Oh Dear made one decision that shapes the whole product: nothing is gated. Single sign-on, unlimited users, unlimited status pages, broken link scanning, Lighthouse reports, cron checks, DNS monitoring — every plan has all of it. The only thing you choose is how many sites. That is either the most refreshing pricing page in monitoring or the most expensive, depending entirely on how many sites you have.
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Is Oh Dear worth it?
For a small number of sites that genuinely matter, yes — the depth per site is the best in this comparison and the no-gating policy means you never discover the feature you need costs more. At $17 for two sites it is excellent. At $165 for fifty it depends on whether those fifty sites each deserve broken-link scanning and Lighthouse reports, because you are paying for that on every one of them whether you use it or not.
Oh Dear monitors a website comprehensively rather than checking one thing about it. A single site gets uptime, certificate health, broken links, mixed content, performance and Lighthouse reports, sitemap monitoring, DNS records, DNS blocklist checks, domain expiry, application health, ping, TCP port checks and scheduled task monitoring.
The pricing is per site and every tier includes every feature. Solo is $17 a month for 2 sites, Freelance $55 for 10, Agency $165 for 50, Scale $439 for 200. Nothing — not SSO, not two-factor, not unlimited users, not status pages, not the API — is reserved for a higher tier.
There is no free plan, only a 10-day trial with no card required, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Depth on each site, with no feature held back on any plan.
Crawls the site and reports links that have died and insecure resources on secure pages. Almost nobody else in this category includes this.
SSO, two-factor, unlimited users, unlimited status pages and the full API on every plan including the cheapest. The tier only sets how many sites.
Performance reports alongside availability, so slow is treated as a problem rather than only down.
Certificate expiry and chain health, DNS record monitoring and DNS blocklist checks, plus domain expiry.
Cron checks included, so a job that stops running is covered by the same subscription.
Branded monthly client reports and unlimited users, with the per-site model matching how agencies bill anyway.
Per site, in USD excluding VAT. Every plan has every feature.
| Plan | Price/mo | Sites | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solo | $17 | 2 | Every feature, as on every tier |
| Solo Plus | $32 | 5 | |
| Freelance | $55 | 10 | |
| Studio | $109 | 25 | |
| Agency | $165 | 50 | |
| Portfolio | $275 | 100 | |
| Scale | $439 | 200 | Enterprise above this, quoted |
Monitoring vendors change plan limits and prices frequently and without announcement. Every figure here carries a "verify on their site" caveat and you should take it seriously before making a decision on cost.
Per site, Oh Dear does considerably more than we do. Broken links, mixed content, Lighthouse reports, DNS record monitoring and blocklist checks are all things we do not offer in any form. If you have five important sites and want each one examined properly, they are the better product and the price is fair for what it includes.
The models differ rather than the quality. They charge per site with everything included; we charge per monitor. Fifty sites with them is $165 a month. Fifty monitors with us is $19 — but a monitor is one check, so fifty sites needing uptime plus a certificate is a hundred monitors, which is our $34 plan. Even then we are cheaper, and we are not pretending to do the broken-link crawl.
One thing we do that they do not: diff arbitrary page content and tell you what changed. Their suite is about the health of a site you own; ours extends to watching any page, including ones you do not control.
The honest split: a handful of sites you want thoroughly examined — theirs, and it is the best in this batch at that. Many endpoints, certificates, domains and pages watched cheaply — ours.
Every recorded change is compared word by word and kept with a before-and-after image. This is the real output, shown with worked example data.
Price fell from $49 to $39, and an annual discount was added.
The item is available again and the basket button returned.
A new subprocessor was added in another jurisdiction.
The free plan sends to one email address. Every paid plan adds the chat and webhook channels below, with 2 to 10 destinations depending on the plan. However many alerts you receive, the price does not change — nothing here is metered or charged per alert.
There are no voice calls and no SMS. If a phone call at 3am is a hard requirement, say so before you subscribe — we would rather tell you now than refund you later.
Solo is $17 a month for 2 sites, Solo Plus $32 for 5, Freelance $55 for 10, Studio $109 for 25, Agency $165 for 50, Portfolio $275 for 100 and Scale $439 for 200. Prices are USD excluding VAT. Verify on their site.
No. There is a 10-day trial with no credit card required, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Everything. Uptime, broken links, mixed content, performance and Lighthouse, sitemap monitoring, ping, TCP port checks, application health, cron checks, certificate health, DNS records, DNS blocklist, domain expiry, status pages, SSO, two-factor, unlimited users and the full API. The tier only changes the number of sites.
Detection of insecure HTTP resources loaded by a secure HTTPS page. It breaks the padlock and is easy to introduce accidentally, and very few monitoring tools check for it.
Yes, scheduled task monitoring is included on every plan, so a job that stops running is covered without a separate tool.
Yes. Unlimited users, unlimited status pages, branded monthly client reports and per-site pricing all match how agency work is organised and billed.
Not in the sense of diffing arbitrary content and reporting what changed. Its checks are about the health of sites you own rather than watching pages you do not control.
Per site they do far more — broken links, mixed content, Lighthouse, DNS records, blocklist checks, none of which we offer. We are considerably cheaper per check and we diff page content, which they do not.
Last updated August 2026 · Written by Amit Gupta, founder of MonitoringDaddy
Oh Dear examines each site more deeply. We watch more things for less, including pages you do not own.