# Cronitor MCP server vs PagerDuty MCP Server (slim)

> Cronitor scores 59.1 (C) to PagerDuty's 43.9 (E) for incidents. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Cronitor MCP server scores 59.1 (C) on agent readiness against PagerDuty MCP Server's 43.9 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. PagerDuty MCP Server leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do incidents.

- Cronitor MCP server: C 59.1, rank #718 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cronitor-mcp.min.md
- PagerDuty MCP Server: E 43.9, rank #1239 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pagerduty-mcp.min.md
- Cronitor MCP server, good for Teams who monitor cron jobs, heartbeats and sites with Cronitor and want an agent to set up and triage monitoring. Ahead on Reliability, 55 against 35; Schema & documentation, 80 against 40; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 59; Payments & pricing, 40 against 10; Maintenance & community, 55 against 17.
- PagerDuty MCP Server, good for Incident and on-call agents in PagerDuty shops on Professional or higher. Ahead on Security & auth, 66 against 58; Transparency & trust, 75 against 37.

| Category | Cronitor MCP server | PagerDuty MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 40 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 59 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 58 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 55 | 17 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 37 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cronitor MCP server | PagerDuty MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cronitor | PagerDuty |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://cronitor.io/mcp` | `https://mcp.pagerduty.com/mcp` |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Your plan |
| Licence | none | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 71 | 18 |
| MCP registry | `io.cronitor/cronitor` | not listed |
| Last release | none | 2026-09-04 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2023-12-21 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-09-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | yes |
| Agent reviews | none | 1.5/5 (2) |

Why the edge:
- Schema & documentation, Cronitor MCP server +40: Cronitor MCP server 80 (Every tool's input schema declares additionalProperties false, and the docs call tools/list the field-level reference (25). llms.txt and .md pages for agents (10). Detailed tool guidance, including which to start with and what not to request (18 of 20). Typed inputs with enums, required combinations and no untyped data objects (15). A table of JSON-RPC error codes with their data fields, and worked calls (12 of 15). No public changelog found (404) (0). 25 + 10 + 18 + 15 + 12 + 0 = 80.); PagerDuty MCP Server 40 (The hosted tool input schemas aren't published. The MCP API reference, re-read on 4 November, types only the JSON-RPC envelope and says to call tools/list or browse the MCP server repository for the tools, so the other schema lines keep their readings of the archived local server, which the vendor still points to. The hosted docs list 18 `browse_` and `manage_` tools that each take an action, which the archived repository doesn't define, so its typed Pydantic models aren't a contract for the hosted tools (0; 15 on 1 October). llms.txt, llms-full.txt and Markdown copies of each page at docs.pagerduty.com (10). The local server's docstrings list each argument and its allowed values in prose (10). Typed parameters but enums only in prose, for example `request_scope` 'all', 'assigned' or 'teams' as a plain string (10). The MCP API reference has request examples and documents 400, 401, 403, 429 and 500 responses, while the local per-domain tool reference was retired with the archive (7). No changelog for the hosted server. The local CHANGELOG has one undated entry (3). 0 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 7 + 3 = 40.)
- Maintenance & community, Cronitor MCP server +38: Cronitor MCP server 55 (Registry entry io.cronitor/cronitor updated 3 November 2026 (30). No dated changelog found to count (0). Support page and docs; no public changelog (10 of 15). Official registry entry under its own namespace, and official SDKs (15). No package to read (0). 30 + 0 + 10 + 15 + 0 = 55. Registry presence read from Anchor Terminal's own daily import of the official MCP registry (/api/v1/registry.json, 6 November 2026), not the registry's API.); PagerDuty MCP Server 17 (No hosted changelog or tagged release. The archived local server's last version bumps, 1.0.0 (12 June 2026) and 1.1.0 (7 July 2026), are untagged commits, 1.1.0 with no changelog entry, and PyPI couldn't be read, so this run doesn't count them as releases. The newest dated change to the MCP server in PagerDuty's platform release notes is the June MCP release of 1 June 2026, new tools when one server ran both the remote and local routes, 156 days before this check (10; 20 on 1 October on 1.1.0). The platform release notes date two MCP entries, the local server's deprecation (4 September 2026) and Claude auto-connect in Early Access beta (3 November 2026), and betas don't count. Fewer than three dated entries in the 90 days from 6 August (0). Closed service with support through PagerDuty's knowledge base and support desk (5). The 1 October registry line rested on the official registry's JSON API, which this run doesn't use. The archived repository's server.json naming io.github.PagerDuty/pagerduty-mcp 0.2.1 is a claim, and the hosted server isn't shown registered (0; 5 on 1 October). The local repository is archived and the hosted server's build isn't public (2). 10 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 2 = 17.)
- Transparency & trust, PagerDuty MCP Server +38: Cronitor MCP server 37 (robots.txt disallows the terms and privacy pages, so neither was read (5 of 30, terms exist but weren't readable). Data handling only from the security page (encryption, backups) (10 of 30). No deprecation policy found; the docs version the error codes by protocol revision (5 of 20). Subprocessors not found (5 of 20). 5 + 10 + 5 + 5 = 25.); PagerDuty MCP Server 75 (The hosted server is closed with published terms (effective 21 December 2023), and the archived local server was Apache-2.0 (18). Privacy policy and an assurance portal, but nothing MCP-specific on what the hosted server logs or keeps (12). The local server's deprecation was announced in the README and the platform release notes and archived on 4 September 2026 with a pointer to the hosted server, with no lead time, and the GitHub Pages docs had been retired on 25 August (10). The sub-processor list, read on 4 November, names each processor with its activity and countries, and says the country for several depends on the account's US or EU service region (20; 8 on 1 October, when the list wasn't read). 18 + 12 + 10 + 20 = 60.)
- Payments & pricing, Cronitor MCP server +30: Cronitor MCP server 40 (No machine payment protocol (0). Per-monitor and per-user prices public (20). Free plan for 5 monitors, no card mentioned (20). A person signs up or signs in through a browser (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40.); PagerDuty MCP Server 10 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public, re-read on 4 November. Incident Management Free at $0, Professional at $21 per user a month billed yearly ($25 monthly), and the Reliability Platform from $2,800 a year. No per-call price and no statement that MCP costs nothing extra (10). The pricing page's comparison table marks MCP Integration and Advanced Permissions, which the MCP docs list as a prerequisite, as not included on Free and included from Professional, so the free plan can't connect (0). A person signs up and creates a key or an OAuth client (0). 0 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 10.)
- Reliability, Cronitor MCP server +20: Cronitor MCP server 55 (Status page at status.cronitor.io with components for the APIs and telemetry regions (20). No history was readable (history.rss 404, uptime 'No data available') (5). Rate limits are returned with limit and window in the error data, but no numbers are published (5 of 15). Rate-limit errors carry retry_after_seconds, bulk deletes validate every key first, and the docs say which repeated calls are safe (15). No SLA found (0). Not labelled beta (10). 20 + 5 + 5 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 55.); PagerDuty MCP Server 35 (Scored as a hosted MCP server. status.pagerduty.com answered its robots.txt request on 4 November 2026 with the status page's own HTML app, so the host is left unread, and no component reading of it is on record (the 1 October check found it rendered only with JavaScript). A status-page line with no component reading scores 0 (15 on 1 October), and no incident history could be read (5). The REST API allows 960 requests a minute per account key, user key or app token, re-read on 4 November, and the MCP docs don't say whether the same limit applies to mcp.pagerduty.com (10, a partial kept from 1 October). The REST docs describe 429 with `ratelimit-limit`, `ratelimit-remaining` and `ratelimit-reset` and tell clients to slow down and wait out the reset before retrying, and the MCP API reference lists a 429 response. No `Retry-After`, no idempotency key and nothing on retrying writes, so retry-wait guidance alone (10; the 1 October 12 needs safe-retry guidance). No SLA on the pricing page (0). The hosted server is the supported path and carries no beta or preview label, though Claude auto-connect, one sign-in route, is an Early Access beta since 3 November (10). 0 + 5 + 10 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 35.)
- Agent ergonomics, Cronitor MCP server +14: Cronitor MCP server 73 (71 tools (5), with four task-oriented tools and summary modes that cap list output (5 back). Summary mode defaults to 25 rows, allows 100 and returns next_page (20). Documented, recoverable errors (18 of 20). Safety metadata in each tool schema and documented repeat behaviour (15 of 20). setup_monitor takes few fields; SDKs and a CLI (10 of 15). 10 + 20 + 18 + 15 + 10 = 73.); PagerDuty MCP Server 59 (The hosted server's documentation page, re-read on 4 November, lists 18 tools, `browse_` and `manage_` pairs for incidents, services, schedules, teams, event orchestrations, alert grouping and status pages, plus `browse_escalation_policies`, `browse_users`, `browse_change_events` and `browse_activity`, each taking an action. That is the 11 to 30 band (15; 5 on 1 October, read from the local server's 103 tools). Tool filtering isn't available on the hosted server, and a scoped OAuth client makes calls fail rather than shrinking the list, so nothing is added back. Incident lists filter by status, urgency, priority, dates and scope, per the local server (14). The local server raised errors that name the fix, such as needing a user token to filter by team (12). The local server set `readOnlyHint`, `destructiveHint` and `idempotentHint` on every tool, and we couldn't confirm the hosted one does (10). Few required parameters (8). 15 + 14 + 12 + 10 + 8 = 59.)