Open-source alternative
Replace PagerDuty with Keep
The best open-source alternative to PagerDuty is Keep or operacle/checkcle, self-hosted on Railway. On-call and alert routing you host. Keep is the open-source AIOps platform. Grafana OnCall OSS was archived 24 Mar 2026 — it is not the path anymore.
Estimated save $2,520 a year.
Open the stackStart on Railway
How PagerDuty compares
| PagerDuty | Keep | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per-user incident response | Open-source or fair-code license; you pay the host |
| Hosting | Vendor cloud | Self-hosted on Railway or any VPS |
| Rough monthly cost | $21/user/mo Professional source | Hosting only — no SaaS seat meter in this repo |
- Keep
Open-source AIOps and alert management
- operacle/checkcle
Go uptime checks that can webhook into Keep
FAQ
- Is it free?
- The Keep licenses are open source or fair-code. You still pay hosting (Railway or any VPS) and any APIs the stack calls. There is no PagerDuty seat or task bill on this path.
- Can I migrate from PagerDuty?
- Yes. Start with the workflows or data you actually use, then cut over. The Keep stack page has the agent prompt and the cost table; most teams rebuild the slice that matters and leave old PagerDuty links until they expire.
- How do I deploy it?
- Open the Keep stack, copy the agent prompt, and deploy on Railway (one service, PORT, and a volume when the app needs disk). Placeholder: Keep + Postgres. Point Alertmanager / Grafana / Checkcle webhooks at it. Do not deploy archived grafana/oncall.
- What does this replace?
- PagerDuty. The published small-team estimate on this stack is $2,520 a year.
Related pages
Stack of the Week
Get one stack a week that replaces a SaaS bill.