CronEngine vs EasyCron
Both run scheduled HTTP requests. EasyCron goes further on timeouts; CronEngine adds heartbeats, uptime checks and status pages in the same account, with monthly instead of yearly billing.
Checked against EasyCron's own pages on 22 October 2026
Choose EasyCron if
Your requests run for minutes or hours, you prefer a low yearly price, or several people need their own login.
Choose CronEngine if
You want heartbeats, uptime checks and a customer status page next to your cron jobs, monthly billing in euros, or a free plan that does not need renewing.
About EasyCron
EasyCron has been running since 2011. It calls your URL on a full cron schedule, with very long timeouts on its paid plans, separate failure logs and an API.
Side by side
"Not listed" means EasyCron's own pages do not mention it, not that it is impossible.
| EasyCron | CronEngine | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs your scheduled requests | Yes: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE and more, with headers and body | Yes: any method, headers, body and authentication |
| Fastest schedule | Every 20 minutes on the free plan, every minute on paid plans | Every 15 minutes on Free, every minute on Business |
| Request timeout | 5 seconds free, 12 hours on Individual, 24 hours on Enterprise | 20 seconds on Free, up to 600 on Enterprise |
| Run history | Logs plus separate failure logs, 10 KB of each reply saved | 5 to 50 runs per job, with 10 KB of each reply |
| Heartbeats for your own scripts | Not listed | Yes: start, success and fail pings, and the run time. 2 on Free |
| Website uptime checks | Not listed | Yes: 1 on Free, checks every minute from Pro |
| SSL certificates | Not listed | Expiry warnings at the countdowns you choose, from Starter |
| Status pages | Not listed | From Starter: 1 page, 3 on Pro, with email subscribers, RSS and a badge |
| Status page branding | Not listed | Logo, colours, dark mode and 5 languages from Starter; your own address from Pro |
| Alert channels | Email, Slack and webhooks | Email, webhooks (also in Slack and Discord format) and Telegram |
| Team members | Subusers on paid plans | One login per account |
| API | Yes | No public API |
| Free plan | 200 executions a day, renewed every month | 5 cron jobs, 2 heartbeats, 1 uptime check, no card |
| Paid pricing | Yearly plans from $24/year | Flat monthly plans from €5.99, in euros |
Where EasyCron is stronger
Worth knowing before you switch:
- Very long timeouts: 12 hours on Individual, 24 hours on Enterprise.
- Cheap yearly plans, from $24 a year.
- Subusers on paid plans.
- Quartz cron syntax next to standard cron.
- An API to manage jobs.
Pricing
EasyCron
Yearly plans from $24/year. Free plan: 200 executions a day, renewed every month.
EasyCron's Individual plans are billed per year; CronEngine is billed per month.
CronEngine
- Free €0: 5 active cron jobs
- Starter €5.99/month: 25 active cron jobs
- Pro €12.99/month: 50 active cron jobs
- Business €24.99/month: unlimited cron jobs
Switching from EasyCron
- Use Import in the CronEngine job form: paste the request as a cURL command and the form fills itself in.
- Copy the schedule; standard cron expressions work as they are.
- Once a few runs succeed, pause the job on EasyCron so it does not run twice.
Questions
Can CronEngine run long requests like EasyCron?
Up to 300 seconds on Business and 600 on Enterprise. If your requests run for hours, EasyCron's 12 and 24 hour timeouts fit better.
Does the CronEngine free plan expire?
No. It stays free with 5 cron jobs, 2 heartbeats and 1 uptime check, no credit card needed.
Do my cron expressions work in CronEngine?
Standard five-field expressions work as they are, including the @hourly style shortcuts. Quartz-only syntax with seconds needs rewriting.
Sources, checked 22 October 2026
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