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Healthchecks.io alternatives
Reasons teams start looking for something other than Healthchecks.io, and where to look instead.
Why people look for a Healthchecks.io alternative
- self-hosting means you own the uptime, backups, and upgrades of the monitoring server itself
- ping-based checks tell you a job did not check in, but you still SSH in by hand to change what it runs
- no single view of every machine; each job is a separate ping endpoint you wire up yourself
norc: monitoring plus control over the jobs
Healthchecks.io will tell you when a job misses its check-in. norc does that too: it flags runs that never happened or failed. It also lets you act on what it finds. One view shows every machine's jobs with run history, you can edit a schedule from desktop, terminal or phone without SSH, and runs missed while a machine was off are caught up, up to a cap. Your system cron still runs the jobs, and norc only touches the ones it manages. If you need more than alerts, norc is the closer fit. It is not self-hosted and not open source, so if that decides it for you, look at the peers below.
Other Healthchecks.io alternatives worth a look
- Cronitor $2/monitor/mo + $5/user/mo
- Dead Man's Snitch $5/mo · 3 snitches
- Sentry Crons $26/mo + $0.78/monitor
- CronRadar $1/monitor/mo
Switching from Healthchecks.io: common questions
- Is norc cheaper than Healthchecks.io?
- Healthchecks.io's cheapest paid plan is $20/mo · 100 jobs; norc's is $8/mo · 5 machines. The two use different pricing units, so it depends on your fleet: norc charges a flat tier by machines and jobs (free is 15 jobs on 2 machines, Pro 30 jobs on 5, Power 150 jobs on 25), rather than per monitor or per check.
- Can Healthchecks.io edit cron jobs on my servers?
- Healthchecks.io: —. norc: yes. Monitors are good at noticing a missed check-in, and norc does that too. It also writes the real crontab on each paired machine, touching only the jobs it manages, so you can add, change, or remove jobs without SSH or inbound ports.
- Does Healthchecks.io have native desktop or mobile apps?
- Healthchecks.io: Web only. norc: Desktop (macOS) · iOS · Android · CLI. Most tools in this category are web dashboards only, which matters when a job never ran overnight and you want to fix it from a phone rather than find a laptop.
- Do my scheduled jobs keep running if Healthchecks.io goes down?
- Healthchecks.io: n/a · monitors only. norc: real cron runs them. norc never runs your jobs. The system cron daemon on your own machine does. A norc outage costs you visibility and remote editing, and the jobs keep running.
- Should I use Healthchecks.io instead of norc?
- If self-hosting is non-negotiable (compliance, air-gapped infra, or just not wanting another vendor in the loop), use Healthchecks.io's open-source core. norc has no self-hosted mode.
Pricing and features as of August 2026. See the full compare matrix.