CronRadar vs Cronitor
A Cronitor alternative for teams that want flat per-job pricing by schedule, unlimited collaborators, and native Hangfire or Quartz.NET discovery. Compare the cost and verify your setup before switching.
Predictable team pricing
Regular monthly prices in USD before taxes. These examples use Standard schedules: hourly, daily, or less often. One job equals one monitor; people are dashboard users. Negotiated discounts are excluded.
| Active jobs | People | CronRadar / month | Cronitor / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 | $0 Free | $0 Hacker |
| 6 | 1 | $0 Free | $17 Business |
| 10 | 1 | $0 Free | $25 Business |
| 50 | 5 | $20 Pay as you grow | $125 Business |
| 100 | 5 | $45 Pay as you grow | $225 Business |
| 250 | 5 | $120 Pay as you grow | $525 Business |
| 1,000 | 5 | $495 Pay as you grow | $2,025 Business |
| 10,000 | 5 | $4,995 Pay as you grow | $20,025 Business |
Cronitor Business lists $2 per monitor plus $5 per dashboard user each month. Its five-monitor, one-user Hacker plan is free. Volume discounts and custom contracts can change the comparison.
Both products are free for five jobs and one person. CronRadar includes 10 free monitors and unlimited collaborators. Prices depend on schedule class, and the products have different features; this is not a claim that CronRadar is cheapest for every workload.
CronRadar charges a flat $2 Fast, $1 Frequent, or $0.50 Standard per monitor each month after the first 10, which are free for your fastest schedules. There is no minimum, no monitor limit, and no volume tier. Stripe bills monthly on the month’s peak, and discovered jobs count while they are active.
Estimate your own monthly bill · Check Cronitor’s current prices
Choose for your workload
Both products support AI-assisted setup. Cronitor documents a .NET SDK and a hosted MCP server; automatic discovery and agent tooling are not exclusive to CronRadar. Compare the actual integration your jobs need.
Review CronRadar’s security, retention, and service limits · Compare other cron monitoring tools
Current installation paths
NuGet currently installs CronRadar.Hangfire 0.1.0. Setup and discovery work, but this release can report failures before Hangfire finishes retrying, including cancellations. Reporting only after retries are exhausted requires the pending 0.2.1 release. Every reconciliation sets each discovered monitor's grace period to CronRadar.CronRadar.DefaultGracePeriodSeconds, 60 unless set in code, replacing dashboard edits.
Open the current setup guideNuGet currently installs CronRadar.Quartz 0.1.0. MonitorAll discovers jobs, but this release sends a cron trigger's six-field expression unchanged and CronRadar accepts only five-field cron, so only jobs on repeating simple triggers are monitored; translating cron triggers requires the pending 0.1.1 release. Every reconciliation sets each discovered monitor's grace period to CronRadar.CronRadar.DefaultGracePeriodSeconds, 60 unless set in code, replacing dashboard edits.
Open the current setup guideFor other runtimes, check package availability and the HTTP fallback. Direct HTTP reporting requires explicit job instrumentation and does not discover your scheduler automatically.
Switch with evidence
This is a parallel-run migration guide. CronRadar does not offer a one-click Cronitor import.
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Record each job’s schedule, timezone, grace window, expected runtime, environment, owner, and alert destination. Check how retries and cancellations are reported. Count active jobs across your account before choosing a plan.
02
Create a separate CronRadar application and key for each environment. Hangfire and Quartz discover recurring jobs across the application by default, and each active job counts toward your bill; review the job list first. For a single-job pilot, use explicit HTTP lifecycle reporting. Keep Cronitor running while you verify the same job in both systems.
03
Confirm a real terminal result and the next expected run. Review channels and recipients in the application’s Alerts tab. Confirm delivery at the destination using an available channel test or a harmless job in a separate test application. Use that test job to exercise failure and recovery; never deliberately fail a production job.
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Check schedule and retry behavior for each migrated job, then retire its old check only after coverage is verified. Cronitor history, monitor IDs, API keys, and notification configuration are not imported. Preserve any history you need before canceling.
Primary sources
Market facts verified September 22, 2026. Vendor products and pricing can change.
Start with 10 free monitors. Confirm a schedule, a real run, and an alert destination before adding a card.