# PageVitals review (2026): is it worth $12 a month, billed yearly? > Page speed monitoring with Lighthouse tests, RUM and CrUX data Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. PageVitals is a web performance monitor that combines scheduled Lighthouse tests, real-user monitoring through a script on your site, and Chrome UX Report data in one dashboard. It also runs multi-step tests of user flows and alerts you when a performance budget is broken. Plans are priced by websites, synthetic tests and RUM pageviews per month. - **Category:** Technical SEO & Site Audits - **Made by:** PageVitals ApS - **Website:** https://pagevitals.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a free plan, as there's only a 14-day trial and the pricing page says no refunds. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, PageVitals is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $12 per month, billed annually ($15 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial with all features and 300 tests, no credit card needed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $12 per month, billed annually ($15 billed monthly) | 2 websites, 1,000 synthetic tests and 50,000 RUM pageviews a month, 5 multi-step tests and 6 months of data. | | Growth | $39 per month, billed annually ($49 billed monthly) | Up to 10 websites, 5,000 synthetic tests and 250,000 RUM pageviews, plus the REST API, webhooks, CI/CD and tests behind a login. | | Pro | $79 per month, billed annually ($99 billed monthly) | Up to 25 websites, 10,000 synthetic tests, 2 million RUM pageviews, 24 months of data, priority support and SSO. | Read from https://pagevitals.com/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with PageVitals before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **About 20% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): PageVitals' pricing page shows Starter at $12 a month billed annually against $15 billed monthly, and Pro at $79 against $99. Source: https://pagevitals.com/pricing/ - **Nonprofit and charity discount** (Nonprofit): The pricing FAQ says non-profit and charity organizations can get a discount on annual plans by contacting the sales team. Source: https://pagevitals.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Scheduled Lighthouse tests:** Synthetic tests on desktop and mobile from 11 regions, with Lighthouse and network waterfall reports. One page tested daily uses about 60 tests a month. - **Real-user monitoring:** A script collects LCP, INP, CLS and TTFB from real visits, filterable by device, location and network. Installs through GTM, WordPress, Shopify, Wix or Magento. - **CrUX reports:** Chrome UX Report data for the whole site and for single pages, with 6 months of weekly history and competitor comparison. - **Multi-step tests:** Scripted tests that follow a user flow across several steps, from 5 on Starter to 100 on Pro. - **Performance budgets and alerts:** Budgets on 25+ lab and field metrics, with defaults based on Google's recommendations, and alerts by email, Slack, Teams or webhook. - **Developer workflow:** A GitHub Action, CLI, JavaScript SDK, REST API and a Zapier connection. The API and CI/CD integration start at the Growth plan. ## Good for - Small sites that want lab tests, RUM and CrUX data in one low-cost plan - Agencies tracking Core Web Vitals for several client websites - Developers adding performance checks to a CI/CD pipeline ## Worth knowing - There is no free plan, and the pricing page says it gives no refunds; the 14-day trial is offered instead. - The REST API, webhooks, CI/CD integration and tests behind a login start at Growth, $39 a month billed annually. - When the monthly test allowance runs out, testing stops until the next billing cycle; unused tests do not roll over. - Extra tests are add-ons: 5,000 synthetic tests for $50 a month, 100,000 field tests for $10 a month. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. PageVitals puts scheduled Lighthouse tests, real-user monitoring and CrUX data in one dashboard, from $12 a month billed yearly for 2 websites. There's no free plan and the pricing page says no refunds, the API and CI/CD checks wait for Growth at $39, and testing stops for the month once your allowance runs out. - **Value for money: B.** Starter is $12 a month billed yearly ($15 monthly), inside this category's cheapest quarter. That's 2 websites, 1,000 synthetic tests and 50,000 RUM pageviews a month. The REST API, webhooks and CI/CD need Growth at $39. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 14-day trial with all features and 300 tests, and no card needed. The pricing page says it gives no refunds, so the trial is the only way to try it. - **Features: C.** Lighthouse and waterfall tests from 11 regions, RUM through a script, CrUX history with competitor comparison, multi-step tests and budgets with alerts. It covers speed monitoring fully, but that's a smaller job than technical SEO, with no crawling or indexing checks. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. RUM needs a script added through GTM, WordPress, Shopify, Wix or Magento, and the tests, multi-step flows and budgets all have to be set up. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with alerts by email, Slack, Teams or webhook, plus Search Console, GitHub Actions, Zapier, a CLI and a JavaScript SDK. The REST API and CI/CD start at Growth. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from PageVitals' 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 - PageVitals's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 41 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 14. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 43 of 83) and worst on ease of use (C, above 7). - Its paid plans start at $12 a month, against a middle price of $22.41 for the category: 12 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.** The plain part of PageVitals you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $144 a year. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google Search Console 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, Microsoft Teams, Google Search Console, WordPress, Shopify, GitHub Actions, Zapier, Google Tag Manager **Tags:** Page speed, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [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-pagevitals) - [SpeedCurve](https://toolgpa.com/tools/speedcurve): Web performance monitoring with RUM, synthetic tests and budgets. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pagevitals-vs-speedcurve) - [GTmetrix](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gtmetrix): Page speed testing with Lighthouse reports, monitoring and an API. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gtmetrix-vs-pagevitals) - [Calibre](https://toolgpa.com/tools/calibre): Web performance monitoring with RUM, CrUX data and synthetic tests. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/calibre-vs-pagevitals) - [Treo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/treo): Core Web Vitals dashboard built on CrUX data and Lighthouse runs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pagevitals-vs-treo) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://pagevitals.com/pricing/ - https://pagevitals.com/ - https://pagevitals.com/terms/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/pagevitals Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).