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Schedulers 4.6/10

Per-monitor pricing: cron + heartbeat + website/API monitoring, 30-second check frequency, 12-month retention, unlimited API requests; 1 monitor + 1 user = $7/mo. SMS, PagerDuty, O

Cronitor scores 4.6/10 for free value in Schedulers. The main constraint: Paid — $2 per monitor/mo + $5 per user/mo (Business). Per-monitor pricing: cron + heartbeat + website/API monitoring, 30-second check frequency, 12-month retention, unlimited API requests; 1 monitor + 1 user = $7/mo. SMS, PagerDuty, OpsGenie.

Category Schedulers Kind Paid plan

Free value score

4.6 / 10
Show the math
Overall 4.6/10
value = 4.6/100
weighted_components_v1
Run value 1/10
value = 0.01 ×
fixed_log_v1
Reliability 8.2/10
value = 8.2/100
policy_score_v1
Workflow fit 8/10
value = 8/100
policy_score_v1

Key metrics

1/mo Run quota Uses stated run/message/execution quota when present; otherwise a conservative floor.
1.0/hr Granularity/reliability Derived from minimum interval with conservative reliability adjustment.
2 Workflow/runtime api, cron
$2/mon
+$5/user
30s check

What you get

Paid — $2 per monitor/mo + $5 per user/mo (Business). Per-monitor pricing: cron + heartbeat + website/API monitoring, 30-second check frequency, 12-month retention, unlimited API requests; 1 monitor + 1 user = $7/mo. SMS, PagerDuty, OpsGenie.

Granular pay-per-monitor; ~$2 buys one fully-featured cron monitor/mo

Gotchas

No gotchas documented yet. Contribute one if you know a constraint we missed.

Sources

paid value schedulers
Open service ← All Schedulers

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