StatOSS compared with Cronitor
Cronitor is monitoring for developers, built around cron jobs and heartbeats, at $2 a monitor and $5 a user each month. StatOSS is uptime checks and a status page, priced per plan.
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All 2 monitors are responding, 5 failed checks in the last 24 hours.
API
Up for 6 h 51 min99.65% passed
1,438 checks, median 204 ms, 5 timeouts
95% under 299 ms
- Timed out5 min, 5 checks
Website
Up for 23 h 58 min100% passed
1,438 checks, median 137 ms, all passed
95% under 199 ms
Side by side
| StatOSS | Cronitor | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 1 page, 1 monitor, checks every 5 minutes, 7 days of history, email alerts | Hacker: 5 monitors, checks every 5 minutes, 1 basic status page with 50 subscribers, email and Slack alerts, 1 user |
| Paid | Hobby $4 a month: 10 monitors, every minute, 90 days. Pro $15: 100 monitors across 10 pages, a year, your own domain | Business: $2 a month per monitor and $5 per user, no base fee; 30-second checks, 12 months of data, 500 subscribers. 20 monitors and 3 users come to $55 a month |
| People | Pro includes 3 people, $5 a month for each one after | $5 a month per user; SAML single sign-on $5 more per user |
| Status page | Up to 10 pages on Pro, your own domain with the certificate handled, a password or a private page, subscribers | 1 page on Business; a branded page $25 a month, a private page $50 |
| Monitor types | HTTP with keyword, TCP, DNS, ping, certificate, domain expiry, heartbeat, component | Cron jobs, heartbeats, websites and APIs; browser checks at $1 per 1,000; web analytics and errors |
| Alerts | Email on every plan; Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Pushover, ntfy and a signed webhook on Hobby and Pro. No SMS | Email, Slack, Discord, Teams and webhooks on every plan; SMS, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Datadog On-Call and Splunk On-Call on Business |
| Open source | The core is MIT licensed and runs on your own box | No; the SDKs are |
Facts about the other product were read from its own site on 5 October 2026. Prices and limits change; check theirs before deciding, and tell [email protected] if something here is out of date.
What StatOSS does differently
Most uptime pages show a row of green squares, one per day, and a percentage. A five-minute outage at 3 a.m. becomes a square that is still green and a figure that still says 99.99%. StatOSS draws a strip per monitor where every bar is one check, its height the response time, amber for a timeout and red for any other failure, and groups the failed checks into entries with the time and the reason. The mark stays visible for the whole range. A customer who was refused at 3 a.m. finds the moment on the page, and so do you.
Before a failure counts, a second server on another network repeats the check, and only a failure both see goes on the record; two of those in a row make an outage. The response time of every check is kept, and a slow threshold turns a sluggish service into its own state with its own alert. The core is open source under MIT, so the page you get from the hosted service is the page you can run yourself.
When Cronitor is the better pick
If most of what you watch is cron jobs and background jobs, Cronitor is built around them, with open source SDKs. If you need 30-second checks, SMS alerts or browser checks, Cronitor has them. If you watch a few monitors alone, Business costs $2 for each and $5 for you.
Where StatOSS fits: at 20 monitors and 3 people Cronitor Business is $55 a month and StatOSS Pro is $15, with 10 pages on your own domains and 1,000 subscribers each. Heartbeats are one of the monitor types, on the same page as the rest. Any CSV with a URL column imports; the import page has the steps.