Anthropic shipped Claude Code Routines in April and Managed Agents scheduled deployments in June 2026. Same question — "run this on a cron" — but different billing (subscription vs $0.08/session-hour + tokens), identity (you vs service account), and schedule granularity.
I wrote a side-by-side for solo devs choosing between personal Routines and platform cron, plus when you still need external orchestration for multi-step workflows with human gates.
Full comparison table and decision matrix on the canonical post.
source & further reading
dev.to — original article
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