DebugBear vs Treo (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, DebugBear and Treo share a 2.2 GPA, and only Treo has a free plan.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
They get the same grade on all five counts.
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
Treo
Core Web Vitals dashboard built on CrUX data and Lighthouse runs
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 Treo if
- Fits if you watch Core Web Vitals across many sites and don't want a script on each one
- Works for comparing your real-user speed with competitors' domains
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if your pages get too little traffic to be in CrUX, as they'll show no field data
- Tight if you're staying free, since the free plan has no Lighthouse monitoring
- Pricey if you need the API, which starts at Pro, $185 a month billed yearly or $249 monthly
- Watch out: hourly Lighthouse checks use 5 times a page's share of your plan's allowance
- Pricey if you pay monthly, as Vital is $99 against $75 billed yearly
How we grade them
| 2.2GPADebugBearFair | 2.2GPATreoFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | CVital is $75 a month billed yearly ($99 monthly), right where this category's dearer quarter starts. That covers 1,000 CrUX pages, 40 Lighthouse pages and 5 team members. API access needs Pro at $185 a month billed yearly. |
| 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. | CA free plan covers 5 sites with 2 years of history and CrUX data for 50 pages, but no Lighthouse monitoring at all. There's also a 14-day free trial. |
| 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. | CCrUX reports by device, connection and country, competitor benchmarks, sitemap scans, scheduled Lighthouse runs, budgets and alerts. It has no real-user script of its own, so field data only exists for pages busy enough to be in CrUX, and it covers speed only. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. You set up projects, pages and test schedules, then read waterfalls across three kinds of data. | CNo rating on record. The CrUX reports need only a domain, no script, but Lighthouse monitoring means picking pages, locations, daily or hourly runs and budgets. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, with an API, Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Looker Studio, Netlify, Vercel and CircleCI. No desktop or phone app. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It reads from CrUX, Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights and has an API from Pro, but the listing names no Slack, CMS or analytics connections. |
| Best for | speed and Core Web Vitals monitoring | Core Web Vitals from CrUX across many sites |
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 Treo. 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. Treo starts at $75 a month and scores 2.3.
They score the same, and Treo starts $24 a month lower. Of the other technical SEO tools on the chart, 7 score higher than DebugBear for less, and 6 score higher than Treo 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.
At a glance
| DebugBear | Treo | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | $99 per month, billed yearly ($1,188 a year) | $75 per month, billed annually ($99 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | a personal account with 5 sites and 2 years of history, and CrUX data for 50 pages. No Lighthouse monitoring. |
| Free trial | 14-day free trial, no credit card required | 14-day free trial, as stated on Treo's Sites page |
| Web | ||
| Made by | DebugBear Ltd | Treo d.o.o. |
| Price read from | debugbear.com | treo.sh |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 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.
Treo
- Real-user data comes from the Chrome UX Report, so pages without enough traffic to be in that dataset show no field data.
- The free plan has no Lighthouse monitoring; it starts with Vital at $75 a month billed annually.
- API access starts at the Pro plan, $185 a month billed annually or $249 billed monthly.
- Hourly Lighthouse checks use 5 times a page's share of the plan's Lighthouse allowance.
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.
Treo
- Site Speed Report
- Domain-level Core Web Vitals from the Chrome UX Report with 5 years of history, broken down by device, connection type and 200+ countries.
- Competitor benchmarks
- Because the data comes from CrUX rather than a script on your site, any domain can be added and compared with your own.
- Sitemap Scan
- Scans a sitemap and shows CrUX data for every page that has enough traffic to be in the dataset, updated daily, to find the slowest pages.
- Lighthouse monitoring
- Scheduled Lighthouse runs on mobile or desktop from 9 locations, daily (3 runs, median kept) or hourly, which uses 5 times the page allowance.
- Budgets and alerts
- Set performance budgets and get notified when a metric changes or drops below the expected level.
- Testing behind a login
- A static IP to allowlist and custom HTTP headers let the agent test internal or authenticated pages before release.
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.
Treo
Free$0
Personal account, 5 sites with 2 years of history and 50 CrUX pages. No Lighthouse monitoring.
Vital$75
per month, billed annually ($99 billed monthly)
1,000 CrUX pages, 40 Lighthouse pages, 5 team members and 50 sites with 5 years of history. No API access.
Pro$185
per month, billed annually ($249 billed monthly)
5,000 CrUX pages, 200 Lighthouse pages, 15 team members, 500 sites, priority support and API access.
Scale$375
per month, billed annually ($499 billed monthly)
20,000 CrUX pages, 500 Lighthouse pages, 50 team members, 500 sites, API access and an onboarding call.
EnterpriseCustom
1,000+ Lighthouse pages, 50,000+ CrUX URLs, unlimited team members, SSO, pay by PO and a web performance audit.
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.
Treo
- Annual discount
25% off with annual billing
Treo's pricing page offers a 25% discount, or three months free, on every annual purchase: Vital is $75 a month billed yearly instead of $99.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, DebugBear or Treo?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Treo is cheaper to start with: $75 a month, against $99 a month for DebugBear. DebugBear starts at $99 per month, billed yearly ($1,188 a year), and Treo starts at $75 per month, billed annually ($99 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, DebugBear or Treo?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Treo 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.