Yes, AlertKick has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes access to 5 monitors for websites, APIs, DNS, TCP, domain expiry, and mail, access to 5 heartbeats for cron jobs, backups, and pipelines, and Checks every 5 minutes with 7-day retention.
About
AlertKick is an on-call and incident paging service that routes alerts to the person on call using rosters, escalation policies, and per-level notification channels. It accepts alerts from monitoring and incident sources such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, Sentry, Zabbix, Nagios, and generic webhooks, then pages over mobile push, email, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, SMS, and outbound webhooks.
The free plan includes 1 on-call roster, 1 escalation policy, 2 users, 5 monitors, 5 heartbeats, 5-minute checks, 7-day retention, and paging over mobile push, email, Slack, and Telegram. It is aimed at teams that want a PagerDuty or Opsgenie-style on-call layer without per-seat pricing, with paid plans adding more users, hosts, SMS, WhatsApp, and longer retention.
- 1 on-call roster
- 1 escalation policy
- 2 users included
- 5 monitors and 5 heartbeats
- 5-minute check interval
- 7-day data retention
- Mobile push, email, Slack, Telegram paging
- 28+ alert source integrations
- Public status page included
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable for small teams: it includes two users, one roster, one escalation policy, a public status page, and capped monitoring/paging allowances, all with no card required. Compared with the cheapest paid plan at about $48.75/month, it delivers roughly a third of the practical value, so about $18/month is a fair estimate.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Access to 5 monitors for websites, APIs, DNS, TCP, domain expiry, and mail.
- Access to 5 heartbeats for cron jobs, backups, and pipelines.
- Checks every 5 minutes with 7-day retention.
- Access to 1 on-call roster for rotation scheduling.
- Access to 1 escalation policy.
- Mobile push, email, Telegram, and Slack paging.
- Alerts from 3 connected sources out of 28+ integrations.
- Public status page included.
- Access for 2 users with no per-seat charge.
See AlertKick pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Professional
- hosts
- 5
- monitors
- 10
- heartbeats
- 10
- alert sources
- 15
- AI triage events/month
- 1000
- retention
- 30 days
- 5 agent-based hosts
- 10 monitors + 10 heartbeats
- Checks every minute
- Unlimited rosters & escalation policies
- 15 alert sources
- SMS & WhatsApp paging
- 1000 AI triage events/month
- 30-day retention
Business
- hosts
- 25
- monitors
- 50
- heartbeats
- 50
- alert sources
- 50
- AI triage events/month
- 5000
- retention
- 90 days
- 25 agent-based hosts
- 50 monitors + 50 heartbeats
- Checks every minute
- 50 alert sources
- Kicker SRE agent
- 5000 AI triage events/month
- Compliance evidence & reports included
- Priority support
Enterprise
- users
- unlimited
- hosts
- unlimited
- monitors
- unlimited
- heartbeats
- unlimited
- alert sources
- unlimited
- status pages
- unlimited
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited agent-based hosts, monitors & heartbeats
- Unlimited alert sources, rosters & status pages
- Custom data retention and AI triage volume
- Dedicated poller locations
- On-premise deployment with assisted setup
- Volume pricing on SMS and hosts
- Dedicated support
Pricing extracted from AlertKick's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is AlertKick free forever?
Yes. AlertKick has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
Does AlertKick require a credit card?
No. You can start on AlertKick's free tier without entering card details.
What happens when you exceed AlertKick's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. AlertKick's cheapest paid plan is Professional at $48.75 / month.
What is AlertKick's free tier worth?
AlertKick's free tier is worth about $18 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 61/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
