Probecast vs Oh Dear
A monitoring service for websites and the apps behind them — uptime, certificates, broken links, DNS, cron jobs, Lighthouse and more — with every feature on every plan, priced by the number of sites.
The short version
Oh Dear goes deep on each website: broken links, mixed content, Lighthouse, certificates and scheduled tasks, with your brand on reports and status pages from the smallest plan. Probecast goes across what each client depends on — third-party providers, revenue and support — and turns the month into a report frozen when final. Website health in depth, pick Oh Dear; what an incident cost each client, pick Probecast.
Probecast is monitoring plus monthly client reports for devs and agencies who ship projects for other people. It watches websites, APIs, cron jobs, TCP ports, browser flows and public MCP servers from 4 regions, groups everything by client and ends each month in a client report (from Pro; white-label on Agency) — with an API, a CLI and an MCP server so your coding agent can manage monitors too.
What each one does.
Website checks
Oh Dear
Very broad: uptime, SSL, broken links, mixed content, DNS, domain expiry, performance, Lighthouse and sitemap
Probecast
Uptime, SSL and domain expiry, APIs, TCP and browser flows on Agency — no link crawling or Lighthouse
Cron jobs and app health
Oh Dear
Scheduled tasks and application health endpoints
Probecast
Heartbeats, with authenticated pings via API
Features by plan
Oh Dear
Every feature on every plan; plans differ by site count
Probecast
Plans differ by projects and features: client reports from Pro, white-label on Agency
Branded reports and status pages
Oh Dear
Your name on monthly reports and status pages, plus a reseller programme
Probecast
Status pages per client; white-label reports on Agency, Pro reports with the independence seal
Third-party providers
Oh Dear
Focused on your own sites and servers
Probecast
1,000+ providers already checked, attached per client
Revenue and support beside uptime
Oh Dear
Focused on site health
Probecast
Stripe, Shopify and WooCommerce revenue lined up with incidents (from Pro); helpdesk counts per client on Agency
Alert channels
Oh Dear
Email, Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie and webhooks
Probecast
Email, Slack, web push and webhooks
API, CLI and MCP for coding agents
Oh Dear
Full API
Probecast
REST API, CLI and MCP server
Capabilities checked November 2026 · Oh Dear details from public materials — tell us if something is out of date
Oh Dear pricing
Priced by the number of sites and servers, with every feature on every plan and a free trial. Pricing on ohdear.app.
Probecast pricing
Flat plans by project count: Basic (free) · Indie $10 · Pro $50 for 10 projects · Agency $250/mo for up to 25 clients.
When Oh Dear is the better choice
- You want deep website health — broken links, mixed content, Lighthouse — on every client site.
- Your brand on reports and status pages from the smallest plan matters most.
- Pricing by site count fits the way you sell maintenance.
When Probecast is the better choice
- Your clients' sites lean on payment, email and AI providers and you want those watched too.
- The report should show revenue and support beside uptime.
- You want your coding agent to add monitors through MCP or the CLI.
Does Probecast check broken links or run Lighthouse?
No. Probecast measures availability from four regions and puts it in client context. If page-level health is what matters most, Oh Dear is the stronger tool — and the two can run side by side.
Do both do white-label?
Yes. Oh Dear brands reports and status pages on every plan. Probecast does on Agency; on Pro, reports carry an "Independently monitored by Probecast" seal — a third party measured the month, which is what counts when a client questions the numbers.
See it with your own projects.
Start free with one project — or add a monitor from the terminal with npx probecast.
Oh Dear is a trademark of its owner. Probecast is not affiliated with and does not endorse or disparage Oh Dear; this page reflects public information as of November 2026 and both products evolve. Found an error? Tell us at probecast.io/contact and we will fix it.