Compare PagerDuty and SolarWinds Service Desk 
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At a Glance
Market Segments
Mid-Market (43.3% of reviews)
Mid-Market (68.5% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Free Trial 5 Users Per Month
$39.00 Per Month
PagerDuty
Star Rating
(916)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (43.3% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Free Trial 5 Users Per Month
Free Trial is available
Browse all 4 pricing plansSolarWinds Service Desk
Star Rating
(764)4.3 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (68.5% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
$39.00 Per Month
Free Trial is available
Browse all 3 pricing plansPagerDuty vs SolarWinds Service Desk
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found SolarWinds Service Desk easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with SolarWinds Service Desk overall.
- Reviewers felt that PagerDuty meets the needs of their business better than SolarWinds Service Desk.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, PagerDuty and SolarWinds Service Desk provide similar levels of assistance.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of SolarWinds Service Desk over PagerDuty.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
PagerDuty
Free
Free Trial
5 Users Per Month
Start with on-call and incident response for small teams.
- 100/month international phone/SMS notifications included
- 1 On-call Schedule
- 1 Escalation Policy
SolarWinds Service Desk
ESSENTIALS
$39.00
Per Month
For Growing Teams
- Essentials Includes:
- Chat Support
- Service Catalog
Free Trial
PagerDuty
Free Trial is available
SolarWinds Service Desk
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
9.1
789
8.6
691
Ease of Use
8.6
796
9.0
692
Ease of Setup
8.3
422
8.6
567
Ease of Admin
8.5
409
8.9
580
Quality of Support
8.9
600
8.9
665
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.9
347
9.0
560
Product Direction (% positive)
8.4
786
9.0
675
Features by Category
Automation
9.7
49
Not enough data
9.6
49
Not enough data
9.5
47
Not enough data
Administration
9.8
49
Not enough data
9.6
49
Not enough data
9.7
49
Not enough data
9.6
48
Not enough data
9.6
47
Not enough data
9.8
47
Not enough data
Functionality
9.6
48
Not enough data
9.6
48
Not enough data
9.6
47
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Workload Automation
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Administration
Not enough data
8.7
106
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.5
110
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.4
120
|
Verified
Service Desk
Not enough data
9.3
127
|
Verified
Not enough data
9.2
126
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
120
|
Verified
Management
Not enough data
8.2
67
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
66
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.5
65
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.1
57
|
Verified
Not enough data
7.5
48
|
Verified
Functionality
Not enough data
9.1
71
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.2
55
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
62
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.1
65
|
Verified
Agentic AI - IT Service Management (ITSM) Tools
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring
9.2
151
|
Verified
8.4
77
|
Verified
9.5
168
|
Verified
8.5
86
|
Verified
9.2
157
|
Verified
8.8
91
|
Verified
7.8
15
4.3
10
Management Tools
9.2
155
|
Verified
9.0
97
|
Verified
9.1
183
8.7
98
|
Verified
9.0
173
|
Verified
8.4
84
|
Verified
Generative AI
8.0
42
5.9
25
8.1
42
6.4
25
Agentic AI - Incident Management
7.6
9
Not enough data
7.8
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
8.5
9
Not enough data
8.7
9
Not enough data
8.3
9
Not enough data
Functionality
9.7
34
Not enough data
9.5
34
Not enough data
9.7
35
Not enough data
Issue Resolution
9.6
35
Not enough data
9.6
34
Not enough data
9.8
35
Not enough data
Management
9.6
36
Not enough data
9.7
36
Not enough data
9.6
36
Not enough data
Generative AI
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - AIOps Platforms
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Asset Inventory
Not enough data
8.5
63
Not enough data
8.3
62
Not enough data
8.1
50
Not enough data
8.0
50
Not enough data
8.0
60
Generative AI
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Agentic AI - IT Asset Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Management
Not enough data
8.6
65
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.2
55
ServiceNow Apps
9.6
41
Not enough data
9.6
41
Not enough data
Agentic AI - ServiceNow Store Apps
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Functionality
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Software Asset Management Tools
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Risk assessment
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Generative AI
8.5
28
Not enough data
Agentic AI - IT Alerting
7.9
7
Not enough data
7.4
7
Not enough data
8.8
7
Not enough data
7.6
7
Not enough data
7.6
7
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
Automation Support - Runbook Automation
9.0
8
Not enough data
8.3
7
Not enough data
7.3
8
Not enough data
8.6
7
Not enough data
Error Management - Runbook Automation
8.6
6
Not enough data
7.6
7
Not enough data
7.9
7
Not enough data
Customization - Runbook Automation
7.5
6
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
8.9
6
Not enough data
Compliance and Reporting - Runbook Automation
8.6
6
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
8.1
7
Not enough data
Performance - Runbook Automation
8.3
7
Not enough data
8.8
7
Not enough data
8.3
6
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Runbook Automation
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Incident Management
Not enough data
8.6
428
Not enough data
8.6
424
Not enough data
8.8
458
Not enough data
8.3
412
Not enough data
8.5
396
Reporting
Not enough data
8.4
445
Not enough data
8.2
356
Not enough data
8.1
330
Access & Usability
Not enough data
7.2
359
Not enough data
8.5
400
Not enough data
8.3
340
Not enough data
8.5
277
Agentic AI - Service Desk
Not enough data
4.6
13
Not enough data
5.9
13
Not enough data
5.6
13
Not enough data
5.3
13
Not enough data
5.9
13
Not enough data
5.8
13
Not enough data
5.4
13
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
PagerDuty and SolarWinds Service Desk are categorized as Incident Management
Unique Categories
PagerDuty is categorized as AIOps Platforms, ServiceNow Store Apps, IT Alerting, Workload Automation, and Runbook Automation
SolarWinds Service Desk is categorized as IT Service Management (ITSM) Tools, IT Asset Management, Service Desk, and Software Asset Management Tools
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
PagerDuty
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
SolarWinds Service Desk
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
22.6%
Computer Software
21.4%
Financial Services
5.6%
Internet
5.4%
Retail
3.7%
Other
41.3%
Information Technology and Services
12.9%
Hospital & Health Care
7.6%
Higher Education
4.9%
Education Management
4.8%
Financial Services
4.2%
Other
65.6%
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Discussions
What is PagerDuty used for?
2 Comments
AR
As part of the Customer Experience Team, we use it as automation for the distribution of workloads. While other departments use it as a ticketing tool for IT...Read more
How can we do better?
1 Comment
CC
Hi Subhash,
I've passed your question over to our Client Services team. They should be reaching to you via email shortly.
Read more
How much does PagerDuty cost?
1 Comment
GO
This really depends on what you need from Pagerduty and how many users need those features.Read more
Windows Installer
1 Comment
JB
This one is easy. When Samanage became Solarwinds we quit using the product and went elsewhere.
Samanage had an EXE and an ISO. I'm none to interested in...Read more
How do I upload a solution article using tablets or phones?
1 Comment
DL
Unfortunately, we can’t create Solutions from the mobile app.
Read more
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