AlertKick is a newer pager that bundles on-call with uptime checks, a server agent and eBPF security, and prices flat plans by server rather than by person. If your rota is large, your fleet is small, and SMS or WhatsApp is your loudest channel, its model is worth a look. OpsPing is paging-first and priced per responder ($8–$15), with voice-call fallback, iOS Critical Alerts, and an Opsgenie v2-compatible alert API, so most Opsgenie integrations move by changing the endpoint and key. If a ringing phone is in your escalation chain, AlertKick does not place automated voice calls today.
Side by side
| OpsPing | AlertKick | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per responder: Free (up to 5), $8 Team, $15 Business per month; stakeholders free | Flat plans by server: Free, £39/month (5 hosts), £149/month (25 hosts); no per-seat charge |
| Users included | Free: 5 responders; Team: up to 50 paid responders; Business: unlimited | Free: 2; Professional: 5; Business: 25; Enterprise: unlimited |
| On-call scheduling included | Yes, every plan (Free: 1 schedule; Team and Business: unlimited schedules, rotations, overrides) | Yes, every plan (Free: 1 roster and 1 escalation policy; paid plans unlimited) |
| What imports from Opsgenie | Users, teams, services, schedules and overrides, escalation policies, heartbeats, integrations; routing, policies, notifications and maintenance are review-gated. History is archive-only. Applying needs Team or Business; dry run is free | Self-serve: users (matched by email), schedules (primary layer; hourly rotations and restrictions flagged), escalation policies. Heartbeats are recreated by hand |
| Opsgenie alert API | Opsgenie v2-compatible (GenieKey scheme, documented subset) | Not documented; integrations are repointed to AlertKick's alert sources |
| Voice-call alerts | Voice-call fallback on Team and Business ($5 / $25 monthly credit, hard cap) | No automated voice calls (listed as “not yet”) |
| Mobile push | iOS Critical Alerts and Android DND-bypass alarms, unlimited on every plan | iOS and Android push; critical alerts bypass Do Not Disturb on Android |
| SMS / WhatsApp | Not offered; push-first with voice fallback | SMS (5p/message) and WhatsApp on Professional and Business |
| Monitoring | Heartbeats on Team and Business; otherwise accepts alerts from the monitors you already run | Uptime, SSL, DNS and TCP checks, heartbeats, server agent with eBPF security |
| Sign-in | SSO (OIDC) on Team and Business | Email, Google and GitHub; no SAML or SCIM yet |
| Postmortems | One-click from audit trail, MD/PDF (Team and Business) | AI after-action summaries; no postmortem templates |
AlertKick facts as of October 2026, from alertkick.com/pricing ↗, alertkick.com/migrate ↗ and AlertKick vs Opsgenie ↗, checked . AlertKick prices are in GBP. Vendor pricing changes; verify before buying. OpsPing pricing
Per-user vs per-server pricing
OpsPing bills each responder; stakeholders who only watch status are free. AlertKick bills plans sized by hosts, monitors and heartbeats, with a user allowance per plan and no per-seat line; extra hosts are £5/month. Neither model is cheaper in every case: per-responder pricing tracks the size of the rota, per-server pricing tracks the size of the fleet.
Moving from Opsgenie
Both tools import Opsgenie configuration with a preview before anything is written. OpsPing's importer also brings heartbeats, teams, services and integrations, and its alert API accepts the GenieKey header, so monitoring tools are repointed rather than rebuilt. The full mapping is in the Opsgenie migration guide; the wider field is on Opsgenie alternatives.
FAQ
How does AlertKick pricing compare with OpsPing?
As of October 2026, AlertKick sells flat plans sized by servers: Free, Professional at £39/month (5 hosts, up to 5 users) and Business at £149/month (25 hosts, up to 25 users), with no per-seat charge. OpsPing charges per responder: Free for up to 5 responders, Team at $8 and Business at $15 per responder per month, with stakeholder seats free. Large rotas on few servers favor AlertKick's model; small rotas or many servers favor per-responder pricing.
Does AlertKick place voice calls?
No. AlertKick's pricing page lists automated voice calls as 'not yet' on every plan; its loudest step is SMS or WhatsApp alongside a critical push. OpsPing includes voice-call fallback on Team and Business, with $5 and $25 of monthly voice credit and a hard spend cap.
What does each tool import from Opsgenie?
AlertKick's self-serve importer reads users (matched by email), schedules and escalation policies from the Opsgenie API and previews every mapping first. OpsPing's importer covers users, teams, services, schedules and overrides, escalation policies, heartbeats and integrations, with routing, policies, notifications and maintenance as separate review-gated groups. OpsPing also accepts the Opsgenie v2 alert API with the GenieKey header for a documented subset of endpoints.
What does AlertKick do that OpsPing does not?
AlertKick bundles uptime, SSL, DNS and TCP checks, a server agent with host metrics and eBPF security detection, and SMS and WhatsApp paging on paid plans. Apart from heartbeats, OpsPing does not monitor your infrastructure itself; it accepts alerts from the monitors you already run.