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Alerta vs Nova AI Ops

Both stand on alert management software. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Alerta

Paid APILinuxSelf-hosted+1

Choose Alerta if you need a free, open-source system to process alerts from multiple sources, with flexible alert data and customer-specific views. Teams making the web UI publicly accessible should enable authentication and use HTTPS/SSL, as advised in the deployment documentation.

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Nova AI Ops

Free trial APILinuxMac+2

Nova AI Ops brings observability and incident workflows together, with remediation runbooks and approval controls. Its trial and plan terms deserve attention, and Team and Enterprise pricing is custom.

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The facts

	Alerta	Nova AI Ops
Free plan	Not published	A free trial
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	API, Linux, Self-hosted, Web	API, Linux, Mac, Web, Windows
Lowest paid plan	Not published	Basic: $16 per user a month
Plans published	None	4
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	alerta.io	novaaiops.com
On alert management software	#26 of 36	#22 of 36

Alerta: what it does well

Free and open source.
Correlates, de-duplicates, and suppresses alerts from multiple sources.
Alerts support multiple services, flexible tags, and custom attributes.
Web console is designed for desktop, tablet, and mobile screens.
Python plugins extend the system without changes to its core source.

What to know first

Authentication is disabled by default.

Nova AI Ops: what it does well

Combines metrics, logs, traces, and events
AI agents can investigate and run remediation
Includes on-call scheduling and war rooms
High-risk actions can require human approval
Supports web, API, Linux, macOS, and Windows

What to know first

No free plan
A card is required for the 7-day trial
Billing begins on day seven unless canceled
Integrations vary by plan

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