$9/mo
Starting price
Per SoftwareAdvice listing
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Should I Use Cron To Go?
Run and Monitor Scheduled Tasks on your Favorite Apps
Depends
DependsHeroku teams wanting cheap scheduled-job running plus monitoring get fair value at $9/mo.
$9/mo Heroku cron runner + monitor, zero public user reviews — fine for Heroku shops, risky as a critical dependency.
Confidence: Low
60 seconds
Scheduling precision
Unix cron format, per Heroku Elements
0 found
Independent reviews
No user reviews in sources reviewed
55,906,244
Web traffic rank
Semrush rank — very small footprint
Value for money
4
Starts at $9/mo, cheap for category
Ease of use
4
Familiar Unix cron syntax, 60-second precision
Feature depth
3
Runs and monitors jobs, not workflow orchestration
Security posture
2
Self-published security page only, no attestations
Pros
Cons
Gotchas
- highMarketing says 'your favorite apps' but evidence only shows Heroku integration — confirm your stack first²
- highZero public reviews means you're evaluating support quality blind⁵
- mediumTiny vendor (Crazy Ant Labs, per privacy policy); longevity risk if cron is critical infrastructure⁶
- mediumHeroku add-on pricing often scales with usage — verify costs as job count grows²
Best for
- Heroku apps with cron jobs
- Solo devs and small teams
- Teams wanting missed-job alerts
Not for
- Non-Heroku stacks — listings describe it as a Heroku add-on
- Teams needing workflow orchestration and dependency handling (Airflow territory)
- Buyers who require public reviews or vendor track record
- Enterprises needing audited scheduling platforms
Pricing
Starter
$9/mo
- Scheduled runs, 60s cron precision
- Job execution monitoring and alerting
- Free trial available
Security
No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.
What users say
No independent user reviews were found in the sources reviewed.
Alternatives
Compare Cron To Go with each alternative.
Oh Dear
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Cron To Go vs Oh DearUptimeRobot
Free tier with 50 monitors; cheap cron heartbeat checks
Cron To Go vs UptimeRobotBetter Stack
Monitoring plus logs and on-call in one platform
Cron To Go vs Better StackFly.io Cron Manager
Platform-native scheduled jobs if you host on Fly
Full analysis
Based on ~30 public source snippets (heavy duplication); zero independent user reviews found.
Sources
- Cron To Go homepagecrontogo.comofficial
- Cron To Go Scheduler — Heroku Elementselements.heroku.comofficial
- Cron To Go Security pagecrontogo.comsecurity
- Cron To Go Software Reviews, Demo & Pricingsoftwareadvice.comreview
- sitelike.org alternative-site listingssitelike.orgreview
- Cron To Go Privacy Policy (Crazy Ant Labs)crontogo.comofficial
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