Everbridge IT Alerting vs xMatters comparison

Everbridge IT Alerting and xMatters are both solutions in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category. Everbridge IT Alerting is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.0, while xMatters is ranked #11. Everbridge IT Alerting holds a 5.5% mindshare in IMS, compared to xMatters’s 5.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Everbridge IT Alerting users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of xMatters users who would recommend it.

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96% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

Everbridge IT Alerting and xMatters compete in IT alerting. xMatters is preferred for its feature-rich platform, whereas Everbridge is chosen for affordability and support.

Features: Everbridge provides robust communication tools and reliable notifications critical for effective incident management. It also excels in mass notification and calendar integration. xMatters is notable for advanced automation, integration with ITSM solutions, and a flexible workflow management system.

Room for Improvement: Everbridge could enhance its integration capabilities with newer platforms and refine user interface intuitiveness. More customization options and advanced analytics would benefit users. xMatters would benefit from simplifying its initial setup process. Enhancing real-time reporting, UI intuitiveness, and extending API capabilities could provide additional value.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Everbridge offers straightforward deployment ideal for organizations needing immediate functionality, backed by extensive customer support. xMatters provides a customizable setup allowing tailored workflows and is supported by dedicated customer assistance, catering to diverse organizational needs.

Pricing and ROI: Everbridge stands out with cost-effective pricing suitable for budget-conscious organizations, ensuring good value. xMatters, although requiring a higher initial investment, delivers significant ROI with superior features and process enhancements, justified for businesses seeking advanced capabilities and flexibility.

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Categories and Ranking

Everbridge IT Alerting

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

7th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

xMatters

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

11th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Everbridge IT Alerting is 5.5%, down from 9.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of xMatters is 5.5%, down from 5.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Everbridge IT Alerting	5.5%
xMatters	5.5%
Other	89.0%

IT Alerting and Incident Management

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reviewer2405115

Head of Business Continuity & Resilience at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Provides good detection and escalation features to reduce downtime

We are using Everbridge IT Alerting for incident and crisis modules. The tool is powerful in itself, but as with any tool, you need to adapt it to the organization to be suitable for managing specific situations. When we did the analysis, Everbridge IT Alerting was one of the main products in the markets adapted to our organization's expectations. Currently, we are using it for a different aspect. Overall, the solution gives a better understanding of the incident response aspect. It helps manage that kind of situation. The solution's detection and escalation features are crucial in reducing downtime. The solution's automation capabilities help quickly identify the right members and skills. Everbridge IT Alerting is deployed on the cloud in our organization. We tried to make the solution more independent. However, we tried one or two integrations, and they went well. You need to have the right skills to integrate the solution with other tools. I would recommend the solution to other users based on their industry and business requirements. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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reviewer1855452

Infrastructure Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Helps in ensuring that everyone gets notified when needed, and provides the flexibility to integrate it and build what we want on top of it

They recently released an incident module that allows users, or at least teams, to track major incidents and other things, and you can send out communication via that one webpage. You can engage on-call teams and communicate to stakeholders as well, but one thing that is missing there is a group chat. If there is a group chat on the same webpage that all of the support teams could use, it would be a one-stop shop that all of the major incident managers would use as their product to manage a major incident. Without that, at the moment, they are mainly referring to teams and then adding data into xMatters as and when they can. Some of the workflow development work that we do for the in-house piece can be quite complicated if you don't have experience using the tool. You have to have to go through the documentation, but I suppose that's an expectation. When users first log on and they're configuring the rotas, it does take them a bit of time to get their heads around how to configure the shifts. Some of them do need guidance. We have got a support document, and xMatters also has a support page where they can go and read through the details. Our roles and access for each user are locked down, as opposed to just letting them access the xMatters portal because it can add more confusion because the support portal explains that they can do X, Y, and Z. So, we're removing that ability, but once the users get their head around how to configure the rotas, the overall intuitiveness of the UI is pretty good. It is simple and clean, and they don't have to do that many steps. There are probably one or two group supervisors that configure the rotas, and the rest of them log on. We've already pre-populated the contact details from our directory, so usually, they'll just go and add a personal device, if they do want to get called on a personal device, or they want to set up the app, which is pretty easy using the QR codes. The product looks nice and clean. The only thing is that it takes a little bit of work to get your head around the rotas, but once you do, it's pretty darn simple.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"It has enabled us to have quicker times to resolution."

"Even in the first few months, we realized some of those benefits around shortening the time to resolution."

"It's very customizable. For instance, if you're going on vacation this week, you go to your calendar and say, "I'm off this week, make the secondary the primary." And that's done on-the-fly. It's very responsive. It's very user-friendly."

"We have had great success, using Everbridge for more than 500 different notifications, tests, and other events with no stability issues."

"With SaaS, we can implement in other regions without having to physically go to there."

"We are saving probably 100 plus hours of outage time within our customer-facing products per month, which is significant."

"This has been one of the better products that you buy off the shelf because it just works."

"Everbridge has managed to actually reduce that to under three minutes, and even in my new company our engagement time is sitting right around three minutes to engage personnel to a critical outage."

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"Having our users manage their own notification devices within xMatters is huge, since it takes the burden off our datacenter."

"The REST API has given us the chance to move away from manual work to fully automated updates."

"The Flow Designer is quite valuable, as you can set up integrations and flows without necessarily needing to know about code."

"The automated callouts, without a doubt, are most valuable. They have been a huge gain for our company. Previous to xMatters, there was no real management of the on-call resources or rotas. So, having that centralized and automated has been a huge gain."

"The ability to notify teams and monitor those notifications in real-time, along with time-based escalation, helps us resolve issues much more quickly."

"We have reduced the time it takes to resolve major incidents through xMatters’s conference bridge management solution."

"The cloud solution reduces alarming to the core, which means no need to provision your server, which is great."

"For us, their biggest feature is event alerting and the retention of those events. This way, if something goes wrong, we can provide a report of everything that was sent out and everything that was captured."

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Cons

"Their integration capabilities are still progressing, but not quite where we'd like to see them yet. They're moving there with that orchestration capability where they're seeing the potential of an API-first mentality. So instead of trying to build custom connections into everything, you open up APIs to allow other systems to talk to IT Alerting and allow IT Alerting to talk to other systems. There is room for improvement, but they get it."

"An ability to get to the database that houses our information would be great. Currently, we are at the mercy of Everbridge and, if they do not have the function built, we cannot gather the information that we would like."

"The ability to not have to worry about the IT alerting and calendar resources. I would like it to be simpler in the sense of a different cost structure."

"I swapped two people's weeks, and at least from what I saw, I had to do each day individually. It would be nice if I could swap two people's weeks without having to do it each day."

"The company would like to have super detailed analytics, as we integrate this with our security software."

"Lacks ability to customize messages."

"There is some room to improve the initial-rollout functions which are a little bit painful."

"What I would like to see is vendor alerting. It's not structured to take into account that users outside of our environment, users outside of IT, may not be in the group. IBM is an outside vendor for us, and we have IBM CEs who come in on a regular basis. If there's a problem, we call those vendors in. That should be tied into the system where we can say that vendors A, B, and C have these users and we want them available to come into the office when there's an issue. We want to be able to alert them in the same way we alert internally."

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"We cannot go back in time to check out the previous schedules that we had. We can only see them moving forward. I wish we were able to go back and see the previous schedules that we had. That's the biggest thing."

"The user interface could be more intuitive. Once you know what you're doing, you're fine. However, if you don't know where to start then it can be a bit difficult to figure out how to make it work and how it will function together with different tools in the Flow Designer."

"We have to create an Excel sheet for onboarding users and then upload it. But if an employee resigns, we don't have any checkpoints to validate whether the user is still active or not. We have to do that manually every week: Check who has left the organization, and do a cross-check, whether this person had any licenses or signed in to xMatters."

"They recently released an incident module that allows users, or at least teams, to track major incidents and other things, and you can send out communication via that one webpage. You can engage on-call teams and communicate to stakeholders as well, but one thing that is missing there is a group chat. If there is a group chat on the same webpage that all of the support teams could use, it would be a one-stop shop that all of the major incident managers would use as their product to manage a major incident. Without that, at the moment, they are mainly referring to teams and then adding data into xMatters as and when they can."

"An additional knowledge-sharing program could be helpful and part of the demo workshops (right now, these only provide partial information)."

"I've asked for the ability to have tags on groups, and for dynamic lists, meaning the ability to pull data from another location and use it in xMatters dynamically. Right now, for example, if I have a form and want to populate a list, it's a manual process. I have to copy and paste the list items."

"The user interface could be more intuitive. When you are not familiar with integrations and you're starting fresh, looking for where to begin, it is a bit daunting and not as clear as it could be."

"If you want to alter a custom field, you can do so via import/export. But you can't have an unlimited number of custom fields, so in a large environment with a lot of teams, team provisioning becomes more difficult."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The annual cost is $125,000 USD. That is for everything. It includes the 11,000 mass notifications. Technically, we have 500 licenses for IT Alerting."

"We thought the base product was pretty reasonable. It can pricey once you start adding stuff on."

"The end result is that we have driven down our MTTR by an average of about 45 minutes across all major outages. That is very substantial considering the cost of every minute of outage can be thousands of dollars lost."

"Licensing cost is driven largely by the number of users in the platform including admins, group managers, and message senders, so you want to consider your needs there."

"They are one of the top three most expensive products. I also understand if you are going to use them for IT alerting, it is worth it. They are competitively priced, but the IT alerting is the differentiator. The way that they market it and push it out. That is their premier function."

"Everbridge is not an inexpensive tool, but as the adage says, you get what you pay for."

"This product has helped us save $200,000 from being able to get rid of vendors and consolidate functionalities to doing incident reporting."

"For us, the pricing is a good value. I can't say whether or not their list pricing looks favorable to everyone who's checking, but I can say that the process of sourcing and procurement with them was very professional, comfortable, and friendly. The negotiations were done well on both sides, and in the end, I'd say the price was very effective... I think that people will find that Everbridge is a great listener and is willing to meet in the middle."

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"There's a significant difference between a full license, which allows people to respond to and acknowledge receipt of messages, and a more scaled-down license, which just allows people to see the notification. So we need to evaluate what license they need when onboarding new users because the full license is significantly more expensive."

"It feels like good value in the sense that the service is excellent. The people above me who look at such things have renewed it a couple of times, and I think they would have thought whether it was good value, whether it was wildly overpriced, or whether there were better and cheaper alternatives. So, from that perspective, the pricing is fair and proper."

"The only potential concern is professional services. They are capable, but like to bill on an hourly basis."

"I'm not really involved with the cost standpoint. I've only heard rumors of how much it costs, and if it costs what I think it costs, its cost is very high as compared to a lot of other tools that we're using here. It seems on the higher end from a cost standpoint."

"This is a subscription-based, SaaS solution."

"You should perhaps arrange an evaluation or trial to just test it out. Get your feet wet. That is so important. If you don't try it, then you won't know."

"Then, in pricing, you are limited on your number of SMS messages that you can send a month and the licensing cost annually."

"The pricing is tiered so we took that into account. If we were to license 10 or 20 people, that would be a certain price. And if we were to license 50 or 100, there would be a little bit of discounting. But the per-user license was right in line with what we were expecting."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Performing Arts

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Performing Arts

11%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Large Enterprise	22

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	24

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Overview

Everbridge IT Alerting integrates ticketing systems and ServiceNow, offering real-time alerts and automated escalations. It streamlines incident management and boosts efficiency with features like geofencing, API connectivity, and a mobile app for rapid notifications.

Everbridge IT Alerting is designed for efficient incident management by integrating with major ticketing systems like ServiceNow. It offers real-time alerting, customizable templates, and automated escalations, which reduce response time and manual effort. Geofencing and API access provide flexibility, while the scheduling calendar supports dynamic shifts and on-call management. The system's deduplication and engagement tools enhance coordination among users. Additionally, the mobile app ensures fast notification delivery, though there's room for improvement in interface intuitiveness, analytics capabilities, and GPS tracking. Users can benefit from smoother schedule management and more flexible integrations, which enhance operational efficiency.

What are the key features of Everbridge IT Alerting?

Integration with Ticketing Systems: Facilitates efficient incident tracking and resolution by connecting with platforms like ServiceNow.
Real-time Alerting and Automated Escalations: Ensures swift and automated incident response processes.
Customizable Templates: Allows tailoring communication to specific incident needs.
Geofencing and API Connectivity: Provides flexibility and adaptability across different scenarios and systems.
Scheduling Calendar: Simplifies on-call management with dynamic shift capabilities.
Mobile App Features: Enables rapid notification delivery for immediate incident awareness.

What benefits and ROI should users consider in reviews?

Reduced Incident Response Time: Quick alerts and escalations minimize downtime and disruptions.
Increased Efficiency: Automation and integration reduce manual workload and streamline processes.
Enhanced Coordination: Features like deduplication and engagement tools improve collaboration.
Flexibility and Scalability: API connectivity and customizable options support diverse requirements.
Improved Resource Allocation: Efficient scheduling and real-time alerts optimize team efforts.

In IT, Everbridge IT Alerting optimizes on-call management and email integration for critical alerts, benefiting global security operations centers by enhancing threat tracking and emergency responses. IT teams use it for managing support tickets, incident escalations, and proactive outage notifications, with on-call schedules guided by its calendar features.

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xMatters provides robust automated notifications and incident management, enhancing alerting and critical IT incident handling with seamless integrations, ensuring timely communications.

xMatters is designed for efficient incident management and streamlined IT alerting. It offers flexibility through integrations with ServiceNow, Slack, and others, enhancing communication and workflow management during critical events. Users highlight the SaaS model, customizable on-call scheduling, and effective communication tools. These features reduce incident response times, enhance message delivery, and support team collaboration across platforms.

What features make xMatters stand out?

REST API Automation: Facilitates seamless integration and automation.
Intuitive UI: Simplifies the user experience for managing workflows.
Workflow Builder: Enhances customization for incident processes.
Integration Flexibility: Supports various tools like ServiceNow and Slack.
Customizable Scheduling: Offers tailored on-call schedules and escalation paths.
Automated Notifications: Streamlines incident response times.
Robust Logging: Ensures reliability in tracking system activities.
Device Management: Offers comprehensive control over notification devices.
Self-Service Capabilities: Empowers users in managing their alerts and settings.
Conference Bridging: Facilitates communication during incident resolution.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Operational Efficiency: Enhanced by seamless integrations.
Improved Incident Response: Driven by automated notification and escalation pathways.
User Empowerment: Through self-service and device management features.
Accessibility: Enabled by a SaaS-based infrastructure.
Collaboration: Boosted through messaging and conference features.

xMatters supports industries in managing IT incidents and emergency notifications. Teams prioritize alerts, maintain on-call schedules, and automate response workflows, particularly integrating with tools like ServiceNow for critical event handling. Its application in infrastructure monitoring and proactive engagement is notable across sectors.

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Sample Customers

Choice Hotels, Alexion, Navy Federal Credit Union, EastWest Bank, IBM, Core Logic, Paypal, Charter Communications, Lowes, Express Scripts, Finastra, Worldpay

Over 2.7 million users trust xMatters daily at successful startups and global giants including athenahealth, BMC Software, Box, Credit Suisse, Danske Bank, Experian, NVIDIA, ViaSat and Vodafone. xMatters is headquartered in San Ramon, California and has offices worldwide. Visit our website to see how business like yours found solutions with xMatters.

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