# incident.io API vs Rootly MCP Server (slim)

> incident.io scores 68.9 (B) to Rootly's 59.7 (C) for incidents. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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incident.io API scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against Rootly MCP Server's 59.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Rootly MCP Server leads on payments & pricing. Both do incidents.

- incident.io API: B 68.9, rank #204 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/incident-io.min.md
- Rootly MCP Server: C 59.7, rank #541 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rootly-mcp.min.md
- incident.io API, good for Agents that declare and update incidents, page people, read on-call schedules and post status page incidents in an organisation that already pays for incident.io. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 48; Schema & documentation, 88 against 78.
- Rootly MCP Server, good for Incident and on-call agents in teams that already run Rootly. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 20 against 10. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | incident.io API | Rootly MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 48 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 88 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | incident.io API | Rootly MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Pineapple Technology Ltd. (incident.io) | Rootly Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.incident.io/mcp` | `https://mcp.rootly.com/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio |
| Price for incidents | $19 per seat per month | $20 per seat per month |
| Licence | Proprietary service under incident.io's Terms and Conditions. The SDKs, the `inc` CLI and the skills plugin on GitHub are MIT | Apache-2.0 for the server. The hosted service runs under Rootly's Terms of Use |
| Tools exposed | none | 218 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.rootly/mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-01 | 2026-07-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-02-15 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 1.3k npm/wk | none |