Kaspar vs. Oh Dear: website monitoring for agencies compared

Feature comparison

	Kaspar	Oh Dear
Price (paid plans)	Starter €9/month, Pro €24/month, per account for all workspaces	From $17/month (Solo, 2 sites & servers) up to $439/month (Scale, 200); USD excl. VAT, discount for annual billing
Free option	No free plan; 7-day Pro trial, no credit card	No free plan; 10-day free trial
Monitors	20 (Starter), 100 (Pro), in total across all workspaces	By number of sites & servers: 2 to 200, Enterprise above
Cron job / heartbeat monitoring	Yes, on Pro	Yes, on every plan
Broken link scans	Yes, on Pro: 25 sites with up to 2,000 pages each, daily	Yes, broken links & mixed content on every plan
SSL monitoring	Yes, SSL certificate expiry warnings	Yes
Check locations	One check location in Germany	Multiple regions; every alert is verified from a second location
Status pages	No public status pages	Yes, including your own domain
Members / users	Starter: up to 5 per workspace, 3 workspaces; Pro: unlimited, 10 workspaces	Unlimited users on every plan
Operation / data location	Operated and hosted in Germany, GDPR-compliant	Data in Belgium (EU)
Trial / guarantee	7 days free, no credit card	10-day free trial, 30-day money-back guarantee

Oh Dear details according to the vendor's website (as of October 12, 2026); prices in the vendor's currency. Rows without a verified statement are left out.

Why agencies switch

Price for many small projects. Kaspar Pro covers up to 100 monitors and 25 sites for broken link scans at €24 per month. According to the vendor's website (as of October 2026), Oh Dear prices per site. With many small client sites, Kaspar can be considerably cheaper.
Euro pricing. Oh Dear bills in US dollars, Kaspar in euros.
German interface and operation in Germany. According to the vendor's website (as of October 2026), Oh Dear stores data in Belgium, so also in the EU. Kaspar is operated and hosted in Germany, with a German interface.

When Oh Dear is the better fit

To be honest, Oh Dear offers more features than Kaspar:

You need branded status pages and client reports. Oh Dear offers branded status pages, monthly client reports and a reseller programme. Kaspar has no status pages.
You want checks from multiple regions. Oh Dear verifies every alert from a second location. Kaspar checks from one location in Germany.
You need Lighthouse, performance, DNS or domain monitoring. Oh Dear includes these on every plan; Kaspar does not offer them.
Your clients should look in themselves. According to the vendor's website (as of October 2026), Oh Dear offers read-only access to just a client's own sites. In Kaspar you invite members to a whole workspace (Pro: 10 workspaces with unlimited members).

Moving from Oh Dear to Kaspar

Create an uptime monitor in Kaspar for each site, with the expected status code and optionally a keyword.
Enable the daily broken link scan for your most important sites (up to 25).
Replace the ping URLs of your scheduled tasks with Kaspar heartbeat URLs.
Set up alerts via email, Slack or Telegram.
Before switching, check whether you need status pages or client reports. Kaspar does not offer them.

Frequently asked questions

Is Kaspar cheaper than Oh Dear?

It depends on how many sites you monitor and which features you need. Kaspar Pro is €24 per month for up to 100 monitors. According to the vendor's website (as of October 2026), Oh Dear prices by sites and servers, from $17 per month for 2 sites, and includes many more check types.

What does Oh Dear offer that Kaspar doesn't?

Among other things: status pages, Lighthouse and performance checks, DNS and domain monitoring, checks from multiple regions, read-only access for clients to their own sites and white-label client reports.