# Better Stack Uptime vs Oh Dear

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Oh Dear

| Attribute | Better Stack Uptime | Oh Dear |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 59.4 (58% (medium)) | 72.6 (73% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Better Stack provides observability tools that integrate logging and monitoring capabilities. The platform uses eBPF technology for instrumentation in containerized environments to collect logs, metrics, and traces. It is indexed under Uptime Monitoring.","source":"https://betterstack.com/better-uptime","question":"What is Better Stack Uptime?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Better Stack Uptime offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $29 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"Is Better Stack Uptime free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Better Stack Uptime supports the web, iOS and Android. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does Better Stack Uptime support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Better Stack Uptime can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://betterstack.com/better-uptime","question":"Can Better Stack Uptime be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 10 integrations for Better Stack Uptime, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Calendar, Outlook, Zapier, Linear, Jira and Sentry, plus 2 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"What does Better Stack Uptime integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for Better Stack Uptime. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Better Stack Uptime not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"What security certifications does Better Stack Uptime have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Better Stack Uptime is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","question":"Where is Better Stack Uptime available?","confidence":0.5}]` | `[{"answer":"Oh Dear monitors website uptime, SSL certificate expiration, DNS records, broken links, and scheduled tasks from multiple global locations. It sends alerts through Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or webhooks, and includes branded status pages for client transparency. It is indexed under Uptime Monitoring.","source":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","question":"What is Oh Dear?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Oh Dear is a paid product; published pricing starts at €15 per month. It is sold across 4 plans (Solo, Freelance, Professional and Business). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","question":"How much does Oh Dear cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Oh Dear supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","question":"What platforms does Oh Dear support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Oh Dear, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","question":"Can Oh Dear be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 12 integrations for Oh Dear, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Discord, Email, SMS and Pushover, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","question":"What does Oh Dear integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed ISO 27001 and GDPR for Oh Dear. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Oh Dear not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","question":"What security certifications does Oh Dear have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Oh Dear is available worldwide. Its primary market is Belgium. The vendor is headquartered in Belgium.","source":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","question":"Where is Oh Dear available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true}` |
| description.long | Better Stack provides observability tools that integrate logging and monitoring capabilities. The platform uses eBPF technology for instrumentation in containerized environments to collect logs, metrics, and traces. | Oh Dear monitors website uptime, SSL certificate expiration, DNS records, broken links, and scheduled tasks from multiple global locations. It sends alerts through Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or webhooks, and includes branded status pages for client transparency. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment_model":"saas"}` | `{"soc2_type_ii":false,"pricing_model":"subscription","dns_monitoring":true,"deployment_model":"saas","http_https_checks":true,"sms_voice_alerting":true,"bundled_status_page":true,"slack_teams_alerting":true,"multi_location_checks":true,"ssl_expiry_monitoring":true,"synthetic_browser_checks":true,"cron_heartbeat_monitoring":true,"incident_pagerduty_integration":true}` |
| integrations.count | 10 | 12 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Google Calendar"},{"name":"Outlook"},{"name":"Zapier"},{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Sentry"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Datadog"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"Discord"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"SMS"},{"name":"Pushover"},{"name":"ntfy"},{"name":"Webhooks"},{"name":"Laravel Health"},{"name":"Laravel Forge API"},{"name":"Teams","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Webhook","native":true,"direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Telegram","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Chat","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"bidirectional"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"BE","primaryMarkets":["BE"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"$0/month","features":["Uptime monitoring","Email and Slack alerts","Status page","Exception tracking"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes 10 monitors, 10 heartbeats, 1 status page, and 100k exceptions per month","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"monitors":"10","exceptions":"100,000/month","heartbeats":"10","status_pages":"1"}},{"free":false,"name":"Uptime","summary":"$29/month billed annually ($34/month monthly)","features":["Unlimited monitors","Incident management","On-call scheduling","Status page included","Slack and Teams integration","SMS, email, push alerts","Incident timeline and collaboration"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Base plan with unlimited monitors, incident management, and on-call capabilities","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Responder License","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"responder","amount":9,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Additional Status Page","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":12,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Phone Call Routing","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":208,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Log Storage","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB/month"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.05,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Error Tracking","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"exception"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.00005,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Session Replay","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"session"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0015,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"KPI Tracking","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"team member","amount":4,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Admin & Compliance","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"user","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier available. Uptime monitoring and incident management starts at $29/month billed annually. Modular add-ons for logs, errors, responders, and other features.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://betterstack.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T21:58:06.678Z","startingPrice":{"amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Freelance","summary":"€49/month billed annually (2 months free)","features":["Uptime monitoring","Sitemap monitoring","AI-powered checks","Ping monitoring","TCP port monitoring","Scheduled tasks (cron)","SSL certificate health","DNS records","DNS blocklist","All integrations","Public status pages","Single Sign-On (SSO)","Full API","Friendly human support"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Monitor up to 10 sites and servers","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"sites":"10"}},{"free":false,"name":"Studio","summary":"€99/month","features":["Uptime monitoring","Sitemap monitoring","AI-powered checks","Ping monitoring","TCP port monitoring","Scheduled tasks (cron)","SSL certificate health","DNS records","DNS blocklist","All integrations","Public status pages","Single Sign-On (SSO)","Full API","Friendly human support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Monitor up to 25 sites and servers","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"sites":"25"}},{"free":false,"name":"Professional","summary":"€149/month","features":["Uptime monitoring","Sitemap monitoring","AI-powered checks","Ping monitoring","TCP port monitoring","Scheduled tasks (cron)","SSL certificate health","DNS records","DNS blocklist","All integrations","Public status pages","Single Sign-On (SSO)","Full API","Friendly human support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":149,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Monitor up to 50 sites and servers","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"sites":"50"}}],"summary":"From €49/month (billed annually) to €149/month. 10-day free trial with all features. 30-day money-back guarantee.","currency":"EUR","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-29T10:52:01.354Z","freeTrialDays":10,"startingPrice":{"amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | mid | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":29,"currency":"USD"}` | `{"amount":49,"currency":"EUR"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.98 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | - | https://ohdear.app/security |

## Capabilities (Uptime Monitoring)

| Capability | Better Stack Uptime | Oh Dear |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Deployment model | Saas | Saas |
| HTTP HTTPS checks | - | ✓ |
| Ssl expiry monitoring | - | ✓ |
| Cron heartbeat monitoring | - | ✓ |
| Synthetic browser checks | - | ✓ |
| DNS monitoring | - | ✓ |
| Multi location checks | - | ✓ |
| Slack teams alerting | - | ✓ |
| SMS voice alerting | - | ✓ |
| Incident pagerduty integration | - | ✓ |
| Bundled status page | - | ✓ |
| SOC2 type ii | - | ✗ |
| Pricing model | - | Subscription |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:18:20.189Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*