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OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

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

Categories and Ranking

OnSolve Platform for Critic...
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
19th
Ranking in Critical Event Management (CEM)
7th
Average Rating
6.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Mass Notification Software (2nd)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
1st
Ranking in Critical Event Management (CEM)
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
84
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (5th), AIOps (5th), Autonomous Operational Resilience (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management is 1.8%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 9.7%, down from 19.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud9.7%
OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management1.8%
Other88.5%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user826692 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Continuity Specialist at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Allows for a systematic and uniform method of alerting personnel in every location, but the user interface is too complicated
Emergency alerting for a global company in 14 countries It allows for a systematic and uniform method of alerting personnel in every location. It has the same general functions as most emergency alerting systems. The placeholder dropdowns for message templates are useful. The user interface is…
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

"It allows for a systematic and uniform method of alerting personnel in every location.​"
"The placeholder dropdowns for message templates are useful.​"
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud has been reliable as it has never gone down in my experience; I have never seen it fail."
"PagerDuty has replaced that ability to contact somebody in case of emergency without fail."
"Just the ability to be able to respond quicker to the issues that are coming up gives the company a better mean times resolution resolution, which is going to improve upon the return on investment for what we spend on PagerDuty."
"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."
"PagerDuty is of central importance to the continued smooth function of my company and its IT-related infrastructure and applications."
"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."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud handles this process perfectly, and we do not miss any alerts because of this system."
"The best thing that we've had is that we get alerted before things happen rather than after the customer's having a problem or notices the problem."
 

Cons

"Conference calling requires a complicated syntax formula.​"
"The user interface is too complicated and aspects that should be offered, such as email subject line editing, are not."
"There is room for improvement with the time schedule. The way the schedule currently works is you assign all the team members in one schedule and it automatically spreads them around throughout the schedule... It would be better to be able to edit the schedule and place my team members where I want, or at least to have that option in addition to the automatic process."
"Everything is fine now with PagerDuty Operations Cloud, but one thing that they can do to improve is bring more integrations."
"Our developers noted that integrating incident bots or chatbots created with AI tools occasionally presents challenges with PagerDuty Operations Cloud."
"There are a couple of areas where PagerDuty Operations Cloud can be improved, such as enhancing Event Intelligence and alert grouping features and simplifying the initial configuration of escalation policies."
"I would suggest that the calling service could be adjusted since if a system goes down, the user receives continuous calls, which can be overwhelming."
"This solution works best in conjunction with a proper logging system, which can be an additional cost to organizations."
"PagerDuty should be integrated with other tools, so it can import the IT roster automatically. Our other rules continue to work once they're configured, but the roster must be added manually."
"I have observed that MTTR is very slow, and wrong escalation sometimes routes alerts to the wrong team rather than the proper team."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"There is a license needed to use PagerDuty."
"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."
"PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Healthcare Company
11%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Performing Arts
14%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Educational Organization
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business27
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise63
 

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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?
Currently, improvements for PagerDuty Operations Cloud could be made. It mainly acts as a monitoring alert tool. We need to prioritize tickets according to P1, P2, P3, and perhaps create a dashboar...
What is your primary use case for PagerDuty?
PagerDuty Operations Cloud serves as an alerting tool for our organization. Whenever applications or any protection systems are down, we get notified via email and mobile. My current role in PagerD...
 

Also Known As

Send Word Now, OnSolve MIR3, OnSolve CodeRED, OnSolve SmartNotice, OnSolve TelAlert
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