# Better Stack Uptime vs Oh Dear

| Attribute | Better Stack Uptime | Oh Dear |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 65 (60% (medium)) | 63.9 (42% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | Better Stack combines uptime monitoring, incident management, on-call scheduling, status pages, and log analysis in a single platform. It provides automated alerting, incident response workflows, and observability tools to help teams detect and resolve infrastructure issues faster. | Unified monitoring service that tracks uptime, SSL certificate health, performance metrics, DNS status, broken links, and cron jobs across multiple sites from a single dashboard, replacing the need for separate specialized monitoring tools. |
| 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"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"BE","primaryMarkets":["BE"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":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":"Solo","summary":"€15/month","features":["Uptime monitoring","SSL certificate monitoring","Performance monitoring","DNS monitoring","Broken link detection","Cron/scheduled task monitoring","TCP port monitoring","Status pages","API monitoring","Unlimited users","All third-party integrations","Single sign-on","Two-factor authentication"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":15,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Freelance","summary":"€49/month billed annually (includes 2 months free)","features":["Uptime monitoring","SSL certificate monitoring","Performance monitoring","DNS monitoring","Broken link detection","Cron/scheduled task monitoring","TCP port monitoring","Status pages","API monitoring","Unlimited users","All third-party integrations","Single sign-on","Two-factor authentication"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Monitor up to 10 sites & servers","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"sites":"10"}},{"free":false,"name":"Growth","summary":"€99/month","features":["Uptime monitoring","SSL certificate monitoring","Performance monitoring","DNS monitoring","Broken link detection","Cron/scheduled task monitoring","TCP port monitoring","Status pages","API monitoring","Unlimited users","All third-party integrations","Single sign-on","Two-factor authentication"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Monitor up to 25 sites & servers. Most popular.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"sites":"25"}},{"free":false,"name":"Scale","summary":"€149/month","features":["Uptime monitoring","SSL certificate monitoring","Performance monitoring","DNS monitoring","Broken link detection","Cron/scheduled task monitoring","TCP port monitoring","Status pages","API monitoring","Unlimited users","All third-party integrations","Single sign-on","Two-factor authentication"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":149,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Monitor up to 50 sites & servers","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"sites":"50"}}],"summary":"From €15/month. 10-day free trial, no credit card required. 30-day money-back guarantee. All plans include the same features.","currency":"EUR","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ohdear.app/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T22:00:28.718Z","freeTrialDays":10,"startingPrice":{"amount":15,"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":15,"currency":"EUR"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |

## Capabilities (Uptime Monitoring)

| Capability | Better Stack Uptime | Oh Dear |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Deployment model | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:04:42.736Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*