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Freshservice vs SolarWinds Incident Response comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.3
Freshservice boosts efficiency with automation, cut hiring needs, improves SLA, but ROI quantification and user management vary by region.
Sentiment score
6.5
SolarWinds Incident Response boosts efficiency, reduces costs, minimizes downtime, and achieves a 32% ROI by automating tasks.
Faster resolution means the average ticket resolution time decreased by roughly twenty-five to thirty percent since alerts are automatically converted into tickets and routed to the right team.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Automation has contributed significantly, resulting in reduced resource counts, which equates to savings in money and time.
Technical support manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
With using Freshservice, only two technicians are needed per one shift, but without Freshservice, for the same company size, we need about four technicians per shift, so it saved money and time.
Systems Engineer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Using Squadcast allows incidents to be tracked and timely actions to be taken, which minimizes downtime and leads to substantial cost savings related to revenue.
Senior DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
We have seen a return on investment by 32% and fewer employees are needed because the tool has a lot of AI automation.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
If you can resolve issues in your environment without any production incidents, it directly impacts revenue.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Freshservice support is responsive and helpful but requires better communication and understanding of user needs for technical issues.
Sentiment score
7.4
SolarWinds Incident Response excels in customer support, offering prompt issue resolution and excellent service during outages.
Ultimately, we saw a 77% reduction in average resolution times with a return on investment realized within 6 months.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
However, they have improved over the period of two years.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Their documentation is also good, making setup easy without needing frequent support requests.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
You can directly raise a customer ticket and have a call with the customer team to resolve queries in a minimal time span.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Squadcast's customer support is very good, as they are always ready to help whenever we experience an outage.
Senior DevOps Engineer at Fareye
Most of the time, the integrations and everything was going well, so we did not have a reason to escalate any complaints.
Works at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Freshservice efficiently scales with user growth and ticket volume, supporting departments despite potential customization and enterprise-level limitations.
Sentiment score
8.2
SolarWinds Incident Response scales impressively, handling growth and user additions smoothly, with robust integration and flexible adaptability for diverse needs.
As our organization has grown and ticket volume related to AWS resources increased, Freshservice handled the extra load without any performance issues.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It offers global performance with multi-region data centers to ensure faster responses while adhering to strong security and compliance standards such as GDPR and SOC 2.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
Freshservice is easy to use for scalability.
IT manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
You can scale it as per your use case.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Squadcast's scalability is very good, and we can integrate multiple services inside Squadcast.
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
It scales with the growth of my business.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Freshservice offers stable performance with minor data import and integration challenges, excelling in daily operations and seamless updates.
Sentiment score
9.3
SolarWinds Incident Response is consistently praised for its stable, robust performance, with users unanimously confirming its reliability.
The service runs smoothly most of the time, and performance has been consistent even when ticket volumes and AWS alerts are high.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Freshservice is quite stable as they host it on AWS.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Freshservice provides a stable environment for our needs.
IT manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Freshservice needs improved customization, integration, asset management accuracy, reporting, support, AI features, and performance for larger networks.
SolarWinds Incident Response needs better interface, policy updates, documentation, pricing, syncing, deduplication rules, and alert resolution measures.
There's limited experience with the CMDB or asset management features.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Asset management can definitely be improved because it doesn't pick up every single device on the network or every single piece of information.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Reporting is useful, but the customization is still restricted, and it would be great to build more detailed reports that combine multiple data sources, especially for cloud-related operations.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Call quality and response acknowledgment are the major things that would enhance my experience using Squadcast.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Additionally, when adding a tag inside a Squadcast incident, there is no P0 option available; there is only P1 to P5, and it would be beneficial to have a tag related to P0 as well.
Senior DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
To reduce this noise, we utilize suppression and need deduplication rules.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Freshservice offers competitive pricing with flexible plans, emphasizing cost-effectiveness and lower total ownership costs for enterprises.
Enterprise users appreciate SolarWinds Incident Response for its affordable, scalable pricing model without extra setup or licensing costs.
Switching from previous ITSM tools has led to a 50% reduction in licensing costs.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
The solution offers flat licensing and appears to be cost-effective.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The price was very comfortable for our organization to proceed with the migration from Freshdesk to Freshservice.
Technical support manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
The pricing and licensing costs fit in the budget and are not too costly considering the features provided.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
There is no cost related to setup and licensing, making it very affordable.
Senior DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing are reasonable compared to other tools.
SRE Manager at a media company with 1-10 employees
 

Valuable Features

Freshservice is valued for its user-friendly interface, automation, integration capabilities, and features enhancing IT team efficiency.
SolarWinds Incident Response offers real-time alerts, seamless integration, and automation, enhancing efficiency and minimizing downtime costs.
The most valuable features include ticket routing, automation in triage, data control, and flat licensing.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Incident management is very helpful, and the system is straightforward, making it easy to use for our enterprise-level company.
IT manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Overall, Freshservice provides cutting-edge AI automation for agents and end-users, effortless no-code workflows and ITIL-aligned operations, robust asset, incident, change, problem, and major incident management backed by the live CMDB, unified service desk with self-service and multi-channel support, and strong analytics reporting features, making it a powerful tool for any IT function.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
Squadcast has impacted my organization positively by providing timely notifications through phone calls, SMS, and emails, enabling us to respond within that time range and maintain our system running.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
This reliability has significantly impacted our team's response time, allowing us to redirect alerts directly to the respective microservice team owners' mobile phones, thus saving time during production alerts.
Senior DevOps Engineer at Fareye
Squadcast includes numerous features such as the ability to suppress alerts based on maintenance windows, manage services for various environments, create different services, and use workflows where I can add tagging and attach my Confluence page, which acts as a runbook.
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Freshservice
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
15th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (7th), Project Management Software (12th), Cloud Management (15th), IT Asset Management (6th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (8th), Configuration Management Databases (5th), AI IT Support (5th)
SolarWinds Incident Response
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Freshservice is 1.6%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Incident Response is 1.1%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SolarWinds Incident Response1.1%
Freshservice1.6%
Other97.3%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

Raja Farrar - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
Automation and AI have transformed our service delivery and have made IT support faster and more efficient
I always keep up with Freshservice's roadmaps and new features. Freshservice has been very good at listening to feedback and adding those feature requests into their next iterations. I wish they would offer more granular data export options for utilizing in Power BI, along with predictive analytics for capacity planning and SLA breaches to enable more proactive support management and reduce firefighting. While the dashboards are effective, some users find custom reporting limited compared to ServiceNow or Jira. I would also appreciate deeper integrations, especially for niche apps requiring development coding work to enable advanced orchestration. Native integrations for DevOps pipelines such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins, along with stronger API flexibility for complex workflows, would enhance functionality. Although the CMDB and asset management are solid, they do lack advanced dependency mapping compared to other enterprise tools. My wishlist includes automated impact analysis for changes and improved visualization of asset relationships, enabling quicker resolutions from an agent's perspective when alerts come in. I acknowledge that Device42 may enhance this, but it is an extra cost beyond what we already pay. While Freddy AI is excellent for triage and suggestions, some users desire more proactive automation, such as predictive ticket routing based on historical patterns and AI-driven capacity forecasting. Lastly, the pricing tiers might seem rigid for mid-sized teams, so a more granular add-on option for features such as Device42 or pay-per-use for orchestration workflows could be beneficial.
HemantKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Proactive alert routing has improved uptime and now reduces incident impact across teams
Squadcast requires improvement in that whenever team members upload notes, there is a restriction preventing them from manually resolving alerts. Alerts can only be resolved via proper signals from Alertmanager. Users should not be able to resolve incidents without manual intervention. This is a major requirement because team members sometimes resolve alerts manually, risking the resolution of critical alerts. Additionally, with multiple production environments and services, we receive multiple alerts for issues such as the same disk alert several times. To reduce this noise, we utilize suppression and need deduplication rules. Having a feature to set deduplication rules in one service applicable to other services would be a great help. Other improvements needed for Squadcast include observations I have made over the last four years, and I will convey any updates regarding improvements in the future.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
University
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Computer Software Company
25%
Construction Company
19%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Educational Organization
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise16
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Freshservice?
I cannot comment much on the pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Freshservice as it was already preset up in my company.
What needs improvement with Freshservice?
I believe Freshservice can be improved by offering more advanced features and customizability. In terms of improvements, I suggest enhancing performance for larger networks and addressing workflow ...
What is your primary use case for Freshservice?
In Freshservice, I typically use it for day-to-day tasks. A quick, specific example of how I use Freshservice in my daily work includes getting some incidents, working on service requests, and hand...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Squadcast?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was very awesome because pricing is affordable. They charge a very affordable pricing compared to features. The setup cost was more attractive.
What needs improvement with Squadcast?
A few areas need improvement. For example, AI-generated incident summaries take a lot of time to be completed.
What is your primary use case for Squadcast?
My main use case for Squadcast is in two different ways. I use it for on-call management, whereby I'm able to schedule calls and do the escalations, as well as live call routing to agents. That is ...
 

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Sample Customers

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Western Carriers, Judson University, Golf Canada, Travix, Proxama, Paymentez, Ready Auto Transport
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