VS / Head-to-head. Read the honest version.

Hoppla
vs Cronitor.

Cronitor is the cron-job watchdog you reach for first. It catches the 2am batch that silently stopped running. But your SSL, DNS and broken links live somewhere else.

WHY SWITCH TO HOPPLA

One tool, one bill, one alert stream.

We bundle what Cronitor does with 9+ other checks. Same monitor, same timeline.

  • Cron heartbeats plus 18 other check types on one monitor
  • SSL chain, DNS and domain expiry watched out of the box
  • Broken-link crawler and Lighthouse audits included
  • Branded status page free on every plan, your own domain from Starter
  • Failed uptime checks get re-run from a second region before you're paged
WHERE CRONITOR FALLS SHORT

The gaps you'd be living with.

Cronitor is fine at its niche. But here's what it leaves on the table.

  • Built around cron and uptime, so the website checks are thin or missing
  • No SSL chain, OCSP or domain-expiry watching
  • No DNS record monitoring
  • No broken-link crawler, no Lighthouse audits
  • No white-label status page bundled in for free
Feature matrix

Side by side.

10 of 10 checks covered

Hoppla and Cronitor, feature by feature
FeatureHopplaCronitor
Cron / heartbeat monitoringYesYes
HTTP/HTTPS uptimeYesBasic
SSL certificate monitoringYesNo
DNS monitoringYesNo
Broken-link crawler (Starter)YesNo
Lighthouse audits (Starter)YesNo
Status pagesYesNo
On-call & escalation (Starter)YesNo
Server agentYesNo
Dual-region confirm before alertingYesNo
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Pricing

Same money, more checks.

CRONITOR

$2/monitor + $5/user (15 monitors ≈ $35/mo)

Cron & heartbeat monitoring only

Cronitor website

Competitor prices as shown on each vendor's own pricing page in September 2026, in their currency · nearest-equivalent tiers · verify on the competitor's site

MIGRATION

Coming from Cronitor? Bring it all over.

Drop in your Cronitor API key and we’ll import your monitors and their settings into Hoppla, free. What comes over varies by provider. Run both side by side for 24 hours or 7 days before you switch.

  • Free, assisted import
  • No credit card
  • 24-hour or 7-day shadow run

The importer opens with your invitation. Join the early-access list and bring these along:

  • Oh Dear
  • Uptime Robot
  • Better Stack
  • Pingdom
  • StatusCakeBeta
  • CronitorBeta
  • Healthchecks.ioBeta
  • Statuspage
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Early access

See the difference
on your own sites.

Join the early-access list, then run Hoppla next to Cronitor before you decide.

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