Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about CronUptime.
General
CronUptime is a cron job scheduling and uptime monitoring service. You can schedule HTTP requests to run at specific intervals (like every 5 minutes) without managing your own servers.
No! You can create one cron job without signing up. It will run for 7 days. If you want more cron jobs or permanent scheduling, you can sign in with Google.
Yes, we offer a free tier with up to 5 cron jobs. Guest users can also try the service without signing up, with 1 cron job that runs for 7 days.
We run on Cloudflare's global network with 99.9%+ uptime. Our distributed infrastructure ensures your cron jobs execute on time, every time.
Technical
We support GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE methods. You can also add custom headers and request bodies for authenticated requests.
Yes! When creating a cron job, you can paste a curl command directly into the URL field. We'll automatically extract the URL, method, headers, and body.
For guest users, the minimum interval is 5 minutes. For registered free users, it's 1 minute. Pro users can also use cron expressions for more complex schedules.
Guest users: 7 days. Free users: 30 days. Pro users: 90 days. Team users: 1 year. Logs include response status, duration, and response body (truncated to 10KB).
We have a 30-second timeout for all requests. If your endpoint doesn't respond within that time, we'll mark the execution as failed and log a timeout error.
Free users get email notifications for failures. Pro users also get webhook notifications so you can integrate with Slack, Discord, or your own systems.
Billing & Plans
We're currently in beta with our Free tier. Pro and Team plans will be available soon. Sign up for our newsletter to be notified when they launch.
When paid plans launch, we'll accept all major credit cards through Stripe. We may also support PayPal and other payment methods based on demand.
Yes, you can cancel at any time. Your cron jobs will continue running until the end of your billing period, then downgrade to the free tier limits.