PagerDuty free tier includes Incident management — 5 users, 1 on-call schedule, 1 escalation policy, 100 intl phone/SMS… Verified September 2026. Compare with 3 alternatives in Monitoring.
Subtypes in Monitoring: on_call_response — routes a firing alert to a named human by schedule and escalation policy. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.pagerduty.com/pricing/, where it says: “Escalation policies connect services to individual users and/or schedules to ensure the right people are notified at the right time.” How we use this.
PagerDuty's free tier offers Incident management — 5 users, 1 on-call schedule, 1 escalation policy, 100 intl phone/SMS notifications/month, 700+… It's stable — the change we last considered recording restated the terms we already publish. Best for monitoring workloads.
Incident management — 5 users, 1 on-call schedule, 1 escalation policy, 100 intl phone/SMS notifications/month, 700+ integrations, API access
We read that on 2026-11-08 from https://www.pagerduty.com/pricing/, and our check recorded: the page names PagerDuty as "pagerduty" and states "$0".
Free A single team trying on-call and incident response. $0 per year Start Free Trial Includes: 5 users 1 on-call schedule, 1 escalation policy Basic chat experience, limited email, push, SMS & phone notifications
No recorded pricing changes for PagerDuty. This is a good sign — stable pricing.
How PagerDuty compares against every one of the 3 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| PagerDuty | Free | stable |
| BetterStack | Free 10 uptime monitors, 3 GB logs (3-day retention), 100K exceptions/mo, 5K session replays, 30 GB metrics, 1 status page, 1 responder |
stable |
| incident.io | Basic Incident management platform — free Basic plan: up to 5 users, Slack or Microsoft Teams native incident response, single-team on-call scheduling, 1 status page, essential incident automation |
stable |
| pagertree.com | Free Simple interface for alerting and on-call management. Free up to 5 users. |
unrated |
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We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
curl https://agentdeals.dev/api/changes?vendor=PagerDuty
curl https://agentdeals.dev/pricing-changes/feed.xml?vendor=PagerDuty