Crontinel vs HOL Guard
A side by side look at Crontinel and HOL Guard: pricing, features and what each one is best for.
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| What it costs | ||
| Pricing | Freemium | Open source |
| Pricing details | Open-core and MIT-licensed. Free plan at USD 0/mo (1 app, 5 monitors, 7-day history) and self-host free forever. Paid Cloud tiers (Starter, Pro, Max) are announced but not yet open for signup. | Free and Apache-2.0, installed with pipx and usable entirely locally with no account. Guard Cloud is an optional paid service adding synchronised evidence, team policies and fleet visibility, with Solo and Pro tiers, but no prices are published so price_to is NULL. |
| Price range | Not published by the vendor | $0 - $30/mo |
| Free option | Free tier | Free tier |
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| What it is | ||
| What it does | Open-source monitoring for Laravel, Node and Python cron jobs, queues, workers and AI agent runs, alerting on the run that should have happened but did not. | Apache-2.0 runtime firewall for AI coding agents that screens tool calls for secret exposure, prompt injection and malicious packages before they execute. |
What it costs
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Pricing details
- Open-core and MIT-licensed. Free plan at USD 0/mo (1 app, 5 monitors, 7-day history) and self-host free forever. Paid Cloud tiers (Starter, Pro, Max) are announced but not yet open for signup.
- Price range
- Not published by the vendor
- Free option
- Free tier
- Plans
- Free$0/mo
What it is
- What it does
- Open-source monitoring for Laravel, Node and Python cron jobs, queues, workers and AI agent runs, alerting on the run that should have happened but did not.
What it costs
- Pricing
- Open source
- Pricing details
- Free and Apache-2.0, installed with pipx and usable entirely locally with no account. Guard Cloud is an optional paid service adding synchronised evidence, team policies and fleet visibility, with Solo and Pro tiers, but no prices are published so price_to is NULL.
- Price range
- $0 - $30/mo
- Free option
- Free tier
- Plans
- Free$0/mo
- Solo$4.99/mo
- Pro$15/mo
- Team$30/mo
- EnterpriseContact sales
What it is
- What it does
- Apache-2.0 runtime firewall for AI coding agents that screens tool calls for secret exposure, prompt injection and malicious packages before they execute.
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What each one is actually like to use, tested by hand rather than summarised from the vendor’s own page.
