Healthchecks.io free tier includes Cron job and scheduled task monitoring — 20 monitors, 100 log entries per job… Verified November 2026. Compare with 6 alternatives in Monitoring.
Subtypes in Monitoring: cron_monitor — 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 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.
Healthchecks.io's free tier offers Cron job and scheduled task monitoring — 20 monitors, 100 log entries per job, email/webhook/Slack/Telegram alerts, API… It's stable — zero pricing changes recorded. Best for monitoring workloads — 6 alternatives available.
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)
We read that on 2026-11-07 from https://healthchecks.io/pricing/, and our check recorded: the page names Healthchecks.io as "healthchecks io" and states "$0".
Hobbyist $0 / month Monitor 20 jobs 100 log entries per job
No recorded pricing changes for Healthchecks.io. This is a good sign — stable pricing.
How Healthchecks.io compares against every one of the 6 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| Healthchecks.io | Free | stable |
| Pulsetic | Free Uptime monitoring — 10 monitors (HTTP/heartbeat/API), 5-minute check interval, 3 regions, 3-month history, 3 status pages |
stable |
| Cronitor | Hacker 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 |
unrated |
| Sentry | Developer Developer tier: 1 user, 5K errors/month, 5M spans/month, 50 session replays, 5GB application logs, 1GB attachments |
stable |
| OnlineOrNot | Free 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 |
stable |
| deadmanssnitch.com | Free Monitoring for cron jobs. One free snitch (monitor), more if you refer others to sign up |
source unconfirmed |
| sitesure.net | Free Website and cron monitoring - 2 monitors free |
source unconfirmed |
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We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
curl https://agentdeals.dev/api/changes?vendor=Healthchecks.io
curl https://agentdeals.dev/pricing-changes/feed.xml?vendor=Healthchecks.io