*/3 * * * *. The minute step */3 expands evenly across the hour: 0, 3, 6, 9, …, 57. Twenty firings per hour, 480 per day.View future cron matches in a calendar
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The minute step */3 resolves to 0, 3, 6, 9, …, 57 — 20 firings per hour. Three is a divisor of 60, so the cadence is perfectly even (no 4-vs-3-minute alternation that you get with non-divisors like 7).
See the dedicated guide for the full breakdown: Cron every minute.
Paste it into the editor above to see the next runs on a calendar.
*/3 9-17 * * 1-5 — every 3 minutes during business hours on weekdays1-59/3 * * * * — every 3 minutes offset by 1 (xx:01, xx:04, …, xx:58)*/3 * * * * uses standard 5-field cron syntax, so it works in:
crontab — */3 * * * * /path/to/script.shvercel.json.cron(...) with day-of-week as ? and a year field.0) and append day-of-week ?.`*/3 * * * *`. Paste this into any cron-compatible scheduler (Linux crontab, AWS EventBridge, Vercel cron, Quartz, node-cron, robfig/cron) to run a job every 3 minutes.
The editor above shows the next 30+ runs on a calendar in your local timezone, plus a plain-English description. If the calendar matches your intent, the cron is correct.
It uses standard 5-field cron syntax, so yes — Linux crontab, AWS EventBridge (with the additional `?` and year fields), Vercel cron jobs, Quartz Scheduler, node-cron, robfig/cron, and Kubernetes CronJob all accept it. Vercel's free Hobby plan caps the minimum frequency at once-per-day; the Pro plan removes that cap.
Most schedulers will start the new run anyway, leading to overlap. To prevent this, wrap the command with `flock -n /tmp/myjob.lock /path/to/script.sh` on Linux, or set `concurrencyPolicy: Forbid` on Kubernetes CronJob. Vercel cron and AWS EventBridge let you configure concurrency at the platform level.
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