EasyCron
Hosted cron job service: an alternative to Linux cron with no software to install
About EasyCron
EasyCron is a hosted "webcron" service that calls your URLs on a schedule, so you can run recurring jobs without maintaining crontab on your own server. You set schedules by interval, standard cron expression, or by picking times manually, and EasyCron logs each execution, predicts upcoming run times, and alerts you by email, Slack, or webhook when a job fails. A REST API and a WordPress plugin let you manage jobs programmatically, and plans are billed yearly starting at $24.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Inexpensive: the entry paid plan costs $24/year for 8,000 executions per day at a 1-minute interval
- Full standard cron expression support, plus interval and manual scheduling and run time prediction to check schedules
- Detailed execution logs with separately retained failure logs make debugging failed jobs straightforward
- Custom HTTP methods, headers, and bodies let you call authenticated APIs, not only simple GET endpoints
- API and WordPress plugin for managing jobs programmatically or replacing unreliable WP-Cron
- Long track record: the service has run since 2011 and publishes a status page and bot IP list
Cons
- Free plan is limited to 200 executions per day, a 20-minute interval, and a 5-second timeout, has no notifications, and must be renewed every month
- Only triggers HTTP URLs; it can't run scripts or commands directly on your servers
- Webhook notifications and subusers are reserved for the Enterprise plans
- Billing is yearly only, with no monthly payment option
- Interface and documentation look dated compared to newer cron and job-monitoring services
Key Features
Flexible scheduling
Set execution times by fixed interval, standard cron expression (compatible with Cronie, Vixie cron, and Quartz, including a year field), or by choosing times manually.
Execution logs
Saves HTTP headers and the head and tail of each response body so you can inspect job output later, with separate failure logs that newer successful runs don't overwrite.
Run time prediction
Shows a list of the next dates and times each cron job will run, so you can verify a schedule before it fires.
Custom HTTP requests
Choose any HTTP method (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, and more), send request bodies, and add custom headers for basic auth or API keys.
Failure notifications
Email and Slack notifications on paid plans, plus webhook notifications on Enterprise plans, triggered on every run or only when a job fails.
Output regexp matching
Match a job's response against a regular expression to decide whether the execution counts as a success or a failure.
Execution tracking and timeouts
Track jobs while they run and set a maximum execution time (up to 12 hours on Individual and 24 hours on Enterprise plans) to catch hung jobs.
Cron job API
Create, update, and manage cron jobs programmatically from your own application through the EasyCron API.
Subusers and 2FA
Enterprise plans include 10 to 200 subusers for team access, and all accounts can enable two-factor authentication.
Free developer tools
Crontab syntax generator, run time predictor, and a WordPress plugin for triggering WP-Cron from outside the site.
Pricing
- 200 executions per day
- 20-minute minimum interval
- 5-second timeout
- Execution tracking
- 10 logs and predictions
- Must be renewed monthly
- No email, Slack, or webhook notifications
- 8,000 executions per day
- 1-minute minimum interval
- 12-hour timeout
- 200 logs and predictions
- Email and Slack notifications
- Retain 20 failure logs
- Custom HTTP and regexp matching
- 24,000 executions per day
- 1-minute minimum interval
- 12-hour timeout
- 500 logs and predictions
- Retain 40 failure logs
- Email and Slack notifications
- 60,000 executions per day
- 1-minute minimum interval
- 12-hour timeout
- 500 logs and predictions
- Retain 60 failure logs
- Email and Slack notifications
- 120,000 executions per day
- 1-minute minimum interval
- 12-hour timeout
- 500 logs and predictions
- Retain 100 failure logs
- Email and Slack notifications
- 10,000 executions per day
- 24-hour timeout
- Save 20 KB head and tail
- Retain 100 failure logs
- Webhook notifications
- 10 subusers
- 20,000 executions per day
- 24-hour timeout
- Retain 100 failure logs
- Webhook notifications
- 20 subusers
- 40,000 executions per day
- 24-hour timeout
- Retain 200 failure logs
- Webhook notifications
- 40 subusers
- 60,000 executions per day
- 24-hour timeout
- Retain 500 failure logs
- Webhook notifications
- 60 subusers
- 200,000 executions per day
- 24-hour timeout
- Retain 500 failure logs
- Webhook notifications
- 200 subusers
Best For
Replacing server crontab
Move recurring jobs off a Linux crontab and trigger them as HTTP endpoints, so schedules survive server changes and come with logs and alerts.
Shared hosting and serverless apps
Run scheduled tasks for apps on shared hosting or serverless platforms that don't offer reliable built-in cron.
WordPress WP-Cron triggering
Use the WordPress plugin to call wp-cron.php on a fixed schedule instead of relying on site traffic to fire scheduled posts and maintenance.
Periodic API calls and data syncs
Hit authenticated API endpoints with custom methods, headers, and bodies to run imports, cache refreshes, or report generation on a schedule.
Team-managed job scheduling
Give developers and ops staff subuser access on Enterprise plans, with Slack and webhook alerts routed to the team when a job fails.
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