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Timefold vs Crontap

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Timefold compared with Crontap
DetailTimefold logo TimefoldCrontap logo Crontap
What it doesEnterprise scheduling and routing optimization APIs Schedule HTTP calls with cron syntax or plain English, plus uptime monitoring and heartbeats
StageEstablished Not given
FoundedNot given 2022
Based inBE DK
Pricing modelContact for pricing Freemium
PricingSpark: API access for developers; Flow: Multi-user collaboration with dashboards and score analysis; Horizon: Full intelligence suite with what-if scenarios and Copilot. Solver: Community (open-source, free), Enterprise (contact for pricing). All tiers run on managed cloud; self-hosted available for Starter free plan includes 2 combined items. Pro plans start at $2.99/month for 3 items, $3.59/month for 5 items, $4.99/month for 10 items, $6.49/month for 15 items, $7.99/month for 20 items. Ultra plans start at $11.99/month for 25 items, with API access and priority support. Annual billing availab
Key features
  • Field Service Routing API
  • Employee Shift Scheduling API
  • Pickup and Delivery Routing API
  • Task Scheduling API
  • Custom API from problem description
  • Explainability and transparent scoring
  • Real-time replanning
  • What-if scenarios and simulations
  • Maps service integration with travel time matrices
  • Multi-user collaboration and dashboards
  • Schedule in plain English or cron syntax with per-schedule IANA timezone support
  • 1-minute cadence on paid plans
  • Automatic retries with exponential backoff
  • Historical logs of every scheduled call
  • Uptime monitoring from 1 minute to 24 hours
  • Heartbeat monitoring with /fail signal support
  • Test scheduled API calls on demand
  • Alerts to Slack, Discord, Telegram, or email
  • AI integrations to summarize or extract run responses
  • Crontap MCP server for AI editor integration
What makes it different
  • Proven in production at scale handling 100,000s of shifts and 10,000s of jobs
  • 20 years of deep domain expertise in optimization
  • Handles complex real-world constraints including skills, fairness and labor laws
  • Transparent and explainable optimization decisions
  • Per-schedule IANA timezone support—run reports at 5am London time and 9am New York time from the same account
  • 1-minute cadence without per-target IAM setup required by Google Cloud Scheduler
  • Zero task cost per scheduled invocation unlike Zapier Schedule trigger
  • Native heartbeat monitoring catches silent failures without a separate service
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)56 no change since last check47 +1 (up) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)169
Citation Flow (Majestic)3933
Referring domains (Majestic)410130

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