one most ilert buyers also price; our PagerDuty alternative page covers that comparison. Teams leaving Opsgenie often shortlist ilert and IncidentBot together, see the Opsgenie alternative. Budget IT teams also look at AlertOps, covered on the AlertOps alternative page and in AlertOps pricing. Slack-first teams usually compare the incident.io alternative. For a shortlist by team type see best incident management software.

What is the best alternative to ilert?

The best ilert alternative depends on what you need beyond paging. Enterprises with ServiceNow workflows compare PagerDuty. Budget IT teams compare AlertOps and Squadcast. US engineering teams that run incidents in Slack and want public or private status pages in one seat price, without a subscriber meter or a three seat minimum, pick IncidentBot.

How much does ilert cost?

ilert has a free plan for up to 5 users. Pro costs 19 USD per user per month billed yearly or 24 USD monthly, Scale 39 USD yearly (a limited time offer for new users) or 49 USD monthly, and Enterprise starts at 49 USD per user billed yearly. Paid plans need at least 3 users. Checked on ilert.com in October 2026.

Is ilert free?

Yes, for up to 5 users, limited to one free plan per company. The free plan includes on-call management, one status page, push and messenger notifications and 100 SMS and voice notifications a month for the whole account. Unlimited SMS and voice, SSO and viewer users start on Pro.

Does ilert include a status page?

One status page is included from the free plan up. Additional public pages are priced by subscriber count, from 15 USD a month for 250 subscribers to 750 USD a month for 25,000 on annual billing. Private pages need Scale and cost 125 USD a month each. IncidentBot includes three public or private pages in Team.

Where is ilert hosted?

ilert is made and hosted in Germany and states GDPR compliance and ISO 27001 certification. That suits EU teams. US teams with data residency or procurement rules should check where alert data is stored before signing; IncidentBot offers US or EU data residency on Enterprise.

Is ilert cheaper than PagerDuty?

Yes, on list price. ilert Pro is 19 USD per user per month billed yearly with unlimited SMS and voice, while PagerDuty Professional is 21 USD and Business 41 USD billed annually. ilert Scale at 39 USD is close to PagerDuty Business. See PagerDuty pricing for the full plan list.

Can we try IncidentBot before we migrate?

Yes. The incident simulator runs a sample incident in your browser: an alert, escalation through a policy you build, a Slack channel, a status page draft and a postmortem skeleton. No account is needed.

Keep your alerts and move the pager

Create your account, point one alert source at IncidentBot and run both tools side by side until every page lands.