> Markdown version of https://getuptimely.com/compare/ohdear — the page itself is the canonical copy. Compare # Oh Dear alternative: 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. [All Uptimely comparisons](https://getuptimely.com/compare) ## 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, unlimited status pages 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 — its published USD monthly offers are Solo $17 for 2 sites, Freelance $55 for 10 and Studio $109 for 25; the visible EUR prices are €15, €49 and €99 respectively, 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 | | ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 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 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 | | Incident workflow | Incidents with states, timelines, notes and postmortems | Downtime history with the cause recorded | | 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's site counts, plan inclusions and prices are quoted from https://ohdear.app/pricing, fetched 2026-10-22\. Its visible table shows EUR, while the same page’s structured offers explicitly publish USD monthly prices: Solo $17 for 2 sites, Solo Plus $32 for 5, Freelance $55 for 10 and Studio $109 for 25\. The Solo offer labels $17 as P1M / Billed monthly and $170 separately as P1Y / Billed annually; these are published prices, not conversions. Its uptime checks always run every minute and failures are verified from a second location, per https://ohdear.app/docs/faq/how-often-are-checks-performed, fetched the same day. Unlimited status pages and the 10-day trial are stated at https://ohdear.app/features/status-pages, and SMS uses your own Vonage account per https://ohdear.app/docs/notifications/sms, both fetched 2026-10-22\. The API's CRUD scope and PHP SDK were read at https://ohdear.app/docs/api/introduction on 2026-09-02\. Uptimely figures reflect its current plans. ## Pricing and plan limits (October 2026) [Compare every vendor’s uptime monitoring pricing](https://getuptimely.com/uptime-monitoring-pricing). Each verified cell links to its source and check date. __Published free and entry paid plans. Prices are USD, billed monthly, unless the row says otherwise. Free / paid refers to the plans named in that row. — means not published or not verified in the linked sources. Scroll horizontally to compare every column.__ | Vendor | Free tier | Entry paid plan (USD/month) | Minimum uptime check interval | Monitors included | Status pages | On-call and alerting | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Uptimely](https://getuptimely.com/pricing)Hosted plans per project. Pro includes 25 members. Aggregate outbound check budgets: 10/minute on Free and 5000/minute on Pro. SMS/voice quotas are not published. | Yes — $0; 10 monitors, 1 status page, 3 members[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22 | Pro $29/month USD, billed monthly[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22 | **Free:** 60 seconds[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22**Paid:** 60 seconds[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22 | **Free:** 10[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22**Paid:** Unlimited[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22 | **Free:** 1; 1000 subscribers/page[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22**Paid:** Unlimited; 25000 subscribers/page[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22 | Incidents, alerts & on-call on Free; Everything in Free on Pro. SMS/voice quotas not published.[Source](https://getuptimely.com/pricing) · 2026-10-22 | | Oh DearSolo: $17/month USD for 2 sites, explicitly published in the pricing page’s structured offers. The visible EUR price is €15/month excluding VAT; no currency conversion is substituted. | No — 10-day free trial[Source](https://ohdear.app/freshping-alternative) · 2026-10-22 | $17/month — Solo, billed monthly[Source](https://ohdear.app/pricing) · 2026-10-22 | **Free:** — not published**Paid:** 1 minute (uptime)[Source](https://ohdear.app/docs/faq/how-often-are-checks-performed) · 2026-10-22 | **Free:** — not published**Paid:** 2 sites (Solo)[Source](https://ohdear.app/pricing) · 2026-10-22 | **Free:** — not published**Paid:** Unlimited, on every paid plan[Source](https://ohdear.app/features/status-pages) · 2026-10-22 | SMS uses your own Vonage API key and secret; voice and escalation limits not published.[Source](https://ohdear.app/docs/notifications/sms) · 2026-10-22 | 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 →](https://app.getuptimely.com/accounts/register) ### 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? Oh Dear publishes USD monthly offers in its pricing page’s structured data: $17 for 2 sites, $32 for 5, $55 for 10 and $109 for 25, with unlimited users and status pages, a 10-day trial and no ongoing free plan. Its visible EUR prices are €15, €29, €49 and €99 respectively, excluding VAT. Uptimely has a free plan with 10 monitors and a Pro plan at $29/month with unlimited monitors, unlimited status pages and 25 members. Oh Dear’s two-site paid plan costs less than Uptimely Pro; its five-site paid plan costs more. Compare the features and team allowance you need as well as the site count. These are published prices, not currency conversions. ### 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. 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