Pick Checkly if
sRE / frontend teams who will stay on Hobby at $0 (10 uptime, 1k Playwright, 10k API, 6 locations) until they need Starter at $24/month or Team at $64/month for more runs, SMS alerts, or a private location.
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Our take
Pick Checkly if sRE / frontend teams who will stay on Hobby at $0 (10 uptime, 1k Playwright, 10k API, 6 locations) until they need Starter at $24/month or Team at $64/month for more runs, SMS alerts, or a private location. Pick incident.io if on-call teams who will stay on Basic Free forever while they open a first Insights hours table, then buy Team at $19 / user / month ($15 yearly) when they want multi-team
Best for
Checkly Playwright checks you start at $0
incident.io Incidents, on-call, and time-spent you start at $0
Free plan
Checkly $0 · /month. 10 uptime monitors, max frequency 2 min, 6 locations, 1,000 browser/Playwright runs, 10,000 API runs. Email, Slack, webhooks. No private locations
incident.io No free plan
Lowest paid
Checkly Starter $24/mo yearly
incident.io Team $19
Next step up
Checkly
incident.io On-call (standalone row) $20
Runs where
Checkly Local or hosted
incident.io Hosted
Watch out
Checkly Hobby is 1,000 Playwright runs and 10 uptime monitors
incident.io Basic Free is single-team on-call
Last checked
Checkly 2026-10-22 · checklyhq.com/pricing
incident.io 2026-10-23 · incident.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick incident.io if
on-call teams who will stay on Basic Free forever while they open a first Insights hours table, then buy Team at $19 / user / month ($15 yearly) when they want multi-team on-call and workflows.
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