PagerDuty alternative: Uptimely vs PagerDuty
PagerDuty is the incident-response standard, and the first thing worth saying is what it does not do: it does not monitor anything. PagerDuty receives signals from the 750+ tools it integrates with and turns them into pages, schedules and escalations — so a PagerDuty subscription is always at least two line items, the pager and the monitoring that feeds it. Uptimely is the other shape: the checks, the incidents they declare and the on-call escalation that pages someone are one product on one plan.
Where PagerDuty is strong
PagerDuty's on-call machinery is far deeper than Uptimely's and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. Its paid tiers carry incident roles, custom fields, custom incident types, advanced workflows with conditionals and loops, custom roles, chat-native response in Slack and Teams, and an AIOps product beside them — a process and governance surface built for organisations with many teams and a formal incident practice, which Uptimely has not built and is not trying to. Its free plan is genuinely useful too: up to 5 users, one on-call schedule, one escalation policy, 750+ integrations and 100 international phone/SMS notifications a month.
Where Uptimely differs
Two things separate them at the invoice. PagerDuty prices per user — Professional is $25 per user per month, or $21 billed annually — so on its published rate ten responders is $250 a month billed monthly and $210 billed annually, before the monitoring that feeds it. Uptimely's Pro is a flat $29/month covering 25 members, unlimited monitors and unlimited status pages. And PagerDuty runs no checks at all: uptime monitoring comes from another tool, while Status Pages appears among PagerDuty’s separately purchased add-ons, or, here, things that arrive with the on-call escalation rather than beside it. On-call duty policies with escalation rules are on every Uptimely plan, Free included.
| Feature | Uptimely | PagerDuty |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Monitoring, incidents, on-call and status pages in one | Incident response; the signals come from the tools you connect |
| Uptime monitoring | Included — 1-minute checks on every plan | Not included — it receives alerts, it does not run checks |
| Pricing model | Flat per plan — 25 members on Pro | Professional is per user; AIOps, PagerDuty Advance, Runbook Automation, Status Pages and Live Call Routing are separate add-ons |
| Incident workflow | Incidents with states, timelines, notes and postmortems | Deeper — custom fields, custom incident types, conditional workflows |
| Telemetry / APM | OTLP logs, traces & metrics; Prometheus /metrics | — (an events and incident platform, not a telemetry backend) |
| Self-hosting | No (SaaS) | No (SaaS) |
PagerDuty's Free and Professional plans, per-user prices, limits and add-ons (AIOps, PagerDuty Advance, Runbook Automation, Status Pages and Live Call Routing) are quoted from https://www.pagerduty.com/pricing/, fetched 2026-10-22. The page also lists the PD Reliability Platform; the former Business price is not quoted as a current plan. PagerDuty receives monitoring alerts rather than running uptime checks. The ten-responder totals are our arithmetic on its published Professional per-user price. Uptimely figures reflect its current plans.
Pricing and plan limits (October 2026)
Compare every vendor’s uptime monitoring pricing. Each verified cell links to its source and check date.
| Vendor | Free tier | Entry paid plan (USD/month) | Minimum uptime check interval | Monitors included | Status pages | On-call and alerting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UptimelyHosted plans per project. Pro includes 25 members. Aggregate outbound check budgets: 10/minute on Free and 5000/minute on Pro. SMS/voice quotas are not published. | Yes — $0; 10 monitors, 1 status page, 3 membersSource · | Pro $29/month USD, billed monthlySource · | Free: 60 secondsSource · Paid: 60 secondsSource · | Free: 10Source · Paid: UnlimitedSource · | Free: 1; 1000 subscribers/pageSource · Paid: Unlimited; 25000 subscribers/pageSource · | Incidents, alerts & on-call on Free; Everything in Free on Pro. SMS/voice quotas not published.Source · |
| PagerDutyIncident response and alert routing. Uptime checks require another tool. Status Pages is also listed among separately purchased add-ons; confirm the required configuration. | Yes — up to 5 users, 1 schedule and 1 escalation policySource · | $25/user/month (Professional, billed monthly)Source · | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Free: — not published Paid: — not published | Free: Not includedSource · Paid: External status pages: 250 subscribers; page count not publishedSource · | Free: 100 SMS/phone notifications/month, 1 schedule, 1 escalation policy. Professional: SMS/phone, schedules and escalation included; 5 users per escalation level.Source · |
Uptimely's Free plan has 10 monitors, 1 status page and 1-minute checks, with no credit card. Pro comes with a 14-day free trial.
Start free →Does PagerDuty monitor my website?
No. PagerDuty is an incident-response platform: it ingests alerts from the 750+ tools it integrates with and turns them into pages, on-call schedules and escalations. Something else has to notice your site is down and tell it. That is why a PagerDuty setup is at least two subscriptions, and why comparing its per-user price with a monitoring product's plan price compares only half the bill.
Is Uptimely a PagerDuty replacement?
For a small team, often yes: Uptimely includes on-call duty policies with escalation rules on every plan, and the monitoring that triggers them, so one product covers what two otherwise would. For a large organisation with a formal incident practice, no — PagerDuty's incident roles, custom incident types, conditional workflow automation, custom roles and AIOps have no equivalent here, and we would rather say so than sell you a downgrade.
Which is cheaper, Uptimely or PagerDuty?
They are not priced the same way. PagerDuty charges per user — $25 per user per month on Professional, $21 per user per month billed annually — so cost grows with the size of the on-call rota, and the monitoring that feeds it is a separate bill. Uptimely's Pro is a flat $29/month for 25 members with unlimited monitors and unlimited status pages, and its Free plan includes on-call escalation. At PagerDuty's published Professional rate, ten responders is $250 a month billed monthly or $210 billed annually before any monitoring.
Can I use Uptimely with PagerDuty instead of replacing it?
There is no first-party PagerDuty integration in Uptimely today, and we are not going to imply otherwise. What Uptimely does have is signed outbound webhooks and a public /v1 REST API, which is the seam you would build that on. If a supported, out-of-the-box PagerDuty path is a requirement rather than a project, that is worth knowing before you switch.
Does Uptimely include a public status page like PagerDuty's?
Yes, and on every plan: one status page on Free and unlimited on Pro, each with subscribers and its own custom domain. On PagerDuty, status pages start on the Professional tier with 250 subscribers and are also listed among its separately priced add-ons.
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