Same alert. No 3am page. Same incident — fixed before your on-call engineer sees it.
PagerDuty routes alerts. OnCallReady resolves incidents. Different tools solving different problems at different price points.
| Feature | OnCallReady | PagerDuty Pro / Business |
|---|---|---|
| Core capabilities | ||
| Alert routing & escalation | ✓ | ✓ |
| On-call schedule management | — | ✓ |
| Autonomous runbook execution | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI-driven autonomy (included) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Autonomous remediation | ||
| Auto-resolve without human | ✓ | ✗ |
| Incident MTTR — disk full | 28 seconds | Routes to human |
| Incident MTTR — DB connection pool | 22 seconds | Routes to human |
| Incident MTTR — SSL expiry | 19 seconds | Routes to human |
| Incident MTTR — CPU spike | 41 seconds | Routes to human |
| % incidents resolved before page | Up to 94% | 0% |
| Pricing (30-person team) | ||
| Base tier | $299/mo flat | $630/mo ($21/user) |
| Professional tier | $299/mo flat | $870/mo ($29/user) |
| Business tier | $299/mo flat | $1,230/mo ($41/user) |
| AI / AIOps add-ons | Included | +$415–$1,114/mo |
| Scales with team size | Fixed cost | Per-user billing |
* PagerDuty pricing per user/month, annual billing, as published. AI add-ons (Advance, AIOps) not included in base plans.
Honest answer: PagerDuty is a mature, capable product for teams with complex routing requirements.
OnCallReady handles the incidents you already know how to fix — before they become pages.
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PagerDuty publishes per-seat pricing — but the actual bill grows with your team, not your incident volume. AI capabilities that OnCallReady includes are add-ons starting at $415/month extra.
You don't need to rip and replace. OnCallReady sits upstream of your existing PagerDuty workflow — handling what it can, passing the rest through as normal.
Point your existing monitoring at OnCallReady — Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, or PagerDuty itself. Takes under 5 minutes.
OnCallReady ships with pre-built runbooks for disk full, memory exhaustion, DB connections, SSL expiry, and 40+ more. Configure your specifics.
Start with your top 5 incident types. Run OnCallReady in parallel with PagerDuty. Grow coverage week by week. No big-bang cutover.
OnCallReady runbooks auto-resolve the most common on-call triggers in under a minute. PagerDuty routes every one to a human — regardless of how routine the fix is.
| Incident Type | OnCallReady MTTR | Success Rate | PagerDuty outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Disk Full | 28s avg | 98% success | 3am page — 45–90 min MTTR |
| Critical DB Connection Pool | 22s avg | 97% success | 3am page — 45–90 min MTTR |
| Medium SSL Expiry | 19s avg | 99% success | 3am page — cert gaps cause outages |
| Critical Memory Exhaustion | 34s avg | 96% success | 3am page — OOM kills services |
| Critical Service Restart | 17s avg | 99% success | 3am page — service stays down |
| High Queue Backlog | 31s avg | 95% success | 3am page — queues grow during alert |