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Your cron jobs are not a separate invoice.

Cronitor charges $2 per monitor per month — and a cron job is a monitor, so a hundred nightly jobs is $200 before anyone has visited your website. Here a cron job pays per check-in: €3 per million. A hundred nightly jobs send 3,000 a month — less than a cent. Website checks cost €9 per million.

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Line by line

What each invoice is actually made of.

—Cronitorup4
Cron jobs & heartbeats$2 each, per month€3 per million check-ins
Website / API monitors$2 each, per month€9 per million checks actually sent
Seats$5 per additional user, per monthUnlimited, on every plan
Fastest check interval30 seconds (5 s only on Enterprise, from $6,000 / year)10 seconds, on every plan
Branded status page$25 / monthIncluded, white-label
Private status page$50 / monthIncluded — IP allowlist or access link
Core infrastructureNot statedApplication and primary DB in Germany
Worked examples

Three shapes of fleet, both invoices.

Their column is $2 per monitor plus $5 per extra seat; ours is €9 per million checks and €3 per million check-ins, with a €3 monthly minimum. Full formula on the pricing page.

Cron only · 20 nightly jobs · 1 user
600 check-ins × €3 / million€0.002
the €3 monthly minimum applies€3.00
Cronitor: 20 monitors × $2$40.00
total / month€3.00
Mixed · 40 monitors · every 60 s · 4 users
1,728,000 checks × €9 / million€15.55
Cronitor: 40 × $2 + 3 extra seats × $5$95.00
total / month€15.55
The interval they gate · 20 monitors · every 10 s
5,184,000 checks — fits Team’s 20 M budget€19.00
Cronitor: 5-second checks are Enterprisefrom $500 / mo
with the Team plan€19.00

Public list prices, cronitor.io/pricing, July 2026. Enterprise shown as their stated “from $6,000/year”. If we got a number wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

Migration

Swap the ping URLs, keep the crontab.

01

Create the heartbeats

One per job, with the cadence you expect and a grace window for the nights it runs long. Naming them after the crontab entry keeps the 4 a.m. alert readable.

02

Swap one URL per line

Replace the Cronitor ping URL with yours. Keep the && — the ping must only fire when the job exits cleanly, or a failed run looks healthy.

03

Bring the websites too

Paste your HTTP checks into the batch import. Now the jobs and the sites they feed are in one account, with one on-call rotation.

04

Point the alerts somewhere

Slack, email, PagerDuty or twelve more channels, grouped into alert plans. A missed backup climbs the same ladder as a down site.

FAQ

Switching questions, answered plainly

What does a cron job cost here?
Its check-ins, at €3 per million. A nightly job sends about 30 a month, an hourly one 720, a job that checks in every minute 43,200 — roughly €0.0001, €0.002 and €0.13 a month. Rejected pings, such as unknown or badly signed ones, are free. What is bounded is the number of jobs: 20 on pay as you go, 100 on Team, 1,000 on Agency.
So what do I actually pay for cron monitoring?
On a cron-only account usually just the €3 monthly minimum. It includes €3 of usage, which is a million check-ins; twenty nightly jobs send 600. The same twenty jobs are $40 at $2 each.
Is Cronitor worse?
It is a focused, well-built tool and its cron ergonomics are genuinely good. The disagreement is the unit: charging per monitor means a job that runs once a night costs the same as a website checked every thirty seconds, though one of them is a thousand times more work. Metering what actually happens — the checks we send and the check-ins your jobs send — prices the actual load.
Can I monitor websites here too, or is this cron-only?
Both, in one account and one bill. HTTP, keyword, TCP, DNS and ICMP ping checks all run on the same €9-per-million rate, with the same alert plans, on-call rotation, status pages and reports as the heartbeats.
What about the 5-second interval?
Cronitor sells 5-second checks on Enterprise, from $6,000 a year. Our floor is 10 seconds and it is on every plan, priced rather than gated: one single-region monitor at 10 seconds is 259,200 checks in a 30-day month — €2.33 metered, or inside Team’s 20-million budget.
Where does up4 run?
The application and primary database run in Germany. Available account regions determine where checks run; the fleet uses Hetzner and UpCloud, including locations outside the EU. See security and data locations and the current DPA status.

Let the quiet jobs be quiet and cheap.

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