PagerDuty vs Oh Dear
A detailed comparison to help you choose between PagerDuty and Oh Dear.
Quick Verdict
3.7/5
PagerDuty
0 reviews
4.2/5
Oh Dear
0 reviews
Oh Dear is rated higher (4.2 vs 3.7). roughly 15,000 paid customers as of fiscal year-end January 2025, including 849 with over $100K ARR Oh Dear provides uptime monitoring, SSL certificate monitoring, broken link checking, DNS monitoring, and cron job monitoring from a single dashboard. Simple, no-frills approach.
PagerDuty Incident management and on-call scheduling platform | Oh Dear Website monitoring with SSL and broken link checks | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.7 (0 reviews) | 4.2 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | freemium | paid |
| Starting price | Free tier available✓ | From $15/mo |
| Best for | Engineering organizations where on-call reliability is critical and budget allows per-seat pricing; small teams under 5 users on the free plan. | Agencies and small teams who want one subscription covering uptime, SSL, broken links, DNS, cron and status pages for a roster of client sites |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | — | Hosted in Belgium (EU) on ISO 27001 infrastructure; ~16 check locations worldwide |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | free tiermobile appapi accessteam features | api access |
| Visit PagerDuty → | Visit Oh Dear → | |
PagerDuty
Pros
- + Free plan for up to 5 users with real escalation policies and unlimited push/email
- + Most battle-tested notification and escalation machinery in the category
- + Published SLA with concrete notification-delivery commitments and credits
- + US and EU service regions on AWS with region selection at signup
- + Deep integration catalog and mature mobile apps
Cons
- - Per-seat pricing gets expensive fast; 6th user flips the whole account to paid
- - SLA is 99.9% notification delivery — competitors contract at 99.99%
- - Platform grown by acquisition; multiple surfaces, limits and fine print
- - SLA excludes free plan; no APAC service region
Oh Dear
Pros
- + Every feature on every plan — no tiering of SSO, status pages, users, or API access
- + Two-location verification before firing alerts, which genuinely reduces false alarms
- + One site slot replaces uptime, SSL, broken-link, DNS, cron and Lighthouse tools at a predictable per-site price
- + EU-hosted (Belgium, ISO 27001 infrastructure) with full API and strong agency/reseller workflow
Cons
- - No free plan and no single-site tier below €15/month
- - Website/server monitoring only — no APM, metrics, logs, or host-level observability
- - Small vendor (2–10 people) with no published SLA for the monitoring service itself
- - Per-site cost is above bare uptime checkers; 200 sites costs €399/month
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