illari vs Cronitor
Facts checked 2026-09-02. Vendor pricing changes; verify before deciding.
Cronitor is a broad monitoring platform: cron jobs, website and API uptime, and web analytics in one product, and it owns crontab.guru. illari does one thing, watches scheduled and triggered runs, at a flat price with no per-monitor meter.
| Cronitor | illari | |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Cron + uptime + analytics + browser checks | Scheduled and triggered runs only |
| Pricing | Per monitor (~$2/mo) + per user (~$5/mo) | Flat: $20/mo, monitors and seats not metered |
| Free tier | 5 monitors | 25 monitors |
| Run content | Exit codes, duration, output, metric assertions in YAML | Exit codes, duration and metric anomaly (z-score), threshold rules, hung-run |
| Config | Dashboard or cronitor.yaml / API | Dashboard, one URL from the job, CLI, or REST API |
| Self-host | No | No |
Check the current pricing pages; the numbers here move.
Where illari is different
- Flat pricing. Cronitor meters per monitor and per user, so a team of five watching 50 jobs runs into three figures a month. illari is $20 flat whether that's 30 monitors or 300.
- Smaller surface. Cronitor is a suite. If you only want “did this job run and do the right thing,” illari is a single URL and a rule, no YAML, no unused uptime and analytics product alongside it.
- Small integration surface. One HTTP request from the job, the
illariCLI, or the REST API. A coding agent can wire it in from one URL.
Where Cronitor is the better pick
- You want one tool for everything. Cronitor covers cron, website and API uptime, synthetic browser checks, and analytics. illari watches scheduled and triggered runs only, on purpose.
- Per-monitor math works at your scale. A handful of monitors and one or two users can be cheaper on Cronitor than a flat $20.
- You want a mature config-as-code story. Cronitor has a
cronitor.yamland a long-established API. illari now has a REST API and an OpenAPI spec too, but it is newer and there is no declarative file format yet.
Pick Cronitor if you want a monitoring suite and the per-monitor price works out. Pick illari if you want flat, predictable pricing and a focused tool that stays small.
Try illari
25 monitors free, $20/mo for everything, monitors not metered. One HTTP request from the job.