Bionic Uptime and Oh Dear: what is actually different
Oh Dear is a thorough, well-made monitoring tool for people who look after websites, and it checks far more than we do. Both of us confirm a problem from a second location before alerting. This page says plainly where we differ, and where Oh Dear is the better choice.
| Feature | Oh Dear | Bionic Uptime |
|---|---|---|
| Free | A 10-day trial, no card. No free plan | 3 websites, checked every 60 seconds, forever, no card |
| For about 20 sites | Studio: $109 a month ($1,090 billed yearly), 25 sites, before VAT | Portfolio: $12 a month, 20 websites, before applicable taxes |
| Smaller plans | From $17 a month for 2 sites, or $55 a month for 10 | Free covers 3; our Portfolio plan is the only paid one |
| Before an outage alert | Checked every minute from a primary location; a problem is verified from a second location, and the alert goes out after a number of confirmed-down minutes in a row that you set | Checked every 60 seconds, alternating between two locations on two different companies' networks; both plus a retry must agree within 45 seconds |
| Also checks | Page content, certificates and domain expiry, plus broken links, mixed content, performance, DNS, scheduled tasks (cron) and more | Page content, certificates and domain expiry only |
| Status pages | Yes, on every plan | Yes: one page per website, to share with a client, on every plan. Off until you turn it on |
Oh Dear prices in US dollars as shown on ohdear.app/pricing on 4 October 2026 (visitors in Europe see euros), and how they confirm a problem as described in their uptime monitoring docs the same day. Check there for today's.
Choose Oh Dear if
- you want broken links, mixed content, DNS, scheduled tasks and performance watched as well as uptime,
- you want one tool to replace several, and the price per site matters less than the coverage.
Choose Bionic Uptime if
- you mainly need to know, reliably, when a client website is down,
- you look after up to 20 websites and want them watched for $12 a month, with nothing else to buy,
- you want one plain email per real outage, saying what was seen and from where (see the exact email),
- you want to be told when we could not check, instead of a green tick.
See it before you sign up
Watch a real website being monitored right now, no sign-up. 3 websites are free, forever, with no card.