Cronitor
- Free allowance
- Hacker plan, free forever at USD 0: 5 monitors (jobs, checks and heartbeats) with a fastest check frequency of 5 minutes, 100,000 web analytics and error events free, 1 status page with 50 subscribers, 1 dashboard user, email and Slack alerts; no SMS alerts and no premium integrations
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- volume-quota5 monitors on Hacker; 100,000 web analytics and error events free
- Evidence
- documented15 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-02checked 2026-11-01 (live); stale on 2026-12-02
| Free tier | Hacker plan, free forever at USD 0: 5 monitors (jobs, checks and heartbeats) with a fastest check frequency of 5 minutes, 100,000 web analytics and error events free, 1 status page with 50 subscribers, 1 dashboard user, email and Slack alerts; no SMS alerts and no premium integrations unit objects; metered on object-count; The unit counted is the monitor. The Business plan is USD 2 a month per monitor plus USD 5 a month per user, with a 14-day free trial. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Hacker has 1 dashboard user and no SMS alerts. |
| Binding | volume-quota The 5-monitor cap fills first for an account with several scheduled jobs. |
| Identity | email (placeholder) unverified: the sign-up page text shows no form fields, and the pricing page states no credit card term for Hacker, whose card has a Get Started button where Business has Start Free Trial. |
| Egress | not applicable: an inbound telemetry and outbound check service; data is read back through the REST API, which is rate limited with a 429 answer |
| Per-object cap | unverified: no per-ping or per-event size is stated on the pages read |
| Retention | unverified: the Hacker retention is not stated on the pricing page, which lists 12 months of data retention for the Business plan |
| Interface | rest, cli A REST API at cronitor.io/api authenticated by HTTP basic auth with an API key as the username, with an OpenAPI 3 description; a Telemetry API on cronitor.link takes a key in the URL; every account starts with a telemetry key and an SDK integration key. An MCP server and CronitorCLI expose the same resources. Whether the API is open to the Hacker plan without a request cap is unverified: the pricing page lists unlimited API requests for Business only. endpoint: https://cronitor.io/api/monitors |
| Tooling | CronitorCLI, the Telemetry API, the REST API with an OpenAPI description, an MCP server and the web app |
| Composes with | Heartbeat and cron monitoring for up to 5 jobs of free hosts with a status page, plus 100,000 web analytics and error events a month. |
| Reliability | no throttle, ban or data loss is stated on the pages read |
| Notes | Cronitor lists cron jobs, heartbeats, website checks and API checks as monitors under one count. |
| Evidence note | documented Plan limits are quoted from the first-party pricing page and the API access from its documentation. No account was opened, and the sign-up fields and the card term are unverified: behind a sign-up. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 15
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/pricing | the Hacker plan is free forever with 5 monitors, email and Slack alerts, a basic status page and no SMS or premium integrations |
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/pricing | every plan includes cron, heartbeat, website and API monitoring |
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/pricing | Hacker includes 100,000 web analytics and error events free |
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/pricing | the fastest check frequency is 5 minutes on Hacker and 30 seconds on Business |
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/pricing | Hacker has 1 status page with 50 included subscribers |
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/pricing | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/pricing | Business keeps 12 months of data and has unlimited API requests |
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/pricing | Business is USD 2 a month per monitor plus USD 5 a month per user |
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/pricing | the Business plan has a 14-day free trial |
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/docs/api | the REST API authenticates with an API key as the basic auth username |
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/docs/api | the Telemetry API is on the separate domain cronitor.link and takes an API key in the URL |
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/docs/api | an OpenAPI 3 description of the REST API and the Telemetry API is published |
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/docs/api | every account starts with two API keys |
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/docs/api | the API is rate limited and answers 429 when a limit is exceeded |
| 2026-11-01 | cronitor.io/docs/api | the same resources are available through an MCP server and CronitorCLI |