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PagerDuty vs Opsgenie in 2026: A Brutally Honest Comparison
PagerDuty and Opsgenie dominate the on-call market — but at $30–50 per user, the bill adds up fast. Here's a no-fluff breakdown of how they actually compare in 2026, and whether either is still worth it.
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June 2, 2026 · 6 min read
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Every incident management vendor has bolted 'AI' onto their product. Most of it is an auto-summary button and a chatbot. Here's what AI SRE tools actually do in 2026 — and how to tell the real ones from the marketing.
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Grafana OnCall got archived. PagerDuty costs a fortune. And every AI-powered incident tool is just a chatbot bolted onto a system designed for humans. We decided to start from scratch.
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