PingRobot vs Oh Dear
Oh Dear is a website health suite: one subscription per site covers uptime, certificates, broken links, mixed content, Lighthouse and more. PingRobot focuses on uptime and gives you more of it for the money: a free plan, 50 one-minute monitors for $9 and 250 thirty-second monitors for $29.
Oh Dear plans and features were checked on 20 October 2026 on ohdear.app/pricing, ohdear.app/docs/features/uptime-monitoring, ohdear.app/features/notifications, ohdear.app/features/api-monitoring and ohdear.app/third-party-integrations/mcp-server. Prices are monthly, in US dollars before tax. Plans change, so check their page before you decide.
Two pricing models
Oh Dear counts sites. Each site gets the full set of checks, so the price follows how many websites you run. PingRobot counts monitors: one URL, API endpoint, TCP port, DNS record or cron job each. If you look after a few websites and want link, mixed-content and Lighthouse reports on all of them, Oh Dear's model fits. If you watch many endpoints, APIs and background jobs, PingRobot's model is much cheaper.
| PingRobot | Oh Dear | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes: 10 monitors, 5-minute checks | No; 10-day free trial, no card |
| Entry paid plan | Pro, $9/month ($90/year): 50 monitors | Solo, $17/month: 2 sites |
| Mid plan | Business, $29/month ($290/year): 250 monitors | Freelance, $55/month: 10 sites; Studio, $109/month: 25 sites |
| Check interval | 5 min (Free), 1 min (Pro), 30 s (Business) | Every minute |
| Failure confirmation | Re-checked from a second region | Confirmed from a secondary location; 16 locations |
| Team members | 10 admins or viewers on Business | Unlimited users on every plan |
| Annual billing | 2 months free on Pro and Business | 2 months free on some plans |
What gets checked
| PingRobot | Oh Dear | |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP(S) uptime with custom method, headers and body | Yes, with the status codes you expect | Yes (GET, POST, PATCH or PUT, up to 5 headers) |
| Keyword checks and slow-response alerts | Yes | Yes |
| JSON rules on API responses | Yes (for example $.status equals ok) | Yes (JSON path assertions), plus application health checks |
| SSL certificate | Expiry reminders, host name mismatch, missing intermediate, issuer changes | Certificate health |
| Domain expiry and DNS records | Yes (RDAP; A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT, CAA) | Yes, plus DNS blocklist checks |
| Cron / heartbeat monitoring | Yes | Yes (scheduled tasks) |
| TCP ports | Yes | Yes, plus a port scanner |
| Ping | No | Yes |
| Broken links, mixed content, sitemap, Lighthouse | No | Yes |
| Maintenance windows | One-off, daily or weekly | Yes |
Alerts, status pages and automation
| PingRobot | Oh Dear | |
|---|---|---|
| Alert channels | Email and signed webhooks on every plan; Slack, Discord and ntfy push on Pro | 12: email, Slack, Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Telegram, Pushover, ntfy, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, webhooks, SMS |
| SMS / phone | No | SMS through your own Vonage account; no phone calls listed |
| Status pages | 1 on Free, 5 on Pro, 100 on Business; your own domain, email subscribers and password protection on Pro | Public status pages with subscriber notifications |
| SLA reporting | SLA target, SLA badge and a monthly SLA email | Monthly email reports |
| API and AI assistants | REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 document and a remote MCP server that can also add monitors and post status-page updates, on every plan | REST API with an OpenAPI document, and an MCP server for querying monitors, uptime, broken links, DNS and Lighthouse data |
Where PingRobot is ahead
- A free plan with 10 monitors, SSL and domain reminders, heartbeats, signed webhooks and a status page, with no time limit.
- Price per endpoint: 50 one-minute monitors for $9, or 250 thirty-second monitors with 10 team members for $29, where $17 covers 2 Oh Dear sites.
- SLA targets on status pages, with an SLA badge and a monthly SLA email for clients.
- 30-second checks on Business, and an MCP server that can create monitors, schedule maintenance and post status-page announcements, where Oh Dear's MCP docs list read and analysis tools (MCP docs).
Where Oh Dear is ahead
- Whole-site health: broken links, mixed content, Lighthouse scores, sitemap and DNS blocklist checks for every site.
- More alert channels, including Telegram, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty and SMS.
- Unlimited users on every plan, ping monitors and 16 monitoring locations.
Which one should you choose?
Choose Oh Dear if you run a handful of websites and want one tool that also finds broken links, mixed content and slow pages, or you need Teams, Telegram or PagerDuty alerts.
Choose PingRobot if you watch many endpoints, APIs and cron jobs, want to start free, or need 30-second checks and status pages for many clients at a flat $29.
Start monitoring free — 10 monitors, no credit card.
Frequently asked questions
How do PingRobot and Oh Dear prices compare?
Oh Dear charges per site, from $17 a month for 2 sites to $55 for 10 and $109 for 25, with every check included and no free plan, only a 10-day trial. PingRobot has a Free plan with 10 monitors, Pro at $9 a month for 50 monitors checked every minute, and Business at $29 a month for 250 monitors checked every 30 seconds.
Is an Oh Dear site the same as a PingRobot monitor?
No. An Oh Dear site bundles uptime, SSL, broken links, mixed content, Lighthouse, DNS and domain checks for one website. A PingRobot monitor watches one URL, port, DNS record or cron job, and any HTTPS monitor can also send SSL and domain expiry reminders.
What does Oh Dear have that PingRobot doesn't?
Broken-link and mixed-content crawls, Lighthouse performance reports, sitemap and DNS blocklist checks, application health checks, ping monitors, 16 locations, unlimited users on every plan, and alerts by Telegram, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, ntfy, PagerDuty, Opsgenie and SMS through your own Vonage account.
What does PingRobot have that Oh Dear doesn't?
A free plan with no time limit, 30-second checks on Business, pricing per monitor rather than per site, and an MCP server that can add monitors, schedule maintenance and post status-page announcements; Oh Dear's MCP docs list tools for reading and analysing data. Both have a REST API with an OpenAPI document.