CronPupA Cronitor alternative for cron and heartbeat monitoring
Cronitor is a broad monitoring platform: cron jobs, uptime checks, status pages, real-user monitoring and more, priced per monitor plus per user. CronPup does one slice of that (heartbeats for scheduled jobs, plus TLS expiry) at flat prices. Prices are from both sites on 5 November 2026.
| Cronitor | CronPup | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 5 monitors | 10 monitors |
| 50 job monitors | about $100/mo + $5 per user | $12/mo (no per-user fees) |
| 300 job monitors | about $600/mo + $5 per user | $29/mo |
| Uptime checks, RUM, synthetic tests | yes | no |
| Crontab auto-discovery | yes (cronitor sync) | yes (cronpup-sync) |
| Exec wrapper with output capture | yes | yes (cronpup-run) |
Choose Cronitor if
- you want one vendor for job monitoring and uptime, browser checks and status pages with incident posts;
- you rely on its SDK integrations or custom metrics.
Choose CronPup if
- you only need to know when scheduled jobs and certificates go wrong, and want a predictable flat bill.
See the full comparison.