Every free cron monitor tier that clears our bar in 2026: 5 offers meet the criteria and 2 offers are demoted with a named reason. Our membership test: waits for a scheduled job to check in and alerts on the absence of the check-in rather than on a failure it observed. We could not confirm today's terms for 4 of them: on 2 the page we cite did not answer, and on 2 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.
Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 3 monitors (uptime, keyword, heartbeat), 3-minute check interval, 2 team members, 1 status page, SSL monitoring, multi-location checks, email/Slack/Discord alerts
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it cron_monitor. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://onlineornot.com/pricing, where it says: “Cron Job Monitoring”. How we use this
Cron job and uptime monitoring — free Hacker plan: 5 monitors, 5-minute check frequency, email, Slack, and webhook alerts, 1 status page (50 subscribers), 12-month data retention, single user. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-19, we refused the change we considered recording because it named no figure that had moved, and refusing a change is not a confirmation of the terms above, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it cron_monitor. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://cronitor.io/pricing, where it says: “Cron Job Monitoring”. How we use this
Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors (HTTP/heartbeat/API), 5-minute check interval, 3 regions, 3-month history, 3 status pages
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it cron_monitor. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://pulsetic.com/pricing/, where it says: “Cron Monitoring”. How we use this
Developer tier: 1 user, 5K errors/month, 5M spans/month, 50 session replays, 5GB application logs, 1GB attachments
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it cron_monitor. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://sentry.io/pricing/, where it says: “Cron Monitoring 1 cron monitor”. How we use this
Cron job and scheduled task monitoring — 20 monitors, 100 log entries per job, email/webhook/Slack/Telegram alerts, API access. Also free for open-source projects (Business plan)
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it cron_monitor. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://healthchecks.io/pricing/, where it says: “Fully Managed, Worry-Free Cron Job Monitoring Service”. How we use this
Monitoring for cron jobs. One free snitch (monitor), more if you refer others to sign up. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it cron_monitor. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://deadmanssnitch.com/, where it says: “If they don't execute when they should, Dead Man's Snitch alerts you.”. How we use this
Website and cron monitoring - 2 monitors free. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Listed in Monitoring, and on this page because we labelled it cron_monitor. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://sitesure.net, where it says: “It works for cron jobs and any other scheduler.”. How we use this
| Vendor | Free Tier | Key Limits | Durability | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OnlineOrNot | Free | Uptime and status page monitoring — free plan: 3 monitors (uptime, keyword, heartbeat), 3-minute check interval, 2 team ... read found the page different · 2026-09-12 |
stable | 2026-09-12 / 2026-07-06 |
| Cronitor | Hacker | Cron job and uptime monitoring — free Hacker plan: 5 monitors, 5-minute check frequency, email, Slack, and webhook alert... | not published no difference measured · 2026-09-19 |
2026-09-19 / 2026-08-18 |
| Pulsetic | Free | Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors (HTTP/heartbeat/API), 5-minute check interval, 3 regions, 3-month history, 3 status page... | stable | 2026-09-22 |
| Sentry | Developer | Developer tier: 1 user, 5K errors/month, 5M spans/month, 50 session replays, 5GB application logs, 1GB attachments | watch effective 2025-08-15 |
2026-09-19 / 2026-08-11 |
| Healthchecks.io | Free | Cron job and scheduled task monitoring — 20 monitors, 100 log entries per job, email/webhook/Slack/Telegram alerts, API ... | stable | 2026-09-22 |
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 5 free cron monitor offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
5 offers meet our criteria on this page. Of those, 3 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, and we publish no durability signal for 1. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.
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