DebugBear vs PageSpeedPlus (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, PageSpeedPlus grades higher than DebugBear: 2.4 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
PageSpeedPlus grades higher on features. They get the same grade on value for money, the free plan, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
DebugBear
Page speed and Core Web Vitals monitoring with lab tests and RUM
PageSpeedPlus
Scheduled PageSpeed Insights monitoring with alerts and scans
Which one is for you
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
Pick PageSpeedPlus if
- Fits if you keep a short list of key pages and want an alert when one gets slow
- Works for agencies that report Core Web Vitals to clients
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want to stay free, as there is no free plan and only a 14-day trial
- Tight if you watch more than 25 URLs: Basic stops there and Standard jumps to €60
- Pricey if you want API access or hourly checks, which start on Standard at €60 a month
- Watch out: prices are in euros with no annual price shown, history is 1 month on Basic, and Enterprise has no published price
How we grade them
| 2.2GPADebugBearFair | 2.4GPAPageSpeedPlusFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | 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. | C€20 a month for 25 monitored URLs on Basic, then €60 and €200. The category's middle is $29 and its cheaper quarter ends at $13. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan, but the 14-day trial needs no card. After it, plans start at $99 a month on yearly billing. | CThere is a 14-day free trial and no free plan. The page we read does not say whether a card is needed. |
| Features | 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. | BScheduled checks, sitemap scans, real-user vitals, alerts, competitor charts and a WordPress plugin, with no gap in the listing for this job. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. You set up projects, pages and test schedules, then read waterfalls across three kinds of data. | CNo store rating on record. You add the URLs and thresholds you want watched and connect Slack or Sheets yourself. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, with an API, Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Looker Studio, Netlify, Vercel and CircleCI. No desktop or phone app. | BA web service with Slack, Teams, Google Sheets and WordPress hooks, and an API from Standard up. No desktop or phone app. |
| Best for | speed and Core Web Vitals monitoring | scheduled PageSpeed checks on key pages |
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: DebugBear and PageSpeedPlus. How we grade
Price against what you get
DebugBear starts at $99 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. PageSpeedPlus starts at about $22.34 a month and scores 2.7.
PageSpeedPlus scores higher and starts $76.66 a month lower. Of the other technical SEO tools on the chart, 8 score higher than DebugBear for less, and none scores higher than PageSpeedPlus 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
- DebugBear also covers dashboards.
- PageSpeedPlus also covers reports and web analytics.
At a glance
| DebugBear | PageSpeedPlus | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $99 per month, billed yearly ($1,188 a year) | €20 per month |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 14-day free trial, no credit card required | 14-day free trial |
| Web | ||
| Made by | DebugBear Ltd | Leader Internet Limited |
| Price read from | debugbear.com | pagespeedplus.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
Worth knowing
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.
PageSpeedPlus
- There is no free plan; the page offers a 14-day trial.
- Prices are shown in euros, and the page does not say whether they are billed monthly or annually beyond the per-month figure.
- API access starts on the Standard plan, and on-demand scans are listed only under Pro.
- History is 1 month on Basic, 6 months on Standard and 1 year on Pro; Enterprise has no published price.
Key features
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.
PageSpeedPlus
- Monitored URLs
- Chosen pages are checked hourly, daily or weekly on mobile and desktop. Each check averages three runs, and a page is flagged when it drops below a threshold you set.
- Full site scans
- Reads the sitemap and tests every page through PageSpeed Insights, then emails an average score. Scans run daily, weekly or on demand.
- Real user monitoring
- Collects LCP, CLS, INP and TTFB from real visitors, filterable by device, time and country, without waiting for Search Console data.
- Alerts and export
- Slow-page alerts go to email, Slack or Teams, and data is exported to Google Sheets. API access is on the Standard plan and above.
- Competitor comparison
- Charts a page against rival pages on desktop and mobile, with web vitals history and a filmstrip of screenshots.
- WordPress speed plugin
- A plugin for page caching, CSS and JavaScript optimization and WebP/AVIF images, downloaded from inside the dashboard.
Plans
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.
PageSpeedPlus
Basic€20
per month for 25 monitored URLs
Daily checks, full site scans of 50 URLs, real-user monitoring for 100K pageviews, Slack and email alerts, Sheets export, 1 month of history and 1 user.
Standard€60
per month for 100 monitored URLs
Hourly checks, full site scans of 250 URLs, real-user monitoring for 500K pageviews, API access, 6 months of history, 5 load-time locations and 1 user.
Pro€200
per month for 500 monitored URLs
Hourly checks, full scans of 2,500 URLs, real-user monitoring for 2 million pageviews, on-demand scans, onboarding, 1 year of history, 11 locations and 5 users.
EnterpriseCustom
Unlimited pageviews and monitored URLs, daily full site scans, unlimited cache-warm locations, a public dashboard and sub teams.
Ways to pay less
DebugBear
- Annual discount
Save 20% with yearly billing
DebugBear's pricing page marks yearly billing as a 20% saving over paying month to month.
PageSpeedPlus
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, DebugBear or PageSpeedPlus?
As of Nov 12, 2026, PageSpeedPlus is cheaper to start with: about $22.34 a month, against $99 a month for DebugBear. DebugBear starts at $99 per month, billed yearly ($1,188 a year), and PageSpeedPlus starts at €20 per month.
Which has a free plan, DebugBear or PageSpeedPlus?
As of Nov 12, 2026, neither DebugBear nor PageSpeedPlus has a free plan. Both have 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.