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OrgOrg vs PagerDuty · Incident response and on-call management platform
Free for teams of up to 5. Every app, no feature gates, no credit card. Past 5 people, Pro is $10 per member per month.
PagerDuty is the incident response platform: on-call schedules, escalation policies, event intelligence, and hundreds of integrations, priced per user. OrgOrg's On-Call app covers schedules, escalation, and text and voice paging inside a flat-priced suite. This page lays out the honest tradeoffs.
When OrgOrg is the right pick
Teams that need a reliable rotation, escalation, and a pager that rings, without a platform bill. OrgOrg is the right pick when on-call is one of several internal tools you need, when the people directory and org chart should feed the schedule, and when a flat suite price beats per-user seats.
When PagerDuty is the right pick
Operations teams that run incidents at scale and want event deduplication, noise reduction, automation, and a marketplace of monitoring integrations. PagerDuty is the safe pick when incident response is a core discipline, when compliance needs a mature vendor, and when the per-user price is not the deciding factor.
Where OrgOrg wins
- Rotations with primary and secondary responders, overrides, and shift swaps.
- Escalation levels that page the next person after a set wait.
- Text and voice pages through Twilio, plus Slack.
- The people directory and org chart live in the same app, so the schedule knows who reports to whom.
- One of 20+ apps for one flat price, with a status page in the same suite.
Where PagerDuty wins
- Event intelligence: deduplication, grouping, and noise reduction.
- Hundreds of integrations with monitoring and ticketing tools.
- Runbook automation and incident workflows.
- Postmortems, analytics, and service-level reporting.
- A mature enterprise footprint with compliance certifications.
Feature comparison
4 of 12 rows link to PagerDuty's own pricing or documentation, each read on or after 2026-09-22. The rest are marked unverified: we could not find the claim stated on their site.
| Feature | OrgOrg | PagerDuty |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Every app, up to 5 people | Free: up to 5 users, 1 schedule, 1 escalation policySource, checked 2026-09-22 |
| On-call schedules and rotations | yes | yesSource, checked 2026-09-22 |
| Primary and secondary responders | yes | yesUnverified |
| Escalation policies | yes | yesSource, checked 2026-09-22 |
| Overrides and shift swaps | yes | yesUnverified |
| SMS and voice paging | yes | yesSource, checked 2026-09-22 |
| Slack notifications | yes | yesUnverified |
| Event deduplication and noise reduction | no | yesUnverified |
| Monitoring tool integrations | partial | yesUnverified |
| Runbook automation | no | yesUnverified |
| Public status page in the same suite | yes | partialUnverified |
| Bundled with profiles, org chart, go links, feedback… | yes | noUnverified |
- Free plan: The free plan also carries 100 international phone or SMS notifications a month. Professional is $21 and Business is $41 per user a month on yearly billing.
- Monitoring tool integrations: PagerDuty has a marketplace of hundreds. OrgOrg takes pages by API and from Google Cloud Monitoring.
- Public status page in the same suite: PagerDuty sells status pages as an add-on. OrgOrg's Status app is included.
OrgOrg pricing
Included in the flat-priced suite. Free for teams of up to five, then $10 per member per month.
PagerDuty pricing
Per-user pricing. A free tier covers a small team, and the Professional plan was $21 per user per month at review time.