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

Hoppla
vs SSLMate.

SSLMate watches your certificates through Certificate Transparency logs, so it spots a cert before it's even live, and catches the rogue one nobody told you about. Sharp at that one job. But uptime, DNS and the rest of your site aren't its problem.

WHY SWITCH TO HOPPLA

One tool, one bill, one alert stream.

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

  • SSL chain plus OCSP, watched on every monitor, warns at 30/14/7/1 days
  • Uptime, DNS, domain expiry, cron and 13 more check types on one monitor
  • Alerts go to Slack, Discord, Telegram, PagerDuty, Teams or webhook, with on-call built in
  • Branded status page free on every plan, your own domain from Starter
  • Failed uptime checks re-run from a second region before your phone goes off
WHERE SSLMATE FALLS SHORT

The gaps you'd be living with.

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

  • Certificates only. Your uptime, DNS, cron and broken links live elsewhere.
  • Alerts are email; no Slack, no webhook, no on-call routing
  • No status page, no incident timeline to point customers at
  • You're still paying for four other tools to cover the rest of the stack
  • Great for a security team auditing certs, but overkill if you just want to know your site is up
Feature matrix

Side by side.

9 of 10 checks covered

FeatureHopplaSSLMate
SSL certificate monitoringYesYes
Certificate expiry alertsYesYes
Certificate Transparency log watchingNoYes
HTTP/HTTPS uptimeYesNo
DNS monitoringYesNo
Cron heartbeatsYesNo
Broken-link crawler (Starter)YesNo
Status pagesYesNo
On-call & escalation (Starter)YesNo
Alert channelsEmail, Slack, Discord and webhooks; Teams, PagerDuty and Telegram from StarterEmail only
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Pricing

Same money, more checks.

HOPPLA

€9/mo (Hobby — 15 monitors, SSL monitoring 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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SSLMATE

$15/mo (Hobbyist — 20 endpoints)

Certificate monitoring via CT logs only

SSLMate website

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