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Cronitor pricing
Cronitor publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $2/monitor/month
- Model
- Pay-per-monitor plus user seats
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Cronitor plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hacker | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Business | $2/monitor/month | 6 | +$2/monitor/month, 6 more features |
| Enterprise | $6000/year | 5 | +$5998/year, 5 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Hacker
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 5 monitors, email and slack alerts, basic status page.
Business
$2/monitor/monthOver Hacker, this tier adds:
- Unlimited monitors
- 30-second check frequency
- 10 alert integrations
- 12-month data retention
- Automatic email reports
- Volume-based discounts
Enterprise
$6000/yearOver Business, this tier adds:
- Custom features and integrations
- 5-second check frequency
- Dedicated engineer
- Priority support
- Flexible invoice billing
Where Cronitor stops being free
Hacker, Free
- 5 monitors
- Email and Slack alerts
- Basic status page
Business, $2/monitor/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Unlimited monitors
- 30-second check frequency
- 10 alert integrations
- 12-month data retention
- Automatic email reports
- Volume-based discounts
What the product covers
The full Cronitor feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Cron job monitoring
- Uptime and performance checks
- Heartbeat monitoring
- Status pages
Analytics
- Real-user monitoring
Integrations
- Alert integrations
Reporting
- Email reports
People bring Cronitor in for monitoring scheduled cron jobs and background tasks, tracking website and api uptime with global checks, alerting teams when critical jobs fail to execute, communicating service status to customers. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Cronitor are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Logging
Across the 4 logging tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $22.5/month. Cronitor starts at $2/monitor/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cronitor (this page) | Free, then $2/monitor/month | Pay-per-monitor plus user seats | - | |
| Uptime.com | On request | subscription | - | vs Cronitor |
| Traceloop | Free | Freemium with pay-as-you-go enterprise option | - | vs Cronitor |
| Openstatus | Free, then $30/month | - | - | vs Cronitor |
| Healthchecks | Free, then $5/month | Per-job monitoring with fixed tiers | - | vs Cronitor |
| incident.io | Free | subscription | - | vs Cronitor |
| Rootly | $20/user-month | subscription | - | vs Cronitor |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Cronitor badges page.
Before you pay for Cronitor
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $6000/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Cronitor runs on web, api, and is published by Cronitor. The full record is on the Cronitor review, and the rest of the category is under best logging tools.
Cronitor pricing questions
- How much does Cronitor cost?
- Cronitor publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Hacker up to $6000/year for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Cronitor have a free plan?
- Yes. The Hacker tier costs nothing and covers 5 monitors, email and slack alerts, basic status page. Paying starts at $2/monitor/month for Business.
- What is the difference between Hacker and Business on Cronitor?
- Business costs $2/monitor/month against Free, and adds unlimited monitors, 30-second check frequency, 10 alert integrations, 12-month data retention.
- Is the Enterprise plan on Cronitor worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom features and integrations, 5-second check frequency, dedicated engineer, priority support. It costs $6000/year against $2/monitor/month for Business. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Cronitor expensive for a logging tool?
- It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 4 logging tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $22.5/month; Cronitor starts at $2/monitor/month.
- Which logging tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 logging tools listed alongside Cronitor have a free tier: Traceloop, Openstatus, Healthchecks, incident.io, FireHydrant.
- What am I actually paying for with Cronitor?
- The record lists 7 features across 4 areas: core, analytics, integrations, reporting. In practice it is brought in for monitoring scheduled cron jobs and background tasks, tracking website and api uptime with global checks, alerting teams when critical jobs fail to execute.
- Does Cronitor charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Cronitor prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Cronitor against before paying?
- The closest logging tools in this directory are Uptime.com, Traceloop, Openstatus, Healthchecks. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Cronitor covering price, platforms and features.