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OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 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)
6th
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
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
60
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (5th), AIOps (6th), Autonomous Operational Resilience (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management is 1.8%, down from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 11.0%, down from 20.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud11.0%
OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management1.8%
Other87.2%
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…
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

"It allows for a systematic and uniform method of alerting personnel in every location.​"
"The placeholder dropdowns for message templates are useful.​"
"It allows for a systematic and uniform method of alerting personnel in every location."
"PagerDuty let us set up rosters based on our shifts, 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, and it makes it easy to access an agent via mobile phone."
"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."
"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."
"PagerDuty has allowed us to identify issues and incidents within the infrastructure that we wouldn't have noticed otherwise."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud changed the process and the flow in our team very smoothly."
"The SMS pages and the mobile application are pretty much the top two features."
"I see PagerDuty Operations Cloud as a very good incident management and on-call platform, mostly used by large-scale organizations because it comes with premium pricing, but it is very reliable with alerting and on-call scheduling, triggering incidents, escalation policies, rules, and runbooks."
"The alerts are immediate in this solution, which allows us to respond to errors quickly."
 

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."
"The user interface is too complicated and aspects that should be offered, such as email subject line editing, are not."
"More analytics can be brought into PagerDuty Operations Cloud; while I know there are some, they still seem basic to me, and having options for user-customized charts would be really helpful, especially in this GenAI world where prompts can yield valuable data."
"Even though PagerDuty Operations Cloud is a strong platform, many things can be improved."
"I would like to see more content in the notification messages; although, that might be a configuration on our end."
"One way PagerDuty Operations Cloud could improve is through the scheduling feature, which can be tricky, especially with complex schedules."
"PagerDuty could improve the event orchestration by enhancing features, such as easier condition setup inside the orchestration."
"Because of the way you have to structure the rosters, if an engineer has to go on leave, you can't just go in and reassign or take this person out of all of the different rosters that they're in."
"The solution does not code all alerts correctly so sometimes you get false positives or multiple alerts for the same issue."
"One suggestion for improving PagerDuty Operations Cloud is to provide more insights about incidents, such as root cause analysis or additional information, which could assist SRE teams in reducing remediation time and incident detection before jumping on a call."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There is a license needed to use PagerDuty."
"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 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."
"Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."
"The solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."
"The pricing may be about $1,000 per user."
"The price is very high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Healthcare Company
10%
Government
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Performing Arts
15%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Educational Organization
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise41
 

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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.
 

Also Known As

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