Both ship a native Hangfire package, not just an HTTP ping. Where they differ: CronRadar covers four scheduler frameworks with per-job pricing; QueueHawk is Hangfire-only, priced per application, and built around a multi-tenant workspace for agencies.
CronRadar is the closest thing to a direct competitor QueueHawk has — a native CronRadar.Hangfire NuGet package that hooks into Hangfire's execution pipeline, with registry auto-discovery and terminal-failure reporting. The two diverge in scope, depth of capture, and the team structure they're built for.
CronRadar facts verified against cronradar.com/pricing and docs.cronradar.com/integrations/hangfire as of August 2026. QueueHawk facts reflect the current deployed product (see pricing).
| Feature | QueueHawk | CronRadar |
|---|---|---|
| Native Hangfire NuGet package (not an HTTP ping) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Recurring-job registry auto-discovery | Captures every state change as it happens (no polling) | Reads registry at startup, reconciles every 15 min |
| State transitions captured | Enqueued → Processing → Succeeded/Failed (full timeline) | start / complete / fail (terminal only) |
| Stack trace + exception type on failure | ✓ | No — "bounded message" only, no stack trace |
| Retry-aware (intermediate retries don't alert) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduler frameworks supported | Hangfire only | Hangfire, Quartz.NET, Celery, Laravel |
| Multi-tenant agency workspace (multiple client projects, one account) | ✓ | Not available (unlimited collaborators, no client separation) |
| Pricing model | Per application | Per active automation (scheduled job) |
| Free tier | 1 application, permanent, all alert channels | 5 automations, permanent, all alert channels |
| Paid plans | $35/$129/$299 per month (see pricing) | $19 (50 automations) / $49 (250 automations) |
| History retention | 7–365 days by plan | Run history 30 days, alert history 90 days (all plans) |
| Alert channels | Slack, Teams, Webhook, Email | Email, Slack, Webhook, Discord, PagerDuty |
| Per-seat cost for team members | ✓ No per-seat | ✓ No per-seat |
Setup: one NuGet package, one line of registration, hooks into Hangfire's OnStateElection / OnStateApplied filters
Captures: every state transition with job type, queue, retry count, exception type, message, and full stack trace
Cost: free for one application, paid plans per application (see pricing)
Setup: CronRadar.Hangfire NuGet package, global server filter + hosted reconciler
Captures: start/complete/fail lifecycle events, bounded outcome checks (up to 5 numeric/boolean values per job), no stack traces
Cost: free for 5 automations, $19/$49 per month for 50/250 — see cronradar.com/pricing
If you're an agency or software house running Hangfire across several client projects, three things make QueueHawk the cleaner choice: the per-application pricing means a single app with dozens of job types costs the same as one with two; the multi-tenant workspace gives each client a separate view under one login (CronRadar has unlimited collaborators but no client-project separation); and the full state timeline with stack traces per execution matters when a client asks "why did this fail three weeks ago" and you need the actual exception, not just "it failed." See the per-app vs. per-job pricing breakdown for the actual math at different job counts.
If you monitor jobs across multiple frameworks (Hangfire in one service, Celery in another, a Laravel cron in a third), CronRadar covers all four from one dashboard — QueueHawk is Hangfire-only and doesn't try to be otherwise. CronRadar's free tier (5 automations, all alert channels including PagerDuty and Discord) is also more generous than QueueHawk's free tier for very small setups, and if you genuinely only need pass/fail without stack traces or job-level history, the lighter capture surface is a feature, not a gap.
Free for one application, no card required.