Free Cronhub Alternative for Scheduled HTTP Jobs

What Cronhub Does Well — and Where It Costs You

Cronhub is a solid cron-as-a-service: it lets you schedule HTTP requests with cron expressions, monitor heartbeat pings from existing crons, and get notified when jobs fail. The interface is clean and the SLA is real.

The cost comes in two places. First, the free tier caps active monitors — past that limit you upgrade to Hobby or Standard. Second, larger usage requires per-team-member pricing. For a side project or a developer running ten lightweight jobs, the bill creeps up faster than the actual compute cost would suggest.

Feature Comparison: Requex.me vs Cronhub

When Cronhub Makes Sense — and When It Doesn't

Cronhub's sweet spot is monitoring crons that already run on your own infrastructure — your nightly database backup pings Cronhub, and if the ping doesn't arrive on schedule, you get an alert. That heartbeat use case is reasonable on the paid plan.

But if you want Cronhub to run HTTP requests on a schedule — hit an endpoint every 5 minutes, retry on failure, log the response — you're paying for what Requex offers free. And if you're also debugging the webhook that endpoint produces, Requex covers both the cron and the inspection side in one place.

Switching from Cronhub (3 Steps)

1. Sign up for Requex.me — free, no credit card. Crons live under your account so they survive across sessions.
2. Create a cron job — paste the cron expression, set timezone, target URL, HTTP method, headers, and body. Set retry count and expected status if you want validation.
3. Watch logs in real-time — every fire is logged with status code, duration, response body, and validation result. Add a notify webhook URL to get pinged on consecutive failures.

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