Cronitor
Cronitor scores 61/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; API access is partial; usage-based / per-token pricing is published; a free entry path exists.
Cronitor pricing
Hacker
Free
Business
$2/mo
flatEnterprise
$6000/yr
~$500/mo equivHow Cronitor scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing visibility
15 / 15
Self-serve checkout
15 / 15
Public API + docs
2 / 20
Usage-based / metered pricing
13 / 20
Free entry path
7 / 7
No sales call required
4 / 7
Card / wallet / x402 payment
5 / 6
Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)
0 / 10
Total
61 / 100
What it actually costs at typical scale
1 user, 5 monitors (base)
$2/mo
3 users, 10 monitors
$27/mo
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Can create account
Can enter payment method
Can upgrade plan
Can buy more usage
Can cancel online
Payment methods
Human approval recommended
Pricing transparency
full
Purchase motion
self_serve
Demo required
Quote required
Unknown
Annual commit required
Unknown
Auto-renewal mentioned
Cancellation policy visible
Refund policy visible
Minimum commit
$6000
Minimum term
12 months
Invoice payment available
Purchase orders supported
MSA required
DPA available
Unknown
Security review required
Unknown
Trial
14 days (no card)
API & developer surface
API-first product
Sandbox present
Unknown
Webhooks
MCP mentioned
Trust & compliance
SSO / SAML
RBAC
Audit logs
Unknown
Data residency
Positioning & ecosystem
“Simple Pricing”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Cronitor?
Discover price
Select a plan
Pay per task
Avoid a sales call
API docs without auth
Estimate cost upfront
Pros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-06. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- Every advertised tier is self-serve; no tier requires scheduling a call.
- No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
- API documentation is gated or absent; an agent cannot inspect the integration surface without authentication.
- PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How Cronitor could lift its score
Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Simple Pricing — Technical docs on Cronitor's main features, API and SDKs. |
| tier_count | 3 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 6000 |
| free_tier | false |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 2 |
| sales_only_tiers | 0 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://cronitor.io/docs |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
| per_unit_classification | null |
| usage_headline_present | false |
| custom_tier_present | true |
| agent_friendly | {"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":false,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false} |
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/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Website Monitoring
Simple Pricing — Technical docs on Cronitor's main features, API and SDKs.
3
No
$6000/mo
2 / 0
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Tier-based subscription
Cronitor pricing starts at $0/mo for the Hacker free plan; the Business plan costs $2/mo for up to 5 monitors plus $5 per user per month, and Enterprise plans start at $6000/yr. Billed monthly or annually.
Free Hacker plan (Free)
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.ai-pricing.json
agents.txt
llms.txt
sitemap.xml
MCP Server Card
Agent Skills
x402 / MPP
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