Squadcast (now sold within the SolarWinds portfolio) is a reliability suite — on-call, incident response, SLO tracking, status pages — with Pro at $20/user/month (annual). OpsPing covers the on-call and incident core at $8–$15/responder with an Opsgenie-compatible import path, and skips the SLO/error-budget layer Squadcast ships. If SLO tracking and reliability engineering analytics are on your evaluation list, Squadcast has them. If the question is who answers the page and how fast — at what seat price — run the numbers below.
Side by side
| OpsPing | Squadcast | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Up to 5 responders, unlimited push | Free trial (14 days, no card) |
| Paid pricing | $8–$15/responder/month flat | Pro $20/user/month annual; Premium higher (SolarWinds era) |
| On-call schedules/escalations | Core, with PTO and override conflict detection | Core |
| SLO / error-budget tracking | No | Yes |
| Status pages | Included | Available on higher tiers |
| Postmortems | One-click from audit trail, MD/PDF | Incident retrospectives |
| Alert API compatibility | Opsgenie v2-compatible (GenieKey) | Own API |
| Mobile paging | iOS Critical Alerts, Android DND-bypass alarms | Mobile apps with push |
| Private deployment | Private single-tenant deployments available | No |
Squadcast list prices checked October 16, 2026 (squadcast.com/pricing: Pro $20/user/month annual billing). Squadcast is distributed as SolarWinds Incident Response.
What moves over cleanly
Monitoring integrations repoint to the Opsgenie-compatible API or native mappers (Datadog, Alertmanager, Grafana, CloudWatch/SNS). Teams, schedules, rotations, escalation policies, and heartbeats import from Opsgenie — and Squadcast customers coming from Opsgenie originally can reuse the same path. Verify each integration before cutover.
Choose Squadcast if…
- SLO tracking and error budgets are on this year's platform roadmap.
- You want SolarWinds-scale enterprise packaging and support.
Choose OpsPing if…
- You want the on-call core — paging, schedules, escalations, incidents — at $8–$15/responder instead of $20+.
- Mobile delivery reliability and included status pages matter more than suite breadth.
- You want an Opsgenie-compatible API and a private deployment option.
FAQ
Is OpsPing a like-for-like Squadcast replacement?
For on-call, alerting, escalation, incident response, and status pages: close to it. OpsPing does not ship SLO/error-budget tracking or Squadcast's reliability-analytics depth — if those drive the purchase, Squadcast is the better fit. The features OpsPing does ship are included rather than tier-gated.
Does OpsPing cost half of Squadcast?
At list prices checked October 16, 2026: Squadcast Pro is $20/user/month (annual); OpsPing is $8 (Team) and $15 (Business) per responder/month. For a 15-responder rotation that is $300 vs $120–$225 per month, before tier-based feature gating on either side.
Can we migrate from Squadcast without downtime?
Run both in parallel: repoint monitoring to OpsPing (Opsgenie-compatible API or mappers), rebuild or import schedules and escalation policies, install the mobile app, verify with test alerts, then flip the rotation. Most teams run a shadow rotation for one on-call cycle first.