Best Incident Management · FREE
Best free Incident Management (2026)
5 incident management that offer a genuine free plan, ranked by entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Cheapest: FireHydrant at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: FireHydrant, incident.io, Opsgenie (Atlassian), PagerDuty, Squadcast.
- Data current through: 2026-09-02. STALE marks a row with at least one plan we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days. 1 of 5 rows below is marked.
Comparison
| # | Incident Management | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FireHydrant | $0/mo | Yes | — | Yes | Engineering teams wanting a single platform from on-call through retrospective | firehydrant.com |
| 2 | incident.io | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Slack-first engineering teams wanting native chat-based incident response | incident.io |
| 3 | Opsgenie (Atlassian) | $0/mo | Yes | No | Yes | Atlassian-ecosystem shops already using Jira or Confluence | atlassian.com |
| 4 | PagerDuty | $0/mo | Yes | — | Yes | Large enterprise DevOps/SRE teams needing broad ecosystem coverage | pagerduty.com |
| 5 | Squadcast STALE · 2026-06-14 | $0/mo | Yes | No | Yes | Cost-conscious teams replacing PagerDuty + FireHydrant with a single tool | solarwinds.com |