Cronitor Pricing and Cronitor Cost Per Monitor and Per User With the Bill at 5 to 650 Monitors

Cronitor pricing has no base fee. The free Hacker plan covers 5 monitors at 5 minute checks for one user. The Business plan is $2 a month per monitor plus $5 a month per user, with checks as often as every 30 seconds, SMS alerts and 12 months of data. Enterprise starts at $6,000 a year on an annual invoice. A monitor is any cron job, heartbeat, website or API check.

That makes Cronitor one of the easiest monitoring bills to predict, and one of the few that grows in two directions at once: with every URL you add and with every person who needs to log in. Below is the full rate card from Cronitor's pricing page as of September 2026, what it costs at 5, 25, 100 and 650 monitors, what the per monitor price leaves out, and where a flat plan with built in phone calls comes out ahead.

How much does Cronitor cost per month?

The Business plan bill is two lines multiplied out. Cronitor's own example on its pricing page is 20 monitors at $2 plus 3 users at $5, which comes to $55 a month, billed monthly with no contract. There is no minimum, so a single monitor and a single user is $7.

Three details on that table are worth reading twice. Every monitor type costs the same $2, so a website check and a nightly backup job are priced identically. SAML is a surcharge per user rather than a plan feature, which means single sign on raises the seat price from $5 to $10. And Cronitor mentions volume based discounts on Business without publishing the breakpoints, so large estates should ask for a quote before doing the arithmetic below.

What does Cronitor cost at 5, 25, 100 and 650 monitors?

Here is the same uptime job priced both ways. Cronitor is Business plan list price with a realistic number of users. TrackDowntime is monthly billing, with annual in brackets, and every plan includes as many alert recipients as you type into the endpoint.

The honest reading: below about 140 monitors on monthly billing, Cronitor costs less than we do. At 5 monitors it is half the price of our Starter plan, and it checks every 30 seconds where our Starter checks every 5 minutes. At 25 monitors with three users it is $65 against our $99, and if a text is enough to wake your on-call person, the cheaper bill wins.

On annual billing the crossover moves down to roughly 70 monitors, because our Enterprise plan drops to $149 a month when paid yearly, while Cronitor's Business plan has no published annual rate. At 650 monitors Cronitor lists at $1,325 a month before any volume discount, against a flat $299, or $149 billed yearly.

Does Cronitor include phone call alerts?

Not as a built in channel. Cronitor's Business plan lists SMS alerts and on-call integrations with PagerDuty, Datadog On-Call, Opsgenie and Splunk On-Call. The free Hacker plan has neither and alerts by email, Slack, Discord, Teams and webhooks. Cronitor's notification lists hold email addresses, SMS numbers and integrations, so a ringing phone comes from the paging tool you connect, not from Cronitor.

That paging tool is a second subscription, and it is usually priced per responder. Datadog On-Call, for example, lists $20 a seat a month billed annually and $24 month to month. Three people who need to be called therefore add about $60 to $72 a month to a Cronitor bill before a single monitor is counted. For the 25 monitor example above, that takes Cronitor plus paging to roughly $125 to $137 a month, against $99 for Professional here with calls to every number included.

TrackDowntime places the call itself. Every number on an endpoint gets an automated call, an SMS and an email when a check fails, repeated at 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 minutes and then at 2, 4, 8, 24, 48 and 96 hours until the check passes. None of those calls or texts is counted or billed. The schedule is laid out on downtime alerts by phone call.

Why the per user charge matters more than it looks

Per monitor pricing gets the attention, but the $5 seat is what quietly grows. Everyone who needs to see the dashboard, acknowledge an issue or edit a monitor needs a user. On a team of eight with SAML turned on, seats alone are $80 a month, which is 40 monitors' worth of spend.

Agencies feel this most. If each client, account manager and freelancer needs a login to see their own sites, the seat line can outgrow the monitor line. With TrackDowntime the alert recipients are phone numbers and email addresses attached to each endpoint, so adding a client's on-call number costs nothing. The agency version of that setup is on website monitoring for agencies.

Is Cronitor worth it?

For cron jobs and heartbeats, yes, clearly. Cronitor started as cron job monitoring and it is very good at it: telemetry from your scheduled jobs, missed run detection, duration tracking, and SDKs for most languages. If a large share of your monitors are backups, queues and scheduled tasks, nothing we sell replaces that, because TrackDowntime checks HTTP and HTTPS endpoints only. Keep Cronitor for those jobs. If some of them are nightly syncs moving records between your apps and a database, a data integration platform can take over the scheduling and retries so there are fewer jobs to watch in the first place.

For plain website and API uptime, it depends on size and on how you want to be woken. Cronitor is the cheaper, faster checking tool for small estates where email, Slack or a text is enough. It gets expensive when three things stack up: hundreds of URLs at $2 each, a growing number of seats at $5 each, and a paging subscription on top so a phone actually rings. That is the buyer a flat plan is built for.

How to lower a Cronitor bill

1. Delete checks that duplicate each other. Five website monitors on five pages served by one server and one database report the same outage five times. One check on the page that exercises the database is enough.
2. Audit seats every quarter. People who only need to be alerted do not need a dashboard login. Put them on a notification list by email or SMS instead.
3. Ask about volume pricing once you pass a few hundred monitors. Cronitor says volume based discounts exist on Business but does not publish them.
4. Leave status page branding for later. A branded page is $25 a month and a private one $50, per page.
5. Split the estate by job type. Keep cron and heartbeat monitors on Cronitor and move high volume URL checks that need phone calls to a flat plan.

When a flat plan with phone calls wins

Move the uptime part when one of these is true: an outage waited until morning because a text went unread, you pay a paging tool mainly to turn alerts into calls, your URL count is past about 140 on monthly billing, or seat charges are growing faster than your monitors.

The switch is mostly copying URLs. Add each endpoint with its expected status code, timeout, redirect setting and any custom headers, put every on-call number in the phone field, and run both tools side by side for a week before turning Cronitor's website alerts off. Our plans and pricing page lists the limits for each plan, and we have done the same tier by tier breakdown for Checkly pricing and check run costs and for Better Stack's responder license pricing if you are comparing several vendors. The wider view, with seat fees and cost per site across a dozen monitors, is in uptime monitoring pricing per site.

Frequently asked questions about Cronitor pricing

How much does Cronitor cost?

Cronitor Business costs $2 a month per monitor plus $5 a month per user, with no base fee or minimum. Twenty monitors and three users come to $55 a month. The Hacker plan is free for 5 monitors and one user, and Enterprise starts at $6,000 a year billed annually.

Is Cronitor free?

Cronitor has a free Hacker plan with 5 monitors, 5 minute checks, one dashboard user, email and Slack alerts, one basic status page with 50 subscribers and 100,000 web analytics events. It has no SMS alerts and no on-call integrations. Business comes with a 14 day free trial before usage billing starts.

Does Cronitor charge per user?

Yes. On the Business plan every dashboard user is $5 a month, and SAML single sign on adds another $5 a month per user. Alert recipients on a notification list, such as an email address or an SMS number, are not dashboard users, so people who only receive alerts do not need a seat.

What counts as a monitor in Cronitor?

Every cron job, heartbeat, website check and API check is one monitor at $2 a month on Business. Synthetic browser checks are billed separately at $1 a month per 1,000 checks, and web analytics and error events at $10 a month per 100,000 events beyond the free 100,000.

Does Cronitor have SMS and phone call alerts?

Cronitor includes SMS alerts on Business and Enterprise but not on the free Hacker plan. It does not list automated voice calls as a channel. To have a phone ring, Cronitor connects to on-call tools such as PagerDuty, Datadog On-Call, Opsgenie or Splunk On-Call, which are billed separately.

Is Cronitor cheaper than TrackDowntime?

For small estates, yes. Five monitors with one user cost $15 a month on Cronitor against $49 on our Starter plan, and 25 monitors with three users cost $65 against $99. Past about 140 monitors on monthly billing, or 70 on annual, our flat Enterprise plan is cheaper, and it includes phone calls to every number.