- Bitmovin
- HBO Nordic
- Obsidian
- Laravel
- Fathom Analytics
- PHP 8
- Stanford University
- Takeaway.com
- IGN
- VRT NWS
- spatie
Three things the others make you bolt on
1. Crawls your entire site
We read your sitemap and check every page for broken links and mixed content, daily. Every alternative we checked monitors single URLs only.
2. Truly unlimited users
Unlimited users, status pages and notification destinations. You only pay per site. Every hosted alternative charges per seat or caps status pages.
3. One tool, one bill
Uptime, SSL, DNS, cron and Lighthouse together. Stop stitching five subscriptions into one workflow.
Oh Dear compared with the competition
One table. Honest, where an alternative genuinely leads, we say so.
| oh dear | UptimeRobot | Better Stack | Pingdom | StatusCake | Site24x7 | Uptime.com | Uptrends | Datadog | Hyperping | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uptime monitoring? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ping monitoring? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TCP port monitoring? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Performance monitoring? | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lighthouse audits? | Yes | No | RUM only | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | No |
| Certificate health (SSL/TLS)? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Broken links & mixed content? | Yes | No | No | No | Partial | Partial | No | No | No | No |
| Sitemap monitoring? | Yes | No | No | No | No | Partial | No | No | No | No |
| DNS monitoring? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| DNS blocklist monitoring? | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Domain expiry monitoring? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Scheduled-task / cron? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | Yes |
| Application health checks? | Yes | No | No | Partial | No | Yes | Partial | Partial | Yes | No |
| Port scanner? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| AI-powered checks? | Yes | No | Partial | No | No | Partial | No | No | Partial | No |
| Notifications & integrations? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Status pages? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Add-on | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automated client reports? | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial |
| Custom branding (logo & colours)? | Yes | Partial | Add-on | Partial | Partial | Yes | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |
| Scoped client access? | Yes | Partial | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial |
| Single sign-on (SSO)? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Partial |
| Unlimited users & destinations? | Yes | Seat limits | Tiered | Metered | Tiered | Credit-based | Metered | Tiered | Usage-based | Per-seat |
| Uptime check interval? | 1 minute | 60s | 30s | 1 minute | 1 minute | 1 minute | 1 minute | 2 min | 1 minute | 30s |
| Incident management / on-call? | No | Partial | Yes | No | Add-on | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Entry price? | $17 | Free / $7 | Free / $29 | $15 | Free / $20 | $9 | $9 | $210/mo | Usage-based | Free / $29 |
Sourced from each vendor's docs · June 2026
When a competitor is the better call
We'd rather you pick the right tool than churn in month two.
Cheapest, generous free tier
Best for solo devs and small teams who want very affordable uptime, SSL and cron with a real free plan, not full-site crawling or on-call.
On-call & incident management
Best if 30-second checks plus native on-call scheduling and incident management (replacing PagerDuty) is your number-one need.
Real-user speed data
Best for an established hosted monitor with global polling and proprietary page-speed plus real-user analytics across heavy traffic.
Low-cost uptime & free tier
Best for a generous free tier and mixed-content SSL on a budget, when basic uptime is all you need.
Full-stack infrastructure
Best for IT, DevOps and MSPs wanting one platform for sites, servers, network, cloud and APM, with built-in on-call.
Enterprise SRE platform
Best for synthetic transaction checks, global probes and SOC2/SSO when you are an SRE team at scale.
Enterprise transaction monitoring
Best for enterprises wanting mature multi-step transaction monitoring and a large global checkpoint network, with budget for per-seat plans.
Full observability platform
Best if you already run Datadog for APM, logs, metrics and infrastructure and want synthetic checks alongside them, with usage-based billing you are happy to manage.
Agency on-call & browser checks
Best for agencies that want native on-call scheduling, scripted Playwright browser checks and white-label status pages on client domains, and are happy to trade away full-site crawling, Lighthouse and AI checks for a lower per-monitor price.
One tool instead of five
Every monitoring tool started by answering one question: is the site up? Then the questions kept coming. Is the SSL certificate about to expire? Did a DNS change break email? Did last night's deploy leave forty broken links? Did the nightly backup cron actually run? Is the homepage still fast?
Most tools answer one of those and sell you an integration for the rest, or leave you running a second, third and fourth subscription. You become the integration layer, stitching alerts from five dashboards.
Oh Dear watches your whole website from one place, so the thing that breaks at 2am is something you already had a check for.
That's what the table really shows. It isn't that the others can't check uptime, everyone checks uptime. It's that everything around uptime is where sites actually break, and that's the part we refused to make you assemble yourself.
Compare Oh Dear head-to-head
Pick the tool you're actually weighing us against.
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Don't take our word for it
We built an incredibly powerful website monitor we know you'll love. Don't just take our word for it, here's what our users think:
Besides being a joy to look at, Oh Dear makes monitoring websites and SSL certificates an absolute breeze.
I signed up for Oh Dear for the broken link checker, which gives me peace of mind when I release new updates. Top notch product 👌.
Oh Dear makes monitoring a breeze.
Positive and easy to use, good interface and easy to integrate with other tools.
It took me 5 minutes to setup a status page for @FilmmusicDB and it just works. See for yourself: https://status.fmdb.net
I just entered my domain and Oh Dear took care of the rest. I was pleasantly surprised to see changes in my SSL cert chain and mixed content reports.
Oh Dear detected an issue that our other uptime monitor did not!
Oh Dear keeps you calm and alerts you instantly!
Started using 2 years ago as a simple monitoring tools. Has become a daily must-have for uptime, performance and page speed metrics audit.
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