Omniyond vs EasyCron: an EasyCron alternative with retries

If you're looking for an EasyCron alternative, you probably want scheduled HTTP calls that keep working when no one is watching them. Omniyond and EasyCron both call a URL on a schedule. The difference is everything around the call: what happens when it fails, where the result goes, and who can set the job up.

We built Omniyond's scheduler for jobs that run unsupervised. You pick any interval from 5 minutes to 90 days (5m, 2h, 3d), and a failed call retries automatically after 30 seconds, then 5 minutes, then 30 minutes. If it still fails, the run is marked failed and every attempt is recorded. The result is stored or POSTed to your callback URL. Each run costs $0.01 from credits that never expire, and an agent can create and manage jobs over MCP.

EasyCron's plans below are from easycron.com/pricing, checked on 11 October 2026. EasyCron is cheaper for steady jobs that run all year, and it supports cron expressions, which we don't. We'll say where each one wins.

TL;DR verdict

Short version: if you run steady jobs all year and want cron expressions or long timeouts, EasyCron is cheaper and does that job well. If you want failed calls retried without you, results delivered to your app, no yearly plan, and an agent that can schedule jobs itself over MCP, we're the better fit.

How EasyCron works

EasyCron is a web cron service. You create an account, add a job with a URL and a schedule, and it calls the URL. You can set the time three ways: an interval, a cron expression (Cronie, Vixie cron and Quartz syntax), or dates you pick by hand. It supports an account timezone, or one per job, and, on paid plans only, custom HTTP methods with a body, custom headers, and a regexp on the output to decide whether a run succeeded.

It also has a REST API. A script can create, get, update and delete jobs and job groups, and read execution logs, without opening the dashboard (API docs). It authenticates with an API key sent in an X-API-Key header and has a daily request quota per plan, 100 requests a day on Free.

When a run fails on a paid plan, EasyCron notifies you and keeps the run in a separate failure log. On Free, a failed run sends no notification and keeps no failure log. We found no automatic retry of a failed run in its docs. The one re-run we found is for EasyCron's own downtime: a job missed while EasyCron was down runs once, right after it's back up (FAQ).

The plans, as listed on 11 October 2026:

• Free: 200 executions per day, 20 minute minimum interval, 5 second timeout. No email, Slack or webhook notifications, no failure logs, no custom HTTP and no regexp matching. It's labelled "Expires Monthly"; the FAQ says it won't expire if you renew it on your Plan page every month.
• Individual: $24, $60, $120 or $240 a year, for 8,000, 24,000, 60,000 or 120,000 executions per day. 1 minute minimum interval, 12 hour timeout, email and Slack notifications, failure logs, custom HTTP and regexp matching. No webhook notifications.
• Enterprise: $120 to $1,200 a year, with a 24 hour timeout, webhook notifications and subusers.
• A 7 day money-back guarantee, and you can upgrade, downgrade or cancel anytime.

Executions per day are counted on your busiest day, so a job every 10 minutes is 144 and a job every minute is 1,440 (FAQ).

The 5 second timeout on Free is the limit to check first. If your endpoint queries a database or calls another API, it can take longer than that, and on Free the call gets cut off.

Omniyond as an EasyCron alternative: jobs that run without you

You make one API call, or one MCP tool call: this URL, once or every N minutes, hours or days, and where the result should go. Intervals go from 5 minutes to 90 days, written like 5m, 2h or 3d.

After that, we handle the run:

• If the call times out, can't connect, or returns a 5xx or 429, we retry it after 30 seconds, then 5 minutes, then 30 minutes. Retries are included in the run's $0.01.
• If it still fails, the run is marked failed, and every attempt stays in the job's run history.
• Every run is recorded. The response body (up to 1 MB) is stored for you to fetch, or POSTed to your callback URL.
• Each call has a 30 second timeout.

The scheduler runs on Cloudflare Queues and is in public beta.

The other half is who sets up the job. Omniyond runs a hosted MCP server at https://omniyond.com/mcp. Add that URL to Grok Bot, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client with your API key as a Bearer header, and the agent gets the scheduler tools: schedule a job, get it, cancel it and read its results. So an agent can create a job, check on it, read its results and cancel it, without you writing glue code first. We walk through what that looks like in how an MCP scheduler gives your agent a clock, and if you're still working out why an agent needs a hosted scheduler at all, start with cron for AI agents.

EasyCron's API can be scripted too, so the gap is smaller than "API vs dashboard". To use it you still need an EasyCron account, an API key, and a plan that fits your volume, and we found no MCP server in its docs. With us, a $9 pack is the whole setup. Over the REST API, an agent with a USDC wallet on Base can also pay per call with x402 and skip the account, but you don't need a wallet to use the pack.

What we can't do: there are no cron expressions, so "every weekday at 9am" or "the 1st and 15th of the month" can't be expressed as an interval. The shortest interval is 5 minutes, and a call that takes longer than 30 seconds times out. A recurring job prepays up to 1,000 runs, so a long-running job needs renewing.

What happens when a run fails

Say your endpoint times out or returns a 500 in the middle of the night.

With EasyCron on a paid plan, you get an email or a Slack message (or a webhook on Enterprise), and the run shows up in the failure log. On Free, you get nothing and no failure log is kept. Someone has to see it and decide what to do. If the job runs again on schedule, that's the next attempt.

With us, the same call is retried 30 seconds later, then after 5 minutes, then after 30 minutes. A short outage on your side can be covered by one of those retries. If all three fail, the run is marked failed, with every attempt recorded.

That's the main reason we'd pick our scheduler over a cron service for anything that matters: daily digests, follow-ups, polling another API. The retries happen whether or not anyone is awake.

Pricing compared

At steady volume EasyCron wins clearly. An hourly job all year is free with them if each call finishes in 5 seconds, $24 a year if it doesn't, and $87.60 with us. We won't pretend $0.01 a run competes with that.

The daily job is closer than it looks. If your call takes longer than 5 seconds, Free won't work, the cheapest EasyCron plan is $24 a year, and the same job costs $3.65 with us.

Pay-per-run fits the other shape of usage: a few jobs that come and go, jobs an agent creates on its own, side projects you don't want a yearly plan for. Credits never expire, so whatever you don't use stays on the balance. We went through the general break-even math in pay-per-use API pricing against subscriptions.

When EasyCron is the better choice

• You run steady jobs all year. An hourly job is free on EasyCron if each call finishes in 5 seconds, or $24 a year on Individual, versus $87.60 with us.
• You need specific times. Cron expressions and per-job timezones handle "every weekday at 9am". We only do intervals.
• You need a job every minute. EasyCron's paid plans go down to 1 minute; our minimum is 5.
• Your endpoint is slow. 12 hours on Individual and 24 hours on Enterprise beat our 30 seconds by a lot.
• You have one fast daily job. If it finishes in 5 seconds and you don't mind renewing the free plan every month, EasyCron costs nothing, though Free won't tell you if it fails.

If that's your setup and you're happy to watch the failure emails yourself, use EasyCron.

When Omniyond is the better choice

• You don't want to watch failures. Retries after 30 seconds, 5 minutes and 30 minutes, with every attempt recorded.
• You want the result in your app. The response is stored or POSTed to your callback URL, so the next step can use it.
• An agent creates and manages the jobs. Over MCP it can schedule, check, read results and cancel, with no glue code.
• Your usage is irregular: $9 once, credits never expire, no yearly plan to renew.
• You use more than cron. The same balance pays for page extract, OG images, PDFs, QR codes and short links.

FAQ

Does EasyCron have an API?

Yes. EasyCron has a REST API to create, get, update and delete cron jobs and job groups, and to read execution logs. You need an EasyCron account and an API key to use it.

Does EasyCron retry failed cron jobs?

We found no automatic retry of a failed run in EasyCron's docs. On paid plans it notifies you by email or Slack (webhook on Enterprise only) and keeps failure logs; on Free it does neither. After its own downtime, it runs a missed job once.

Is EasyCron free?

There's a free plan with 200 executions a day, a 20 minute minimum interval and a 5 second timeout. It's labelled "Expires Monthly" and stays active if you renew it on the Plan page every month. Free sends no notification when a run fails.

Does Omniyond support cron expressions?

No. Recurring jobs run on an interval from 5 minutes to 90 days, like 5m, 2h or 3d.

How much does a scheduled run cost on Omniyond?

$0.01 per run, retries included. Packs are $9, $29 and $99 (about 900, 2,900 and 9,900 scheduled runs), one-time, and the credits never expire.

The bottom line

EasyCron is a good cron service, and at steady volume it's the cheaper one. If you need cron expressions, 1 minute intervals or calls that run for hours, pick it.

We're the better fit when the job has to look after itself: automatic retries, every attempt recorded, the result delivered to your app, and an agent that can set it all up over MCP. If you're also comparing code-first platforms, see Omniyond vs Trigger.dev and Omniyond vs Inngest.

If you want to try it, start with the $9 pack. That's about 900 scheduled runs, and the credits never expire.

EasyCron plans, limits and features checked on 11 October 2026 at easycron.com/pricing, its FAQ and its API docs (developer.easycron.com). These change, so check the source before you decide.