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What it is for

Cronitor is a hosted Jobs monitor desk: you open Jobs and read duration, expected time, and the health bar on each card, and Hacker is $0 forever (5 monitors). Use it when the job is a cron/job list you start at a public $, not when you need a $0 local Docker monitor only.

Soft-note: Hacker Free forever + paid Business per-monitor / per-user. Distinct from Better Stack, Checkly, OpenStatus, and OneUptime.

What makes it unique: the cover is Cronitor’s official Jobs desk (Jobs, cards olly-task-run / olly-maintainer / olly-full-test-suite / build-assets, Duration / Expected / Last event / Last issue, green/red health bars, left rail Home / Jobs / Checks / Beats / Sites / Status Pages) from the jobs-list still on Monitoring Kubernetes Cron Jobs — not a Product Hunt poster. The olly-task-run card itself is ops of Jobs.

Key features

Jobs list — the card grid of scheduled jobs (cover still; Cron job monitoring). One desk. Cover olly-task-run / olly-full-test-suite sit here. Create Job sits here as a CTA, not a sixth desk.
Job cards — Duration / Expected / Last event / Last issue on each tile (cover build-assets 5 minutes / support-agent 9 seconds). A card, not a Hacker tile.
Health bars — the green/red tick strip under each job (cover healthy / failing on olly-validation-sweep). A bar, not a $2 meter.
Jobs rail — Home / Jobs / Checks / Beats / Sites / Status Pages / Issues / Logs / Timeline / Maintenance (cover; status-pages guide). A rail, not a Business tile.
Filters — Last 7 days / Production plus search on the Jobs chrome (cover). A filter, not a branded-page SKU.
Job detail — the per-job duration / success page behind a card (job-details still). A detail desk, not Create Job.

Create Job / Settings on the cover are CTAs (not desks). Hacker / Business / Enterprise tiles stay in Pricing. Agent extras stay off Key features as AI extras.

Who it's for

Best fit: 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.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from cronitor.io/pricing. Figures below are the printed USD cards / add-ons. Soft-note: Hacker Free forever + paid Business.

Hacker — $0 forever. 5 monitors. Email alerts. 1 dashboard user. 1 basic status page (50 subscribers).
Business — $2/month per monitor + $5/month per user. 14-day trial on the page we fetched.
Branded status page — $25/month per page (logo / custom domain) on Business.
Private status page — $50/month per page (password / IP allowlist).
SAML — +$5/user on the add-on row we fetched.
Analytics — $10 / 100k events.
Synthetics — $1 / 1k checks.
Enterprise — from $6,000/year. Confirm the live quote.

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Limitations / costs

Hacker is 5 monitors. A sixth job is Business $2/month per monitor.
A branded page is $25/month, not a Hacker extra.
A Jobs desk, not Checkly’s Playwright runner. For that runner see Checkly.
The hosted app is not the product GitHub. We omit a GitHub CTA rather than treat cronitor/* CLI repos as the Jobs desk.

Alternatives

Better Stack — a Status page Structure when you want Free $0 / 10 monitors, not Cronitor’s olly-task-run cards.
Checkly — Playwright/API checks when you want Hobby $0, not Business $2/monitor.
OpenStatus — Hobby $0 / Starter $30 when you want an OSS status page, not Last 7 days / Production.

Official tutorial

We searched @CronitorIO, @cronitor, @CronitorHQ, @cronitor-io, and @CronitorApp — none resolved as a product channel on 2026-10-23. We do not embed a third-party roast or walkthrough as officialVideo.

Written path: cronitor.io/pricing plus the jobs-list still and Cron job monitoring.

Website

https://cronitor.io/

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is Cronitor’s official Jobs list still (olly-task-run / build-assets cards + health bars + Home/Jobs/Checks rail) from the Kubernetes cron guide — not a PH poster. Dollars checked on cronitor.io/pricing (Hacker $0 / 5 monitors; Business $2/mo per monitor + $5/mo per user; branded page $25; private page $50; Enterprise from $6,000/yr). No official YouTube handle resolved.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.