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Cron job and uptime monitoring for developers
Cronitor is a developer-focused monitoring service known for deep, schedule-aware cron job and heartbeat monitoring, alongside website and API uptime checks and hosted status pages. It alerts you when scheduled jobs fail or run late, and when websites or APIs go down, giving engineering teams visibility into both background tasks and public-facing availability.
The platform monitors cron jobs, background tasks, and scheduled processes with schedule awareness - it knows when a job should run and alerts if it does not - plus uptime monitoring from more than a dozen global locations, performance metrics, and status pages. This combination covers the silent failures of background jobs that basic uptime tools miss, as well as standard website and API monitoring.
Cronitor offers a free tier with five monitors, and a Business plan priced per resource - around 2 dollars per monitor per month plus 5 dollars per user per month, with pricing starting around 20 dollars per month for 20 monitors - scaling with your number of monitors and team size, plus custom Enterprise. Aimed at developers and small-to-mid engineering teams, it competes with Healthchecks, UptimeRobot, Better Stack, Pingdom, and Cronitor's own status pages.
Pricing Model
Freemium
Starting Price
$0/mo
Free Options
Free version, Free trial
| Feature | Free | Business Popular | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 monitors | — | — | |
| Cron and uptime | — | — | |
| Basic alerting | — | — | |
| Get started free | — | — | |
| From 20 monitors | — | — | |
| About 2 dollars per monitor | — | — | |
| 5 dollars per user | — | — | |
| Status pages | — | — | |
| Global checks | — | — | |
| Custom pricing | — | — | |
| High monitor volume | — | — | |
| Advanced controls | — | — | |
| Priority support | — | — |
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Compliance Standards
SOC 2 Type II
EnterpriseISO 27001
EnterpriseGDPR Compliant
GlobalHIPAA
HealthcarePCI DSS
FinanceCCPA
PrivacyFedRAMP
GovernmentCSA STAR
CloudDeployment & Data
Data Residency Options
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Affordable website and service uptime monitoring with alerts
Uptime monitoring, logs, and incident management in one
Website uptime, performance, and real-user monitoring
Beautiful, fast status pages to communicate uptime
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