Hacker
$0
5 monitors. 1 dashboard user. Email and Slack alerts. One basic status page. Fastest check is 5 minutes. No SMS and no premium integrations.
A Cronitor alternative for heartbeats, not for status pages
Cronitor monitors cron, heartbeats, websites, and APIs, and it can page an on-call tool. Nightshift only watches jobs that ping us. The extra question it asks is whether that job is spending more than it should.
Prices below are from https://cronitor.io/pricing, checked 2026-10-25.
Business
$2/month per monitor + $5/month per user
14-day trial, then usage pricing with no base fee. Fastest check is 30 seconds. SMS and on-call integrations (PagerDuty, Opsgenie, and similar). Their pricing page example is 20 monitors and 3 users at $55/month. Status-page branding is $25/month per page. A private status page is $50/month per page. Synthetic browser checks are $1/month per 1,000 checks. Web analytics is $10/month per 100,000 events after 100,000 free events.
Enterprise
from $6,000/year
Annual invoice. Custom monitor and user pricing, a dedicated engineer, and priority support.
- Cronitor also monitors websites, APIs, and real-user errors. Nightshift does not.
- A single person with 25 heartbeat monitors is $12/month on Nightshift Pro, and $55/month on Cronitor Business (25 × $2 + 1 × $5).
- Cronitor's free plan includes Slack. Nightshift Free is email only.
- Cronitor does not alert when a successful loop starts burning tokens or dollars.
Nightshift prices
Free is $0 for 3 monitors and email only. Pro is a flat $12/month for 25 monitors. Team is a flat $39/month for 100 monitors and 10 people. Chat alerts and runaway limits start at Pro. There is no status page and no 30-second check.