OpsPing wins on price (nothing at $21–$41/responder is close to $8–$15), on mobile delivery — iOS Critical Alerts and Android alarms that break through Do Not Disturb are core, not add-ons — and on private deployment. PagerDuty wins on ecosystem depth (750+ integrations, Incident Workflows, AIOps, Process Automation), enterprise compliance (FedRAMP), and analytics suites. If you mainly need reliable paging, schedules, escalations, and incident response, the price gap is hard to justify. If your org runs on PD's automation stack, switching costs more than it saves.
Side by side
| OpsPing | PagerDuty | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Up to 5 responders, unlimited push | Up to 5 users, limited to 1 schedule / 1 escalation policy |
| Entry paid tier | $8/responder/month (Team) | $21/user/month annual (Professional) |
| Mid tier | $15/responder/month (Business) | $41/user/month annual (Business) |
| Push notifications | Free and unlimited on every plan | Unlimited, but advanced event intelligence is a paid add-on |
| Opsgenie alert API compatibility | Yes — GenieKey scheme + documented v2 subset | No |
| iOS Critical Alerts / Android DND bypass | Yes, built in with per-severity sounds | Supported (high-priority push), app-side |
| Status pages | Included (public, secret-link, login-gated) | Separate add-on (Event Management/status via integrations) |
| Slack | Two-way: ack/snooze/resolve from cards, slash commands, incident channels | Deep two-way integration |
| Private / self-hosted deployment | Private single-tenant deployments available | No |
| Integrations catalog | Focused set + generic webhooks + email-to-alert | 750+ |
| AIOps / event orchestration | Alert policies (suppress/delay/auto-ack/close/tag) with dry-run | Event Orchestration + AIOps (paid add-ons) |
| Postmortems | Auto-generated from audit trail, MD/PDF export | Available on upper tiers |
PagerDuty list prices checked October 16, 2026 (pagerduty.com/pricing); AIOps and Advance AI are priced as separate add-ons.
What moves over cleanly
Your monitoring tools keep firing exactly as they do today: OpsPing accepts the Opsgenie v2 alert API shape (GenieKey header) and ships native mappers for Datadog, Alertmanager, Grafana, CloudWatch/SNS, and email-to-alert. Schedules, rotations, PTO, escalation chains, and heartbeats import from Opsgenie; PagerDuty configurations are rebuilt through the API or import tooling. The Opsgenie migration guide covers the mapping in detail.
Choose PagerDuty if…
- You depend on Incident Workflows, Runbook Automation, or AIOps event intelligence day-to-day.
- Procurement requires FedRAMP or a specific enterprise compliance attestation.
- You need the 750+ integration catalog more than you need a lower bill.
Choose OpsPing if…
- Paging reliability per dollar is the goal — $8–$15/responder vs $21–$41.
- Mobile wake-up reliability (critical alerts, DND bypass) is your top requirement.
- You want status pages, postmortems, and Slack actions included rather than add-on priced.
- You need a private single-tenant deployment option.
FAQ
Is OpsPing missing anything PagerDuty has?
Yes, deliberately or not: no AIOps event correlation, no runbook/process automation engine, no FedRAMP attestation, and a much smaller integration catalog (generic webhooks plus focused mappers cover most stacks, but not all). OpsPing does not offer SMS for new channel setups — delivery is push first, voice second, email third.
Does PagerDuty charge for push notifications?
Push notification volume is not separately metered on PagerDuty plans, but the intelligence layers around events (Event Orchestration transforms, AIOps) sit on higher tiers or paid add-ons. OpsPing includes its alert policy engine (suppress, delay, auto-ack, auto-close, tag) on all plans with a whole-chain dry-run.
How long does a PagerDuty to OpsPing migration take?
Small teams report an afternoon: change integration endpoints (Opsgenie-compatible API or native mappers), rebuild schedules and escalations (or import from Opsgenie), install the mobile app, and verify with a test alert before cutover.
Try it before you decide
OpsPing is free for up to 5 responders with unlimited push — run it in parallel with PagerDuty for a rotation and compare.