Hobbyist
$0/month
20 jobs. 100 log entries per job.
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Healthchecks.io and Cronitor are mature cron monitors. Nightshift watches the same silence, and it also watches a loop that keeps succeeding while it spends tokens or dollars. This page is specific about what we do not do.
Competitor prices were read from their official pricing pages on 2026-10-25: https://healthchecks.io/pricing/ and https://cronitor.io/pricing. Those numbers can change. Ours are the prices in this product today.
Nightshift Watchdog
- Free $0/month. 3 monitors. 1 person. email. No runaway alerts.
- Pro $12/month. 25 monitors. 1 person. email, slack, discord, telegram. Runaway limits.
- Team $39/month. 100 monitors. up to 10 people. email, slack, discord, telegram. Runaway limits.
No SMS, no phone calls, no status page, and no website or API uptime checks. Detection is about a minute plus the grace period you set, not 30 seconds.
Healthchecks.io
Supporter
$5/month
20 jobs and 100 log entries per job. Same limits as Hobbyist. It is a way to pay for the free tier.
Business
$20/month
100 jobs. 1,000 log entries per job. 50 SMS and WhatsApp credits. 20 phone-call credits. Email support. $192/year ($16/month) if billed annually.
Business Plus
$80/month
1,000 jobs. 1,000 log entries per job. 500 SMS and WhatsApp credits. 100 phone-call credits. Priority email support. $768/year ($64/month) if billed annually.
- The free Hobbyist plan covers more jobs than Nightshift Free (20 versus 3).
- As of February 18, 2026, every Healthchecks plan allows unlimited team members.
- Business is offered free for open-source projects and nonprofits if you contact them.
- Healthchecks does not record token or dollar cost on a ping, and it does not alert on runaway spend.
Cronitor
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.
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.
When to pick which
- Pick Healthchecks.io if you want the most monitors for free, SMS or phone calls, or a tool that has been doing cron checks for years.
- Pick Cronitor if you also need website checks, a status page, on-call routing, or checks faster than a minute.
- Pick Nightshift if the failure you care about is an agent or automation that either goes quiet or will not stop spending.