The power of Cronitor. Without the complexity.
Cronitor is feature-rich — but most teams use 20% of those features. Cronping gives you professional cron job monitoring with a free plan, 2-minute setup, and pricing that actually fits indie hackers and small teams.
Free plan
Up to 5 monitors at $0/month. Cronitor has no free tier.
2-minute setup
Add one curl to your script and you're monitored. No SDK, no config file.
Context-Aware Monitoring
Alert on JSON fields like rows_processed == 0. Cronitor doesn't support this.
Features
Feature comparison
| Feature | Cronping | Cronitor |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | ||
| Setup time | < 2 min | 10–30 min |
| Cron expression schedules | ||
| Interval-based schedules | ||
| Full run lifecycle (/start, /fail) | ||
| Context-Aware Monitoring (JSON rules) | ||
| Run duration tracking | ||
| Performance trend analytics | ||
| Email alerts | ||
| Slack / Discord / Teams | ||
| PagerDuty / OpsGenie | ||
| Incident.io integration | ||
| Pushover / ntfy / Gotify | ||
| Custom webhooks (HMAC signed) | ||
| Prometheus / Grafana metrics | ||
| Native multi-tenant teams | ||
| REST management API | ||
| Starting price | Free | $25/mo |
Setup in 2 minutes, not 30
Cronitor requires configuring telemetry libraries, performance thresholds, and alerting pipelines before you get your first alert. Cronping is one line of code away.
Add curl https://ping.cronping.com/<token> to the end of your script. That's it. You'll get an alert if the job stops running on schedule.
# Cronping: one line, done
curl https://ping.cronping.com/<token>
# Add to the end of any script:
# 0 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/backup.sh && \
# curl -fsS https://ping.cronping.com/<token>
# Or send rich context with the ping:
curl -X POST https://ping.cronping.com/<token> \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"rows_exported": 9432, "duration_ms": 4201}'Pricing
Pricing comparison
Cronping starts free. Cronitor requires a paid plan from day one.
| Plan | Cronping | Cronitor |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 5 monitors | — |
| Basic — $5/mo | 20 monitors | — |
| Pro — $20/mo | 100 monitors | ~$25/mo starter |
| Business — $60/mo | Unlimited | Custom pricing |
Cronitor pricing as of April 2026. Subject to change.
FAQ
Common questions
Yes — especially for indie hackers, small teams, and projects that need reliable cron job monitoring without a steep learning curve. Cronping has a free plan, a 2-minute setup, and covers the monitoring needs of most teams.
Cronitor has deeper performance analytics and telemetry dashboards, which are useful for teams that need to track job duration trends over time. If that's your primary concern, Cronitor is the more specialized tool.
Cronping starts free (up to 5 monitors) and the Pro plan is $20/month for 100 monitors. Cronitor's plans start at $25/month with no free tier.
Under 10 minutes. Create monitors in Cronping, get the ping URLs, and update your scripts. No clients or agents to reinstall.
Yes. Any environment that can run a curl command can use Cronping — including Kubernetes CronJobs, GitHub Actions, Heroku Scheduler, and bare-metal cron.
Simpler monitoring, same results.
Start for free. No credit card. Your first monitor is live in under 2 minutes.