The PagerDuty alternative with monitoring included
On-call rotations, escalation paths and phone calls you acknowledge with a key press, plus the uptime checks and status pages around them. Priced per monitor, not per responder.
Which one fits you
PagerDuty: PagerDuty is an incident response and on-call platform for large engineering and operations teams, with event intelligence, automation and status pages. It takes alerts from monitoring tools and doesn't run uptime checks itself.
Choose Spectate when
- You want on-call for your whole team without per-user licences.
- You want uptime, DNS, mail and server monitoring in the same tool as on-call.
- You want status pages with subscribers and private pages included in the plan.
- You want a smaller tool your team can set up in an afternoon.
Choose PagerDuty when
- You need enterprise depth: event intelligence, AIOps, runbook automation and hundreds of integrations.
- You need SSO, a public API and a mature compliance programme.
- You have up to 5 users and need only basic on-call: PagerDuty's free plan covers that.
- You need live call routing for a support hotline.
Spectate vs PagerDuty, feature by feature
PagerDuty pricing: PagerDuty Incident Management has a free plan for 5 users. Professional is $25 per user a month ($21 billed yearly), with a public status page for 250 subscribers and other features as add-ons; the PD Reliability Platform starts at $2,800 a year (checked October 2026).
| Feature | Spectate | PagerDuty |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring | ||
| Built-in uptime monitoringPagerDuty receives events from monitoring tools. | Yes | No |
| Server monitoring agent | Yes | No |
| SSL certificate and domain expiry | Yes | No |
| Alerting and on-call | ||
| On-call schedules and escalation | Team and Business | Yes |
| Branches on severity, working hours and labels | Yes | Yes |
| SMS and phone calls | Included credits10, 50 or 200 a month per plan | Yes |
| Alerts from Grafana, Prometheus and Sentry | Yes | Yes |
| Event intelligence and automation | No | Paid add-on |
| Incidents | ||
| Incidents with roles and timeline | Yes | Yes |
| Postmortems | Yes | Professional and up |
| Slack channel per incident | Yes | Yes |
| Status pages | ||
| Public status pagesMore subscribers need PagerDuty's Status Pages add-on. | 1, 5 or unlimited | 250 subscribers on Professional |
| Private status pages | Team and Business | Paid add-on |
| Subscribers | 250, 2,500 or 25,000 | 250 on Professional |
| Pricing | ||
| Price for 50 monitors and 5 responders | €48 a monthTeam: 50 monitors is under the 80-monitor minimum, so 80 × €0.60 = €48 a month (€480 a year). Unlimited members, so 5 or 50 responders cost the same. | $125 a month, plus a monitoring toolProfessional: 5 × $25 = $125 a month; billed yearly 5 × $21 = $105. Uptime checks need a separate service. |
| Per-user pricing | No | Yes |
| Free plan | No | Up to 5 users |
| Billing currency | EUR | USD |
| Data and compliance | ||
| Headquarters | Netherlands | United States |
| Invoiced from the EU, in euros | Yes | No |
| SSO and public API | No | Yes |
Checked in Oct 2026 from PagerDuty's public pages (pagerduty.com/pricing/incident-management/). Prices change: if something here is out of date, tell us at hello@spectate.net and we'll fix it.
Moving from PagerDuty
Most teams run both side by side for a week. Email help@spectate.net if you'd like a hand.
- 01Start a 14-day trial; no card needed. It runs on Team, with on-call.
- 02Recreate your schedules and escalation paths. There is no importer; most teams need a few minutes per schedule, and help@spectate.net can help.
- 03Add uptime monitors, or point Grafana, Prometheus Alertmanager, Sentry or a webhook at a Spectate alert source.
- 04Have everyone add a phone number and connect Slack, then run both tools side by side for a week before switching off PagerDuty.
Spectate and PagerDuty
Is Spectate cheaper than PagerDuty?
For teams over a few people, yes. Five responders on PagerDuty Professional cost $125 a month, without uptime monitoring. Spectate Team is €48 a month for unlimited members and includes 80 monitors and 5 status pages.
Can Spectate replace PagerDuty for a large organisation?
Probably not yet. Spectate has no SSO, public API, event intelligence or runbook automation. It is built for small and mid-sized teams that want monitoring, on-call, incidents and status pages in one place.
Can I import my PagerDuty schedules?
There is no importer. Rotations, overrides and escalation paths take a few minutes each to recreate, and help@spectate.net can help.
How do phone alerts work on Spectate?
Spectate calls the person on call and they press 1 to acknowledge, which stops the escalation. An SMS costs 1 credit and a call 2; every plan includes credits each month, and packs of 100 cost €19.
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