COMPARISON

Nova AI Ops vs Resolve.ai

Resolve.ai investigates incidents on top of your existing stack. Nova AI Ops IS the stack: 100 agents that detect, investigate, AND autonomously resolve incidents under cryptographic audit.

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Feature-by-Feature Comparison

Resolve.ai is an AI investigation layer that connects to Datadog, PagerDuty, Sentry and other observability tools to triage incidents in Slack. Nova AI Ops is a full AI-native platform: it detects incidents itself, investigates them with 100 agents across 12 SRE teams, and autonomously executes remediations under approval gates and a cryptographic audit trail.

Capability	Nova AI Ops	Resolve.ai
Infrastructure Monitoring	✓ Full-stack metrics, logs, traces, RUM, synthetic	✗ No native monitoring (depends on Datadog/Sentry)
Incident Management	✓ Built-in lifecycle, war rooms, post-mortems	~ Slack-first investigation; hands off to PagerDuty/incident.io
AI Agents	✓ 100 specialized agents across 12 SRE teams	~ Single AI investigator agent
Auto-Remediation	✓ 78% incidents auto-resolved in <90s with Approval Manager gates	✗ Investigation-focused; no autonomous remediation
Agent Trust & Audit	✓ Cryptographic Agent Ledger + per-agent trust scores	✗ No published agent governance model
AI Runbooks	✓ AI-generated runbooks with what-if simulation	~ Reads existing runbooks, doesn't author or simulate
On-Call Scheduling	✓ Follow-the-sun, zero-gap scheduling	✗ No on-call (relies on PagerDuty)
Log Explorer	✓ 1B+ events with AI anomaly detection	✗ No native log management
Distributed Tracing	✓ Flame graphs, service maps, SLA alerts	✗ No native tracing
Predictive Detection	✓ Catches patterns before incidents fire	✗ Reactive only (triggered by upstream alerts)
Multi-Cloud Coverage	✓ AWS, GCP, Azure, Linux, Windows, Kubernetes	~ Bounded by upstream observability tools
Pricing Transparency	✓ Basic tier, then $29/user/mo for the full platform	✗ No public pricing (contact sales) + your existing observability bill
Setup Time	✓ Under 3 minutes, one-command install	✓ Fast Slack-app onboarding (assumes Datadog/PagerDuty already configured)

Pricing Comparison

Resolve.ai does not publish public pricing, it is sold as an enterprise contract that sits on top of your existing observability and on-call subscriptions. Nova replaces those subscriptions with one predictable per-user price.

Nova AI Ops

$29/user/mo

Full platform: monitoring, incidents, AI agents, runbooks, on-call, logs, tracing, auto-remediation. Basic tier available.

Resolve.ai

Contact sales

AI investigation layer only. You still pay for Datadog/Sentry/PagerDuty/Grafana underneath. Effective stack cost: enterprise contract + $4,000-6,000/mo of upstream tooling.

What your monthly bill looks like

Resolve.ai is an investigation layer. Your monitoring, on-call, dashboards, and error tracking still need their own vendors underneath. Nova replaces all of them.

Resolve.ai + required stack

Estimated monthly cost

Resolve.ai (est. enterprise)20 users · contract$1,500

Datadog monitoringrequired upstream$3,000

PagerDuty on-callrequired upstream$420

Grafana dashboardsseparate vendor$1,000

Sentry error trackingrequired upstream$520

Total / month $6,440

5 line items · 5 vendors · Resolve sits on top, doesn't replace any of them

Nova AI Ops

Estimated monthly cost

Nova AI Ops: Standard Everything included 20 users × $29 $580

Metrics & dashboards
Log management
Distributed tracing
Incident management
On-call & scheduling
AI runbooks
Error tracking
Auto-remediation

Total / month $580

1 line item · 1 vendor · per-user pricing. No overages.

Monthly savings

$5,860

Yearly savings

$70,320

Reduction

91%

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Scenario assumes 20 engineers, 50 hosts, full SRE stack around Resolve.ai. Resolve does not publish public pricing; the $1,500 estimate represents a typical enterprise contract for an AI investigation layer at this team size. Datadog, PagerDuty, Grafana, and Sentry pricing reflects public list rates as of April 2026. Your actual cost will vary with usage, retention, and negotiated discounts. Resolve.ai, Datadog, PagerDuty, Grafana, and Sentry are trademarks of their respective owners. Nova AI Ops is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

Where Resolve.ai Excels

Resolve.ai has built a sharp investigation-first product around large-language-model-driven triage. Here is where it genuinely shines:

Slack-native investigation UX, fluent in-channel triage that reads alerts, queries telemetry, and surfaces hypotheses without leaving Slack.
Founder pedigree, ex-Datadog and ex-Splunk engineering leadership, deep observability DNA shows in the integration breadth.
Low-risk to deploy, advisory-by-default posture means it can sit in your stack as a copilot without write access on day one.
Fast time-to-value if your stack is already mature, plugs into Datadog, Sentry, and PagerDuty without rebuilding pipelines.

Where Nova AI Ops Wins

Resolve summarizes. Nova resolves. The difference shows up in five places:

One platform, not a thirteenth tool, replaces Datadog, PagerDuty, Grafana, Sentry AND the investigation layer. Resolve is one more vendor on top of all of those.
Investigates AND remediates, 78% of incidents close in under 90 seconds without a human. Resolve's posture is advisory; Nova actually executes (with Approval Manager gates for high-blast-radius actions).
Agent Ledger, every prompt, plan, API call, and outcome is recorded in a cryptographic audit trail with per-agent trust scores. Resolve has no published equivalent governance model, a non-starter for regulated buyers.
Predictive detection, agents catch patterns before incidents fire. Resolve is reactive by design; it only triggers when something upstream pages.
Predictable per-user pricing, $29/user/mo for the full platform. Resolve is a contact-sales contract that stacks on top of $4,000–6,000/mo of upstream observability bills.

Who Should Choose What?

Choose Resolve.ai if...

Your stack is locked in: Datadog, PagerDuty, and Sentry are not moving
You want an investigation copilot, not a platform replacement
You are early in AI-SRE adoption and want a read-only, advisory-by-default posture
You have budget headroom for a layer on top of existing observability bills

Choose Nova AI Ops if...

You want to consolidate observability, on-call, incident management, and AI investigation into one bill
You want agents that resolve, not just summarize
You need a cryptographic audit trail for every agent action (Agent Ledger + Approval Manager)
You want predictable per-user pricing instead of layered SaaS bills
You want predictive detection that catches problems before alerts fire

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