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

Hoppla
vs DebugBear.

DebugBear goes deep on web performance: Lighthouse runs, real-user data, filmstrips of every page load. If shaving 200ms off LCP is your whole job, it's the better tool. Most teams just don't have $49 a month and up to spend watching render times alone.

WHY SWITCH TO HOPPLA

One tool, one bill, one alert stream.

We bundle what DebugBear does with 9+ other checks. Same monitor, same timeline.

Lighthouse runs on a schedule, baked into the plan, with no line item for it
Core Web Vitals sit next to uptime, SSL and DNS on the same monitor
€29/mo covers 50 monitors with Lighthouse on each of them, for less than their entry price
All 19 check types, so performance isn't a tool you log into separately
Set a threshold on LCP or TTFB and Hoppla pages you when it slips

WHERE DEBUGBEAR FALLS SHORT

The gaps you'd be living with.

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

From $49/mo, and every dollar buys performance data alone
It watches how fast the page renders, not whether it's up at all
No SSL, DNS or cron checks to go with the Lighthouse score
Nothing pages you when the site goes down or a cert lapses
No status page, no incident timeline to point customers at

Feature matrix

Side by side.

10 of 10 checks covered

Hoppla and DebugBear, feature by feature
Feature	Hoppla	DebugBear
Lighthouse audits	Yes	Yes
Core Web Vitals tracking	Yes	Yes
Performance budgets	Via thresholds	Yes
HTTP/HTTPS monitoring	Yes	No
SSL certificate monitoring	Yes	No
DNS monitoring	Yes	No
Cron monitoring	Yes	No
Broken link detection	Yes	No
Status pages	Yes	No
Starting price	€29/mo (50 monitors)	from $49/mo

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Pricing

Same money, more checks.

HOPPLA

€29/mo (Starter — 50 monitors, Lighthouse 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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DEBUGBEAR

from $49/mo (performance only)

Lighthouse / Performance only

DebugBear website

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