Cronitor or Ping Clock?
20 checks, no card.
Cronitor covers cron jobs, heartbeats, website and API checks, status pages, browser checks and real user monitoring. It's a broader product than ours. Its Business plan is usage-based. Figures from cronitor.io/pricing on 16 Oct 2026.
Pricing model
Cronitor: free Hacker plan with 5 monitors; Business at $2 per monitor per month plus $5 per user per month, with a 14-day trial; Enterprise from $6,000 a year.
Ping Clock: flat plans. $0 for 20 checks, $9 for 100, $29 for 500, $79 for 2,000.
What it costs at different sizes
| Jobs, users | Ping Clock | Cronitor Business |
|---|---|---|
| 20 jobs, 1 user | $0 | $45/mo |
| 100 jobs, 3 users | $9/mo | $215/mo |
| 500 jobs, 10 users | $29/mo | $1,050/mo |
Cronitor figures are list price before any volume discount it offers. Its pricing page mentions volume-based discounts, so large accounts should ask.
What Cronitor has that we don't
- Website, API and synthetic browser checks
- SMS and on-call integrations (PagerDuty, OpsGenie and others)
- Status pages and real user monitoring
- SAML SSO and SCIM
When Ping Clock is the better fit
You only need heartbeat monitoring for scheduled jobs, alerts in email, Slack, Teams, Discord or a webhook, and a predictable bill.
FAQ
Can I monitor websites with Ping Clock?
No. Heartbeats only.