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Alternatives to PagerDuty

LightStep, OpsGenie, VictorOps, New Relic, and Bigpanda are the most popular alternatives and competitors to PagerDuty.
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What is PagerDuty and what are its top alternatives?

PagerDuty is an alarm aggregation and dispatching service for system administrators and support teams. It collects alerts from your monitoring tools, gives you an overall view of all of your monitoring alarms, and alerts an on duty engineer if there's a problem.
PagerDuty is a tool in the Monitoring Aggregation category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to PagerDuty

  • LightStep
    LightStep

    It diagnoses anomalies and slowdowns, spanning mobile, monoliths, and micro services: best-in-class observability, at scale, for modern applications. ...

  • OpsGenie
    OpsGenie

    OpsGenie is a cloud-based service for dev & ops teams, providing reliable alerts, on-call schedule management, and escalations. OpsGenie integrates with monitoring tools & services and ensures that the right people are at the right time. ...

  • VictorOps
    VictorOps

    VictorOps is a real-time incident management platform that combines the power of people and data to embolden DevOps teams so they can handle incidents as they occur and prepare for the next one. ...

  • New Relic
    New Relic

    The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too. ...

  • Bigpanda
    Bigpanda

    Bigpanda helps you manage and respond to ops incidents faster. All your alerts: organized, assignable, trackable, snoozeable, and updated in real-time. ...

  • Datadog
    Datadog

    Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Start monitoring in minutes with Datadog! ...

  • Splunk
    Splunk

    It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data. ...

  • Healthchecks.io
    Healthchecks.io

    Healthchecks.io is a monitoring service for your cron jobs, background services and scheduled tasks. It works by listening for HTTP "pings" from your services. You can set up various alert methods: email, Slack, Telegram, PagerDuty, etc. ...

PagerDuty alternatives & related posts

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LightStep

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A fast way for developers and DevOps to adopt best-of-breed distributed tracing
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PROS OF LIGHTSTEP
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    Powerful UI
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    Easy setup
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    Observability End-to-End
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    Great Value
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    Fast RCA
CONS OF LIGHTSTEP
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    OpsGenie

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    Alerting and On-Call Management for Dev&Ops Teams
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    PROS OF OPSGENIE
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      Two-way slack integration
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      Solid scheduling and team management support
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      Strong API
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      Two-way nagios integration
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      Strong, easy, fast, fits
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      Complete Incident Response Orchestration Platform
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      Free tier
    CONS OF OPSGENIE
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      VictorOps

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      We make on-call suck less & help teams to solve problems faster.
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      PROS OF VICTOROPS
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        The transmogrifier is a game changer
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        Great Team, Great Product
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        Free tier
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        Much better than ANY of the alternatives. Todd is GREAT
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        Great tiered escalation management
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        Android app with Wear integration
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        On-call routing and the timeline is brilliant
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        Awesome Team always updating
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        Nice UI
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        New Relic

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          Easy setup
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          Really powerful
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          Awesome visualization
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          Ease of use
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          Great ui
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          Free tier
        • 80
          Great tool for insights
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          Heroku Integration
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          Market leader
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          Peace of mind
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          Push notifications
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          Email notifications
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          Heroku Add-on
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          Error Detection and Alerting
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          Multiple language support
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          Server Resources Monitoring
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          SQL Analysis
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          Transaction Tracing
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          Azure Add-on
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          Apdex Scores
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          Detailed reports
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          Analysis of CPU, Disk, Memory, and Network
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          Application Response Times
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          Performance of External Services
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          Application Availability Monitoring and Alerting
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          Error Analysis
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          JVM Performance Analyzer (Java)
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          Most Time Consuming Transactions
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          Top Database Operations
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          Easy to use
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          Browser Transaction Tracing
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          Application Map
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          Weekly Performance Email
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          Custom Dashboards
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          Pagoda Box integration
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          App Speed Index
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          Easy to setup
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          Background Jobs Transaction Analysis
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          Time Comparisons
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          Access to Performance Data API
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          Super Expensive
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          Team Collaboration Tools
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          Metric Data Retention
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          Metric Data Resolution
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          Worst Transactions by User Dissatisfaction
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          Real User Monitoring Overview
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          Real User Monitoring Analysis and Breakdown
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          Free
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          Best of the best, what more can you ask for
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          Best monitoring on the market
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          Rails integration
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          Incident Detection and Alerting
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          Cost
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          Exceptions
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          Price
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        CONS OF NEW RELIC
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          Pricing model doesn't suit microservices
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          UI isn't great
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          Expensive
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          Visualizations aren't very helpful
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          Hard to understand why things in your app are breaking

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        Farzeem Diamond Jiwani
        Software Engineer at IVP · | 8 upvotes · 1.4M views

        Hey there! We are looking at Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic as options for our web application monitoring.

        Current Environment: .NET Core Web app hosted on Microsoft IIS

        Future Environment: Web app will be hosted on Microsoft Azure

        Tech Stacks: IIS, RabbitMQ, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server

        Requirement: Infra Monitoring, APM, Real - User Monitoring (User activity monitoring i.e., time spent on a page, most active page, etc.), Service Tracing, Root Cause Analysis, and Centralized Log Management.

        Please advise on the above. Thanks!

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        Jerome Dalbert
        Principal Backend Software Engineer at StackShare · | 5 upvotes · 288.6K views

        We currently monitor performance with the following tools:

        1. Heroku Metrics: our main app is Hosted on Heroku, so it is the best place to get quick server metrics like memory usage, load averages, or response times.
        2. Good old New Relic for detailed general metrics, including transaction times.
        3. Skylight for more specific Rails Controller#action transaction times. Navigating those timings is much better than with New Relic, as you get a clear full breakdown of everything that happens for a given request.

        Skylight offers better Rails performance insights, so why use New Relic? Because it does frontend monitoring, while Skylight doesn't. Now that we have a separate frontend app though, our frontend engineers are looking into more specialized frontend monitoring solutions.

        Finally, if one of our apps go down, Pingdom alerts us on Slack and texts some of us.

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        Bigpanda logo

        Bigpanda

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        The cure for alert fatigue
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        PROS OF BIGPANDA
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          User interface, easy setup, analytics, integrations
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          Consolidates many systems into one
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          Correlation engine
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          Quick setup
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          PROS OF DATADOG
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            Monitoring for many apps (databases, web servers, etc)
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            Easy setup
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            Powerful ui
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            Powerful integrations
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            Great value
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            Great visualization
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            Events + metrics = clarity
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            Custom metrics
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            Notifications
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            Flexibility
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            Free & paid plans
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            Great customer support
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            Makes my life easier
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            Adapts automatically as i scale up
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            Easy setup and plugins
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            Super easy and powerful
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            AWS support
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            In-context collaboration
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            Rich in features
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            Docker support
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            Cost
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            Full visibility of applications
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            Monitor almost everything
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            Cute logo
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            Automation tools
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            Source control and bug tracking
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            Simple, powerful, great for infra
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            Easy to Analyze
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            Best than others
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            Best in the field
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            Expensive
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            Good for Startups
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            Free setup
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          CONS OF DATADOG
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            Expensive
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            No errors exception tracking
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            External Network Goes Down You Wont Be Logging
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            Complicated

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          Our primary source of monitoring and alerting is Datadog. We’ve got prebuilt dashboards for every scenario and integration with PagerDuty to manage routing any alerts. We’ve definitely scaled past the point where managing dashboards is easy, but we haven’t had time to invest in using features like Anomaly Detection. We’ve started using Honeycomb for some targeted debugging of complex production issues and we are liking what we’ve seen. We capture any unhandled exceptions with Rollbar and, if we realize one will keep happening, we quickly convert the metrics to point back to Datadog, to keep Rollbar as clean as possible.

          We use Segment to consolidate all of our trackers, the most important of which goes to Amplitude to analyze user patterns. However, if we need a more consolidated view, we push all of our data to our own data warehouse running PostgreSQL; this is available for analytics and dashboard creation through Looker.

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          Farzeem Diamond Jiwani
          Software Engineer at IVP · | 8 upvotes · 1.4M views

          Hey there! We are looking at Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and New Relic as options for our web application monitoring.

          Current Environment: .NET Core Web app hosted on Microsoft IIS

          Future Environment: Web app will be hosted on Microsoft Azure

          Tech Stacks: IIS, RabbitMQ, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server

          Requirement: Infra Monitoring, APM, Real - User Monitoring (User activity monitoring i.e., time spent on a page, most active page, etc.), Service Tracing, Root Cause Analysis, and Centralized Log Management.

          Please advise on the above. Thanks!

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          Splunk

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          Search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data
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          PROS OF SPLUNK
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            API for searching logs, running reports
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            Alert system based on custom query results
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            Dashboarding on any log contents
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            Custom log parsing as well as automatic parsing
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            Ability to style search results into reports
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            Query engine supports joining, aggregation, stats, etc
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            Splunk language supports string, date manip, math, etc
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            Rich GUI for searching live logs
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            Query any log as key-value pairs
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            Granular scheduling and time window support
          CONS OF SPLUNK
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            Splunk query language rich so lots to learn

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          Healthchecks.io

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          PROS OF HEALTHCHECKS.IO
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            Can be self-hosted
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            Great value
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            Free tier
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            Easy to understand
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