# Cronitor vs Quartz

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Cronitor

| Attribute | Cronitor | Quartz |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 73.2 (62% (medium)) | 49 (24% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 20 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 30,375 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 6,748 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | - |
| description.long | A comprehensive monitoring solution that tracks the status, performance, and reliability of cron jobs, websites, APIs, and background tasks. Includes uptime monitoring, real-time alerting, status pages, and analytics in a single integrated platform. | A Java library that adds scheduling capabilities to applications, allowing developers to define when and how tasks execute—from single recurring operations to thousands of parallel jobs in production environments. |
| integrations.count | 10 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Discord"},{"name":"Google Chat"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"Lark"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"OpsGenie"},{"name":"Splunk On-Call"},{"name":"Webhooks"}]` | - |
| language.primary | - | Java |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Hacker","summary":"Free tier","features":["5 monitors","Email alerts","Slack alerts","Basic status page"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"monitors":"5","status_pages":"1 basic"}},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"From $2/monitor/month + $5/user/month (14-day free trial)","features":["Unlimited API requests","10 Alert integrations","12 Month data retention","Automatic email reports","Volume-based discounts","Multiple environments","SAML SSO","Email and chat support"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"monitor","amount":2,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"user","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"From $6000/year","features":["Custom features","Custom integrations","Dedicated engineer","Priority support","Flexible invoice billing"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":6000,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Synthetic Browser Checks","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":1,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Real User Monitoring","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"k events"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.1,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Branded Status Page","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Private Status Page","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Additional Subscribers (per 1000)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Dashboard User","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"user","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"SAML Single Sign On","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free Hacker tier; Business from $2/monitor/month + $5/user/month with 14-day free trial; Enterprise from $6000/year","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cronitor.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T15:28:54.189Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"unit":"monitor","amount":2,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Open source, Apache 2.0 license","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.quartz-scheduler.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T15:27:56.505Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":2,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 210 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/quartz-scheduler/quartz/releases/tag/v2.5.2","date":"2025-12-01T18:00:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/quartz-scheduler/quartz/releases/tag/v2.5.1","date":"2025-10-24T19:16:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/quartz-scheduler/quartz/releases/tag/v2.4.1","date":"2025-10-24T19:53:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/quartz-scheduler/quartz/releases/tag/v2.5.0","date":"2024-11-12T23:33:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/quartz-scheduler/quartz/releases/tag/v2.4.0","date":"2024-11-13T14:14:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/quartz-scheduler/quartz/releases/tag/quartz-2.4.0-rc1","date":"2023-04-20T23:15:34Z","type":"prerelease","version":"quartz-2.4.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/quartz-scheduler/quartz/releases/tag/v2.3.2","date":"2019-10-23T16:51:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.3.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/quartz-scheduler/quartz/releases/tag/quartz-2.3.1","date":"2019-03-27T15:27:20Z","type":"stable","version":"quartz-2.3.1"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 5.8 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":1,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.quartz-scheduler%3Aquartz&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` |

## Capabilities (Cron Scheduling)

| Capability | Cronitor | Quartz |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Deployment | - | - |
| Cron expression support | - | - |
| Timezone aware scheduling | - | - |
| Job dependency chaining | - | - |
| Ha clustering | - | - |
| Retry on failure | - | - |
| Missed run alerting | - | - |
| Web UI dashboard | - | - |
| API first | - | - |
| Audit logging | - | - |
| RBAC | - | - |
| Open source | - | - |
| Pricing model | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:54:24.422Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*