VS / Head-to-head. Read the honest version.

Hoppla
vs Dead Link Checker.

It crawls your site and finds dead links. That's the whole job, and it does it. If broken links are the only thing keeping you up, it's a fine little tool. But a 404 on a page isn't the thing that pages you at 3am.

WHY SWITCH TO HOPPLA

One tool, one bill, one alert stream.

We bundle what Dead Link Checker does with 8+ other checks. Same monitor, same timeline.

Broken-link crawling ships with every monitor. Same crawler, no extra line item.
Plus uptime, SSL, DNS, domain expiry and cron heartbeats on that one monitor
Alerts go to Slack, email, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty, Teams or a webhook
Status page and incident timeline included free on every plan, your own domain from Starter
One bill instead of one tool per problem

WHERE DEAD LINK CHECKER FALLS SHORT

The gaps you'd be living with.

Dead Link Checker is fine at its niche. But here's what it leaves on the table.

Finds broken links and stops there. Nothing else is watched.
Won't tell you the site is down, the cert expired, or DNS broke
Email is the only way it reaches you. No Slack, no webhook, no on-call.
No status page, so an outage stays between you and your inbox
You're capped at a fixed number of websites per plan

Feature matrix

Side by side.

9 of 9 checks covered

Hoppla and Dead Link Checker, feature by feature
Feature	Hoppla	Dead Link Checker
Finds broken links	Yes	Yes
Crawls on a schedule	Yes	Yes
Up/down monitoring	Yes	No
SSL certificate checks	Yes	No
DNS monitoring	Yes	No
Cron heartbeats	Yes	No
Alert channels	Slack, email, PagerDuty, webhooks, and more	Email only
Status pages	Yes	No
API access	Yes	No

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Pricing

Same money, more checks.

HOPPLA

€29/mo (Starter — 50 monitors, broken-link checks included)

Hoppla’s checks depend on the plan: Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals, broken-link crawls, on-call and custom status-page domains start on Starter (€29/month).

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DEAD LINK CHECKER

$9.95/mo (Standard — up to 5 websites)

Broken Links only

Dead Link Checker website

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Hoppla vs Dead Link Checker.