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Our pricing is based on the number of Responder and On-call seats in your company, so it is only fair that you ask what counts with each seat in incident.io!

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Definitions: Responder seats, On-call seats & Viewers

As a rule of thumb, Responder and On-call seats are for users who actively engage with incident.io to be On-call, manage incidents, whereas Viewers (free seats) are users who declare and join an incident channel to contribute information, but do not actively participate in incident response.

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On-call seat (paid)

Users who have an On-call seat can:
  • Be added to a schedule
  • Be added to an escalation path
  • Have access to the mobile app
    • Incidents
    • Escalations
    • Schedules
      • Overrides
      • Cover me
  • Get paged via all methods (phone, SMS, Slack, app, email)
  • Request cover via mobile app and Slack
  • Create overrides via dashboard, mobile app and Slack
  • Create pay reports from On-call

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Response seat (paid)

Someone with a responder seat can have the role permissions of an Administrator, Owner or any custom role. Viewers can only have the Standard set of permissions. Users who have done the following will qualify as Responders: Managing and running incidents
  • Changed the status, severity, or custom field values
  • Posted an incident Update
  • Changed the incident Status, includes accepted and declined an incident.
  • Was assigned or assigned someone else an incident role (Lead or other)
  • Handed over the Lead role
  • Created, assigned, updated, was assigned to, or completed an action or a follow-up
  • Changed the Call URL associated with the incident
  • Changed the incident Type
  • Updated the incident Summary
  • Pinned a Slack message to the timeline
  • Revoked someone’s access to a Private Incident
  • Renamed an incident
  • Merged an incident
Communicating to customers Documenting incidents

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Viewer only (free)

If you don’t have a paid response seat or an on-call seat, you can still use parts of the product as a viewer. Viewers can create an incident, observe what is happening in the incident, and post messages in the channel. As a viewer, you can:
  • Create incidents (everyone in the company can declare incidents for free)
  • Decline an incident
  • Join incident channels and post in them (everyone can track and contribute important information to incidents for free)
  • Go through a tutorial incident (everyone can - and should! - learn the ropes of incident.io for free)
  • View alerts, escalations and schedules
  • Add an Attachment (e.g. Zendesk, Github, etc.)
  • Escalate to someone (e.g. via incident.io On-call/Opsgenie/PagerDuty)
  • View internal status pages
  • View post-mortems
  • Use @incident bot. Note: using the bot to make changes to the incident that only responders should do will upgrade you to a responder (see above actions for responders)
All our plans allow unlimited viewers free of charge

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Adding and removing seats

Users who take any of the Responder actions listed above will automatically be upgraded to a Responder seat. For On-call seats, you’ll see a confirmation modal when adding users who don’t have an On-call seat to a schedule or escalation path.
  • On the Team plan, on-call seats can be purchased like responder seats and you are free to add or remove as you wish.
  • For Pro and Enterprise, you will have a hard limit on your on-call seats and you’ll need to contact our sales team to either re-contract or co-term to purchase more.
Users will only be removed from a Response and/or On-call seat if:
  • You downgrade them from your incident.io account (in Settings > Users); or
  • Their Slack account is deleted.

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FAQs

Learning is free at incident.io. Everyone in your company can — and should! — learn the ropes of incident.io without getting penalized by it and billed.Your teammates won’t be considered Responders (paid users) if they go through our tutorial flow.
You can find full details of our billing methods and mechanics here.