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How is Oh Dear different from Uptime Kuma?

Oh Dear gives you comprehensive website monitoring with 15 check types, AI-powered verification, and zero infrastructure to manage. We handle the servers, redundancy, and global check locations so you can focus on your sites. Uptime Kuma is a solid open-source option if you prefer self-hosting and have the DevOps resources to maintain it.

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Oh Dear vs the competition

What we have that Uptime Kuma doesn't

1. AI-powered monitoring

Use natural language to verify anything on your pages. Check if forms work, content exists, or validate complex page states. Uptime Kuma doesn't have AI capabilities.

2. Full site crawling

We crawl your entire site to find broken links, mixed content, and sitemap issues. Uptime Kuma only monitors the specific URLs you configure.

3. Zero maintenance

No servers to manage, no updates to apply, no backups to configure. We handle the infrastructure so your monitoring never goes down when you need it most.

Oh Dear compared with Uptime Kuma

Check types?
Oh Dear
15
Uptime Kuma
10
Self-hosted?
Oh Dear
No
Uptime Kuma
Yes
AI monitoring?
Oh Dear
Yes
Uptime Kuma
No
Crawls your entire site?
Oh Dear
Yes
Uptime Kuma
No
Lighthouse audits?
Oh Dear
Yes
Uptime Kuma
No
Global check locations?
Oh Dear
16
Uptime Kuma
1
Redundancy & failover?
Oh Dear
Yes
Uptime Kuma
No
Cost?
Oh Dear
From €10/mo
Uptime Kuma
Free
Maintenance required?
Oh Dear
None
Uptime Kuma
Yes

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Frequently asked questions

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Uptime Kuma is a great choice if you want full control over your monitoring infrastructure, have DevOps resources to maintain it, need to monitor internal services that can't be reached from the internet, or simply prefer open-source self-hosted solutions. It's free and has a beautiful interface.

Oh Dear includes AI-powered monitoring, full site crawling for broken links and mixed content, Lighthouse audits for SEO and performance, monitoring from 16 global locations, built-in redundancy, and zero maintenance. We also offer features like DNS change detection, domain expiry monitoring, and cron job monitoring that Uptime Kuma doesn't have.

Uptime Kuma is open-source and free to use, but you need to provide and maintain the server infrastructure. Factor in server costs ($5-20/month), your time for updates and maintenance, and the risk that your monitoring goes down when your infrastructure has issues. Oh Dear's monitoring infrastructure is independent of yours.

Uptime Kuma runs as a single instance on one server, so it only monitors from that location. Oh Dear checks from 16 global locations with automatic failover. This matters because a network issue between Uptime Kuma and your site could trigger false alerts, while Oh Dear verifies from multiple locations before alerting.
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