Cronhub alternatives
Cronhub closed in mid-2026, and its schedules and ping history are gone. If you used it to watch jobs, these are the places to move them.
Cronhub had two halves. Its Scheduler called your URLs on a cron, and its Monitoring gave each job a ping URL and alerted when the pings stopped. Both closed in mid-2026, and the schedules and ping history went with them. Moving the monitoring half is quick, because every service below uses the same idea. Each job calls a URL when it runs, and you are alerted when the call doesn't arrive in time.
What to look for
- Cron expressions with a timezone, so "weekdays at 02:00" stays exactly that.
- A grace period separate from the schedule, so a job that runs a few minutes late isn't an alert.
- Start and fail pings, so a failed run alerts immediately and a hung run shows its duration.
- Alerts where your team already reads them.
The alternatives
Healthchecks.io
The closest to Cronhub's Monitoring. 20 checks free, $20/month for 100, cron expressions with timezones, start and fail pings, many integrations, and a BSD licence if you would rather host it yourself. No uptime checks and no status pages.
Vivere
Ours. Free for 25 monitors with email and webhook alerts. Pro is $9/month for 100 monitors and adds Slack, Discord, Telegram and ntfy, and until 31 January 2027 founding members pay $5/month. Every plan has cron expressions with timezones, separate period and grace, start and fail and exit-code pings, the output of each run, HTTP uptime checks beside your heartbeats, and public status pages with SVG badges. Vivere doesn't schedule jobs, so Cronhub's Scheduler needs a different home.
Cronitor
Deep job monitoring plus uptime checks, priced per monitor and per user. A good fit for a few critical jobs, and expensive across many.
Crontap
The closest to Cronhub's Scheduler. It calls your URLs on a cron, and it doesn't monitor jobs that run elsewhere, so pair it with one of the services above.
Which to choose
If you used Cronhub only to call URLs on a schedule, choose a scheduler such as Crontap, or a cron you already run; a monitoring service won't do that job. If you want to host the monitor yourself, choose Healthchecks.io. If you need SMS, phone calls or on-call rotas, Cronitor or an incident tool fits better than we do. If you want heartbeats, uptime checks and a status page in one place at a flat price, that is what Vivere is for.
Moving your monitors
Write down each job's schedule and how late it may run, create a monitor for each with the same cron expression and timezone, and swap the ping URL in the job. Run each job once by hand and check that the first ping lands before you rely on it.
Checked October 2026 against each vendor's public pricing and documentation. Prices and limits move; confirm before you decide. Vivere is our product, and the sections saying when to choose something else are not decoration — if one of them describes you, choose that.
Common questions
Is Cronhub still running?
No. Cronhub stopped in mid-2026 and deleted its schedules and ping history, so there is nothing left to export. Monitors have to be recreated in another service.
Does Vivere replace Cronhub's Scheduler?
No. Vivere watches jobs that run elsewhere and doesn't call your URLs on a schedule. For that, use a scheduler such as Crontap, a cron on your own server, or a scheduled workflow in GitHub Actions or n8n, and point its ping at Vivere.
Find out without looking
Vivere watches for the ping that does not arrive. Add one line to the job, pick where alerts should land, and you hear about the run that never happened.
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Last reviewed October 2026.
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