CompleteStatus vs Oh Dear
Oh Dear is a beautifully-made, developer-loved monitoring tool with strong uptime, certificate, broken-link and DNS checks, and excellent status pages. Its Pro plan is around $77/mo for 50 sites. CompleteStatus Pro covers 50 monitors at $19/mo, adds the security-header and email-authentication layer, and — importantly for agencies — lets you resell your status pages, which Oh Dear's terms do not.
Pricing reflects the 2026 analysis — verify current rates before deciding.
CompleteStatus vs Oh Dear — feature by feature
| Feature | CompleteStatus | Oh Dear |
|---|---|---|
| 50 monitors / sites | $19/mo (Pro) | ≈ $77/mo (Pro) |
| Free tier | Yes — 10 monitors + security | No — trial only |
| Uptime + status page | Yes | Yes — excellent status pages |
| Certificate / SSL health | Yes | Yes — a strong Oh Dear area |
| Broken-link / mixed-content checks | Broken links yes (Page Health monitor); mixed-content no | Yes — both, a genuine Oh Dear strength |
| DNS monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Resell status pages to clients | Yes — Agency tier | No — status pages can't be resold |
| TV / NOC wall dashboards (tokenized kiosk) | Yes — LiveStatus Walls, no login on the TV | No |
| Incident forensics (snapshot + traceroute + screenshot) | Yes — response snapshot on every confirmed incident, every plan; plus a failure screenshot (Pro+) and a traceroute (Business+) | Partial — response details on failures |
| Security-header grading + remediation | Yes — unique | No |
| SPF/DKIM/DMARC monitoring | Yes — unique | No |
| Outage confirmation (re-check before alerting) | Yes | Yes |
What only CompleteStatus brings
CompleteStatus grades your security headers A+ to F across CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, cookie flags, CORS and more — then ships copy-paste nginx / Apache / Caddy / PHP snippets for every finding, with an alert when the grade drops. No uptime competitor turns a finding into a fix.
Continuous SPF, DKIM and DMARC monitoring, flagging weak settings such as p=none and alerting if your SPF or DMARC record disappears, so spoofing gaps do not go unnoticed. Standalone DMARC monitors charge $20–90/mo for this; CompleteStatus includes it on every plan, free tier included.
Who should choose which
Choose Oh Dear if you love its polish, want its excellent mixed-content and scheduled-task checks, and don't need to resell monitoring — it's a superb tool for a single team monitoring its own sites.
Choose CompleteStatus if you want the same core coverage at roughly a quarter of the price, the freedom to resell white-label status pages and reports (which Oh Dear's terms prohibit), and the built-in security-header and SPF/DKIM/DMARC layer.
CompleteStatus pricing
Free tier includes security-header grading and SPF/DKIM/DMARC monitoring, and allows commercial use.
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Uptime, SSL, DNS, security-header grading and SPF/DKIM/DMARC — one dashboard, one bill. The free tier allows commercial use.