Oh Dear bills by the site: 25 client sites is the Studio plan at $91 a month. Uptimia Professional is $39 a month for 100 monitors and eleven people, with 150 texts a month included. Both billed yearly.
Up to two people with up to 10 sites pay less on Uptimia Basic. A bigger team watching up to 5 sites pays less on Oh Dear, which has no user cap. Past that, Uptimia costs less for a team of up to 11 people.
For the same setup, Oh Dear costs $91 a month and Uptimia $39.
Start free trial →One Oh Dear site counts as one Uptimia monitor, which favours Oh Dear: a site bundles uptime, SSL, broken-link, DNS and domain checks, while Uptimia counts each check type as a monitor (10 SSL monitors on Professional). Dollar and euro prices are Oh Dear's own. Not counted: text costs on your own Vonage account.
Oh Dear's price climbs with the site count. Uptimia Professional is one price for eleven people and up to 100 monitors, texts included, so nobody needs a Vonage account.
Oh Dear's AI browser checks follow a plain-English prompt, which Oh Dear calls a smoke test. Uptimia replays the steps you set in a visual builder, the same way on every run, and records what real visitors load, which Oh Dear's pricing page does not list.
Oh Dear checks once a minute at most; Uptimia Professional checks every 30 seconds. An Uptimia agent reports server CPU, memory and disk; Oh Dear has no agent and reads such figures from a health endpoint you add to your app.
Uptimia Professional against Oh Dear Studio, prices billed yearly. Uptimia leads on 11 rows, Oh Dear on 6, 12 are level.
| Feature | Uptimia Professional | Oh Dear Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Check types | ||
| HTTP, keyword, ping, port, DNS, SSL and domain expiry | ✓ Yes | ✓ YesAll bundled into each site |
| Scheduled task (cron job) monitoring | 100 monitors | ✓ YesA Laravel package syncs the schedule |
| Broken links and mixed content | ✗ No | ✓ Site crawlPlus sitemap and Lighthouse SEO checks (stronger offer) |
| API monitoring with multi-step chains | 10 monitors (stronger offer) | Endpoint checksAssertions on status, body, JSON, headers; chains not listed |
| Browser transactions (login, checkout) | 10 advanced checksShared with page speed (stronger offer) | AI browser checks (own AI key)AI follows a prompt; Oh Dear calls it a smoke test |
| Page speed | 10 advanced checksShared with browser transactions; Core Web Vitals | ✓ Performance and LighthouseOn every site |
| Real user monitoring | ✓ 750,000 page views a month (stronger offer) | ✗ Not listedNot on the pricing page feature list |
| Server agent (CPU, memory, disk) | 10 servers (stronger offer) | ✗ Not listedA health endpoint in your app can report them |
| Blacklist checks | 10 monitors | ✓ DNS blocklist |
| Malware and phishing lists | 10 monitorsGoogle Web Risk lookup | Security blocklistsPart of the DNS blocklist check |
| Intervals and locations | ||
| Fastest check interval | 30 seconds1 minute on Basic (stronger offer) | 1 minuteOn every plan |
| Outage confirmed from another location before alerting | ✓ Up to 3 more probe locations (stronger offer) | One second locationDifferent city and provider |
| Evidence captured at failure | ✓ Screenshot, headers, traceroute (stronger offer) | Response headers, IPs, cURL commandNo screenshot or traceroute listed |
| Alerting | ||
| Text alerts | 150 texts a month, renewing (stronger offer) | Your own Vonage accountNo texts included or sold |
| Chat and on-call channels | ✓ Slack, Teams, Telegram, Discord, PagerDuty, webhooks and more | ✓ Slack, Teams, Telegram, Discord, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, webhooks |
| Escalation with acknowledgement | ✓ Yes (stronger offer) | Acknowledge from email, Slack, TelegramNo escalation listed |
| Status pages | ||
| Status pages included | 10 | ✓ UnlimitedIn 25 languages (stronger offer) |
| Own domain and subscribers | ✓ Yes | ✓ YesSubscribe by email, Slack or RSS |
| Team and agency | ||
| People on the account | 11 people | ✓ UnlimitedOn every plan (stronger offer) |
| Roles and permissions | ✓ 5 roles, audit log | ✓ User roles and permissions |
| Branded client reports | ✓ Yes | ✓ Monthly, brandedReseller program too |
| Single sign-on (SAML) | ✗ No | ✓ On every planOkta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace (stronger offer) |
| API and tooling | ||
| REST API | ✓ API v2 with OpenAPI spec | ✓ Full APIOn every plan |
| MCP server | ✗ Not yet | ✓ Yes (stronger offer) |
| Laravel packages | ✗ NoHeartbeat URL works from any scheduler | ✓ Health checks and schedule sync (stronger offer) |
| Data location and account | ||
| Where monitoring data is stored | ✓ EU data centres | Primary data in Belgium (EU)Reports and backups on AWS |
| Two-factor sign-in | ✓ Authenticator app or email code | ✓ Authenticator app |
| Free trial | ✓ 30 days, no card (stronger offer) | 10 days, no card30-day money-back after paying |
| Free plan | 1 monitor (stronger offer) | ✗ No |
Run both for the first week. Cancel Oh Dear once Uptimia has paged you.
30 days, every feature, no card.
A list of URLs or Oh Dear's API output. We set them up.
Add who gets alerts, then retire Oh Dear.
Free on every plan and on the trial.
support@uptimia.com
For an agency with more than 5 client sites and up to 11 people, yes: 25 sites, five people and 20 texts a month cost $39 a month on Uptimia and $91 on Oh Dear, billed annually. Uptimia's price includes the texts, and it adds real-user monitoring and a server agent, which Oh Dear does not list.
When more than two people share up to 5 sites: Oh Dear Solo Plus is $27 a month, billed yearly, with unlimited users, while that team needs Uptimia Professional.
One or two people with up to 10 sites pay less on Uptimia Basic.
No. Oh Dear sends texts through a Vonage account you open and pay for yourself, and no plan includes or sells texts. Uptimia includes 50 texts a month on Basic, 150 on Professional and 500 on Enterprise.
An Oh Dear site is one address with a bundle of checks (uptime, SSL, broken links, DNS, domain expiry and more); an Uptimia monitor is one check type, so uptime plus SSL on one site uses two. Professional includes 100 uptime and 10 SSL monitors, and the calculator counts one monitor per site.
No. Oh Dear crawls each site for broken links and mixed content and checks the sitemap and Lighthouse SEO score; if that is the main reason you use it, keep it for that job.
Yes, for free. Email your site list, or what Oh Dear's API returns, to support@uptimia.com and we set up the monitors and alert contacts.
od-pricing Pricing page and its JSON-LD offers (EUR and USD offers both present; the visible text showed USD, "Prices in USD, ex. VAT", on the 2026-10-12 fetch and EUR on 2026-10-08): Solo 2 sites €15/mo ($17), €150/yr ($170); Solo Plus 5 sites €29 ($32), €290 ($320); Freelance 10 €49 ($55), €490 ($550); Studio 25 €99 ($109), €990 ($1,090); Agency 50 €149 ($165), €1,490 ($1,650); Agency Plus 75 €199 ($219), €1,990 ($2,190); Portfolio 100 €249 ($275), €2,490 ($2,750); Portfolio Plus 150 €329 ($365), €3,290 ($3,650); Scale 200 €399 ($439), €3,990 ($4,390); Enterprise 200+ custom. "Billed annually (2 months free)". "Prices in EUR, ex. VAT · 30-day money-back guarantee · cancel anytime" (2026-10-08; "Prices in USD, ex. VAT" on 2026-10-12). "Every plan starts with a 10-day free trial. No credit card needed." No free plan listed. Cards Visa, Mastercard, Amex; in the EU wire transfer, iDEAL, Bancontact, SEPA Direct Debit. ohdear.app/pricing, checked 12 Oct 2026.od-pricing-features "Same features, every plan. Pick your size." Every plan lists uptime, broken links & mixed content, performance & Lighthouse, sitemap, AI-powered checks, ping, TCP port, port scanner, application health, scheduled tasks (cron), SSL, DNS records, DNS blocklist, domain expiration, all 3rd party integrations, monthly email reports, public status pages, subscriber notifications, SSO, two-factor authentication, unlimited users, user roles & permissions, full API. "No feature is locked behind a higher tier - not single sign-on, not two-factor, not unlimited users, status pages or notification destinations." Branded status pages, branded client reports and a reseller program. No real-user monitoring or log management is listed. Menu: "10+ notification channels". ohdear.app/pricing, checked 8 Oct 2026.od-checks Docs list "thirteen types of monitoring": uptime and performance, AI-powered monitoring, SSL/TLS health, mixed content, broken links, cron job monitoring, application health, Lighthouse SEO, sitemap, DNS record, domain expiry, open ports (new), DNS blocklist (new); plus monthly reports. ohdear.app/docs/features/what-checks-does-oh-dear-perform, checked 8 Oct 2026.od-uptime Uptime page: "Every minute by default, settable per site from one to sixty minutes"; timeout 5 s default, 1 to 10; alert after 2 minutes of downtime by default, 1 to 20; "33 checker servers across 16 cities on six continents"; failure verified from a second location on a different city and provider; GET, POST, PUT, PATCH with payloads and headers; required-text (keyword) check and JSON assertions. ohdear.app/features/website-uptime-monitoring, checked 8 Oct 2026.od-api-monitoring API monitoring calls each endpoint "every minute by default" and asserts on status, body strings, JSON fields by path, headers and timing. ohdear.app/features/api-monitoring, checked 8 Oct 2026.od-notifications Notifications page: "12 channels: email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Telegram, SMS, Pushover, ntfy, PagerDuty, Opsgenie and webhooks." The docs also list Slack webhooks separately from Slack (13 entries in `channels`). The pricing page menu still says "10+ notification channels". ohdear.app/features/notifications, ohdear.app/docs/notifications/notifications, checked 9 Oct 2026.od-sms SMS is sent "via Vonage": "You'll need an API key & API secret, which you can get by creating an account at Vonage"; no SMS credits or packs are listed on the pricing page. ohdear.app/docs/notifications/sms, ohdear.app/pricing, checked 8 Oct 2026.od-status-pages "Unlimited status pages"; custom domains and branding; "any of 25 languages"; visitors subscribe by email, Slack or RSS; "A team can have 500 confirmed email subscribers by default." Uptime history: "How much uptime history does the page show? 60 days per monitor by default. You can turn the history off, or change the thresholds that make a day green, orange or red." ohdear.app/features/status-pages, checked 9 Oct 2026.od-sso "SSO on every plan"; SAML 2.0 with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace or any other SAML 2.0 provider; one identity provider per team. ohdear.app/features/single-sign-on, checked 8 Oct 2026.od-security "Primary hosting: Combell (Belgium) - ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27701 certified"; "Monitoring nodes: AWS, DigitalOcean, Vultr - all SOC 2 certified"; "We don't have SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certifications"; DPA with EU Standard Contractual Clauses. Privacy policy: "Your primary data stays in the EU, stored in Belgium with Combell". ohdear.app/security, ohdear.app/privacy, checked 8 Oct 2026.od-subprocessors Subprocessors: "Combell Belgium (EU) Hosting our main server where your data is stored"; "ClickHouse Cloud EU Storing performance metrics and analytics data"; "Amazon Web Services (AWS) Global Running uptime checks from global locations, plus storing backups, uploads, and check reports"; "DigitalOcean Global Running uptime checks from various global locations"; "Vultr Global Running uptime checks from various global locations"; Stripe (US/EU) for payments. ohdear.app/subprocessors, checked 9 Oct 2026.od-terms Services provided by "Immutable VOF, Hemelshoek 277, 2590 Berlaar, Belgium", "VAT number: BE 0699.594.682"; "Prices are quoted in EUR and include applicable Belgian VAT where required." (conflicts with the pricing page's "ex. VAT"; do not quote in copy); Belgian law, courts of Antwerp. ohdear.app/terms, checked 9 Oct 2026.od-about "Oh Dear started in 2018 with two people": Freek Van der Herten and Mattias Geniar; timeline adds ping and TCP port monitoring in 2025, AI-powered and DNS blocklist monitoring in 2026. ohdear.app/about, checked 8 Oct 2026.od-ping-tcp Blog "Introducing ping and TCP port monitoring", published August 26, 2025. ohdear.app/news-and-updates/introducing-ping-and-tcp-port-monitoring, checked 8 Oct 2026.od-changelog Changelog: 24-07-2026 "New agency pricing ... Introduced our new agency-focused pricing structure"; 28-08-2026 "New MCP tools"; 02-10-2026 "Up to 90 days of uptime history on status pages" and "Increased the maximum interval between uptime checks to 24 hours."; 09-10-2026 "Application health checks now have a configurable check frequency." ohdear.app/changelog, ohdear.app/changelog/2026-07-24, ohdear.app/changelog/2026-10-02, ohdear.app/changelog/2026-10-09, ohdear.app/changelog.md, checked 12 Oct 2026.od-laravel Application health page: "On Laravel, `spatie/laravel-health` gives you the endpoint and a stack of ready-made checks out of the box"; the feature also works outside Laravel ("Any language or framework that can return the JSON contract"). Cron docs: "In standard Laravel, you can use the `thenPing()` method in your Console scheduler"; "there's a convenient Laravel package called spatie/laravel-schedule-monitor you can use that syncs up nicely with Oh Dear." (The docs' "it will sync your whole schedule and wire up the pings for you" describes Oh Dear's ready-made AI prompt, not this package.) ohdear.app/features/application-health-monitoring, ohdear.app/docs/features/cron-job-monitoring, checked 9 Oct 2026.od-check-frequency FAQ: "The uptime, AI, and application health checks always run every minute, because the whole point is to know the moment something is wrong." Conflicts with the uptime page's one-to-sixty-minute range (od-uptime), with the 2026-10-02 changelog (uptime interval up to 24 hours) and with the 2026-10-09 changelog (configurable application health frequency); the FAQ still carried the sentence on 2026-10-12. ohdear.app/docs/faq/how-often-are-checks-performed, checked 12 Oct 2026.od-client-reporting Client reporting page: team logo and accent colour on monthly reports; "A small 'powered by Oh Dear' mark stays at the bottom." "Reports are not fully white-labeled." ohdear.app/features/client-reporting, checked 12 Oct 2026.od-app-health About page: "Application health monitoring Watch CPU, memory, disk, and custom metrics from inside your app." Application health page: checks can cover "database availability, Redis connectivity, disk usage, outbound mail, application-error volume, worker state"; "Do I need to install an agent? No resident agent. You expose a single health endpoint that returns your checks as JSON". ohdear.app/about, ohdear.app/features/application-health-monitoring, checked 12 Oct 2026.ecb-rate Euro reference rate $1.1355 to €1, European Central Bank, 29 Sep 2026. Used only to convert dollar add-ons in the euro view. www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/eurofxref-graph-usd.en.html, checked 30 Sep 2026.