Cronitor alternative
A Cronitor alternative with flat pricing
Cronitor charges per monitor and per user, so the bill grows with every job you add. Checkmeup's plans are flat: 30 monitors for $9 a month, 100 for $29.
Side by side
As of October 18, 2026, from each product's own pages.
| Feature | Checkmeup | Cronitor |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Flat plans: $0, $9, $29, $99 a month | Business: $2 a monitor plus $5 a user, a month |
| Free plan | 10 monitors at 5 min, 1 status page | 5 monitors at 5 min, 1 basic status page |
| 30 monitors, one user | Solo, $9/mo | Business, $65/mo |
| Monitor types | Cron, uptime, SSL expiry, domain expiry, TCP port, DNS record | Jobs, heartbeats, HTTP, browser, TCP and UDP checks, with SSL expiry as an assertion |
| Status pages | 1 to 100 by plan; branding can be hidden from $9/mo | 1 included; a branded page $25/mo, a private one $50/mo |
| SMS alerts | Credits included on every paid plan | Business plan |
| Fastest check, check locations | 1 min, from one location | 30 s on paid plans, up to 12 locations |
Why switch
- A bill that stays the same as you add jobs: 30 monitors cost $9 a month, not $65.
- Domain expiry and DNS record checks, which Cronitor does not document.
- Status pages without branding included in the plan, not $25 a page.
When Cronitor is the better choice
- You want job telemetry: run metrics, exit codes, and SDKs or a CLI wrapper instead of a curl.
- You need checks every 30 seconds, from several locations, or browser checks.
- You need a team with roles, SSO or on-call integrations such as PagerDuty and Opsgenie.
Switching
- Create a free Checkmeup account.
- For each job, create a cron monitor with the same schedule and grace period, and have the job call the monitor's ping URL with curl where it called Cronitor. A run's start maps to /ping/{token}/start.
- Recreate your HTTP checks as uptime monitors, run both for a day, then remove the Cronitor monitors.
Sources
Prices and plans change; check the source before you decide.
Start with 10 free monitors.
No credit card, no expiry date on the free plan.