Verified comparison

StatusCake is an alternative
to Oh Dear

$0/mo (Free) vs Oh Dear at — — covering 80% of the 5 compared capabilities.

Same job. Way less money.

Comparison scenario

Every cheaper-than claim is tied to a defined scenario — never a bare list price.

Scenario

single user, monthly billing · USD · prices as observed on official pricing pages.

Oh Dear basis

plan at —, the cheapest paid plan.

StatusCake basis

Free: 0 USD/monthly.

The short version

We list 1 assessed alternative; Oh Dear's own price is not verified yet, so no cheaper-than claim is made.

StatusCake covers 80% of the 5 capabilities compared against Oh Dear. ✓ native · ◐ via integration · ✗ not found.

Capability	StatusCake	Oh Dear
Status pages	✓	✓
SSL monitoring	✓	✓
Slack/Teams/PagerDuty alerting	✓	✓
API access	✓	✓
Heartbeat / cron monitoring	✗	✓

Capabilities Oh Dear has that StatusCake lacks.

Heartbeat / cron monitoring — Monitor that a scheduled job or cron task ran on time.
Missing from StatusCake.

Advertised prices in USD as observed on the official pricing pages — per-seat and transaction-fee plans are marked.

StatusCake

Oh Dear

What does StatusCake lack compared with Oh Dear?

Heartbeat / cron monitoring — 1 of the 5 compared capabilities.

When were these prices checked?

Oh Dear: 2026-08-31; StatusCake: 2026-09-12 — on the official pricing pages.