About
Cronitor is a monitoring platform built for developers and operations teams that need reliable visibility into jobs, websites, APIs, and infrastructure events. It combines cron job monitoring, uptime checks, heartbeat tracking, status pages, and real user monitoring in a single product.
The platform is designed to help teams detect failures quickly, understand performance issues, and communicate service health clearly. It supports alerts, dashboards, integrations, and developer-friendly APIs and SDKs for straightforward implementation.
- Cron job monitoring for background tasks and scheduled jobs
- Uptime, performance, and certificate monitoring for websites and APIs
- Heartbeat monitoring for event-driven health tracking
- Status pages for public or internal reliability communication
- Analytics and real user monitoring for traffic and performance insights
Free Tier Value
Cronitor’s Hacker free tier includes 5 monitors, basic status pages, cron/heartbeat/website/API monitoring, instant alerts, multiple environments, scheduled email reports, and first 100,000 RUM events free. The cheapest paid step is Business at $2 per monitor plus $5 per user, so the free cap is worth about $10/month for 5 monitors, plus the included basic status page and 100k RUM events are also free but already reflected in the conservative estimate. The page also shows a 14-day free trial for Business, but no free credit and no explicit no-credit-card claim.
What's included in the free tier
- Access to 5 monitors for small projects and homelabs.
- Email and Slack alerts for monitor notifications.
- A basic status page for sharing service status.
- Cron monitoring for scheduled jobs.
- Heartbeat monitoring for infrastructure health checks.
- Website and API monitoring for uptime and performance.
- Fastest check frequency of 5 minutes.
- First 100,000 Real User Monitoring events free.
- One included basic status page.
- 50 included subscribers for status page updates.
- One included dashboard user.
- Instant alerts included.
- Notifications via email, Slack, Telegram, Discord, and Teams.
- Webhook alerts included.
- Multiple environments included.
- Scheduled email reports included.
See Cronitor pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Business
- monitors
- $2 each
- users
- $5 each
- synthetic browser checks
- 1000 checks for $1/mo
- RUM events
- 100k events for $10/mo
- status pages
- 1 basic included
- subscribers
- 500 included
- Unlimited API requests
- 10 alert integrations
- 12 month data retention
- Automatic email reports
- Volume-based discounts
- Multiple environments
- SAML SSO (+$5/mo/user)
- Email and chat support
Enterprise
- status pages
- Unlimited
- subscribers
- 500 included
- dashboard users
- Custom
- integrations
- Custom
- billing
- Invoice
- Custom features
- Custom integrations
- Dedicated engineer
- Priority support
- Flexible invoice billing
Pricing extracted from Cronitor's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
