Uptime and cron tools
Each of these tools watches one part of your project and bills for it separately. PostDeploy covers uptime and cron, then adds error tracking and analytics in the same package.
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Better Stack
PostDeploy is $29 a month, flat, for 5 members, 100 uptime monitors, 200 cron jobs, error tracking and analytics. Better Stack charges $34 a month per responder seat, so two people cost $68 before the first extra monitor or heartbeat block. Stop paying per head. Switch to PostDeploy.
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Cronitor
PostDeploy is $29 a month for 100 uptime monitors and 200 cron jobs on separate allowances, with error tracking and analytics on the same login. Cronitor gives you five shared monitors free, then bills $2 per monitor and $5 per user until Enterprise at $6,000 a year. Stop feeding a meter. Move your jobs to PostDeploy.
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Healthchecks.io
PostDeploy watches the scheduled job and the URL it serves in one project: 200 cron jobs plus 100 uptime monitors in the package, with error tracking and analytics on the same login. Healthchecks.io probes no URLs on any tier, so your site needs a second tool and a second bill. Drop the second tool. Run both on PostDeploy.
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UptimeRobot
PostDeploy puts Slack, Discord, webhook and Telegram alerts in every subscription, gives cron jobs their own allowance, and adds error tracking and analytics to the same projects. UptimeRobot keeps Slack and webhooks off its free plan and tracks no errors and no visitors. Get the alerts without a plan ladder. Switch to PostDeploy.
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Analytics tools
These tools count visitors and stop there. PostDeploy counts them without cookies and also tells you when the site is down or throwing errors.
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Fathom Analytics
Fathom sells analytics alone, from $15 a month, with no free plan and a seven-day trial. PostDeploy is $29 a month and covers analytics plus uptime checks, cron heartbeats and error tracking, after 14 free days with no card. One package, four jobs. Switch to PostDeploy.
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Google Analytics
Google Analytics sets cookies, so an EU audience gets a consent banner and every visitor who declines drops out of your numbers. PostDeploy counts without cookies, needs no banner for analytics, and watches uptime, cron jobs and errors in the same package. Remove the banner. Switch to PostDeploy.
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Plausible
Plausible answers one question: who visited. PostDeploy answers that and three more for $29 a month: is the site up, did a cron job fail, what broke. Plausible's entry plan covers one site. PostDeploy covers 10 projects. Get the whole answer. Switch to PostDeploy.
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Start with the bill you already pay
Paying for uptime? UptimeRobot and Cronitor count a cron job against the same limit as your monitors, so every scheduled job spends a slot. PostDeploy gives uptime and cron separate allowances: 100 monitors and 200 jobs.
Paying for analytics? You pay for one answer: who visited. The same PostDeploy package also tells you when the site is down and what it is throwing.
Paying for both? That is the stack PostDeploy replaces. One project, one login, one flat price.
Five questions that expose the real price
- Scope. Does it watch the scheduled job, the URL that job feeds, the errors that URL throws and the visitors it gets? Or one of the four, with three more subscriptions to follow?
- Allowance shape. Does a cron job eat an uptime slot? On PostDeploy it does not: 100 uptime and API monitors plus 200 cron and heartbeat jobs.
- Price shape. Flat per organisation, or a meter per monitor, per seat, per heartbeat? A meter turns growth into a bigger invoice.
- Alert channels. Email, Slack, Discord, webhooks and Telegram are in PostDeploy, including the 14-day trial.
- Seats and projects. PostDeploy has 10 projects and 5 members, with no per-seat fee.
Switching is one line per job
Each heartbeat is one URL in a crontab, a CI workflow or application code. Replace the line and the job reports to PostDeploy.
Your connected agent recreates uptime checks through MCP: URL, interval, timeout, expected status and keyword rule. No import wizard, no support ticket.
Before you switch
How fast can I switch?
Connect your agent, recreate the checks, and swap one URL per scheduled job. The trial needs no credit card, so the move starts today.
What happens after the 14 days?
Subscribe for $29 a month and keep every check, incident and chart. Without a subscription the organisation becomes read-only, and PostDeploy deletes its data 30 days later.