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PostDeploy as a Cronitor alternative

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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Cronitor against PostDeploy

Their entry plan, line by line, against the package that also runs your error tracking and analytics.

Uptime and API monitors
Cronitor
5 shared with jobs
PostDeploy
100, own allowance
Cron and heartbeat jobs
Cronitor
Shared with the 5 above
PostDeploy
200, own allowance
Check interval floor
Cronitor
5 minutes
PostDeploy
1 minute
Cron and heartbeat monitoring
Cronitor
Yes, free
PostDeploy
Included
Seats on the entry plan
Cronitor
1
PostDeploy
5
Pricing model past free
Cronitor
Metered: $2 / monitor, $5 / user
PostDeploy
One package, $29 a month
Analytics and error tracking
Cronitor
Shipped today (RUM, JS errors)
PostDeploy
Shipped today (Measure, Observe)

Pricing, tier by tier

Free is five monitors, shared across uptime checks, heartbeats and cron jobs, at a 5-minute floor. A branded status page costs $25 a month. A private one costs $50.

Past free there is no plan, only a meter: $2 per monitor per month plus $5 per dashboard user. Fifteen monitors and one seat is $35 a month. The line climbs with every object until Enterprise, which starts at $6,000 a year.

PostDeploy is $29 a month, flat per organisation: 10 projects, 100 uptime monitors and 200 cron jobs on separate allowances, so a scheduled job never spends the slot for the URL it serves.

One metered pool, or a flat price

On Cronitor a cron job and the URL it serves draw from the same metered pool. Add a job and pay $2. Add a teammate who needs to see it and pay $5.

PostDeploy counts jobs and monitors apart and charges once. Each job reports start, finish or fail with one curl line and no SDK, or sends its exit code in the URL. A fail ping or a non-zero exit opens an incident at once. The same package polls 100 HTTP, keyword, TCP and DNS checks, groups errors with releases and sourcemaps, and counts pageviews without cookies.

Move off Cronitor

Each step happens once. Your agent recreates the checks through MCP, and the 14-day trial covers the move.

  1. 1 Swap each ping URL. Cronitor telemetry endpoints look like https://cronitor.link/p/API_KEY/<key>?state=run|complete|fail and live in crontabs, Kubernetes manifests, GitHub Actions workflows and application code. PostDeploy takes the same shape: ?state=start|finish|fail, or the exit code in the path.
  2. 2 If CronitorCLI rewrote your crontab, strip its wrappers before you swap the URLs.
  3. 3 Remove the cronitor SDK packages (Python, Node, Ruby, PHP). A PostDeploy heartbeat is one curl line.
  4. 4 Let your agent recreate each uptime check through MCP: URL, interval, timeout, expected status and keyword rule.
  5. 5 Point alerts at email, Slack, Discord, a webhook or Telegram.

Questions

What does a PostDeploy heartbeat report?

Start, finish and fail, sent with one curl line and no SDK, or the job's exit code in the URL. A fail ping or a non-zero exit code opens an incident at once. Uptime checks, error tracking and analytics come in the same package.

How many monitors does Cronitor's free plan include?

Five, shared across cron jobs, heartbeats and uptime checks, at a 5-minute check interval floor. PostDeploy counts the two apart: 100 uptime and API monitors and 200 cron and heartbeat jobs, at the same interval.

What does Cronitor cost once you outgrow the free plan?

There is no flat next tier. Business is metered at $2 per monitor per month plus $5 per dashboard user, so the bill grows with every object you add. Enterprise starts at $6,000 a year. PostDeploy is a flat $29 a month.

How do I start?

Sign up. You get 14 days free, with no credit card and no invite.

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