# Lighthouse Metrics review (2026): is it worth $10? > Lighthouse tests from 16 regions with scheduled monitoring Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Lighthouse Metrics runs Google Lighthouse audits on a page from up to 16 regions around the world in a single test and keeps a history of past reports. Subscriptions add daily or hourly monitors with email, Slack or webhook alerts, and the Pro plan opens an API for running tests from a CI/CD pipeline. One-off audits can be paid for with packs of test runs instead. - **Category:** Technical SEO & Site Audits - **Made by:** Lighthouse Metrics - **Website:** https://lighthouse-metrics.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need real-user data, as it only runs Lighthouse lab tests. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Lighthouse Metrics is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $10 one-time for 50 test runs, or $16 per month billed annually for monitoring. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free account with 25 test runs, full Lighthouse reports and test history, no credit card. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Test Runs | $10 one-time for 50 test runs | Packs of test runs for one-off audits: also 150 runs for $25 or 500 for $60. Purchased runs never expire. | | Indie | $16 per month, billed annually ($20 billed monthly) | 5 daily monitors, 100 on-demand tests a month, 1 team member, 3 months of data and email alerts. | | Startup | $40 per month, billed annually ($50 billed monthly) | 20 daily monitors, 300 on-demand tests a month, 5 team members, 6 months of data, and email and Slack alerts. | | Pro | $80 per month, billed annually ($100 billed monthly) | 50 daily and 5 hourly monitors, 1,000 on-demand tests, 15 team members, 12 months of data, webhooks, API access and custom headers. | | Enterprise | $399 per month and up | Custom limits on monitors, on-demand tests and API use, quoted on request. | Read from https://lighthouse-metrics.com/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Lighthouse Metrics before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Two months free with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page offers annual billing with 2 months free: Indie is $16 a month billed annually against $20 billed monthly. Source: https://lighthouse-metrics.com/pricing ## Key features - **Global Lighthouse tests:** Run one Lighthouse test from up to 16 regions at once, including US, Europe, Brazil, India, Singapore, Japan and Australia. Each region counts as a run. - **Scheduled monitors:** Monitors re-test a page daily on every plan, and hourly on Pro. Each test is run several times to reduce variance. - **Alerts:** Monitors send email alerts on every plan, Slack alerts from the Startup plan and webhook alerts on Pro. - **Test history:** Past Lighthouse reports are kept so you can compare how a page has changed, for 3 to 12 months depending on the plan. - **API for CI/CD:** On the Pro plan, a REST endpoint starts Lighthouse checks for a URL and chosen regions, so tests can run from a build pipeline. ## Good for - Seeing how a page's Lighthouse score varies across regions - Occasional audits paid for with test runs that never expire - Small teams wanting daily Lighthouse monitoring for a few pages ## Worth knowing - Its pages describe Lighthouse lab tests only, with no real-user monitoring or Chrome UX Report data. - API access, hourly monitors, webhooks and custom headers need the Pro plan, $80 a month billed annually. - The pricing page does not say whether the free account's 25 test runs renew; more runs come from paid packs or a plan. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Lighthouse Metrics runs one Lighthouse test from up to 16 regions at once and keeps a history of past reports, with daily monitors from $16 a month billed yearly. But it only does lab tests, with no real-user or CrUX data, each region uses up a run, and the API, hourly monitors and webhooks need Pro at $80. - **Value for money: C.** Indie is $16 a month billed yearly ($20 monthly), just past this category's cheapest quarter, for 5 daily monitors and 100 tests a month. One-off packs start at $10 for 50 runs, but each region counts as a run, so 50 runs is three tests from all 16 regions. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free account gives 25 test runs with full reports and history, and no card. The pricing page doesn't say whether those runs renew, so it works more like a trial. - **Features: C.** Lighthouse tests from 16 regions, daily monitors, alerts and report history, plus an API for CI/CD on Pro. The listing's own gap: lab tests only, with no real-user monitoring or CrUX data. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. A test needs only a URL and the regions, but monitors, alert channels and the API all need setting up. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with email alerts, Slack from Startup, and webhooks and a REST API on Pro. Slack is the only named integration. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Lighthouse Metrics' own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among technical SEO tools - Lighthouse Metrics's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 20 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 20. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 27 of 83) and worst on ease of use (C, above 7). - Its paid plans start at $16 a month, against a middle price of $22.41 for the category: 18 of the 52 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 5 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/technical-seo ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Lighthouse Metrics does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 2 things listed below take a company. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 43 of the 83 other technical SEO tools grade higher. It costs $192 a year. - You could not: Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Slack among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Slack **Tags:** Page speed, Public API ## Alternatives - [SpeedVitals](https://toolgpa.com/tools/speedvitals): Page speed tests from 35 locations, TTFB checks and speed monitoring. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lighthouse-metrics-vs-speedvitals) - [PageVitals](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pagevitals): Page speed monitoring with Lighthouse tests, RUM and CrUX data. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lighthouse-metrics-vs-pagevitals) - [DebugBear](https://toolgpa.com/tools/debugbear): Page speed and Core Web Vitals monitoring with lab tests and RUM. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/debugbear-vs-lighthouse-metrics) - [GTmetrix](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gtmetrix): Page speed testing with Lighthouse reports, monitoring and an API. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gtmetrix-vs-lighthouse-metrics) - [WebPageTest](https://toolgpa.com/tools/webpagetest): Page speed tests from real browsers in locations around the world. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/lighthouse-metrics-vs-webpagetest) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://lighthouse-metrics.com/pricing - https://lighthouse-metrics.com/ - https://lighthouse-metrics.com/enterprise - https://lighthouse-metrics.com/legal/terms-and-conditions Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/lighthouse-metrics Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).