The Oh Dear alternativeWebsite monitoring that does not charge you per site.
Oh Dear watches your websites and charges by the site. InfraNest watches them too: uptime every minute, certificates, DNS and cron jobs, with a status page on your own domain. And when something breaks, the domain, the DNS record and the server behind it are in the same place, so you can fix it right away.
50 sites for €288 a year on Pro. Oh Dear charges €1,490.
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Your monitors in InfraNest, next to the domains, certificates and servers they check.
In short
- A free plan with 20 monitors, 25 certificates and a status page. Oh Dear has a 10-day trial.
- 50 sites checked every minute for €24 a month on Pro, 200 for €79 on Business.
- Fix what broke in the same place: domains, DNS and servers are part of InfraNest.
By the InfraNest team · Checked October 2026
Why teams choose InfraNest over Oh Dear
No price per site
Oh Dear costs more with every site you add. InfraNest Pro covers 50 sites for €24 a month, and Business 200 for €79.
A free plan that stays free
Start with 20 monitors, 25 certificates and a status page, and keep them as long as you like. No trial that runs out.
It finds your certificates
Not only the certificate of the site you added, but also the ones on load balancers, mail servers and cloud providers, found from public certificate logs and your accounts.
Fix it, not just see it
An alert about an expiring domain or a wrong DNS record? Renew the domain or change the record in the same place, at every provider you connect.
More than monitoring
All of this is included in every plan, also on Free. Oh Dear watches; InfraNest also manages.
Domains
All your domains from every registrar in one list, with expiry dates and renewals.
DomainsDNS
Edit DNS records at every provider from one screen, and get warned about changes made elsewhere.
DNSCertificates
Found for you from your monitors, public certificate logs and your cloud providers, and watched until they expire.
CertificatesCloud servers
All servers from all your clouds in one list, with their real monthly cost.
Cloud serversFirewalls
See and change the firewall rules at your cloud providers from one place.
FirewallsAutomations
Let InfraNest act for you: post to your status page when a monitor goes down, or open a ticket before a certificate expires.
AutomationsAlerts go to
Manages and monitors
InfraNest and Oh Dear side by side
The Oh Dear column comes from their own website. The date we checked it is at the bottom of this page.
Plans
- Free plan
InfraNest
Free, for as long as you like: 20 monitors, 25 certificates, 10 domains with DNS and a status page.
Oh Dear
No free plan; a 10-day trial.
- Entry plan
InfraNest
Pro, €24/mo yearly: 50 monitors every minute, 100 certificates, 100 domains, 3 team members.
Oh Dear
€12.50/mo yearly: 2 sites.
- Bigger plan
InfraNest
Business, €79/mo yearly: 200 monitors every 30 seconds from three regions, 10 team members.
Oh Dear
€332.50/mo yearly: 200 sites.
- What you pay for
InfraNest
Every module on every plan; bigger plans add monitors, faster checks and team members.
Oh Dear
Same features on every plan, unlimited users, SSO and API; you pay per site.
Monitoring
- What it checks
InfraNest
Websites and APIs, keywords and redirects, TCP ports, ping, DNS records, certificates, cron jobs, JSON responses and your servers’ CPU and memory.
Oh Dear
Uptime, certificates, broken links, Lighthouse, DNS, domain expiry, ports and cron jobs.
- Certificates
InfraNest
Found for you from monitors, scans, public certificate logs and your cloud providers.
Oh Dear
The certificate of each site you add.
More than monitoring
- Domains, DNS & servers
InfraNest
Renew domains, edit DNS records and manage servers and firewalls at every provider you connect.
Oh Dear
Not part of the product: it watches, it does not manage.
What you pay
Monthly price when you pay yearly, without VAT. Each site with its uptime, certificate and domain expiry checks.
| You need | InfraNest | Oh Dear |
|---|---|---|
| 2 sites, every minute | €24 Proincl. domains, DNS & servers | €12.50 Solo |
| 10 sites, every minute | €24 ProCheaper | €40.83 Freelance |
| 50 sites, every minute | €24 ProCheaper | €124.16 Agency |
| 200 sites, a team of 10 | €79 BusinessCheaper | €332.50 Scale |
Every InfraNest plan also manages your domains, DNS, servers and firewalls. Oh Dear only watches.
Try Pro free for 14 days
50 monitors every minute, 100 certificates and 3 status pages on your own domain. No credit card. If it is not for you, you keep the free plan.
Which plan fits you
Freelancers
A handful of client sites? Pro watches 50 of them every minute for €24 a month.
InfraNest for freelancersAgencies
Hundreds of client sites? Business covers 200 for €79 a month, every client in its own space.
InfraNest for agenciesIT teams
Websites, APIs, servers and the certificates on all of them, checked from three regions on Business.
InfraNest for IT teamsSwitching is easy
Run both side by side for a week, then cancel the one you no longer need.
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Add your sites
Add a monitor per site. Connect your registrars and cloud providers, and the domains and certificates appear by themselves.
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Set up your status page
Pick the monitors to show and put it on your own domain.
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Turn off the old one
Once your alerts come in from InfraNest, cancel Oh Dear.
Good to know
- Oh Dear crawls your pages
- It reports broken links, mixed content and Lighthouse scores. InfraNest checks that your sites, APIs and certificates work, not every link on every page; an SEO crawler does that job better than any monitor.
- Single sign-on and the API on every Oh Dear plan
- InfraNest has the API and webhooks from Pro, and single sign-on on Business, which covers 200 sites for €79 a month.
- Unlimited users on every Oh Dear plan
- InfraNest has 3 team members on Pro and 10 on Business. A bigger team can talk to us about Enterprise, which has no limit on team members.
Questions
#Can InfraNest replace Oh Dear?
Yes, for uptime, certificate, DNS, cron job and domain expiry checks, and for status pages. On top of that it manages your domains, DNS and servers. If you rely on Oh Dear’s broken link or Lighthouse reports, keep a crawler for those.
#Is there a free alternative to Oh Dear?
Yes. The InfraNest free plan has 20 monitors, 25 certificates, 10 domains and a status page, with no time limit. Oh Dear has a 10-day trial and no free plan.
#Is InfraNest cheaper than Oh Dear?
For most teams, yes. At 10 sites you pay €24 a month for InfraNest Pro, against €40.83 for Oh Dear Freelance. At 200 sites it is €79 for Business, against €332.5 for Scale. For 2 sites Oh Dear Solo costs less.
#How often does InfraNest check my sites?
Every 5 minutes on Free, every minute on Pro, and every 30 seconds from three regions on Business.
#Can I monitor cron jobs?
Yes. A heartbeat monitor gives your script a URL to call when it finishes. If the call does not come in time, you are alerted.
#Can I import my sites from Oh Dear?
There is no importer. Adding a monitor takes seconds, and your domains and certificates are found for you once you connect your providers.
Oh Dear is a trademark of its owner; InfraNest is not affiliated with it. The Oh Dear column comes from their public pricing and product pages, checked October 2026. Prices exclude VAT. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.
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