Cronitor

Developer tools · cronitor.io

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Cronitor is a monitoring service for developers that reports when cron jobs, background workers, websites and APIs fail, run late or never start. It also covers heartbeat checks, hosted status pages and real user monitoring, and sends alerts through chat apps, SMS and on-call tools.

Facts at a glance

Fact	Value	Source
Launched	2014. Cronitor started in March 2014	cronitor.io/about, checked 5 Nov 2026
Free plan	Freemium: a free plan exists	cronitor.io/pricing, checked 5 Nov 2026
Free trial	14 days	cronitor.io/pricing, checked 5 Nov 2026
Platforms	Web, API	cronitor.io, checked 5 Nov 2026

Pricing & plans

Model

Freemium

Free plan available

Trial

Yes

14 days

Price tiers

Plan	Per month	Per year	Usage, as the vendor states it
Hacker	Free		5 monitors, email and Slack alerts, basic status page
Business			$2 a month per monitor plus $5 a month per user, 14 day free trial
Enterprise		$6000/yr	From $6,000 a year with invoice billing and a dedicated engineer

Prices are the vendor's list prices in USD.

5 monitors
Fastest check every 5 minutes
1 dashboard user
1 basic status page with 50 subscribers
No SMS alerts or premium integrations

Business plan has no base fee and bills per use: $2 a month per monitor plus $5 a month per user
Enterprise plan starts from $6,000 a year on annual invoice billing

Source: cronitor.io/pricing, checked 5 Nov 2026

Features & platforms

Cron job and background worker monitoring
Website, API and SSL checks from 12+ locations
Heartbeat monitoring for agents, queues and devices
Hosted status pages
Real user monitoring and web analytics
SMS and on-call alerts

Sources: cronitor.io, cronitor.io/about, cronitor.io/pricing, checked 5 Nov 2026

Alternatives

Healthchecks.io
Hobbyist plan is free and monitors 20 jobs, keeping 100 log entries per job.
healthchecks.io
UptimeRobot
Free plan covers 50 monitors with a 5-minute check interval and asks for no credit card.
uptimerobot.com
Better Stack
Backs its plans with a 60-day money-back guarantee and bundles on-call scheduling with status pages.
betterstack.com

Sources: healthchecks.io/pricing, uptimerobot.com/pricing, betterstack.com/pricing

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Sources and dates

Official site: cronitor.io

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