Zen Cron Alternatives

Zen Cron is described as 'Simple Scheduled HTTP Requests' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Zen Cron for Web-based, SaaS, Self-Hosted and Docker. The best Zen Cron alternative is Webcron. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try EasyCron or Posthook. Other great apps like Zen Cron are Cron As A Service, Looper, Crontask and Cronly.

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  1. Webcron icon
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    With webcron you pay per request and you can choose the monitoring frequency to your linking. When your website goes down, webcron can send you either an email or a text message (SMS).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Webcron is the most popular Web-based alternative to Zen Cron.

    • Webcron is the most popular commercial alternative to Zen Cron.

    • Webcron is Paid and ProprietaryZen Cron is also Paid and Proprietary
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    Online cron job scheduler with a beautifully simple interface so you can worry about building your app. Cron As A Service allows you to schedule regular HTTP requests to your webapp.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Looper icon
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    Service for Webhook Scheduling, Long Time Queue and Cron Job Monitoring.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. EasyCron icon
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    Get frustrated with Cron on your server? Hosting limits your Cron use? Don't have knowledge on Crontab?

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • EasyCron is the most popular free alternative to Zen Cron.

    • EasyCron is Freemium and ProprietaryZen Cron is Paid and Proprietary
  5. Posthook icon
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    The Posthook API enables application developers to start scheduling tasks in minutes. Schedule one-off tasks for tomorrow or the first of next month by making a request to the API and setting up a webhook to process these tasks.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Crontask icon
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    Schedule Node.js or Python scripts with a few clicks. Set your Git repository and Cron expression and you're ready to go.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Crontask is the most popular SaaS alternative to Zen Cron.

    • Crontask is Freemium and ProprietaryZen Cron is Paid and Proprietary
  7. Cronly icon
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    We monitor all your existing cron jobs and SSL certificates. Or use our managed cron job service, with build in monitoring. Running in the background, nobody really knows when they fail? Keep track of your SSL certificates, cron jobs and all other hidden processes and don't...

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. CronBlast icon
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    Web Crons, Uptime Alerts, Performance Reports. Choose the URL of your script and choose a frequency to run. (i.e, every minute, hour, etc).

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Prohooks icon
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    Prohooks is a webhook scheduler that offers a variety of features to make scheduling tasks easier. Our scalability and pricing model allows for businesses of any size to use our service. We offer HTTP APIs and developer-friendly tools to make integration with existing systems...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Beew.io icon
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    The simplest way of scheduling HTTP requests.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Hookless icon
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    Hookless enables coders and no-coders to scheduling one time or recurring jobs in seconds.

    7 Hookless alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Hookless is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Zen Cron.

    • Hookless is the most popular Open Source alternative to Zen Cron.

    • Hookless is Freemium and Open SourceZen Cron is Paid and Proprietary
  12. GoCron icon
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    A task scheduler built with Go and Vue.js that allows users to specify recurring jobs via a simple YAML configuration file. The scheduler reads job definitions, executes commands at specified times using cron expressions, and passes in environment variables for each job.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
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