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PagerDuty Operations Cloud vs incident.io comparison

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)
9th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Ranking in Critical Event Management (CEM)
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
61
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (5th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), AIOps (6th), Autonomous Operational Resilience (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Critical Event Management (CEM) category, the mindshare of incident.io is 4.4%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 5.3%, 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 Cloud5.3%
incident.io4.4%
Other90.3%
Critical Event Management (CEM)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2167305 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr cloud engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Automated incident alerts have protected SLAs and reduced constant monitoring for on-call teams
incident.io is very quick, as it rapidly creates a Jira ticket as soon as we receive alerts. It sends notifications on Slack and SMS messages to mobile numbers. If the person on call does not respond to a ticket within five minutes, incident.io will also make a call to their mobile. These features are outstanding, and incident.io is easily integrated with other software such as AWS SNS, Slack, and Teams, and can integrate with any other software. incident.io made things easy for us. 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. This has saved a considerable amount of time for the DevOps engineers. Whoever is on call can relax, and if an issue occurs, incident.io creates the ticket and sends an alert message. incident.io is a very useful tool for our organization. In the DevOps engineer team, we had around five team members, and each of us was on call once a week. If any issues occurred, incident.io would alert us. The main advantage is that we do not need to sit in front of the system twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, even though we are on call for that duration. If any issues occur in the production environment, incident.io sends us an alert, creates tickets, and calls us on our mobile. With incident.io, we saved our Service Level Agreements with the client to resolve issues. P1 tickets were solved within thirty minutes to one hour, and P2 tickets were typically solved within seven hours. This helped us maintain our SLA agreement with the client.
NS
Senior SRE at IBM
Automated incident workflows have transformed on-call operations and improved response times
Since I host our internal services, I want more customization relating to our specific use case. The needed improvements include the configuration process, as new team members face a steep learning curve to understand the platform. With many new members, they need training to set up runbook workflows, event orchestration, and manage complex on-call schedules across 23 services, making it a challenge for new users. Additionally, I feel the web interface requires improvements. 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. The primary reasons for rating it an eight include the complex configuration which makes it challenging for new users, as well as their difficulty in setting up advanced runbook workflows and managing complex on-call setups. The web user interface also requires improvement. Although I receive alerts via the mobile app, which is beneficial for handling schedule maintenance, the same features should be added to the web interface. Customization issues persist, such as the inability to clone entire schedules as part of the workflows, and I want to keep incidents open for a specified duration, neither of which I can currently customize. Thus, I raised a ticket with PagerDuty Operations Cloud to address these concerns. Furthermore, the cost is high, making it one of the more expensive incident management solutions.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Its alerting capabilities, simple user interface, stability and functionality is exactly what we need."
"It integrates with multiple applications and is highly customizable, with policies, escalation procedures, and an event routing tool that ensures contacting the right person."
"It is stable, it is rapidly growing, and all the features are being built in a stable way for the users to work with."
"It reduces the amount of white noise. If something comes through, then it will alert somebody. However, if it's a bit of white noise that comes through at night, then it gets dealt with the next day. Everything is visible to everybody. It's not just a single person getting an SMS, then going, "Oh, I'm not going to worry about that." The visibility to everybody on the team is one of the great things about it because it reduces the white noise."
"PagerDuty let us set up rosters based on our shifts. We could assign a hierarchy for how the calls should be escalated and the number of times the call will be transferred between people before it is answered. It makes it easy to access an agent via mobile phone."
"All of our on-call hand-offs are now fully automated with the scheduling system inside PagerDuty."
"PagerDuty is of central importance to the continued smooth function of my company and its IT-related infrastructure and applications."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud handles this process perfectly, and we do not miss any alerts because of this system."
 

Cons

"The AI features are quite expensive pricing-wise, and the pricing should be reduced."
"The On-Call Teams feature could be better in terms of levels of conditions related to which team or member should get the responsibility of handling a matter or incident."
"It would be nice if the app could somehow receive the notification of an incident and allow you to customize the warning method on the device end."
"We have seen some inconsistencies with receiving alerts on an iPhone versus an Android device from time to time."
"It is a very non-customizable product, so you cannot add things like root cause analysis or the classification of incidents based on the area where you are getting more incidents. For example, if you're getting a lot of database issues, that may be an are you want to probe."
"Some of the UX needs some help for better flow of actions - however I can understand the reasoning behind how some of the UI is laid and how you need to go an extra step to trigger actions."
"It cannot be integrated with our upgraded Jira system."
"If I can avoid the 2 AM phone calls that would be perfect but I know that's not possible."
"The solution's analytics are okay. I don't think the features, at this point, give you a lot of insights. We have actually been trying to get insights from it but it hasn't really given us a lot of extra points to explore. We were looking at the number of alerts to see where many of the alerts were coming from. We never managed to get many insights on this."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"The price is very high."
"The cost is quite high. But if you want to get a full-featured application and you have a big team..."
"The pricing may be about $1,000 per user."
"Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."
"There is a license needed to use PagerDuty."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Performing Arts
15%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Educational Organization
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

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Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise42
 

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?
The AI features are quite expensive pricing-wise, and the pricing should be reduced. Apart from pricing, there are no other improvements needed for incident.io.
What is your primary use case for incident.io?
My main use case for incident.io is incident management and conducting root cause analysis for all incidents reported in my organization. A specific example of how I use incident.io for management ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
The setup cost and pricing for PagerDuty Operations Cloud are very cost-effective, but I have a suggestion: if PagerDuty could provide a trial version for individual users, rather than just corpora...
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
I do not have anything that I dislike about PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Sometimes it hangs and occasionally I am unable to open PagerDuty Operations Cloud, which occurs due to an outage or similar ...
What is your primary use case for PagerDuty?
The major part of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is for communication and pinging people and engaging them and pulling them into the call.
 

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Sample Customers

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40% of the Fortune 100 TrustPagerDuty. Customers include: Slack, Intuit, Zendesk, Panasonic, Pinterest, Airbnb, eHarmony, McKesson, Comcast