PagerDuty is an alerting platform. LiveStatus is a status page, done right.
PagerDuty's status pages are an add-on to an enterprise alerting suite with opaque pricing and a sales-led onboarding. LiveStatus is status pages first — $0 to start, $19 flat for custom domain, live in under 2 minutes.
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Different jobs, different tools
PagerDuty is the industry standard for on-call rotations, escalation policies, and incident command. If your SRE team runs war rooms at 3am, PagerDuty is probably already in your stack — and for that use case, it's genuinely excellent.
But PagerDuty's public status page feature is a bolt-on to that enterprise alerting suite. Pricing isn't published, the cheapest alerting seat starts at $25/user/month, and public status pages sit on an additional tier that requires a sales call to quote. For a small team that just wants a branded status.yourapp.com page, it's massive overkill.
LiveStatus is the opposite shape: status pages first, lightweight alerting second. Self-serve signup. Free plan that actually works. $19/mo flat for your own domain. Keep PagerDuty for your on-call rotations and point its webhooks at LiveStatus to auto-post incidents — or use LiveStatus on its own if you don't need enterprise on-call yet.
Feature by feature
Side by side. Honest. No marketing fluff.
| Feature | LiveStatus | PagerDuty |
|---|---|---|
Starting price Public status pages are an additional PagerDuty tier | Free, then $19/mo flat | $25/user/mo (alerting only) |
Free plan PagerDuty has a limited free tier for alerting only, not public status pages | ||
Time to first live status page | Under 2 minutes, self-serve | Sales call, demo, procurement |
Custom domain | Starter ($19/mo) | Paid add-on, contact sales |
Custom CSS / deep branding | Pro ($49/mo) | Limited, enterprise tier |
Uptime monitoring included PagerDuty ingests alerts from other monitors — it's not a monitor itself | Starter ($19/mo) | |
Native iOS + Android mobile app (for public subscribers) PagerDuty's mobile app is for responders, not end-user subscribers | ||
On-call rotations & escalation policies PagerDuty wins here — this is their core product | Basic (Pro $49/mo) | |
Incident command / war rooms PagerDuty has full Incident Commander, Zoom bridges, runbooks | ||
Enterprise SSO (Okta, SAML) | Business ($149/mo) | Enterprise tier |
SOC 2 Type II PagerDuty has the full compliance stack today | In progress (2026) | |
Best for | Teams who want a great public status page | Enterprise on-call and incident response |
Three reasons teams switch
Status pages at $0, not $200+/month
PagerDuty doesn't publish status page pricing, but real-world quotes for public status pages on top of alerting seats typically land in the $50-200+/month range. LiveStatus starts at $0 and tops out at $19/mo flat for a custom-domain status page with uptime monitoring. If all you want is status.yourapp.com, you're paying 10× too much with PagerDuty.
No sales call, no procurement
PagerDuty is a classic enterprise-sales motion: request a demo, get a quote, loop in procurement, wait weeks. LiveStatus is self-serve: sign up, add your services, point your domain, ship. Two minutes from landing page to live status page. If you've ever had to justify a SaaS purchase to finance, you know the difference this makes.
Use PagerDuty AND LiveStatus together
This isn't rip-and-replace. If your SRE team already runs PagerDuty for on-call rotations and escalations, keep it — it's the best tool for that job. Point PagerDuty's webhooks at LiveStatus's incident endpoint and we'll auto-create a public incident the moment PagerDuty fires. Best alerting + best public status page, for less than PagerDuty's status page tier alone.
“But what about...”
Real concerns from teams considering the switch.
Doesn't PagerDuty already have status pages built in?
Yes — PagerDuty Status Pages is a real product. It works. But it's priced as an enterprise add-on to their alerting suite, it's sales-led, and the customization (custom domain, CSS, branding) sits behind higher tiers. If you're already an enterprise PagerDuty customer and status pages are a rounding error, it's fine. If you're a small team paying $25/user just to get to the negotiating table for a status page, LiveStatus is built for you.
Can LiveStatus replace PagerDuty for on-call?
Honestly, no — not at the level PagerDuty operates. We have basic on-call rotations and escalation policies on our Pro plan ($49/mo), which is enough for a small team. But if you need Incident Commander, full escalation trees, runbook automation, Zoom bridge auto-creation, or the PagerDuty ecosystem of integrations, stay on PagerDuty. We're not pretending to replace that.
What about enterprise compliance — SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP?
PagerDuty has the full compliance stack today: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, ISO 27001, FedRAMP. LiveStatus has SOC 2 Type II in progress for 2026 and the standard infrastructure hygiene (encrypted at rest, TLS in transit, audit logs on Business). If compliance is a gating requirement right now, be honest with yourself and pick PagerDuty. If you just need a status page and compliance isn't a blocker, we're fine.
FAQ
What does PagerDuty actually charge for a public status page?
PagerDuty doesn't publish status page pricing on their site. Their alerting seats start at $25/user/month (Professional) and $41/user/month (Business). Public status pages are quoted as an add-on on top of that — you need to contact sales for an actual number. Real-world quotes we've seen land in the $50-200+/month range for the status page alone, on top of the alerting seat cost.
Can I point PagerDuty webhooks at LiveStatus?
Yes. LiveStatus has a webhook ingest endpoint — point PagerDuty (or any alerting tool) at it and we'll auto-create a public incident when an alert fires. Many teams run this hybrid: PagerDuty handles the on-call page and escalation, LiveStatus handles the public-facing incident communication.
Do I need to migrate anything from PagerDuty to use LiveStatus?
No. LiveStatus is additive. You can stand up a LiveStatus status page in parallel without touching your PagerDuty setup. If you later decide to fully migrate, email hello@livestatus.dev and we'll help you import services and historical incidents manually.
Is LiveStatus right for a 200-person SRE org?
For the public status page layer, yes — it scales fine. For on-call rotations, incident command, and enterprise-grade escalation policies, probably not yet. Large SRE orgs typically keep PagerDuty (or FireHydrant, Rootly, incident.io) for the internal incident response layer and use a dedicated status page tool like LiveStatus for the external-facing page.
Do you have a free plan?
Yes — 1 status page, 3 services, 50 email subscribers, manual incident management. No credit card required. This alone is more status page than PagerDuty's free alerting tier gives you.
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