Val Town

Schedulers 4.7/10

1-minute cron intervals, 10-min wall-clock per run, 1,000,000 runs/day, 10 custom domains, 2,000 private vals, $10 monthly Townie AI credit. Free tier allows 100k runs/day at 15-mi

Val Town scores 4.7/10 for free value in Schedulers. The main constraint: Free tier allows 100k runs/day at 15-min intervals; Pro then $21/mo — 1-minute cron intervals, 10-min wall-clock per run, 1,000,000 runs/day, 10 custom domains, 2,000 private vals, $10 monthly Townie AI credit.

Category Schedulers Kind Paid plan

Free value score

4.7 / 10

Show the math

Overall 4.7/10

value = 4.7/100

weighted_components_v1

Run value 1/10

value = 0 $/mo

fixed_log_v1

Reliability 8/10

value = 8/100

policy_score_v1

Workflow fit 8.8/10

value = 8.8/100

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.

1 Workflow/runtime cron

$21/mo

1M runs/day

1-min cron

What you get

Free tier allows 100k runs/day at 15-min intervals; Pro then $21/mo — 1-minute cron intervals, 10-min wall-clock per run, 1,000,000 runs/day, 10 custom domains, 2,000 private vals, $10 monthly Townie AI credit.

~1,000,000 runs/day per ~$21/mo (~$0.0007 per 1,000 daily runs) plus minute-level cron

Gotchas

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

Sources

"Pro ... $21/mo ... 1 minute cron intervals ... 1,000,000 runs / day"
https://www.val.town/pricing
"can run up to once every 15 minutes, or once a minute, with the Pro plan."
https://docs.val.town/vals/cron/

paid value schedulers

Open service ← All Schedulers

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