StatusPulse vs Cronitor
Cronitor is the best-known cron-monitoring tool — beautiful schedule visualisations, a polished Telemetry product, and very fair pricing. StatusPulse competes head-on with a native Heartbeat probe and adds ten other protocol-level probe types (gRPC, WebSocket, Postgres, SMTP/IMAP, advanced DNS), full customer-facing status pages, AI-drafted incidents, and US or EU hosting per tenant — in one bundle.
Prices and feature lists last verified 2026-05-22. Vendor pricing can change — check both pricing pages before deciding.
At a glance
11 vs ~6
Probe types built in
StatusPulse ships native probes for HTTP, Ping, TCP, DNS, SSL, Domain, Heartbeat, gRPC, WebSocket, Database (Postgres / MySQL / SQL Server / Redis), and SMTP/IMAP. Cronitor covers crons, HTTP/uptime, and Telemetry well — fewer protocol-level checks.
$5-$19/mo
Comparable Pro tier price
StatusPulse Starter is $5/mo and Pro is $19/mo with status pages, AI incident summaries, and protocol-level probes included. Cronitor's Team tier sits around $50/mo with Telemetry priced separately.
US or EU
Hosting region
Each StatusPulse tenant is pinned to either US or EU Azure regions — your DPA, your call. Cronitor doesn't surface tenant region as a customer-facing choice.
Pricing for a typical team
A team running ~20 cron heartbeats + ~10 HTTP/DB probes + a public status page on a custom domain, email + Slack alerts, PDF reports.
| StatusPulse | Cronitor | |
|---|---|---|
| Free / trial | 5 probes, 1 status page, forever | 5 monitors, forever |
| Entry paid | Starter $5 / mo | Hobbyist ~$10 / mo |
| Team paid (~30 monitors) | Pro $19 / mo | Team ~$50 / mo |
| Public status page | Branded, custom domain (Pro+) | Basic, included |
| Protocol-level probe types | 11 native | ~6 (crons + HTTP/uptime) |
| Telemetry / APM-lite | Not in scope | Built-in product (priced separately) |
| AI incident summaries | Pro+ | No |
Cronitor wins on cron-specific UX and ships a real Telemetry product — if those are central to your workflow, it's the right tool. For a team that needs cron heartbeats plus uptime plus a real status page in one bundle, StatusPulse covers the ground at roughly a third of Cronitor Team's price.
Feature matrix
| Feature | StatusPulse | Cronitor |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring | ||
| Heartbeat / cron probe | Starter+ (see cron heartbeat guide) | Yes — flagship |
| Cron schedule visualisation / timeline | Basic schedule check | Best-in-class |
| HTTP / HTTPS probes | Free+ | Yes |
| Ping (ICMP) | Starter+ | Yes |
| TCP port | Starter+ | Yes |
| DNS record probe (with assertions) | Starter+ (record-type + value assertions) | Basic resolution |
| SSL certificate expiry | Free+ | Yes |
| Domain expiry (WHOIS/RDAP) | Starter+ | No |
| gRPC Health probes | Pro+ (Check + Watch, mTLS) | No |
| WebSocket probes | Pro+ (HTTP/1.1 + HTTP/2) | No |
| Database (Postgres / MySQL / SQL Server / Redis) | Business (custom queries) | No |
| SMTP/IMAP round-trip | Pro+ (3 modes) | No |
| Telemetry / APM-lite | Not in scope | Yes (separate add-on) |
| Anomaly forecast (ML) | Business | No |
| Multi-region probe locations with quorum | Business — EU + US + APAC + SA | Limited regions |
| Status page | ||
| Public status page | Free+ | Yes (basic) |
| Custom domain + auto HTTPS | Pro+ | Limited |
| Custom branding (logo, colours, font) | Pro+ (6 colours, font, size) | Logo + minimal |
| Subscribers (Email, Slack, Teams, SMS, Webhook) | All five channels; public sign-up + double opt-in | Email only |
| Status badge (SVG + shields.io JSON) | Free+ | No |
| Embeddable widget + oEmbed | Free+ (zero-asset iframe) | No |
| Component groups | Free+ (flat groups, SortOrder) | No |
| Incidents | ||
| Auto-incident from probe transitions | Yes | Yes |
| Manual updates / post-mortems | Pro+ (post-mortems) | Basic |
| AI-drafted incident summaries | Pro+ | No |
| Incident metrics dashboard (MTTR, time-to-first-update) | Free+ (30/90/365-day windows) | Per-job analytics |
| Incident CSV export (metadata + components + timeline + SLO) | Starter+ (RFC 4180-escaped) | CSV at job-run level |
| Reports & analytics | ||
| PDF reports (uptime / SLA) | Starter+ (4 cadences, 14 sections) | CSV export |
| AI executive summary | Business | No |
| SLO / error-budget impact per incident | Pro+ | No |
| Anomaly-driven incident proposals | Business | No (heartbeat-focused) |
| Internal-only incidents | Free+ | No |
| Severity escalation (auto-page on stale incident) | Pro+ | Yes (heartbeat-focused) |
| Public trust score panel (MTTR / postmortem rate) | Free+ | No |
| Compliance & hosting | ||
| EU hosting option (per tenant) | Yes | Not customer-facing |
| SOC 2 report | In progress | SOC 2 |
| Single sign-on (SAML) | Phase B (planned) | Higher tiers |
| Integrations | ||
| Slack alerts | Pro+ | Yes |
| Microsoft Teams alerts | Pro+ | Yes |
| SMS alerts | Pro+ (pay-per-use) | Yes |
| Generic webhook (HMAC-signed + retry) | Pro+ | Yes |
| Custom request headers per webhook | Pro+ (PagerDuty / Opsgenie ready) | Yes |
| On-call rotation builder | Pro+ (weekly rotation + escalation policies) | Basic alerts, no rotation calendar |
| Custom Reply-To on alert emails | Business (route Reply to support@your-co) | No |
| Developer / API & compliance | ||
| Public read API (status / incidents / probes) | Free+ | Yes |
| Audit log API export (cursor-paginated) | Business | Limited |
| SSO domain lock (Microsoft + Google work accounts) | Business | Yes |
| White-label (hide "Powered by" + custom footer) | Business | No |
Which one is right for you?
Pick Cronitor if…
- Cron / heartbeat monitoring is 90% of your need — Cronitor's been laser-focused on this since 2014 and their schedule UX shows it.
- You want the best cron timeline and schedule visualisation on the market — first-class tooling for missed runs, late runs, and grace windows.
- You already use Cronitor Telemetry for application metrics and want to keep that data side-by-side with your crons in one console.
- SOC 2 today is a hard procurement requirement — Cronitor has it; StatusPulse's report is in progress.
Pick StatusPulse if…
- You need cron heartbeats and uptime and a real status page in one tool — StatusPulse bundles all three from Free, Cronitor's status page is basic and Telemetry is priced separately.
- Your stack includes Postgres, gRPC services, WebSocket channels, or mailflow — StatusPulse has native probes for each; Cronitor doesn't.
- You want a branded customer-facing status page — logo, colours, font, custom domain on Pro ($19/mo). See also our vs Statuspage.io comparison.
- EU tenant pinning matters for your DPA or EU-customer commitments — pick US or EU on signup.
- You want AI-drafted incident summaries and anomaly forecasts as standard — Pro+ and Business respectively. More patterns in the guides library.
Switching from Cronitor
Easiest path is parallel-run for 1-2 weeks so you can confirm every cron is still pinging on the new endpoint before cancelling Cronitor:
- Sign up for the free plan. Recreate your 5 noisiest cron heartbeats in StatusPulse — the ones that wake you up — and leave Cronitor untouched. Our cron heartbeat guide has copy-paste curl snippets.
- Add a second ping URL to each cron. Your job now pings both Cronitor and StatusPulse on every run. No downtime, no risk — both alerting paths active in parallel.
- Upgrade the probes Cronitor couldn't natively reach. Replace "HTTP-on-Postgres" with a real Database probe; "TCP-on-gRPC-port" with a real gRPC Health probe; "TCP-on-25" with an SMTP round-trip.
- Publish a branded status page on a sub-domain; wire Slack/Teams alerts into the same channel as Cronitor. Confirm StatusPulse fires for the same incidents Cronitor does.
- Cancel Cronitor when confident — or keep Hobbyist if you still rely on Telemetry. Most teams pocket $30+/mo immediately.
Try StatusPulse free
5 probes (heartbeats included), 1 status page, forever. No credit card. US or EU host — you choose.