Looking for a PagerDuty alternative?
PagerDuty is the enterprise standard for incident management and on-call scheduling. But at $21/user/month, it's way too much for indie hackers and small teams. Chirp gives you incident management with built-in status pages and monitoring.
Chirp vs PagerDuty
Starting price
PagerDuty
$21/user/mo
Chirp
$9/mo (flat)
Free tier
PagerDuty
Yes - limited
Chirp
Yes - 3 monitors, 1 page
Status pages
PagerDuty
Add-on (extra cost)
Chirp
Built-in (3 Pro)
Uptime monitoring
PagerDuty
Yes
Chirp
Built-in
AI-powered updates
PagerDuty
Yes (PagerDuty Advance add-on)
Chirp
Yes
Incident management
PagerDuty
Core feature
Chirp
Built-in
On-call scheduling
PagerDuty
Yes
Chirp
Not yet
Flat pricing
PagerDuty
No - per user
Chirp
Yes - not per user
Best for
PagerDuty
Enterprise ops teams
Chirp
Indie hackers, small teams
Why teams switch to Chirp
- Flat pricing - Chirp is $9/mo total, not per user. PagerDuty gets expensive fast as your team grows.
- Status pages included - PagerDuty charges extra for status pages. Chirp includes them in every plan.
- AI-powered incident updates - auto-generated messages and post-mortems without the enterprise price tag.
- No enterprise complexity - set up in minutes, not weeks. Built for teams of 1-10, not 100+.
Where PagerDuty excels
We believe in being honest about our competitors.
- On-call scheduling - PagerDuty's rotation and escalation policies are industry-leading.
- Enterprise integrations - hundreds of integrations with enterprise tools (ServiceNow, Jira, etc.).
- Advanced incident workflows - automation, runbooks, and complex routing rules.
- Proven at scale - trusted by thousands of enterprise customers for mission-critical incidents.
Ready to try Chirp?
Free plan includes 1 status page, 3 components, and 3 monitors. No credit card required.
Get started freePrices as of February 2026. Verify on PagerDuty's site.