Rundeck
Open-source platform for automating and executing operational procedures
- Vendor
- PagerDuty
- Also known as
- rundeck
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Rundeck?
Rundeck enables teams to define, manage, and execute automated operational runbooks. It provides a framework for orchestrating complex tasks across distributed infrastructure.
Rundeck pricing
We don't have Rundeck's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Free Community edition available. Commercial plans require contacting sales.
What Rundeck does
The capabilities that matter for cron scheduling, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment
- Self hosted server
- 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
- Open source
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Linux
- Windows
- Self-hosted
Integrations (9)
Independently observed- Ansible
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Chef
- Azure Storage
- Google Cloud Platform
- Jira
- PagerDuty
- Terraform⇄•
Rundeck FAQ
Common questions about Rundeck, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Rundeck?
An open-source runbook and workflow automation platform that standardizes operational tasks through a web interface, command line, and API. It is indexed under Cron Scheduling.
Source: https://www.rundeck.com
Is Rundeck free to use?
Rundeck is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.rundeck.com
What platforms does Rundeck support?
Rundeck supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://www.rundeck.com
Can Rundeck be self-hosted?
Yes. Rundeck can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://www.rundeck.com
What does Rundeck integrate with?
We have confirmed 8 integrations for Rundeck, including Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Chef, Azure Storage, Google Cloud Platform, Jira and PagerDuty. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.rundeck.com
Where is Rundeck available?
Rundeck is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.
Source: https://www.rundeck.com
Rundeck alternatives
Other cron scheduling we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- CronitorMonitoring and alerting service for developers managing cron jobs, websites, APIs, and background systemshigh · 75%
- AWS EventBridge SchedulerEvent-driven task execution engine that operates at scalemedium · 56%
- cron-job.orgCloud-hosted scheduling and execution of HTTP requests and scripts at custom intervals, completely free.low · 30%
- dkronA distributed job scheduler that runs cron jobs across clusters without single points of failurelow · 36%
- HangfireA background job processing framework for .NET applications that operates without requiring a separate Windows Service or external processlow · 28%
- QuartzOpen source library for scheduling Java application jobslow · 31%
Compare Rundeck
Side by side against other cron scheduling, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
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Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Rundeck, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.2 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 58 | 0.03 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.05 | 1.3 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 27 | 0.04 | 1.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 58% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Api first: Yes · Deployment: self-hosted-server · Open source: Yes · Pricing model: open_source · Web ui dashboard: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-24 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 8 | mediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 50% |
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