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PingRobot vs Cronitor
Cronitor bills per monitor and per user, so 50 monitors cost $100 a month before you add a seat. PingRobot is a flat $9 a month for 50 one-minute monitors, cron job heartbeats included, and its Free plan has twice as many monitors as Cronitor's.
Cronitor plans and prices were checked on 16 October 2026 on cronitor.io/pricing and cronitor.io/uptime-monitoring. Prices are in US dollars before tax. Plans change, so check their page before you decide.
Free plans
| PingRobot Free | Cronitor Hacker | |
|---|---|---|
| Monitors | 10 | 5 |
| Monitor types | HTTP(S), API (JSON rules), keyword, DNS, TCP port, heartbeat (cron) | Cron jobs, heartbeats, website and API checks |
| Fastest check interval | 5 minutes | 5 minutes |
| Domain expiry reminders | Yes | Not listed on the pricing page |
| SLA target with badge and monthly SLA email | Yes | Not listed on the pricing page |
| Alert channels | Email, signed webhooks | Email, Slack, Discord, Teams, webhooks; no SMS |
| Status pages | 1, on yourname.pingrobot.io, with announcements and status, uptime and SLA badges | 1 basic page, 50 subscribers |
| Users | 1 | 1 |
Cronitor's free plan has more chat integrations. PingRobot's has twice the monitors, so you can watch a site, its API, its certificate and domain, and a few cron jobs without hitting the cap at five.
Cheapest paid plans
| PingRobot Pro | Cronitor Business | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat: $9/month, or $90/year ($7.50/month) | $2/month per monitor + $5/month per user, billed monthly |
| 10 monitors, 1 user | $9 | $25/month |
| 50 monitors, 1 user | $9 | $105/month |
| Fastest check interval | 1 minute | 30 seconds |
| Alert channels | Email, signed webhooks, Slack, Discord, ntfy push | Email, chat, webhooks, SMS and on-call integrations |
| Status pages | 5, on your own domain, with email subscribers | 1 with 500 subscribers; branded page $25/month, private page $50/month |
| History | 1 year | 12 months |
Cronitor totals are worked out from the per-monitor and per-user rates on their pricing page.
Where PingRobot is ahead
- Price that doesn't grow with every job: 50 monitors for a flat $9 a month, against $100 in Cronitor monitor fees alone.
- Twice the free monitors, and each website monitor can also remind you before its certificate or domain expires. Maintenance windows, custom requests and slow-response alerts are on the Free plan too.
- Signed webhooks with an HMAC signature you can verify (webhook docs).
- Status pages with SLA targets, an SLA badge and a monthly SLA email, and announcements on every plan. Pro includes 5 status pages on your own domains with email subscribers, where Cronitor Business includes 1 and charges $25 a month for a branded page.
- Free tools: SSL checker, domain expiry checker, is it down?
- Room to grow: Business is $29 a month ($290 a year) for 250 monitors checked every 30 seconds, 100 status pages, 2 years of history and 10 team members as admins or viewers; at Cronitor Business's listed $2 per monitor and $5 per user, 250 monitors and 10 users would be $550 a month.
- Automation on every plan: a REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 document, and a remote MCP server so Claude, Cursor or VS Code can tell you what is down and add monitors for you.
Where Cronitor is ahead
- Wider checks: from up to 12 regions you choose, every 30 seconds on Business, with assertions on status, content, response time and certificate expiry.
- More alerting: Teams and Discord on the free plan, SMS, and on-call tools such as PagerDuty and OpsGenie on Business.
- A broader product for teams: browser checks, real user monitoring, SAML single sign-on and SCIM.
Which one should you choose?
Choose Cronitor if you need 30-second checks from regions you pick, SMS or on-call escalation, or SAML single sign-on.
Choose PingRobot if you want cron jobs, websites, APIs, DNS records, certificates and domains watched in one place for a predictable $9 a month for 50 monitors, or for free up to 10. See how heartbeat monitoring works.
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Frequently asked questions
Is PingRobot cheaper than Cronitor?
For more than a few monitors, yes. PingRobot Pro is a flat $9 a month or $90 a year for 50 monitors. Cronitor Business is $2 a month per monitor plus $5 a month per user, so 50 monitors and one user come to $105 a month at their listed rates.
How do the free plans compare?
Cronitor's Hacker plan has 5 monitors (jobs, checks or heartbeats) checked at most every 5 minutes, email and chat alerts and a basic status page. PingRobot Free has 10 monitors checked every 5 minutes, email and signed webhook alerts, API (JSON) and DNS record monitors, SSL and domain expiry reminders, maintenance windows and a status page with announcements and SLA badges.
What does Cronitor have that PingRobot doesn't?
Checks from up to 12 regions you choose, SMS and on-call integrations such as PagerDuty and OpsGenie, Microsoft Teams alerts on every plan, browser checks, real user monitoring, SAML single sign-on and 12 months of data on Business.
Can PingRobot monitor cron jobs like Cronitor?
Yes. A heartbeat monitor gives the job a URL to call when it finishes and alerts you when the call is late, with an interval and a grace period you set.