Uptimely vs Oh Dear
Oh Dear is an independent monitoring product from a small team with a very good reputation, and it is the closest thing on this list to a peer rather than a competitor to argue with. It watches a site's health broadly — uptime, certificates, broken links, mixed content, sitemaps, DNS, scheduled tasks — and verifies every uptime failure from a second location before it alerts anyone. Uptimely covers a narrower set of checks and a wider operations layer. This page is written to be useful rather than persuasive.
Where Oh Dear is strong
Two things Oh Dear does are better than what Uptimely does, and neither is small. It checks uptime every minute from multiple locations worldwide and alerts only when a second location confirms the first — the exact spatial confirmation Uptimely does not have, because Uptimely probes from a single vantage point. And its check catalogue is wider than ours: broken links, mixed content, sitemap health, DNS records, DNS blocklists, domain expiry, open ports, Lighthouse and application health, most of which Uptimely does not check at all. Scheduled tasks are the exception: both products watch cron jobs, Uptimely through its Heartbeat monitor. Every plan includes unlimited users, a public status page and subscriber notifications, with a full REST API, an OpenAPI spec and a PHP SDK behind them.
Where Uptimely differs
Pricing shape is the first real difference: Oh Dear sells by site count and prices in euros — Solo is €15/month for 2 sites, Freelance €49/month for 10, Studio €99/month for 25, ex. VAT — with a 10-day trial and no free plan, while Uptimely has a free plan at $0 and one flat Pro plan at $29/month with unlimited monitors and unlimited status pages. The second is the operations layer: Uptimely models incidents as states with timelines, notes and postmortems, runs on-call duty policies with escalation rules, schedules maintenance windows and ingests OpenTelemetry logs, traces and metrics, where Oh Dear's published feature set describes notification channels rather than schedules or escalation. Neither of those makes Oh Dear the wrong choice — they are different products for different jobs, and it is worth being clear about which job you have.
| Feature | Uptimely | Oh Dear |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | $0 — 10 monitors, 1 status page, 3 members | None — 10-day free trial, no card; 30-day money-back guarantee |
| Entry paid plan | Pro $29/mo — unlimited monitors & status pages, 25 members | Solo €15/mo — 2 sites (Freelance €49/mo — 10 sites) |
| Pricing model | Flat per plan — unlimited monitors on Pro | By site count — nine tiers from 2 to 200 sites, then Enterprise; annual is 2 months free |
| Check frequency | 1-minute (Free and Pro) | Uptime every minute (2-minute option); other check types on their own cadence |
| Check types | Uptime, API, ping (TCP port 80), port, DNS, SSL, domain, external status page, heartbeat (cron), Linux server (CPU, memory, disk), sandboxed scripts | Wider — adds broken links, mixed content, sitemap, blocklists, Lighthouse |
| Probe locations | One vantage point | Multiple locations — a failure is verified from a second before it alerts |
| Team members | 3 (Free) / 25 (Pro) | Unlimited users on every plan |
| Status pages | 1 (Free) / unlimited (Pro); custom domains | Public status page with subscriber notifications, included |
| Incident workflow | Incidents with states, timelines, notes and postmortems | Downtime history with the cause recorded |
| On-call / escalation | Included on all plans, incl. Free | — (notification channels, including PagerDuty and Opsgenie) |
| API / SDK | Public /v1 REST API, OpenAPI 3.1 schema, SDK, MCP server | Full REST API with an OpenAPI spec and a PHP SDK |
| Telemetry / APM | OTLP logs, traces & metrics; Prometheus /metrics | Performance and Lighthouse checks; no OTLP logs or traces |
| Self-hosting | No (SaaS) | No (SaaS) |
Oh Dear plan names, prices, site counts, the unlimited-users inclusion and the trial and money-back terms are quoted from ohdear.app/pricing; the per-check-type frequencies and the second-location verification from its own documentation and uptime feature page; the API's CRUD scope and PHP SDK from its API introduction. The pricing page was re-read 2026-09-15 and the prices above are that read; the documentation and feature pages were read 2026-09-02 and are unchanged since. https://ohdear.app/pricing, https://ohdear.app/docs/faq/how-often-are-checks-performed, https://ohdear.app/features/website-uptime-monitoring and https://ohdear.app/docs/api/introduction. Uptimely figures reflect its current plans.
Uptimely's Free plan has 10 monitors, 1 status page and 1-minute checks, with no credit card. Pro comes with a 14-day free trial.
Start free →Is Uptimely a good Oh Dear alternative?
Uptimely is a good alternative if the operations layer is what you are missing — incidents with states and timelines, on-call duty policies with escalation, scheduled maintenance, OpenTelemetry ingestion — or if a free plan and a flat price beat paying by site count for your setup. Oh Dear is an excellent product and staying on it is a perfectly good answer, particularly if its wider check catalogue or its second-location verification is what you value.
Does Uptimely verify an outage from a second location like Oh Dear?
No, and this is the row where Oh Dear is straightforwardly better. Oh Dear checks from a primary location and only alerts when a secondary location confirms the failure. Uptimely probes from a single vantage point; a second network is on the roadmap and is not shipped. What Uptimely does instead is confirm in time rather than in space — a worsening result is re-checked before it commits, and a monitor declares an incident only after consecutive failed checks — which suppresses blips but cannot tell a problem on our network apart from a problem on yours the way a second location can.
Which is cheaper, Uptimely or Oh Dear?
It depends on how many sites you watch, because they are priced on different axes. Oh Dear sells by site count — €15/month for 2 sites, €49/month for 10, €99/month for 25, all ex. VAT — with no free plan and a 10-day trial. Uptimely has a free plan with 10 monitors and one flat Pro plan at $29/month with unlimited monitors, so it gets relatively cheaper as the count grows and Oh Dear is the better deal at two or three sites if unlimited users matter to you.
Does Oh Dear have on-call scheduling or escalation?
Not that it publishes. Oh Dear's feature pages describe notification channels — email, SMS, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Pushover, ntfy, webhooks, plus Opsgenie and PagerDuty — and assigning responsibilities to team members, rather than on-call schedules, rotations or escalation policies. Uptimely includes on-call duty policies with escalation rules on every plan, including Free.
Does Uptimely check broken links or mixed content?
No. Uptimely checks whether a service answers and how: HTTP/API, ping (a TCP connection to port 80, not ICMP), port, DNS, SSL, domain, external status pages, heartbeats from cron jobs and the health of Linux servers. It also ingests OpenTelemetry from your own services. Broken links, mixed content, sitemap health, DNS blocklists and Lighthouse audits are all things Oh Dear does and Uptimely does not. If a broad site-health sweep is what you are shopping for, Oh Dear is the better fit.