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Best PagerDuty alternatives (2026)
6 alternatives to PagerDuty in incident management, ranked by entry price. PagerDuty starts at $0/mo. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Free alternatives: FireHydrant, incident.io, Opsgenie (Atlassian).
- Closest by price: FireHydrant ($0/mo), incident.io ($0/mo), Opsgenie (Atlassian) ($0/mo).
PagerDuty alternatives compared
| # | Alternative | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FireHydrant | $0/mo | Yes | — | Engineering teams wanting a single platform from on-call through retrospective | firehydrant.com |
| 2 | incident.io | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Slack-first engineering teams wanting native chat-based incident response | incident.io |
| 3 | Opsgenie (Atlassian) | $0/mo | Yes | No | Atlassian-ecosystem shops already using Jira or Confluence | atlassian.com |
| 4 | Splunk On-Call STALE · 2026-09-02 | $10/user/mo | No | — | Teams deeply invested in the Splunk observability ecosystem | softwareadvice.com |
| 5 | Rootly | $20/user/mo | No | Yes | Startups and scaleups wanting HIPAA compliance with startup pricing | rootly.com |
| 6 | Squadcast STALE · 2026-06-14 | $20/user/mo | — | No | Cost-conscious teams replacing PagerDuty + FireHydrant with a single tool | solarwinds.com |
Data current through 2026-11-01. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 2 of 6 rows above are marked. Compare any two directly on the Incident Management index.