Quietbeat vs PagerDuty: the PagerDuty alternative

Quietbeat watches your sites, APIs and scheduled jobs itself and pages from the same incident, with on-call and escalation in the plan and one flat price with no seat charge. Below, Quietbeat's plans are set beside PagerDuty's, with every figure about PagerDuty sourced and dated.

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Why teams choose Quietbeat over PagerDuty

Uptime checks and paging in one product. Quietbeat runs the HTTP, TCP and DNS checks itself and opens the incident that pages your team, so there is no separate monitor to wire to a pager. PagerDuty: Not an uptime checker; it receives events from the monitors you already run. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Heartbeats for scheduled jobs. A start ping opens a run, a fail ping carries the job's exit code, and the output you send travels with the beat. PagerDuty: No heartbeat or cron monitoring. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
One flat price with no seat charges. Team is $19 a month billed monthly, or $190 a year, for 200 monitors and 5 pageable people, with unlimited teammates. PagerDuty: Professional is $21 per user a month billed annually, which is $105 for 5 people. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
A status page on every plan. Every plan has status pages with badges, the free one included; from Solo each can sit on your own domain. PagerDuty: No status pages on the free plan. (source, 16 Oct 2026)

Side by side.

Quietbeat's column from the plan table the product enforces. PagerDuty's column as of 2026-10-16, each cell from the source it links.

	Quietbeat	PagerDuty
Free plan	Hobby: 10 monitors every 60 s, 90 days of history, email alerts, 1 pageable person, a status page, heartbeats, the API and the MCP server.	Free: 5 users, 1 on-call schedule, 1 escalation policy, 100 SMS or phone notifications a month; no status pages; API included. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Paid plan for a small team	Team: $19/mo or $190/yr, flat. 200 monitors every 30 s, 5 pageable people, unlimited teammates, 1 year of history.	Professional: $21 per user a month billed annually, $25 monthly. Per user: a five-person team is five seats. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Fastest check	30 s from Team; 60 s on Hobby and Solo.	Not applicable: PagerDuty does not check uptime. It receives events from monitors. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
On-call and escalation	Included from Solo, with 1 schedule on Solo and unlimited from Team: rotations that email the person on call, overrides, and escalation ladders whose pages to chat channels and webhooks repeat up to 20 rounds until acknowledged, with nothing billed per message. No per-seat price.	Included on every plan; the free plan has 1 schedule and 1 escalation policy. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Status pages	Included on every plan, with badges; your own domain from Solo.	None on the free plan. On Professional the pricing page lists them both as included with 250 subscribers and as an add-on; included on the platform tiers. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Heartbeat and cron monitoring	Included on every plan: GET or POST /b/:token, with /start and /fail, a grace period, and a diagnostic payload stored with the beat.	None: PagerDuty is not an uptime or cron monitor. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
API and MCP	REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec and a first-party MCP server, read and write, on every plan including Hobby. One token serves both.	REST API on every plan, the free one included. (source, 16 Oct 2026)

Prices are each vendor's own published figures on the date shown; a per-user price is multiplied by the people on your rota, and Quietbeat's is not. Where PagerDuty's page could not be read with confidence, or a figure could not be reproduced, the cell says so or says less.

How Quietbeat is shaped.

What scales is how many people a page can reach, not how many teammates you invite: teammates are unlimited from Team, and a page reaches 5 people on Team and 40 on Scale.
Monitoring and paging share one incident: the alert carries what the checker saw, and the same incident drives the status page, the escalation ladder and the acknowledgement.
Open to code and to agents on every plan, Hobby included: a REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, a write-capable MCP server, and a sync manifest for monitoring as code.
Hosted in Germany, in the EU, by an EU company.

Moving over from PagerDuty to Quietbeat.

There is no PagerDuty importer. Quietbeat does not read PagerDuty accounts, and this page does not pretend otherwise.

Create a schedule at /oncall, invite your teammates at /team, let each set how they want to be reached at /oncall/me, and build the escalation ladder at /escalation.
You can also keep PagerDuty and point Quietbeat at it: PagerDuty is one of Quietbeat's alert channels.

Questions people ask.

Why switch from PagerDuty to Quietbeat?

Uptime checks and paging in one product; heartbeats for scheduled jobs; one flat price with no seat charges; and a status page on every plan.

Is Quietbeat a free PagerDuty alternative?

Quietbeat's free plan needs no card. Hobby: 10 monitors every 60 s, 90 days of history, email alerts, 1 pageable person, a status page, heartbeats, the API and the MCP server. On PagerDuty's side, Free: 5 users, 1 on-call schedule, 1 escalation policy, 100 SMS or phone notifications a month; no status pages; API included.

Is Quietbeat cheaper than PagerDuty Professional for a 5-person rota?

Yes, on list price. Quietbeat Team is $19 a month billed monthly, flat, for 5 pageable people, with unlimited teammates and the uptime checks included. PagerDuty Professional is $21 per user a month billed annually, which is $105 for 5 people, and PagerDuty does not run uptime checks.

Does Quietbeat include on-call, and does PagerDuty?

Quietbeat: Included from Solo, with 1 schedule on Solo and unlimited from Team: rotations that email the person on call, overrides, and escalation ladders whose pages to chat channels and webhooks repeat up to 20 rounds until acknowledged, with nothing billed per message. No per-seat price. PagerDuty: Included on every plan; the free plan has 1 schedule and 1 escalation policy.

Can I import my PagerDuty monitors into Quietbeat?

Not automatically: Quietbeat has no PagerDuty importer. Create a schedule at /oncall, invite your teammates at /team, let each set how they want to be reached at /oncall/me, and build the escalation ladder at /escalation. You can also keep PagerDuty and point Quietbeat at it: PagerDuty is one of Quietbeat's alert channels.

Figures about PagerDuty in these answers are the ones above, with their sources and dates.

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