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Stuck in a PagerDuty contract? Here's how to switch now without paying twice

Blog post from Incident.io

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Tom Wentworth
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4,428
Language
English
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Summary

PagerDuty contracts often deter teams from switching to other incident management platforms due to financial obligations tied to their multi-year agreements, which can result in dual payments if a switch is made mid-term. The incident.io Rescue Program addresses this issue by offering up to 12 months of their service for free when customers sign a multi-year agreement, effectively eliminating the dual-payment penalty. Staying with PagerDuty can be more costly over time due to coordination overhead and additional fees for add-ons, with a notable difference in uptime guarantees compared to incident.io. The Rescue Program also provides a structured migration process, exemplified by Zendesk's successful transition of 1,200 users, offering significant operational and financial benefits such as projected first-year savings of $700,000. This allows teams to seamlessly transition to incident.io without incurring extra costs and improving their incident management efficiency.