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.
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 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.
Common questions
Simpler monitoring, same results.
Start for free. No credit card. Your first monitor is live in under 2 minutes.