Axiom vs Squadcast Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Axiom Cloud
- Always Free allowance (1 TB / 100 GB-hrs / 100 GB) included
- Automatic volume discounts on usage beyond the allowance
- Configurable retention
- Self-serve enterprise add-ons (SSO, RBAC, Directory Sync, Audit Logs)
- Compute credit pre-purchase for deeper discounts
- All integrations
- Email support (paid SLA + dedicated available)
Personal
- 500 GB/mo data loading
- 10 GB-hours query compute
- 25 GB storage
- 30-day retention
- Full APL access
- All integrations
- Community support
Pro
- Role-Based Access Control
- Custom Integrations via API
- Knowledge Base
- Unlimited Email and Push
- SMS and Voice Notifications (Worldwide)
- Schedules and Escalations
- Incident Notes
- Response Actions
- Basic Event Intelligence
- Incident Watchers
- Tagging and Routing Rules
- Postmortems With Templates
- Automation Rules
- Mobile App (iOS and Android)
Premium
- Stakeholders and Customer User Roles
- 1 Year Data Retention
- Unlimited SMS and Voice Notifications (Worldwide)
- Advanced Escalations
- Delayed Notifications
- Exportable and Editable Incident Timelines
- Service Graph
- Custom Content Templates
- Webforms
- Runbooks
- Incident Workflows
- Outgoing Webhooks
- SLO Tracker
- Status Pages
Enterprise
- Unlimited Data Retention
- Intelligent Alert Grouping
- Auto Pause Transient Alerts
- Past Incidents
- AI-Generated Incident Summaries
- Audit Logs
- Incident Suggestions
- ServiceNow Bidirectional Sync
- Live Call Routing [Add-On]
Axiom vs Squadcast FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Squadcast is the cheaper option, starting at $15/mo vs $25/mo for Axiom.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Axiom has a free plan. Squadcast doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. Axiom uses usage-based pricing, while Squadcast goes with per-seat. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Axiom: They're positioning as a cost-efficient alternative to Datadog and Splunk — usage-based with no seat tax is a deliberate shot at log management incumbents that charge per user on top of ingestion. They're going after cost-conscious engineering teams burned by unpredictable observability bills. Squadcast: At $15–$24/seat, Squadcast is positioned below PagerDuty and Opsgenie's mid-tier plans, actively targeting cost-conscious engineering teams who find the incumbents overpriced for what they actually use. They're not the cheapest option in the space, but they're pitching value-for-features against the big names rather than racing to the bottom.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Axiom and Squadcast and let you know when something moves.