# Squadcast

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/incident-management/squadcast/

A SolarWinds on-call product that folds worldwide SMS and voice notifications into the seat price rather than metering them.

## Who it suits

Paging people in more than one country without watching a meter. SMS and voice are worldwide and inside the $15 seat — no cap, no regional split, no headcount multiplier — which is the only plan here where an engineer in Europe costs the same to page as one in Ohio.

Consider something else if You want to start free. There is no standing free plan, only a 14-day trial, so a five-person team that would pay nothing on PagerDuty or Opsgenie starts at $75 a month. The $15 is also described as a starting price rather than the price.

## iScore

72 / 100 (80% interval 62–81), rank 4 of 4 in incident-management.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every incident-management peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/incident-management/squadcast/alternatives/

- Price: 43 (25–61), weight 50%, 3 of 3 criteria scored
- Trust and compliance: 100 (94–100), weight 30%, 1 of 1 criteria scored
- Evidence: 100 (100–100), weight 20%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: No ([source](https://www.squadcast.com/pricing), read 2026-09-16)
- Kind of free offer: Free trial ([source](https://www.squadcast.com/pricing), read 2026-09-16)
- When the free offer ends: 14 days, fully functional. There is no standing free plan behind it. ([source](https://www.squadcast.com/pricing), read 2026-09-16)
- Entry paid plan: $15 per user per month billed annually, described as a starting price. ([source](https://www.squadcast.com/pricing), read 2026-09-16)
- Pricing model: Per user per month, with SMS and voice notifications worldwide included in the seat rather than allowanced — the only one of the four that does not gate notification volume by tier or headcount. ([source](https://www.squadcast.com/pricing), read 2026-09-16)

### On-call

- SMS and voice allowance: SMS and voice worldwide, plus unlimited email and push, all included in the seat price with no published cap and no regional split. ([source](https://www.squadcast.com/pricing), read 2026-09-16)

### Compliance

- Role-based access control: Role-based access control is included in the Pro plan, the entry tier. ([source](https://www.squadcast.com/pricing), read 2026-09-16)

## Compared with

- [Squadcast vs PagerDuty](https://inetgeek.com/compare/pagerduty-vs-squadcast/)
- [Squadcast vs Opsgenie](https://inetgeek.com/compare/opsgenie-vs-squadcast/)
- [Squadcast vs Rootly](https://inetgeek.com/compare/rootly-vs-squadcast/)