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Upcertain and Oh Dear compared

Oh Dear monitors websites broadly, from uptime and certificates to broken links and DNS, and prices by how many sites you watch. Upcertain prices by plan and focuses on uptime, incidents and status pages.

Updated 25 October 2026 · By the Upcertain team

The short version

  • Pick Oh Dear if you want broken-link crawling, DNS monitoring, performance checks and verification from a second location, all in one per-site price.
  • Pick Upcertain if you monitor many endpoints per site (APIs, health checks, ports, jobs) and want 100 monitors on one plan, tunable confirmation and an MCP server.

Side by side

UpcertainOh Dear
Pricing unitPlans by number of monitorsPlans by number of sites and servers
Entry optionBasic: 10 monitors, 60 sSolo: 2 sites, €15 a month as shown on the pricing page (billing period not stated); 10-day trial
Larger plansTeam: 100 monitors; Business: customUp to 200 sites for €399 a month, then custom
Features by planCustom domains, MCP and unlimited members from TeamEvery feature on every plan
Confirming a failure0 to 5 re-checks over timeVerified from a second location
Other checksKeyword, ping, port, SSL, heartbeatAdds broken links, DNS, performance

Oh Dear's figures come from its pricing page, read on 25 October 2026.

Where Oh Dear does more

Oh Dear checks more about each website: broken links, DNS and performance, alongside uptime, certificates, cron jobs and status pages. It verifies each alert from a second location, and includes single sign-on, two-factor and unlimited users on every plan.

Where Upcertain is different

  • Monitors, not sites. A site with an API, a health endpoint, a mail server and three jobs is one site at Oh Dear and several monitors at Upcertain. Which is cheaper depends on how you monitor.
  • Confirmation over time you tune per monitor, for services whose deploys fail briefly. See confirmation checks.
  • Status pages that group simultaneous incidents and fold brief outages.
  • MCP and REST for agents and scripts.

Questions to ask before you switch

  • Which checks do you rely on today that Upcertain does not run, such as browser checks or checks from several regions?
  • Who needs a login, and who only needs alerts? Notify-only contacts cover the second group.
  • How long do your deploys fail for? That decides your confirmation settings.
  • Which status page domain and subscribers will move, and how will you tell subscribers?

Moving from Oh Dear

  1. List your Oh Dear monitors: URLs or hosts, intervals and expected status codes.
  2. Import them with a CSV file or a list of URLs, up to 200 rows at a time (CSV import).
  3. Add alert channels and send a test to each.
  4. Rebuild the status page and move your subdomain's CNAME to pages.upcertain.com (custom domains).
  5. Run both for a week, then switch the old monitors off.

Questions

Is there a free trial?
No trial is needed: Upcertain is in early access, billing is not enabled, and accounts start on the Basic plan.

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