Chrome UX Report vs CoreDash (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Chrome UX Report grades higher than CoreDash: 2.8 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Chrome UX Report grades higher on value for money and the free plan. CoreDash grades higher on features. They get the same grade on ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Chrome UX Report
Google's public dataset of real Chrome users' Core Web Vitals
CoreDash
Real-user Core Web Vitals monitoring with element-level attribution
Which one is for you
Pick Chrome UX Report if
- Fits if you want your site's Core Web Vitals as Google's real-user data records them
- Works for analysts studying web performance trends with SQL
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if your site gets little traffic, as pages and origins below the threshold show no data
- Not for you if most of your visitors use other browsers, as it counts eligible Chrome users only
- Tight if you need figures by country, which only the origin-level BigQuery tables have
- Watch out: BigQuery needs a Google Cloud account with billing, and queries past the free tier are charged
Pick CoreDash if
- Fits if you need to know which element or script is causing a poor Core Web Vital
- Works for EU sites that want RUM without cookies or a consent banner
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want a free plan, as there's only a 14-day trial
- Pricey if you want AI insights, the MCP server or the API, which start at Standard, $31 a month billed yearly
- Tight if you run several sites, as Starter covers 1 and Standard up to 2
- Watch out: extra pageview blocks (about $5 to $25 each) and site slots ($0.50 to $2 each) are monthly add-ons
- Not for you if you want lab tests too, as it measures real visits only
How we grade them
| 2.8GPAChrome UX ReportGood | 2.2GPACoreDashFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | AFree from Google: the dataset, both APIs and CrUX Vis cost nothing, and BigQuery queries are free up to Google Cloud's monthly free tier. | CStarter is $16 a month for 75,000 pageviews billed yearly ($20 monthly), just past this category's cheapest quarter, for 1 site and 3 users. AI insights, the MCP server and the API need Standard at $31. |
| Free plan and trial | AFree outright. The APIs need a Google Cloud API key, and only BigQuery use past the free tier is charged. | CNo free plan, but a 14-day trial with no card needed. After that, Starter at $16 a month billed yearly is the way in. |
| Features | DOne narrow job: real-user Core Web Vitals for origins and pages with enough Chrome traffic, as data. It runs no tests and suggests no fixes, and sites below its traffic threshold show nothing. | CUnsampled RUM on every pageview with waterfalls, element-level attribution, segmentation, alerts, uptime checks and CI/CD budget checks. It does real-user monitoring fully, but that's one part of technical SEO, with no lab tests or crawling on record. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. CrUX Vis is a dashboard you just open, but the APIs need an API key and the BigQuery tables need SQL and a Cloud account. | CNo rating on record. A script goes on your site, through WordPress or by hand, and the attribution views assume you know what LCP, INP and CLS mean. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, with the CrUX API, the History API and BigQuery, and it feeds PageSpeed Insights and Search Console. | BWeb only, with WordPress, Slack alerts, and Claude or Cursor through the MCP server from Standard, which also brings the API. |
| Best for | real Chrome users' speed data for popular sites | finding the element behind a poor Core Web Vital |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Chrome UX Report and CoreDash. How we grade
Price against what you get
Chrome UX Report has no paid plan and scores 2.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. CoreDash starts at $16 a month and scores 2.3.
CoreDash scores higher, and starts $16 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other technical SEO tools on the chart, none scores higher than Chrome UX Report for less, and 5 score higher than CoreDash for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Chrome UX Report also covers dashboards.
At a glance
| Chrome UX Report | CoreDash | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free | Free trial |
| Starts at | Free | $16 per month for 75,000 pageviews, billed annually ($20 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | The dataset, APIs and CrUX Vis are free; the APIs need a Google Cloud API key, and BigQuery is free up to its monthly free tier. | None |
| Free trial | None listed | 14-day free trial, no card needed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Core/Dash | |
| Price read from | developer.chrome.com | coredash.app |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Chrome UX Report
- Only publicly discoverable origins and pages with enough Chrome visitors are included; sites below that show no data.
- Data comes from Chrome users who meet Google's eligibility rules, not from other browsers.
- The APIs have no country dimension and the BigQuery tables are origin-level only; per-country data is in BigQuery alone.
- BigQuery needs a Google Cloud account with billing; queries beyond the monthly free tier are charged by Google Cloud.
CoreDash
- There is no free plan; after the 14-day trial the cheapest plan is $16 a month billed annually for 75,000 pageviews and one site.
- AI insights, the MCP server and API access are not on Starter; they start at Standard, $31 a month billed annually.
- Extra pageview blocks (about $5 to $25 each) and site slots ($0.50 to $2 each) are monthly add-ons, priced by tier.
- Agency plans pool pageviews across client sites: Growth is $159 a month billed annually for 25 sites and 3M pageviews.
Key features
Chrome UX Report
- Real-user Core Web Vitals
- Collected from real Chrome browsers around the world, covering LCP, INP, CLS and the other user-centric metrics for origins and pages.
- CrUX API
- Returns a rolling 28-day average of key metrics for an origin or URL, updated daily, for use in your own scripts and tools.
- CrUX History API
- Gives the previous 40 weeks of data, one 28-day period per week, split by phone, tablet and desktop and released every Monday.
- CrUX Vis dashboard
- Charts an origin's or page's weekly history over 40 weeks across Core Web Vitals, loading and visual stability pages, with a shareable URL.
- BigQuery dataset
- Monthly tables from 2017 onward with all metrics and dimensions, including country, released on the second Tuesday of the following month.
CoreDash
- Real-user Core Web Vitals
- Measures LCP, INP, CLS, TTFB and FCP on every pageview with Google's web-vitals library, unsampled and with no limit on tracked URLs.
- Attribution and waterfalls
- Each slow pageview carries a request waterfall and names the LCP element, the interaction behind a poor INP or the shifting element, plus long animation frame scripts.
- Segmentation
- Filter by device, browser, OS, country, network speed, page group, navigation type and custom labels such as A/B variant or login state.
- Alerts and uptime
- Pulse alerts by email or Slack when a metric slips, and uptime monitoring that reports when a site or checkout stops responding.
- AI insights and MCP server
- From the Standard plan, an MCP server lets Claude, Cursor or another AI agent read your live performance data, alongside built-in AI insights.
- CI/CD checks
- One curl call from a build pipeline flags deploys that miss performance budgets and tracks real-user results per release.
Plans
Chrome UX Report
Free$0
CrUX API, History API, CrUX Vis and the BigQuery dataset, for any origin or page with enough Chrome visits.
CoreDash
Starter$16
per month for 75,000 pageviews, billed annually ($20 billed monthly)
1 site, 3 users, 200 diagnostic reports and 6 months of data. No AI insights, MCP server or API access.
Standard$31
per month for 500,000 pageviews, billed annually ($39 billed monthly)
Up to 2 sites, 10 users, AI insights, the MCP server, standard API access, 5,000 diagnostic reports and 1 year of data.
Studio$71
per month for 1M pageviews, billed annually ($89 billed monthly)
Up to 10 sites sharing the pageviews, unlimited users, 10,000 diagnostic reports, priority support and 3 years of data.
Enterprise$319
per month for 3.5M+ pageviews, billed annually ($399 billed monthly)
Custom sites, unlimited reports, top API quota, SSO, SAML and SCIM, a DPA and SLA, PO billing and 8 years of data. Bought self-serve.
Ways to pay less
Chrome UX Report
No public discounts listed.
CoreDash
- Annual discount
About 20% off with annual billing
CoreDash's pricing page says annual billing is about 20% lower: Standard is $31 a month billed annually ($372 a year) against $39 billed monthly.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Chrome UX Report or CoreDash?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Chrome UX Report is cheaper to start with: it is free, against $16 a month for CoreDash. Chrome UX Report is free, and CoreDash starts at $16 per month for 75,000 pageviews, billed annually ($20 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Chrome UX Report or CoreDash?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Chrome UX Report has a free plan. CoreDash does not, though it has a free trial.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.