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title: "Oh Dear vs UptimeRobot — honest 2026 comparison"
description: "Oh Dear vs UptimeRobot: pricing, check intervals, strengths, weaknesses, and which one fits your team. Verified 2026-06-28."
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# Oh Dear vs UptimeRobot

> A like-for-like comparison of Oh Dear and UptimeRobot — what each one monitors, what it costs at the entry tier, and where each one falls short.

## Pricing and intervals

- Oh Dear: trial only, Personal from $22/mo, checks as often as every 1 min.
- UptimeRobot: free tier available, Solo from $7/mo, checks as often as every 1 min.

## Oh Dear — strengths and weaknesses

## Strengths

- Uptime + broken links + certificate + mixed-content in one product
- Made by well-known Laravel maintainers — strong PHP integrations
- Application health checks are a genuine differentiator

## Weaknesses

- No visual change detection or screenshot diffs
- SEO checks stop at broken links and mixed content
- Smaller check-region set than global enterprise tools

## UptimeRobot — strengths and weaknesses

## Strengths

- Generous free tier (50 monitors at 5-minute checks)
- Simple, focused uptime UX
- Long track record and large community

## Weaknesses

- No SEO, sitemap, or content-drift monitoring
- No visual change detection or screenshot diffs
- Status pages are basic on lower tiers

## Which should you pick?

 Choose Oh Dear when You run Laravel/PHP and want the application-health-check integration Oh Dear pioneered.

 Choose UptimeRobot when You only need HTTP/ping uptime checks and want the cheapest paid tier.

 Facts last verified 2026-06-28 (Oh Dear) and 2026-06-28 (UptimeRobot) against each vendor's public pricing page.


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