Request Metrics vs SpeedCurve (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Request Metrics if

• Fits if you want real-user Core Web Vitals and weekly Lighthouse tests on one bill
• Works for teams of any size, as every paid plan includes unlimited users

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you're staying free: 1 site, 1,000 page views a month and 24 hours of data
• Watch out: page views are capped per minute, so traffic above the limit during a spike is left out of the data
• Not for you if you want a refund, as payments aren't refunded and cancelling deletes the account's data at once
• Pricey if you need performance budgets or error monitoring, which start at Professional, $88 a month billed yearly
• Skip it if you want to host it yourself, which is offered only on Enterprise plans

Pick SpeedCurve if

• Fits if you want to see whether faster pages line up with more conversions
• Works for teams of any size, since users and teams are unlimited

Look elsewhere if

• Watch out: every URL, browser, region and scheduled run counts as a check, so testing many pages in many places adds up fast
• Not for you if you might cancel mid-year, as annual plans get no prorated refund
• Pricey if you want 13 months of data or priority support, which start at $500 a month
• Tight if you need SSO or private test agents, which need an annual plan over $12,000
• Watch out: paying by invoice needs a plan of $5,000 a year or more

Request Metrics

• Monitored page views are capped per minute, so traffic above the limit during a spike is left out of the data rather than billed.
• The free plan keeps 24 hours of data for one site; RUM and Lighthouse tests start at Essentials, $34 a month billed annually.
• Its billing page says payments are not refunded, and cancelling closes the account at once and deletes its data.
• Self-hosting is offered only on Enterprise plans.

SpeedCurve

• The listed prices include a 20% annual discount, and an annual plan cancelled partway through gets no prorated refund.
• Synthetic checks count every URL, browser, region and scheduled run, so testing many pages in several places raises the cost quickly.
• 13-month data retention and priority support start at $500 a month; single sign-on and private agents need an annual plan over $12,000.
• Paying by invoice is limited to plans of $5,000 a year or more.

Request Metrics

Lighthouse performance testing

Lighthouse tests on desktop and mobile check your top pages every week, and on-demand runs confirm whether a change made a page faster.

Real-user monitoring

Records how actual visitors load your pages, with load times, device types and network speeds, shown in real time.

Core Web Vitals attribution

Points to the elements that are slow to paint or that shift during load, and to the slow resources and third-party vendors behind them.

Competitor benchmarks

Uses Chrome UX Report data to track the real-user scores of competing sites alongside your own.

Privacy and ad-block handling

The vendor says it uses no cookies, stores no IP addresses and keeps data in Canada; a custom hostname keeps browser extensions from blocking the script.

CSV export

Any dashboard or filtered report can be exported as CSV for analysis elsewhere.

SpeedCurve

Real user monitoring

Measures page views from real visitors, with sampling to control cost, custom data, conversion correlation and A/B test segments.

Synthetic monitoring

Scheduled tests in several browsers and regions, with scripting for user flows, pages behind a login and private staging sites.

Performance budgets and alerts

Set budgets on RUM and synthetic metrics and get alerts by email, Slack or webhook when a page crosses one.

Core Web Vitals debugging

Breaks Core Web Vitals into subparts, finds layout shift causes, and tracks first- and third-party requests and JavaScript impact.

Competitive benchmarking

Test competitors' pages alongside your own and produce side-by-side comparison videos.

CI/CD and deploy testing

Trigger tests on each deploy through the API, the GitHub integration or CI tools such as CircleCI, and mark deployments on charts.

Request Metrics

• Free$0

  1 user, 1 website and 1,000 page views a month, with Core Web Vitals, email alerts and 24 hours of data.

• Essentials$34

  per month for 75,000 page views, billed annually ($37 billed monthly)

  Unlimited users, RUM, Lighthouse tests, SEO tracking and 30 days of data. Each extra 25,000 page views adds $10 a month billed monthly.

• Professional$88

  per month for 500,000 page views, billed annually ($96 billed monthly)

  Adds budgets, traffic analytics, error monitoring, user activity, SSO and 90 days of data. Extra 50,000 page views add $4 a month.

• CustomCustom

  Professional features plus dedicated support, staff training, and invoicing with payment terms.

SpeedCurve

• Starter$90

  per month, billed annually, for 500K page views and 3K checks

  Unlimited users and teams, RUM and synthetic monitoring. Priced at $15 per 1,000 checks and $135 per million page views, less 20% for annual billing.

• Growth$576

  per month, billed annually, for 2M page views and 30K checks

  Plans above $500 a month add 13 months of data retention, high-priority support and priority synthetic testing.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Single sign-on, private test agents and regular check-ins on annual plans above $12,000 a year, and consulting above $20,000 a year.

Request Metrics

• Annual discount

  Lower monthly rate with annual billing

  The pricing page lists Essentials at $34 a month billed annually against $37 billed monthly, and Professional at $88 against $96.

SpeedCurve

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with annual billing

  SpeedCurve's plan builder and billing docs give a 20% discount for paying annually instead of monthly.

• Other savings

  10% volume discount on larger plans

  The plan builder takes a further 10% off when a plan comes to more than $25,000 a year.