# How is Oh Dear different from other website monitoring software? Most tools answer one question: is the site up? Then you bolt on a second for SSL, a third for DNS, a cron pinger, a broken-link crawler, a speed auditor. Oh Dear does all of it. One tool, one bill. [ Start monitoring ](https://ohdear.app/register) 10 day free trial No credit card required - Bitmovin - HBO Nordic - Obsidian - Laravel - Fathom Analytics - PHP 8 - Stanford University - Takeaway.com - IGN - VRT NWS - spatie the quick verdict **Choose Oh Dear** if you want uptime, SSL/TLS, DNS, full-site crawling, cron checks and Lighthouse in one place, with unlimited users and one predictable bill. **Choose UptimeRobot** if all you need is the cheapest basic up/down ping and a free tier, not full-site crawling or on-call. **Choose Better Stack** if native on-call scheduling and incident management is your number-one priority. **Choose Pingdom** if real-user (RUM) page-speed analytics from an established hosted monitor is what you are after. **Choose StatusCake** if you want a generous free tier and the lowest-cost basic uptime. **Choose Site24x7** if you need full-stack infrastructure, server, network and APM monitoring, not just websites. **Choose Uptime.com** if you need enterprise synthetic transactions, RUM and global probes at scale. **Choose Uptrends** if you want a mature enterprise uptime suite with multi-step transactions and global checkpoints, and per-seat pricing is not a blocker. **Choose Datadog** if you are already all-in on Datadog for APM, logs and infrastructure and want synthetic uptime in the same usage-billed platform. What only Oh Dear does ## 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 ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-uptime-robot) [ Better Stack ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-betterstack) [ Pingdom ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-pingdom) [ StatusCake ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-statuscake) [ Site24x7 ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-site24x7) [ Uptime.com ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-uptime-com) [ Uptrends ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-uptrends) [ Datadog ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-datadog) Uptime monitoring? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Ping monitoring? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes TCP port monitoring? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Performance monitoring? Yes Partial Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Lighthouse audits? Yes No RUM only No No Yes Yes No Partial Certificate health (SSL/TLS)? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Broken links & mixed content? Yes No No No Partial Partial No No No Sitemap monitoring? Yes No No No No Partial No No No DNS monitoring? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes DNS blocklist monitoring? Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes No No Domain expiry monitoring? Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Scheduled-task / cron? Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Partial Application health checks? Yes No No Partial No Yes Partial Partial Yes Port scanning? Yes No No No No No No No No AI-powered checks? Yes No Partial No No Partial No No Partial Notifications & integrations? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Status pages? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Add-on Yes Yes Single sign-on (SSO)? Yes No Yes Yes Partial Yes Yes Partial Yes Unlimited users & destinations? Yes Seat limits Tiered Metered Tiered Credit-based Metered Tiered Usage-based Uptime check interval? 1 minute 60s 30s 1 minute 1 minute 1 minute 1 minute 2 min 1 minute Incident management / on-call? No Partial Yes No Add-on Yes Partial Yes Yes Entry price? $17 Free / $7 Free / $29 $15 Free / $20 $9 $9 $210/mo Usage-based orange = leads this row green = has it grey = doesn't lead Sourced from each vendor's docs · June 2026 [ Try 10 days for free ](https://ohdear.app/register) Being honest ## When a competitor is the better call We'd rather you pick the right tool than churn in month two. UptimeRobot ### 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. Better Stack ### On-call & incident management Best if 30-second checks plus native on-call scheduling and incident management (replacing PagerDuty) is your number-one need. Pingdom ### Real-user speed data Best for an established hosted monitor with global polling and proprietary page-speed plus real-user analytics across heavy traffic. StatusCake ### 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. Site24x7 ### Full-stack infrastructure Best for IT, DevOps and MSPs wanting one platform for sites, servers, network, cloud and APM, with built-in on-call. Uptime.com ### Enterprise SRE platform Best for synthetic transaction checks, global probes and SOC2/SSO when you are an SRE team at scale. Uptrends ### Enterprise transaction monitoring Best for enterprises wanting mature multi-step transaction monitoring and a large global checkpoint network, with budget for per-seat plans. Datadog ### 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. Why we built it this way ## 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. Go deeper ## Compare Oh Dear head-to-head Pick the tool you're actually weighing us against. [ vs UptimeRobot The cheapest basic up/down ping, with a real free tier. Compare → ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-uptime-robot) [ vs Better Stack Uptime built around on-call scheduling and incident management. Compare → ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-betterstack) [ vs Pingdom An established hosted monitor with real-user speed analytics. Compare → ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-pingdom) [ vs StatusCake Affordable uptime monitoring with a generous free tier. Compare → ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-statuscake) [ vs Site24x7 A full-stack infrastructure suite; websites are one slice. Compare → ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-site24x7) [ vs Uptime.com An enterprise SRE platform with synthetic transactions and RUM. Compare → ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-uptime-com) [ vs Uptrends An established enterprise website and uptime monitoring suite. Compare → ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-uptrends) [ vs Datadog The observability giant; uptime is one slice of the suite. Compare → ](https://ohdear.app/oh-dear-vs-datadog) ## 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: > It's been great—I use it across multiple teams and works amazingly. **Ryan Scherler** Developer > Oh Dear gives me confidence that all my sites and scheduled tasks are running. I use it on all my Laravel projects! **Ash Allen** Laravel developer > Oh Dear looks really good, it's fast, and it found some mixed content I had. 👌💯 **Nicolas Widart** Creator of Asgard CMS > I love having all my site management in one place with a sleek interface. **Owen Voke** Engineer > The best site monitoring tool I ever used! [ **Slava Abakumov** Product Lead ](https://www.g2.com/products/oh-dear/reviews/oh-dear-review-10740841) > I think this is the first Spark application in the wild that I have joined as a paying customer. Pretty neat. 👏 **Taylor Otwell** Creator of Laravel > 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. **Paul Redmond** Contributor at Laravel News > Brilliant site and error monitoring. [ **Steve Edson** Director ](https://www.g2.com/products/oh-dear/reviews/oh-dear-review-10735599) > It took me 5 minutes to setup a status page for @FilmmusicDB and it just works. See for yourself: **Marcus Stöhr** Senior software developer ## Frequently asked questions ### Can Oh Dear monitor my entire site? Yes, unlike other services we offer an all-in-one solution to website monitoring including DNS, SSL, domain and Lighthouse reports. We also track the execution of scheduled tasks and custom application health checks and even perform daily checks on every page of your site by reviewing your sitemap and crawling all pages for broken links. ### Do all pricing plans include the same features? Yes, we only limit by number of sites being monitored (and scheduled tasks for each). Everything else is unlimited including team members, status pages and notification channels. No extra charges, hidden fees or surprises at the end of the month. You can even pay yearly and get 1 month free. ### Can I customize the behavior for each type of monitor? Yes, we provide access to settings such as monitoring location. You can also set notification preferences at the site and/or team level, and configure each individually to only respond to specific events. ### What types of reports do you provide? We provide access to your failed check history along with details including request/response headers, detailed performance charts and the option to download xls.csv version of results. We will also send and store a monthly summary to your team. [See all other FAQ items →](https://ohdear.app/docs/faq) ## Start monitoring instantly Start a no-strings-attached 10-day free trial. 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