Statuspage vs Oh Dear
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Statuspage and Oh Dear.
Quick Verdict
3.9/5
Statuspage
0 reviews
4.2/5
Oh Dear
0 reviews
Oh Dear is rated higher (4.2 vs 3.9). Atlassian's hosted status page platform: component-based status, subscriber notifications (email/Slack/Teams free; SMS/webhook paid), scheduled maintenance, Jira and Opsgenie integration. Public, private, and audience-specific pages. 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.
Statuspage Incident communication from Atlassian | Oh Dear Website monitoring with SSL and broken link checks | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.9 (0 reviews) | 4.2 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | freemium | paid |
| Starting price | Free tier available✓ | From $15/mo |
| Best for | SaaS and infrastructure teams that want a credible, component-level public status page with subscriber notifications, especially when already using Jira or Opsgenie. | 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 tierapi accessteam features | api access |
| Visit Statuspage → | Visit Oh Dear → | |
Statuspage
Pros
- + The recognized standard — the status page most users already know how to read
- + Genuinely usable free plan: 100 subscribers, 25 components, API included
- + Component subscriptions let users follow only the services they use
- + Deep Atlassian integrations: Jira, Opsgenie, Slack, Microsoft Teams
- + Three page types (public, private, audience-specific) cover customer and internal comms
Cons
- - SMS and webhook notifications gated behind the $99/mo Startup plan
- - Component subscriptions and full HTML/JS customization need the $399/mo Business plan
- - Enterprise pricing (from $1,499/mo) is steep versus newer status-page rivals
- - SSO costs extra via Atlassian Guard; Atlassian account sprawl adds friction
- - Plan-name and subscriber-count details differ between Atlassian's own pricing page and buyer's guide
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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