Everguardly vs Oh Dear
The Oh Dear alternative built for web agencies
Oh Dear is a polished product for site owners watching their own sites. Everguardly is built for agencies reselling monitoring + renewals to 20+ clients with white-label status pages.
Feature comparison
Where Oh Dear leads, we've left it in — highlighted rows are where Everguardly pulls ahead for agencies.
| Feature | Everguardly | Oh Dear |
|---|---|---|
| Renewal calendar across clients | HERO feature | No |
| White-label status page (custom domain) | Studio+ | No |
| Multi-client grouping | Native | Per-team workaround |
| Per-client alert routing | Yes | Per-team only |
| Solo tier starting price | $19/mo | $15/mo (basic) |
| HTTP / SSL / Domain monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Heartbeats / cron monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Bulk CSV / UR import | Built-in | Manual |
| Lighthouse / Core Web Vitals | Yes | Yes |
| Broken link scanner | Not yet | Yes |
Where Oh Dear shines
- Best-in-class broken-link and mixed-content crawling
- A long track record with a polished, broad feature set and excellent UX
- Application-level health checks (scheduled jobs, queues, mixed content)
Why agencies still pick Everguardly
We'll say it plainly: Oh Dear is an excellent product, and its broken-link and mixed-content crawling is genuinely ahead of us today. We've since shipped Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals tracking, so performance scoring is at parity. What Oh Dear isn't built around is the agency resale workflow — one renewal calendar across every client's SSL and domain expiry, white-label custom-domain status pages, and per-client routing. That's the layer Everguardly adds.
Why agencies switch
- Renewal calendar across every client — SSL + domain in one view
- White-label custom domain status pages on Studio + Agency (Oh Dear has none)
- Multi-client data model so each client gets the right Slack and inbox
- Honest: Oh Dear is a great solo-owner tool; Everguardly is the agency-resale layer on top
Switching from Oh Dear?
Bulk CSV import works with most Oh Dear exports. Start a free trial and pull your monitors in.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Everguardly a good Oh Dear alternative?
- Yes. Everguardly is built specifically for web agencies that manage many client sites, with a renewal calendar for SSL and domain expiry, multi-client status pages, and per-client alert routing — areas where Oh Dear is more generic. You can migrate in minutes and keep monitoring uptime, SSL, and domains in one place.
- Can I import my monitors from Oh Dear?
- You can bulk-import monitors via CSV, and for some providers via API. Add your client sites in a single step, assign them to clients, and Everguardly starts checking uptime, SSL, and domain expiry automatically.
- Does Everguardly cost less than Oh Dear?
- Everguardly uses simple plan-based pricing with no per-monitor charges, so monitoring many client sites stays predictable. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, and annual billing saves 20%.
- What does Everguardly monitor that Oh Dear might not?
- Beyond uptime, Everguardly tracks SSL certificate expiry and domain registration expiry with a unified renewal calendar and configurable reminder schedules — so you prevent outages before they happen instead of only being alerted once a site is already down.