Cronitor pricing is usage based. The Business plan costs $2 a month per monitor plus $5 a month per user, with no base fee and no minimum, and checks can run every 30 seconds. The free Hacker plan covers 5 monitors at a 5-minute interval for 1 user. Enterprise starts at $6,000 a year on an annual invoice. A team of 5 with 50 monitors pays $125 a month.
Every price below was read from cronitor.io/pricing. The arithmetic is ours and each step is shown, so you can put in your own monitor count and headcount and get your own number.
Cronitor pricing: the plan table
Cronitor sells three plans. Cron jobs, heartbeats, website checks and API checks are all counted as monitors, and they all cost the same on Business.
| Plan | Price | Monitors | Users | Fastest check | SMS alerts | Status pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hacker | $0 | 5 | 1 | 5 minutes | No, email and Slack only | 1 basic page, 50 subscribers |
| Business | $2 per monitor + $5 per user, monthly | Pay per monitor | Pay per user | 30 seconds | Included | 1 included |
| Enterprise | From $6,000 a year | Custom | Custom | Custom | Included | Custom |
Business also includes 12 months of data retention and on-call alerting, and Cronitor offers a 14-day trial before the meter starts. The pricing page mentions volume discounts on Business but publishes no thresholds, so treat every figure in this article as list price. There is no published discount for paying yearly.
Cronitor add-ons and what they cost
The per-monitor and per-user rates are only part of the bill. These are the add-ons Cronitor lists on the same page.
| Add-on | Price | What it means in practice |
|---|---|---|
| Branded status page | $25 a month per page | Removes Cronitor branding from a public page |
| Private status page | $50 a month per page | An internal page for staff or a single customer |
| SAML SSO | $5 a month per user | Doubles the user rate, from $5 to $10 |
| Synthetic browser checks | $1 a month per 1,000 checks | One browser test every 5 minutes is about $8.77 a month |
| Web analytics | 100,000 events free, then $10 per 100,000 | Only relevant if you use Cronitor's RUM product |
The browser check figure comes from a 43,833-minute average month: a check every 5 minutes runs about 8,767 times, which is $8.77 at $1 per thousand. Every minute it runs 43,833 times, or $43.83. That is reasonable for a real browser test, and we do not sell browser checks at all, so it is worth knowing.
How much does Cronitor cost per monitor?
Always $2 on Business, whatever the check type and however many you run, until a volume discount is negotiated. That makes Cronitor the easiest tool on the market to price and one of the more expensive ones per check at scale. For comparison, our Team plan is $59 for 100 monitors, which is 59 cents a monitor, and Business is $189 for 500, about 38 cents. At 100 monitors Cronitor's list price is 3.4 times ours before a single user is added.
The per-user charge is the part people miss. A dashboard seat costs $5 a month, and Business bills every seat, including the first one. The 5 free monitors and the free user belong to the Hacker plan; they do not carry over as a free allowance when you upgrade.
Five worked Cronitor bills
List prices, monthly billing, no add-ons unless stated. The AlertPing column uses our own plans: Starter $19 a month for 20 monitors at 60 seconds and 3 members, Team $59 for 100 monitors at 30 seconds and 15 members, Business $189 for 500 monitors and unlimited members. Yearly billing lowers ours to $180, $564 and $1,812.
| Setup | Cronitor math | Cronitor a month | Cronitor a year | AlertPing plan | AlertPing a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 person, 10 monitors | 10 x $2 + 1 x $5 | $25 | $300 | Starter | $228 |
| 3 people, 20 monitors | 20 x $2 + 3 x $5 | $55 | $660 | Starter | $228 |
| 5 people, 50 monitors | 50 x $2 + 5 x $5 | $125 | $1,500 | Team | $708 |
| 10 people, 100 monitors, branded status page | 100 x $2 + 10 x $5 + $25 | $275 | $3,300 | Team | $708 |
| 20 people, 400 monitors | 400 x $2 + 20 x $5 | $900 | $10,800 | Business | $2,268 |
The gap grows with the monitor count because Cronitor's cost is linear and ours steps. On the fourth row the difference is $2,592 a year. The last row is the one to be careful with: at 400 monitors a Cronitor customer would ask for the volume discount the pricing page mentions, so the real gap is smaller than $8,532, by an amount only their sales team can tell you.
When Cronitor is the cheaper choice
For a single person, Cronitor costs less than our $19 Starter plan up to 6 monitors and exactly the same at 7 ($14 plus $5). With three people it is only cheaper up to 2 monitors. And if 5 monitors on a 5-minute clock with email and Slack alerts is enough, the Hacker plan costs nothing, which no paid plan can beat. A developer watching a handful of nightly jobs on a side project should use it.
Cronitor also wins on depth where cron is the whole job. It records run duration, exit codes and job output, so you see that last night's backup took four times as long as usual, not only that it finished. It checks from up to 12 regions against our 3, and it sells browser checks and real user monitoring that we do not. If those are why you are looking at Cronitor, the per-monitor price is buying something real.
When a flat plan costs less
The switch point is scale plus headcount. Once a team runs more than a few dozen checks, or more than two or three people need the dashboard, metered pricing starts charging for the habit you want your team to have: adding a monitor every time something new ships. On a flat plan the 40th monitor and the 8th teammate cost nothing extra, so nobody skips the check that would have caught the next outage.
Heartbeat monitoring works the same way on both products. Your job calls a unique URL when it succeeds, and if the call does not arrive inside the expected window you are paged. On AlertPing a heartbeat is one monitor in the same pool as your websites, APIs, ports and SSL certificates, and SMS is included on every plan. Our cron job monitoring page explains the setup, and the Cronitor alternative page compares the two products row by row.
One practical note if you are consolidating tools. Per-seat subscriptions like these usually land on a company card across several people, and they are easy to lose track of when the renewal comes round. Tagging each one to an owner and a cost center in your expense management software makes the next tooling review a ten-minute job instead of an afternoon of digging through statements.
Cronitor pricing questions
Is Cronitor free?
Yes, the Hacker plan is free forever for 5 monitors checked every 5 minutes, 1 user and 1 basic status page with 50 subscribers. It sends email and Slack alerts but not SMS, and premium integrations are excluded. Anything faster than 5 minutes or larger than 5 monitors moves you to Business.
How much does Cronitor cost per user?
$5 a month per user on the Business plan, and every user is billed, including the first. Adding SAML single sign-on costs another $5 a month per user, so a team of 10 on SSO pays $100 a month in seat charges before any monitors are counted.
How much does Cronitor cost for 100 monitors?
$200 a month for the monitors, plus $5 for each user. A team of 5 pays $225 a month, or $2,700 a year at list price. Cronitor mentions volume discounts on Business, so a team at this size should ask. On AlertPing, 100 monitors at 30 seconds with up to 15 members is $59 a month.
Does Cronitor charge extra for status pages?
One status page is included on Business. Removing Cronitor's branding costs $25 a month per page, and a private status page costs $50 a month per page. For a wider view across vendors, see our status page pricing breakdown.
Does Cronitor have Enterprise pricing?
Yes, Enterprise starts at $6,000 a year, billed annually by invoice, and adds custom features and integrations, a dedicated engineer and priority support. At $500 a month it is only worth it once usage on Business would pass that figure or procurement needs an annual contract.
Is Cronitor cheaper than Healthchecks.io or Better Stack?
For small cron-only setups it is often similar, and for large ones it is usually dearer because every monitor and user is billed. Our uptime monitoring pricing comparison puts fifteen tools on the same basis, and the Healthchecks.io alternative page covers the cron-first competitor directly.
The short version
Cronitor costs $2 per monitor and $5 per user a month, with a genuinely useful free plan for 5 monitors and Enterprise from $6,000 a year. It is the cheapest option for one person with a handful of jobs and the deepest option for cron telemetry. Once you run dozens of checks with a team, the linear meter adds up fast, and a flat plan with users and SMS included usually costs a quarter to half as much.