Vercel cron runs once. Rotor runs every time.
Move your scheduled jobs to Rotor in 60 seconds.
Why teams leave
Why teams move off Vercel cron
10 second timeout on Hobby. 60 seconds on Pro. Long jobs die mid-run.
No retries. A failure means a missed run.
No state between runs. Every job starts from scratch.
Pay per invocation, with no protection from runaway loops.
Migration
What you keep
Your code. Move the function body. Rotor handles the schedule.
Your Vercel deployment. Rotor calls it as a step. Or replaces it.
Your Git workflow. Rotor deploys from your terminal.
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What changes
Long jobs run to completion. Up to 5 minutes per step.
Retries are automatic. State persists.
Predictable bills. No invocation surprises.
The importer
One-command import
rotor import vercel-cron
Reads your vercel.json. Generates Rotor workflows. You review and ship.
How Rotor compares to Vercel Cron
| Feature | Rotor | Vercel Cron |
|---|---|---|
| Retry on failure | Yes | No |
| Step-level state | Yes | No |
| Runs longer than 10 seconds(Vercel cron max 10s on Hobby) | Yes | No |
| Encrypted secrets vault | Yes | No |
| Searchable run history | Yes | No |
| MCP callable in production | Yes | No |
Rotor
YesVercel Cron
NoRotor
YesVercel Cron
NoRotor
YesVercel Cron
NoRotor
YesVercel Cron
NoRotor
YesVercel Cron
NoRotor
YesVercel Cron
NoThe math
| Volume | Rotor | Vercel Cron |
|---|---|---|
| Basic durability | $9/moHobby | Vercel Pro required for cron ($20+/mo) |
30-day money back on any Rotor plan.
Switch in an afternoon
Move your Vercel Cron handler logic into a Rotor TypeScript workflow function
Replace the vercel.json cron config with rotor schedules create
Move env vars to the Rotor vault
Keep your Vercel project — just remove the cron route
Deploy with npx rotor@latest init