Pick Checkly if
sRE / frontend teams who will stay on Hobby at $0 (10 uptime, 1k Playwright, 10k API, 6 locations) until they need Starter at $24/month or Team at $64/month for more runs, SMS alerts, or a private location.
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Our take
Pick Checkly if sRE / frontend teams who will stay on Hobby at $0 (10 uptime, 1k Playwright, 10k API, 6 locations) until they need Starter at $24/month or Team at $64/month for more runs, SMS alerts, or a private location. Pick Cronitor if operators who will stay on Hacker at $0 forever (5 monitors, email alerts, one basic status page) while they open a first Jobs list, then Business at $2/month per monitor plus
Best for
Checkly Playwright checks you start at $0
Cronitor A cron/job list you start at a public $
Free plan
Checkly $0 · /month. 10 uptime monitors, max frequency 2 min, 6 locations, 1,000 browser/Playwright runs, 10,000 API runs. Email, Slack, webhooks. No private locations
Cronitor $0 · forever. 5 monitors. Email alerts. 1 dashboard user. 1 basic status page (50 subscribers)
Lowest paid
Checkly Starter $24/mo yearly
Cronitor Synthetics $1
Next step up
Checkly
Cronitor SAML $5/user/mo
Coding agent
Checkly
Cronitor Job cards
Runs where
Checkly Local or hosted
Cronitor Hosted
Watch out
Checkly Hobby is 1,000 Playwright runs and 10 uptime monitors
Cronitor Hacker is 5 monitors
Last checked
Checkly 2026-10-22 · checklyhq.com/pricing
Cronitor 2026-10-23 · cronitor.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Cronitor if
operators who will stay on Hacker at $0 forever (5 monitors, email alerts, one basic status page) while they open a first Jobs list, then Business at $2/month per monitor plus $5/month per user when they need more than five jobs — not Enterprise from $6,000/year unless they need a quoted contract.
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