Quietbeat vs Cronitor: the Cronitor alternative
Quietbeat covers heartbeats, uptime checks, a status page and on-call in one flat plan, with no charge per monitor or per user. Below, Quietbeat's plans are set beside Cronitor's, with every figure about Cronitor sourced and dated.
Why teams choose Quietbeat over Cronitor
- On-call and escalation in every paid plan. Rotations, overrides and escalation ladders from Solo at $9 a month, with 1 schedule on Solo and unlimited from Team. A rotation emails the person on call; ladder pages to chat channels and webhooks repeat up to 20 rounds until acknowledged, with nothing billed per message. Cronitor: No native on-call; it hands off to PagerDuty, Datadog On-Call, Opsgenie or Splunk On-Call. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
- One flat price with no per-monitor or per-user charge. Team is $19 a month billed monthly, or $190 a year, for 200 monitors and 5 pageable people, with unlimited teammates. Heartbeats count among the monitors. Cronitor: Business is $2/mo per monitor plus $5/mo per user, billed monthly; Cronitor's own example of 20 monitors and 3 users is $55/mo. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
- Status pages with no per-page price. Every plan has status pages with badges, the free one included; from Solo each can sit on your own domain. Cronitor: A branded status page is $25/mo per page. (source, 16 Oct 2026)
Side by side.
Quietbeat's column from the plan table the product enforces. Cronitor's column as of 2026-10-16, each cell from the source it links.
| Quietbeat | Cronitor | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Hobby: 10 monitors every 60 s, 90 days of history, email alerts, 1 pageable person, a status page, heartbeats, the API and the MCP server. | Hacker: 5 monitors every 5 minutes, 1 status page with 50 subscribers, email and chat alerts, 1 dashboard user. (source, 16 Oct 2026) |
| Paid plan for a small team | Team: $19/mo or $190/yr, flat. 200 monitors every 30 s, 5 pageable people, unlimited teammates, 1 year of history. | Business: $2/mo per monitor plus $5/mo per user, billed monthly; 20 monitors and 3 users is $55/mo. No annual price listed. (source, 16 Oct 2026) |
| Fastest check | 30 s from Team; 60 s on Hobby and Solo. | 5 minutes on Hacker; 30 seconds on Business and Enterprise. (source, 16 Oct 2026) |
| On-call and escalation | Included from Solo, with 1 schedule on Solo and unlimited from Team: rotations that email the person on call, overrides, and escalation ladders whose pages to chat channels and webhooks repeat up to 20 rounds until acknowledged, with nothing billed per message. No per-seat price. | None native; hands off to PagerDuty, Datadog On-Call, Opsgenie or Splunk On-Call. SMS alerts on Business. (source, 16 Oct 2026) |
| Status pages | Included on every plan, with badges; your own domain from Solo. | 1 included, 500 subscribers on Business; a branded page is $25/mo per page. (source, 16 Oct 2026) |
| Heartbeat and cron monitoring | Included on every plan: GET or POST /b/:token, with /start and /fail, a grace period, and a diagnostic payload stored with the beat. | The core product: cron, heartbeat and uptime monitors. (source, 16 Oct 2026) |
| API and MCP | REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec and a first-party MCP server, read and write, on every plan including Hobby. One token serves both. | Unlimited API requests on Business. (source, 16 Oct 2026) |
Prices are each vendor's own published figures on the date shown; a per-user price is multiplied by the people on your rota, and Quietbeat's is not. Where Cronitor's page could not be read with confidence, or a figure could not be reproduced, the cell says so or says less.
How Quietbeat is shaped.
- What scales is how many people a page can reach, not how many teammates you invite: teammates are unlimited from Team, and a page reaches 5 people on Team and 40 on Scale.
- Monitoring and paging share one incident: the alert carries what the checker saw, and the same incident drives the status page, the escalation ladder and the acknowledgement.
- Open to code and to agents on every plan, Hobby included: a REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, a write-capable MCP server, and a sync manifest for monitoring as code.
- Hosted in Germany, in the EU, by an EU company.
How heartbeat monitors watch a scheduled job, with examples: cron job monitoring.
Moving over from Cronitor to Quietbeat.
There is no Cronitor importer. Quietbeat does not read Cronitor accounts, and this page does not pretend otherwise.
- Recreate the monitors: one at a time at /monitors/new, from a domain scan at /monitors/scan, from a sync manifest at POST /api/v1/sync, or by asking your agent over MCP.
- Each heartbeat gets a new ping URL to point the job at.
Questions people ask.
Why switch from Cronitor to Quietbeat?
On-call and escalation in every paid plan; one flat price with no per-monitor or per-user charge; and status pages with no per-page price.
Is Quietbeat a free Cronitor alternative?
Quietbeat's free plan needs no card. Hobby: 10 monitors every 60 s, 90 days of history, email alerts, 1 pageable person, a status page, heartbeats, the API and the MCP server. On Cronitor's side, Hacker: 5 monitors every 5 minutes, 1 status page with 50 subscribers, email and chat alerts, 1 dashboard user.
Is Quietbeat cheaper than Cronitor for 20 monitors and 3 users?
Yes, on list price. Quietbeat Team is $19 a month billed monthly, flat, for up to 200 monitors and unlimited teammates. Cronitor Business is $2 a month per monitor plus $5 a month per user, billed monthly, and its own example of 20 monitors and 3 users comes to $55 a month.
Does Quietbeat include on-call, and does Cronitor?
Quietbeat: Included from Solo, with 1 schedule on Solo and unlimited from Team: rotations that email the person on call, overrides, and escalation ladders whose pages to chat channels and webhooks repeat up to 20 rounds until acknowledged, with nothing billed per message. No per-seat price. Cronitor: None native; hands off to PagerDuty, Datadog On-Call, Opsgenie or Splunk On-Call. SMS alerts on Business.
Can I import my Cronitor monitors into Quietbeat?
Not automatically: Quietbeat has no Cronitor importer. Recreate the monitors: one at a time at /monitors/new, from a domain scan at /monitors/scan, from a sync manifest at POST /api/v1/sync, or by asking your agent over MCP. Each heartbeat gets a new ping URL to point the job at.
Figures about Cronitor in these answers are the ones above, with their sources and dates.
Other comparisons
Cronitor is a trademark of its owner. Quietbeat is not affiliated with Cronitor. Facts as of 2026-10-16, from the sources linked.