Cronhooks alternative

Cronhooks vs Webhook Scheduler

Cronhooks fires webhooks once or on a cron schedule, at a low price per schedule. Webhook Scheduler only does one-time deliveries, and puts its effort into what happens around them: 100 free deliveries a month, automatic retries, every attempt visible, and a way to cancel before it fires.

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API request

HTTPS only

curl https://webhookscheduler.com/api/v1/schedule \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer wh_live_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://api.example.com/webhooks/trial-reminder",
    "body": { "userId": "usr_4821" },
    "runAt": "2026-07-12T09:00:00.000Z",
    "reference": "trial:usr_4821"
  }'

One delivery per user or event

Schedule a delivery each time something happens in your app: a trial starts, an invoice fails, a booking is made. 100 a month free, 100,000 on Pro.

Retries you can read

Failed deliveries retry with exponential backoff, and every attempt keeps its status code, response body, and latency.

Cancel when the user acts

The customer paid, the booking moved: cancel the pending delivery with one API call, or from the dashboard.

Where Cronhooks is the better choice

Cronhooks handles recurring schedules well: a cron expression, a time zone, and daylight saving taken care of. It is cheap when you only need a few schedules, with paid plans from $3 a month and unlimited runs, a dashboard with pause, resume and manual triggers, and unlimited team members even on the free plan.

If you need a webhook every Monday at 9am, or a few dozen recurring jobs, choose Cronhooks. Webhook Scheduler does not support recurring schedules.

Cronhooks vs Webhook Scheduler, feature by feature

Dimension	Cronhooks	Webhook Scheduler
Core primitive	Webhook schedules, one-time or recurring	One-time future webhook deliveries with a delivery log
Recurring schedules (cron)	Yes, on paid plans: cron expressions with time zones and daylight saving	No. Webhook Scheduler is for one-time deliveries
One-time delivery	Yes ("ad-hoc" schedules)	Yes, the core feature: up to 7 days ahead on Free, up to 365 days on paid plans
Free plan	5 one-time schedules, no recurring	100 one-time deliveries a month
Cancel before delivery	Yes, via API (pause and resume too)	Yes, via API and from the dashboard
Automatic retries	Yes, on one-time schedules: a set number of retries at a fixed interval	Yes, with exponential backoff: 4 retries over ~8 minutes on Free, 10 over ~8 hours on Pro
Delivery inspection	Schedule overview and failure alerts	Every attempt: HTTP status, response body, latency, retry timeline
Failure alerts	Email on Free, Slack on paid plans	Email when a delivery fails for good, keeps retrying, or recovers
Signed requests	Yes (Cronhooks-Signature, HMAC-SHA256)	Yes (Webhook-Signature, HMAC-SHA256) with your workspace secret
Pricing model	By number of schedules: paid from $3/month for 50, $5 for 100, up to $499 for unlimited; unlimited runs	By deliveries a month: Pro $29 for 100,000, Scale $99
Tools	Dashboard and REST API, no SDK required	Dashboard and REST API; one HTTP call from Make, n8n, Zapier, or Bubble, with a step-by-step Make guide
Try without an account	No, an account is required (free plan, or a 15-day trial with no card)	Yes, schedule a live webhook from /try without signing up

The Cronhooks column reflects their public site and API docs in October 2026. Check cronhooks.io and our pricing for current numbers.

Recurring schedules or one-time deliveries

Cronhooks prices by number of schedules, Webhook Scheduler by deliveries a month. The free plans show the gap for one-time work: 5 one-time schedules on Cronhooks, 100 deliveries a month here.

If every user or event in your product creates its own one-time job, like a reminder three days before a trial ends or a follow-up when a payment fails, compare the number of Cronhooks schedules you would need with the deliveries you expect each month. When a delivery fails, Webhook Scheduler keeps the status code and response body of each attempt, and emails you if it still fails after the last retry. That matters most for trial reminders and billing follow-ups, where a missed delivery becomes a support ticket.

When to pick which

Pick Cronhooks when your jobs repeat on a schedule, when you only need a handful of them, or when the lowest monthly price is what matters most.

Pick Webhook Scheduler when each user or event needs its own one-time delivery, scheduled from your code, from Make, or from n8n and other no-code tools, and you want retries, a delivery log, and a way to cancel before it fires. Still weighing a plain cron job? See cron jobs vs webhook scheduling.

See a delivery before you decide

No account needed: the playground schedules a real webhook, and about ten seconds later you can read its delivery log, status code included. How targets are checked and deliveries signed is on the security page.

FAQ

Does Webhook Scheduler support recurring (cron) schedules?

Not today. Webhook Scheduler is built for one-time future deliveries. If most of your jobs repeat on a schedule, Cronhooks is the better fit.

Is Cronhooks cheaper?

For a few schedules, yes: its paid plans start at $3 a month. For one-time deliveries, Webhook Scheduler is free for 100 a month, and Pro at $29 covers 100,000, which suits products that create a delivery per user or per event.

Does Cronhooks retry failed webhooks?

Yes, on one-time schedules: its API lets you set a number of retries and a fixed interval between them. Webhook Scheduler retries automatically with exponential backoff, 4 times over ~8 minutes on Free and 10 times over ~8 hours on Pro, and keeps every attempt in the delivery log.

Can I move one-time schedules from Cronhooks?

Yes. A one-time schedule becomes a single POST /api/v1/schedule call with the URL, the body, and the run time, and canceling it is a POST to /api/v1/jobs/{id}/cancel. Recurring schedules have no equivalent here.

Ship delayed webhooks without maintaining scheduling infrastructure.

Start with the free plan, test a real delivery, then upgrade when the workflow becomes production critical.

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