Cronhub monitors scheduled jobs and can schedule them for you as well. If you want a hosted scheduler, that is a genuine advantage we do not match. If you already have cron and just need to know when it stops, the comparison is closer.
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Is MonitoringDaddy a real Cronhub alternative?
For monitoring jobs you already schedule yourself, yes, and with uptime and page monitoring included. Cronhub is the better choice if you want it to run the schedule for you rather than only watch it — we have no scheduler at all.
If your jobs run from crontab, systemd timers or a CI pipeline, the scheduling half of Cronhub is capability you are paying for and not using.
Jobs stopping matters; so does the site being down and the certificate expiring. A cron-only tool leaves both uncovered.
Plans scale by the number of monitored jobs, which gets expensive for teams with a lot of scheduled work.
Green marks the stronger option on that row. Third-party pricing and limits change without notice — treat the Cronhub column as a starting point and confirm current figures on their site before you decide.
| Feature | Cronhub | MonitoringDaddy |
|---|---|---|
| Cron / heartbeat monitoring | Yes — core product | Yes — 1 on free, 25 on the $5 plan, 100 on Pro |
| Hosted job scheduling | Yes — it can run the schedule for you | No — we watch jobs, we do not run them |
| Free plan | Limited free tier — verify on their site | 1 heartbeat, 1 monitor, 1 watched page |
| Uptime monitoring | No | Yes, on every plan |
| SSL and domain expiry | No | Yes, at no extra allowance |
| Website change detection | No | Yes, with word-level diffs and images |
| Hosted status page | No | Yes, included on every plan |
| Job duration tracking | Yes | No — we record the check-in only |
| Entry paid price | From ~$20/mo — verify on their site | $5/mo for 25 of each monitor type |
| Alert channels | Email, Slack, webhooks and more | Email, browser push, Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Flock, webhooks |
Every comparison page on the internet claims the author's product wins on everything. Here is where it does not.
If any of those are load-bearing for your team, staying put is the correct decision and this page has done its job. Monitoring you actually trust beats monitoring that is marginally cheaper.
Six monitor types and one dashboard. No add-on products, no separate SKUs for the features you assumed were included.
HTTP checks from external infrastructure, as often as every 60 seconds, with downtime and recovery alerts. See the uptime setup guide.
A dedicated monitor type with configurable advance warnings, so a certificate never lapses because nobody owned the renewal. See SSL expiry monitoring.
Registration expiry tracked as its own monitor, warning you months ahead. The outage nobody has a runbook for. See domain expiration monitoring.
Alert when a phrase appears or disappears on a page — defacement, stock changes, silent policy edits. See website change detection.
Watch a competitor or supplier price string and get told the moment it moves. See the price monitoring guide.
Public status pages included on every plan, hosted independently of your infrastructure so they stay up when you do not. See hosted status pages.
Alerts from any of these can be routed to email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, Flock or a generic webhook, and a single monitor can carry several channels at once. Everything is available through the REST API on paid plans, so monitors can be created and torn down programmatically rather than clicked through a form.
Flat monthly tiers. No per-seat charges, no credit top-ups, no usage meters — the number below is the whole bill.
| Plan | Monitors | Fastest interval | Alert channels | API | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 | Every 30 minutes | — | $0 | |
| Founding Member first 20 only | 25 | Every 5 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $5/mo |
| Basic | 10 | Every 10 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $8/mo |
| Growth | 50 | Every 5 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $19/mo |
| Pro | 100 | Every 60 seconds | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $34/mo |
Annual billing is cheaper on every paid tier. The pricing page is the authoritative list.
There is no automated importer — monitors are re-created by hand, or scripted through the API on paid plans. Budget about a minute per monitor.
List every active check: URL, interval, condition and alert recipients. Most teams find monitors nobody needs any more.
Start with revenue-critical URLs. Set the interval, add the condition, attach the channels your team already watches.
Keep Cronhub live while the new monitors settle. Compare alerts and confirm nothing is missing.
Move any public status page across, confirm a clean week of overlap, then cancel the old subscription.
This page is written by the team that builds MonitoringDaddy, so treat it as an informed argument rather than a neutral audit. What we can promise is that the claims about our own product are checked against what the software actually does, and the rows where Cronhub is stronger are marked as such rather than quietly omitted.
Details about Cronhub come from their public pricing and documentation at the time of writing. Monitoring vendors change plan limits and prices frequently and without announcement, so every third-party figure here carries a "verify on their site" caveat and you should take it seriously before making a decision on cost.
One thing worth stating plainly, because most comparison pages fudge it: MonitoringDaddy checks run from our own infrastructure, which is external to yours, but from a single origin rather than a global probe network. That is enough to catch outages and content changes independently of your stack. It is not enough to tell you a site is down in Frankfurt but up in Ohio. If regional verification is a hard requirement, a larger platform will serve you better and we would rather you knew that now.
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Every recorded change is compared word by word and kept with a before-and-after image. This is the real output, shown with worked example data.
Price fell from $49 to $39, and an annual discount was added.
The item is available again and the basket button returned.
A new subprocessor was added in another jurisdiction.
The free plan sends to one email address. Every paid plan adds the chat and webhook channels below, with 2 to 10 destinations depending on the plan. However many alerts you receive, the price does not change — nothing here is metered or charged per alert.
There are no voice calls and no SMS. If a phone call at 3am is a hard requirement, say so before you subscribe — we would rather tell you now than refund you later.
No. We watch jobs you schedule yourself — crontab, systemd, a CI pipeline, anything that can make one HTTP request when it finishes. If you want the tool to run the schedule, Cronhub does that and we do not.
There is a limited free tier with paid plans from roughly $20/month. Verify current limits on their site.
Each heartbeat has a ping URL. Call it at the end of your job, tell us how often to expect it and how late it may be, and we alert you when the call does not arrive.
Cronhub does. We do not — we record whether the check-in arrived on time. If a job gradually getting slower is the signal you need, Cronhub or Cronitor are the better tools.
Here, yes — uptime, SSL expiry, domain expiry, page changes and status pages are all in the same account. Cronhub is cron-focused.
1 on free, 25 on the $5 Founding Member plan, 50 on Growth, 100 on Pro. Heartbeats have their own allowance separate from monitors and watches.
Then neither tool works. Heartbeat monitoring depends on the job being able to make one outbound HTTPS request.
Yes — swap the ping URL in each job. One line per job, and you can run both in parallel while you confirm.
Last updated August 4, 2026 · Written by Amit Gupta, founder of MonitoringDaddy
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