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SEPT 2026 audit

A Slack-first incident platform priced per user, capping on-call schedules by tier and metering the phone numbers it will route calls through.

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Entry paid plan$20 per user per month for Essentials.
CategoryIncident management and on-call

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01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Running incidents inside Slack, with enough rotas to matter. Essentials holds 20 schedules and escalation policies at $20 a user — the only vendor here to put a number on that at a paid tier rather than saying "more" — and SMS, voice, push and bypass-do-not-disturb are on every plan.

Consider something else if…

You need live call routing at more than one number, or you want to try before buying. One phone number on Essentials against five above it, and the pricing page shows no $0 plan and states nothing either way about a trial.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Rootly pricing

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Entry paid plan$20 per user per month for Essentials.
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  • Rootly Pricing ↗

    “incident response on-call ai sre essentials $20 per user/mo purpose-built incident management for growing companies.”

    Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing

Pricing modelPer user per month. What the tier buys is scale rather than features: 20 schedules and escalation policies on Essentials against unlimited above it, and one live call-routing number against five.
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  • Rootly Pricing ↗

    “live call routing (incl. call routing tree) 1 number 5 numbers alert sources (sentry, datadog, prometheus, etc.) sms, voice, push, bypass dnd support for china heartbeats schedules and escalation policies 20 unlimited”

    Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing

On-call

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SMS and voice allowanceSMS, voice, push and bypass-do-not-disturb on every tier, with no published count for any of them. What is metered instead is live call routing: one phone number on Essentials, five above it.
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  • Rootly Pricing ↗

    “live call routing (incl. call routing tree) 1 number 5 numbers alert sources (sentry, datadog, prometheus, etc.) sms, voice, push, bypass dnd support for china”

    Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing

On-call schedules20 schedules and escalation policies on Essentials; unlimited on the tier above. The only vendor of the four to put a number on this at a paid tier.
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  • Rootly Pricing ↗

    “heartbeats schedules and escalation policies 20 unlimited dynamic escalation paths shadow rotations”

    Read 2026-09-16 · official pricing

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