--- title: Oh Dear Alternative description: WatchFor compared with Oh Dear: per-site pricing versus per-monitor, what their broken-link crawling does that we do not, and who each one fits. canonical: https://watchfor.io/oh-dear-alternative --- [← All comparisons](/comparisons) # The Oh Dear alternative priced by monitor, not by site Oh Dear is one of the nicest products in this category, and their broken-link and mixed-content crawling is something we genuinely do not have. Their model is per site: every plan includes every feature, and you pay for how many sites you watch, starting at $17 a month for two. That is clean and fair, and it gets expensive the moment your sites outnumber your budget — a hundred sites is $275 a month. ## Where Oh Dear is better than us - Broken link and mixed content crawling across a whole site. - Every feature on every plan — nothing is gated behind a tier. - Unlimited team members on all plans, same as us. Feature WatchFor Oh Dear Free plan 15 monitors, 8 check types, commercial use allowed None — 10-day trial, no card required Free plan check interval 3 minutes Not applicable Entry paid plan €7/mo — 50 monitors, 1-minute checks $17/mo (Solo) — 2 sites Fastest check interval 30 seconds Per-site checks Status pages 3 on Free, 25 from €7/mo Included on all plans Team seats Included on every plan, no per-seat fee Unlimited on all plans Monitor types 25 incl. CDN, MCP, MTR, NTP, blacklist, email policy; 8 on the free plan Uptime, broken links, mixed content, SSL, DNS, cron, Lighthouse Probe locations 20 locations across 7 regions; 1 region per monitor on Free, 2 from €7/mo, 7 on Business Multi-region Broken link and mixed content crawling Whole-site crawl Free plan 15 monitors, forever 10-day trial Unit of pricing Monitors Sites Free diagnostic tools [60 tools, no signup](/free-tools) [DNS lookup](https://ohdear.app/tools) Agent-readiness score (ora.ai) [100/100 · A+](https://ora.ai/score/watchfor.io) watchfor.io · 21 Sept 2026 [50/100 · C](https://ora.ai/score/ohdear.app) ohdear.app · 31 Aug 2026 Agent-readiness score (is-agentic.com) [100/100](https://is-agentic.com/scan/watchfor.io) watchfor.io · 21 Sept 2026 [73/100](https://is-agentic.com/scan/ohdear.app) ohdear.app · 31 Aug 2026 Oh Dear details checked on 11 September 2026 against [their published pricing](https://ohdear.app/pricing). Plans change — see the note at the end of this page. ## Choose Oh Dear if - You watch a small number of sites and want them checked thoroughly. - Broken links and mixed content are a recurring problem for you. - You like their pricing model and it works out cheaper at your site count. ## Choose WatchFor if - You watch many endpoints across fewer sites — APIs, workers, servers, mail. - You need a free plan; Oh Dear offers a trial only. - You need infrastructure checks: CDN, MCP, MTR, NTP, blacklists, email policy. - You want per-region results from several probe regions rather than a site-level verdict. ## Moving over Uptime, SSL, DNS and cron checks map directly. Broken-link and mixed-content crawls have no equivalent and would need a separate tool. ## Questions people ask Which is cheaper? It depends on the shape of your estate. Ten sites with one check each is cheaper on Oh Dear's Freelance plan than most alternatives. Two sites with sixty endpoints between them is cheaper here. Count endpoints, not domains. Do you check for broken links? No. We check endpoints you name; we do not crawl a site looking for them. Oh Dear does, and it is a real reason to choose them. Is there a free plan? Ours is 15 monitors, free forever, commercial use allowed. Oh Dear offers a ten-day trial with no card required, then it is paid. ## Try it on the thing you are actually worried about 15 monitors free, commercial use allowed, no card. If it does not beat what you have, keep what you have. [Start free](/auth/signup)[See pricing](/pricing) ## About these figures Everything stated here about Oh Dear was read from [their published pricing](https://ohdear.app/pricing) on 11 September 2026 . Pricing, limits and features in this market change often and without notice, so treat this as a starting point and confirm the current terms with both vendors before you buy. We are not affiliated with Oh Dear , and product names belong to their owners. Agent-readiness scores are published by [ora.ai](https://ora.ai) and [is-agentic.com](https://is-agentic.com) for the domain named under each score, as of the date shown. They grade a domain, not a product: a vendor whose developer surface lives on a subdomain can score lower than its product deserves. We show each service's own cached result and never request a scan of another company's site, so a domain neither service has scanned reads as not scanned. Scoring rules change over time; compare the dates as well as the numbers. If something here is wrong or out of date — including if you work at Oh Dear — email [hello@watchfor.io](mailto:hello@watchfor.io) and we will correct the page and update the date on it. This page is provided for information only and is not advice. See our [Terms of Service](/legal/terms) for the full position on published information. --- Canonical page: https://watchfor.io/oh-dear-alternative · Site guide: https://watchfor.io/llms.txt