# Request Metrics review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Real-user monitoring and Lighthouse testing for Core Web Vitals Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Request Metrics is a web performance monitor from the makers of TrackJS. A script on your site records real visitors' page loads and Core Web Vitals, weekly Lighthouse tests check your busiest pages, and Chrome UX Report data lets you compare scores with competitors. Plans are priced by the number of page views monitored each month. - **Category:** Technical SEO & Site Audits - **Made by:** TrackJS LLC - **Website:** https://requestmetrics.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you're staying free: 1 site, 1,000 page views a month and 24 hours of data. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Request Metrics has a free plan, and paid plans start at $34 per month for 75,000 page views, billed annually ($37 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 1 user and 1 website, 1,000 monitored page views a month, Core Web Vitals monitoring and email alerts, with 24 hours of data kept. - **Free trial:** One-time 14-day free trial with Professional features and limits. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | 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. | | Custom | Custom | Professional features plus dedicated support, staff training, and invoicing with payment terms. | Read from https://requestmetrics.com/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Request Metrics before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Lower monthly rate with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page lists Essentials at $34 a month billed annually against $37 billed monthly, and Professional at $88 against $96. Source: https://requestmetrics.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - Site owners who want real-user Core Web Vitals without surprise overage bills - Teams that want field data and weekly Lighthouse tests in one tool - Agencies watching performance across ten or more sites ## Worth knowing - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Request Metrics records real visitors' page loads and Core Web Vitals, runs weekly Lighthouse tests on your busiest pages and compares you with competitors through CrUX. But RUM and lab tests start at $34 a month billed yearly, traffic above your per-minute cap is left out of the data, and payments aren't refunded. - **Value for money: C.** Essentials is $34 a month for 75,000 page views billed yearly ($37 monthly), about this category's middle, with unlimited users. Each extra 25,000 page views adds $10 a month, and budgets need Professional at $88. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan for 1 user and 1 website: 1,000 page views a month, Core Web Vitals and email alerts, with only 24 hours of data kept. RUM and Lighthouse tests aren't in it. There's also a one-time 14-day trial of Professional. - **Features: C.** RUM, weekly and on-demand Lighthouse tests, attribution to the slow elements and third parties, CrUX competitor tracking and CSV export. It does speed monitoring fully, a smaller job than technical SEO, and budgets and error monitoring wait for Professional. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. A script goes on your site, through WordPress, Shopify or Next.js, and data only builds up once visitors arrive. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, installed through WordPress, Shopify or Next.js, with Google sign-in. No desktop or phone app, and no Slack or other alert channel named beyond email. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Request 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 - Request 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 $34 a month, against a middle price of $22.41 for the category: 30 of the 52 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 6 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 Request 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 $408 a year. - You could not: Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule. - You could not: A tracking script and a database that counts every visit. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, Shopify, Next.js, Google Sign-In **Tags:** Page speed, Web analytics ## 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-request-metrics) - [SpeedCurve](https://toolgpa.com/tools/speedcurve): Web performance monitoring with RUM, synthetic tests and budgets. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/request-metrics-vs-speedcurve) - [PageVitals](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pagevitals): Page speed monitoring with Lighthouse tests, RUM and CrUX data. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pagevitals-vs-request-metrics) - [RUMvision](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rumvision): EU-based real-user monitoring for Core Web Vitals and third parties. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/request-metrics-vs-rumvision) - [CoreDash](https://toolgpa.com/tools/coredash): Real-user Core Web Vitals monitoring with element-level attribution. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/coredash-vs-request-metrics) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://requestmetrics.com/pricing/ - https://requestmetrics.com/ - https://requestmetrics.com/docs/pricing - https://requestmetrics.com/docs/data-reporting/traffic-limits Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/request-metrics Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).