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Frequently asked questions

• What is Cronitor best at?

  Cron job monitoring, without question. Cronitor has specialized in scheduled jobs and background tasks since 2014, with SDKs, a CLI that imports your crontab, and schedule-aware alerts that understand cron expressions. Uptime checks and status pages came later as companion products. Pulsetic approaches from the opposite side: uptime monitoring and status pages first, with cron and heartbeat monitoring included, all under one flat price.

• How much does Cronitor actually cost?

  Cronitor's Business plan is usage-based: $2 per monitor plus $5 per dashboard user, every month. One monitor with one user is $7 per month; 50 monitors with a team of five comes to about $125 per month, before add-ons like removing status page branding ($25 per month) or a password-protected page ($50 per month). Enterprise starts around $6,000 per year. Pulsetic charges a flat price: $9 per month on Solo, $19 on Team, with no per-monitor meter.

• Does Cronitor have a free plan?

  Yes, but it is one of the smallest in the category: 5 monitors, 5-minute checks, one user and one basic status page. For context, UptimeRobot's free tier includes 50 monitors. Pulsetic's free plan includes 10 monitors with status pages and custom domains, and stays free for commercial use.

• Can I customize a Cronitor status page?

  Partly, and the rest costs extra. A custom domain and logo are supported, but removing Cronitor's branding costs an extra $25 per month, a password-protected private page is $50 per month, and subscriber capacity beyond the included 500 costs $25 per month per thousand. Custom colors, layout control, CSS and translations are not documented at all. Pulsetic includes colors, layouts, CSS, translations and subscriber notifications in its paid plans from $9 per month, and branding removal is included from the Team plan at $19.

• Does Cronitor send phone call alerts?

  No. Cronitor alerts by email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, webhooks and SMS (paid plans only), and hands off escalation to PagerDuty or Opsgenie. There are no voice call alerts. Pulsetic includes phone call and SMS alerts with credits on paid plans, so the wake-up call does not require a second subscription.

• Is Cronitor good at uptime monitoring?

  It is solid: HTTP and TCP checks from 12+ locations with per-check region selection, 30-second frequency on the Business plan, and a strong assertion engine for status codes, keywords, JSON paths, headers and SSL expiry. What it lacks are ping (ICMP) checks and domain expiry monitoring, and every URL you add spins the billing meter. Pulsetic checks from up to 15 locations as often as every 30 seconds, includes ping, port, TCP, domain and cron monitoring, and the price stays flat however many monitors you add within your plan.

• Can Pulsetic monitor my cron jobs like Cronitor does?

  Yes. Pulsetic includes cron and heartbeat monitoring: your jobs ping a unique URL when they run, and you are alerted when a ping does not arrive on schedule. If your workflow leans on deep job telemetry such as duration anomalies and exit-code capture via SDKs, Cronitor goes further in that niche. If you want job monitoring alongside uptime checks and status pages in one flat-price tool, that is exactly what Pulsetic is for.

• When should I switch from Cronitor to Pulsetic?

  The common triggers: your monitor count grew and the per-monitor meter with it; you need a customer-facing status page with branding and subscribers without paying add-ons for the basics; you want phone call alerts; or your need is mainly website uptime rather than job telemetry. Pulsetic covers uptime, cron, SSL, ports and domains with status pages included, at a price that does not change when you add the next monitor within your plan.