No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud vs incident.io comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 11, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

incident.io
Ranking in Critical Event Management (CEM)
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Ranking in Critical Event Management (CEM)
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
92
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (5th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), AIOps (5th), Autonomous Operational Resilience (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Critical Event Management (CEM) category, the mindshare of incident.io is 4.4%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 5.0%, down from 8.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Critical Event Management (CEM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud5.0%
incident.io4.4%
Other90.6%
Critical Event Management (CEM)
 

Featured Reviews

Hardik Murdia - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at CloudBolt Software
Automated incident workflows have strengthened on-call ownership but still need broader capabilities
I would like to see incident.io improved in terms of maturity, as it is not a complete solution at the moment. It narrowly focuses solely on incident management and lacks the breadth of a platform such as PagerDuty, which has a high service catalog encompassing everything from asset management to change management. incident.io is not there yet. It's not so much of a feature request; it's about the niche they're working on. For it to develop further for enterprise-level customers, it needs to transition into more of a platform than just a solution. When it comes to pricing, I have seen a great ROI with incident.io after switching from PagerDuty. However, I must clarify that those ROIs were also met with PagerDuty, meaning it isn't extensive that we are observing. The MTTR trends are something that is sadly missing in incident.io, which we had with PagerDuty. Cost estimations are also lacking. If an incident occurs, for example, seeing high cardinality metrics in production leading to a jump in billing, those estimations can't be done in incident.io while they could be done in PagerDuty. Thus, it feels more of a downgrade for us, but again, every choice has its pros and cons. incident.io is cheaper, and we needed a more economical solution, as simple as that.
Daksh Yamal - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Infosys
Centralized incident response has cut noise, improved morale, and protects revenue every day
PagerDuty Operations Cloud offers robust features including centralized alerting and incident response, on-call scheduling and escalation, automated remediation and runbooks, stakeholder communication during major incidents, and automation capability. Everything has been working exceptionally well with PagerDuty Operations Cloud. The features have been excellent. It is a spanning tool that has enabled us to operationalize reliability. Since rolling it out three years ago, we have cut MTTR by 35% and reduced on-call noise by 70% through AIOps correlation. For us, the main value of PagerDuty Operations Cloud lies less in paging and more in coordination, automation, and reducing the operational burden on engineers. Reducing the operational burden has improved morale among our engineers. They have been able to focus on other projects and tasks since they have saved considerable time, and consequently productivity in the organization has greatly improved. We have also seen faster incident response, lower MTTR, reduced alert noise, and decreased on-call burnout. Additionally, automation has reduced manual toil, with approximately 25 of our P2 incidents now being resolved or partially resolved by automation before an engineer touches them.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Having an automated workflow feature in incident.io has helped me reduce human error significantly."
"incident.io has positively impacted my organization by helping with incident resolution and reducing time in incident management."
"incident.io made things easy for us as we do not need to sit in front of the system twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week to check if our application is up or if something is going wrong, saving a considerable amount of time for the DevOps engineers."
"The most valuable feature is the phone app that allows us to send notifications without the additional fees when sending by SMS or phone calls."
"I see major benefits from using PagerDuty Operations Cloud because it really helps to engage an on-call engineer."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the flexibility of the schedule. The mobile app is quite also good for what we do: for receiving alerts, acknowledging, assigning, adding new responders. It has rich features for our needs."
"It is one of the most critical things you can do in your infrastructure, and it is a no-brainer, just do it."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud handles this process perfectly, and we do not miss any alerts because of this system."
"PagerDuty has replaced that ability to contact somebody in case of emergency without fail."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud has positively impacted our organization by accelerating incident response and reducing MTTR by up to 27%, and we are also integrating AI and ML into PagerDuty Operations Cloud."
"The measurable benefits from PagerDuty Operations Cloud are that it has made our work easier, where the alerts will be synced and then directly create an alert to the SMEs, and instead of doing it manually, if it is automated in such a way that an alert gets triggered and routed directly to the SME, then that is a great benefit."
 

Cons

"Thus, it feels more of a downgrade for us, but again, every choice has its pros and cons."
"The AI features are quite expensive pricing-wise, and the pricing should be reduced."
"I would rate PagerDuty Operations Cloud as eight out of ten because the cons include a complex configuration process and high costs for each add-on that I try to obtain, making subscriptions costly, along with limited customization in certain incident workflows."
"One area where I believe improvement can be made is reporting and dashboard customization to make it more user-friendly."
"The biggest area for improvement with PagerDuty is noise suppression."
"One suggestion for improving PagerDuty Operations Cloud is to provide more insights about incidents, such as root cause analysis or additional information, which could assist SRE teams in reducing remediation time and incident detection before jumping on a call."
"Sometimes it hangs and occasionally I am unable to open PagerDuty Operations Cloud, which occurs due to an outage or similar issues."
"I have faced outages and latency in PagerDuty Operations Cloud, including notification delays, web dashboard issues, and majorly API integration failures, along with mobile notification problems such as latency and missed pushes, especially affecting specific regional users."
"While PagerDuty has comment functionality, a chat option would be a potential addition."
"I would like to see more content in the notification messages; although, that might be a configuration on our end."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"If you add more people, then you have to pay more, which is always a thing with the SaaS solutions."
"The cost is quite high. But if you want to get a full-featured application and you have a big team..."
"The cost is based on the package you select."
"They're very good in pricing compared to the competitors in the area. I would rate them a five out of five in terms of pricing."
"The solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."
"There is a license needed to use PagerDuty."
"If we wanted phone calls or additional SMSs, we would have to pitch up for those. They give us so many per month per user, then we have to pay extra if it goes over that."
"PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Critical Event Management (CEM) solutions are best for your needs.
899,917 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Performing Arts
13%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Educational Organization
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise70
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for incident.io?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was great. The team was helpful in setting up everything. Initially, I faced some issues with integration and permissions, but those were resol...
What needs improvement with incident.io?
I do not think any improvement is required. incident.io is a good application.
What is your primary use case for incident.io?
I was part of the DevOps engineer team where incident.io was configured to send alerts into Slack channels, such as our war room channel. For any incident, including production issues or P1 or P2 t...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
I would say the pricing is quite mid-range, but the setup cost and licensing can sometimes be a little challenging.
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
The noise aspect of PagerDuty Operations Cloud could be better. What happens is if there is some sort of an issue occurring, it keeps on repeating and calling again and again. Once the alert is ack...
What is your primary use case for PagerDuty?
The main purpose of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is to receive alarms for real incident production critical issues. Whenever an incident happens, we get an alarm call or a phone call on our phone or ...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Information Not Available
40% of the Fortune 100 TrustPagerDuty. Customers include: Slack, Intuit, Zendesk, Panasonic, Pinterest, Airbnb, eHarmony, McKesson, Comcast
Find out what your peers are saying about PagerDuty Operations Cloud vs. incident.io and other solutions. Updated: May 2026.
899,917 professionals have used our research since 2012.