Chrome UX Report vs DebugBear (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Chrome UX Report grades higher than DebugBear: 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. DebugBear 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
DebugBear
Page speed and Core Web Vitals monitoring with lab tests and RUM
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 DebugBear if
- Fits if you need lab, real-user and CrUX speed data for a site in one account
- Works for developers who want slow-page fixes as prompts for Claude Code or Cursor
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you have one small site, at $99 a month on yearly billing with no free plan
- Tight if you run several sites, as Startup covers 1 project and Team at $249 has 5
- Watch out: extra real-user page views, tests and projects are added for an extra monthly fee
- Not for you if you need SSO or invoice payment, which are Enterprise only at a custom price
How we grade them
| 2.8GPAChrome UX ReportGood | 2.2GPADebugBearFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | CStartup is $99 a month billed yearly ($1,188 a year) for 4,000 lab tests, 100,000 real-user page views and 1 project, in this category's dearer quarter. Team is $249 and Corporate / Agency $699. |
| 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 the 14-day trial needs no card. After it, plans start at $99 a month on yearly billing. |
| 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. | CLighthouse lab tests including logged-in pages and user flows, real user Core Web Vitals with INP attribution, CrUX tracking against competitors, waterfalls, speed experiments, alerts and uptime checks. It does speed monitoring fully, but that's a smaller job. |
| 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. You set up projects, pages and test schedules, then read waterfalls across three kinds of data. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, with the CrUX API, the History API and BigQuery, and it feeds PageSpeed Insights and Search Console. | BWeb, with an API, Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Looker Studio, Netlify, Vercel and CircleCI. No desktop or phone app. |
| Best for | real Chrome users' speed data for popular sites | speed and Core Web Vitals monitoring |
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 DebugBear. 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. DebugBear starts at $99 a month and scores 2.3.
DebugBear scores higher, and starts $99 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 7 score higher than DebugBear 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
At a glance
| Chrome UX Report | DebugBear | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free | Free trial |
| Starts at | Free | $99 per month, billed yearly ($1,188 a year) |
| 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 credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Made by | DebugBear Ltd | |
| Price read from | developer.chrome.com | debugbear.com |
| 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.
DebugBear
- There is no free plan; after the 14-day trial, plans start at $99 a month on yearly billing.
- Startup covers 1 project and 10 users; more projects need Team (5) or Corporate / Agency (100).
- Extra RUM page views, synthetic tests and projects can be added to a plan for an extra monthly fee.
- Single sign-on, invoice payment and custom data retention come only with the custom-priced Enterprise plan.
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.
DebugBear
- Synthetic monitoring
- Scheduled and on-demand Lighthouse lab tests from test locations around the world, including pages behind a login and multi-step user flows.
- Real user monitoring
- Measures Core Web Vitals for real visitors and shows which page elements and scripts cause slow interactions that hurt INP.
- Google CrUX data
- Tracks Chrome User Experience Report data over time and compares your site's real-visitor speed with competitors.
- Waterfalls and recommendations
- Request waterfalls tied to CPU and rendering activity, automatic fix suggestions, and ready-made prompts for coding agents such as Claude Code or Cursor.
- Page speed experiments
- Try an optimization on a test run to see its effect before deploying the change to the live site.
- Alerts, comparisons and exports
- Automatic alerts on regressions, before-and-after comparisons, chart annotations, video exports and PDF or CSV reports. Data is kept for 24 months.
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.
DebugBear
Startup$99
per month, billed yearly ($1,188 a year)
4,000 synthetic tests (about 125 pages tested daily), 100,000 RUM page views, 10 uptime monitors, 1 project and 10 users.
Team$249
per month, billed yearly ($2,988 a year)
10,000 synthetic tests (about 320 pages daily), 500,000 RUM page views, 50 uptime monitors, 5 projects and 50 users.
Corporate / Agency$699
per month, billed yearly ($8,388 a year)
50,000 synthetic tests (about 1,600 pages daily), 2 million RUM page views, 100 monitors, 100 projects and unlimited users.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom quotes with invoice payment, single sign-on, security forms, custom contracts and data retention, training and Slack support.
Ways to pay less
Chrome UX Report
No public discounts listed.
DebugBear
- Annual discount
Save 20% with yearly billing
DebugBear's pricing page marks yearly billing as a 20% saving over paying month to month.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Chrome UX Report or DebugBear?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Chrome UX Report is cheaper to start with: it is free, against $99 a month for DebugBear. Chrome UX Report is free, and DebugBear starts at $99 per month, billed yearly ($1,188 a year).
Which has a free plan, Chrome UX Report or DebugBear?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Chrome UX Report has a free plan. DebugBear 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.