Our take
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. Pick OpenStatus if small teams who will stay on Hobby $0 (1 monitor, 1 status page, 10-minute interval,
Best for
Cronitor A cron/job list you start at a public $
OpenStatus Monitors you start on Hobby at $0 (1 monitor, 1 page)
Free plan
Cronitor $0 · forever. 5 monitors. Email alerts. 1 dashboard user. 1 basic status page (50 subscribers)
OpenStatus $0 · no card. 1 monitor. 1 status page with 3 components. Minimum interval 10 minutes
Lowest paid
Cronitor Synthetics $1
OpenStatus Pro $100/mo
Next step up
Cronitor SAML $5/user/mo
OpenStatus Scale $500/mo
Coding agent
Cronitor Job cards
OpenStatus
Runs where
Cronitor Hosted
OpenStatus
Watch out
Cronitor Hacker is 5 monitors
OpenStatus Hobby is 1 monitor and a 10-minute interval
Last checked
Cronitor 2026-10-23 · cronitor.io/pricing
OpenStatus 2026-10-22 · openstatus.dev/pricing
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.
Read the Cronitor pagesmall teams who will stay on Hobby $0 (1 monitor, 1 status page, 10-minute interval, no card) while they publish a first page, then buy Starter at $30/month (14-day trial) when they need 20 monitors and a 1-minute check.
Read the OpenStatus page
