PagerDuty vs. incident.io

Stop reacting. Start leading with end-to-end incident management.

incident.io helps you react to incidents. PagerDuty prevents them before they start. That's the difference between a point solution and an enterprise platform.

The PagerDuty Advantage

Predict, prioritize, and resolve incidents faster with intelligence that transforms reactive chaos into proactive precision.

Automate incident management with a full suite of AI agents that help your teams respond faster using fewer resources for greater efficiency.

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Why choose PagerDuty over incident.io

incident.io coordinates your team's response during active outages. PagerDuty covers the full incident lifecycle, from intelligent prevention and noise reduction to autonomous remediation at enterprise scale.

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Proactive auto-remediation

AI-driven run book automation executes automated fixes (e.g., clearing a cache, restarting a service) based on the event pattern, resolving issues at machine speed.

Limited to coordination

While strong at coordinating the incident response, it lacks deep, platform-level features for prevention (like AIOps and automation) and long-term resilience.

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Multi-channel approach

Offers a full suite of reliable, persistent notification methods (phone, SMS, push, email, Microsoft Teams, Slack) and ecosystem breadth crucial for major incidents where chat may be unreliable.

Built for a single channel

Incidents impacting chat will compromise the primary notification and coordination system, threatening core incident response capabilities.

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Industry-proven reliability

Delivers enterprise-grade security, reliability, and compliance with FedRAMP Low, 99.9% web availability SLAs trusted by Fortune 500 and heavily regulated organizations.

Not enterprise-grade

With no public SLAs for uptime and notification delivery, it may not meet the strict, multi-layered security, audit, and availability standards that large, highly regulated enterprises require.

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Integrated AI that prevents

With 15+ years of operational intelligence from billions of incidents, our AI uses ML, generative AI, and agent AI across the full incident lifecycle, predicting issues, accelerating response, and capturing insights that strengthen resilience

AI that reacts

Useful in the moment but limited over time. The SRE agent suits PRs, not infra, network, or vendor faults. It speeds triage when alarms fire but doesn't evolve detection, routing, or remediation. Faster firefighting, same failure modes—no systematic incident reduction.

2,100,000,000+

incidents handled annually

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700+

Integrations

70%

of Fortune 100 are customers

99.9%

Web availability SLAs

Zero

Scheduled downtime

249%

ROI (source)

Go farther at every phase: PagerDuty Incident lifecycle advantages

From detection to response to learning, PagerDuty is built for action while incident.io is built for coordination.

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Built for every team

PagerDuty is the central nervous system for operations, delivering value that goes beyond a single team or user, benefiting ITOps, developers, and business leaders alike.

Own what you code

Connect code ownership to incident response so developers truly own what they build. Reduce alert noise, automate toil, and scale operations with PagerDuty.

Real customer stories, real results

Don't take our word for it, hear from the teams using PagerDuty.

The ability to reduce the noise and clear out alerts within the platform really frees up a lot of time for people on our SRE team to focus on higher-impact tasks.

Luke Rotta Manager, SRE and Observability

Leveraging PagerDuty's Global Event Orchestration has been critical to ensure that our event routing processes are efficient and scalable to optimize IT operations and spend.

Brian Long Observability Engineer

Riskified has been able to scale noise reduction, especially from non-production environments, saving our team valuable time to spend time innovating on what's next.

Kiril Yurovnik Technical Lead

PagerDuty helps us know about issues before customers do.

Jason Riggins AVP Enterprise IT Ops

With PagerDuty, when a service has an issue, we know exactly who's expected to resolve it and where that communication is happening. It's allowed us to really scale the business.

Josh Engels Director, Incident and Problem Management

How we outperform incident.io at every turn

A side-by-side look at how we stack up against incident.io—and where we pull ahead.

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PagerDuty advantage

Advanced Noise Reduction

Advanced AI-powered Triage and Root Cause Analysis Capabilities

3rd party AI Data Partnerships

Live Incident Visibility

Event-driven Automation

Post-incident Analysis: Contextual Learning System

Post-incident Analysis: Collaborative Timeline Documentation

Learning Management

Native Interface Integration

Advanced ServiceNow Integration

Advanced Jira Integration

Native Interface Integration with Customer Service Applications

The industry standard

Basic On-Call Management: Scheduling and Escalation Policies

Chat-based Incident Management

Basic Noise Reduction

Basic AI-powered Triage and Root Cause Analysis Capabilities

AI-powered Transcription

Basic Post-Incident Documentation

Native Interface Integration with Jira

Bidirectional Sync with ServiceNow

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FAQ Got questions? We've got answers.

We rely on Slack. Does PagerDuty have the in-chat functionality we need to run an entire incident, or will we have to switch tabs?

PagerDuty has been around for a while. Have you innovated the core alerting and on-call product or only focused on adding on?

Isn't PagerDuty way more costly than incident.io?

How difficult is it to migrate my teams and data from incident.io to PagerDuty?