# SpeedCurve review (2026): is it worth $90 a month, billed yearly? > Web performance monitoring with RUM, synthetic tests and budgets Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. SpeedCurve monitors how fast websites load, combining real user monitoring with scheduled synthetic tests in several browsers and regions. It adds performance budgets with alerts, Core Web Vitals debugging, competitor benchmarks and CI checks on each deploy. Plans are built from the number of RUM page views and synthetic checks a month. SpeedCurve is now part of Embrace. - **Category:** Technical SEO & Site Audits - **Made by:** SpeedCurve - **Website:** https://www.speedcurve.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: every URL, browser, region and scheduled run counts as a check, so testing many pages in many places adds up fast. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, SpeedCurve is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $90 per month, billed annually, for 500K page views and 3K checks. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free trial account before subscribing; its length is not stated. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | 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. | | Enterprise | Custom | 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. | Read from https://www.speedcurve.com/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SpeedCurve before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 20% with annual billing** (Annual discount): SpeedCurve's plan builder and billing docs give a 20% discount for paying annually instead of monthly. Source: https://support.speedcurve.com/docs/sign-up-for-a-plan - **10% volume discount on larger plans** (Other savings): The plan builder takes a further 10% off when a plan comes to more than $25,000 a year. Source: https://www.speedcurve.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - Teams that want field and lab speed data in one place - Engineering teams enforcing performance budgets on each deploy - Shopify stores, through its RUM app ## Worth knowing - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. SpeedCurve pairs real user monitoring with scripted lab tests in several browsers and regions, plus performance budgets, competitor benchmarks and deploy checks, with unlimited users. Its $90 starting price is on annual billing, every URL, browser, region and run counts as a check, and an annual plan cancelled partway gets no prorated refund. - **Value for money: C.** Starter is $90 a month billed annually for 500,000 page views and 3,000 checks, in this category's dearer quarter. Before the 20% annual discount, checks are $15 per 1,000 and page views $135 per million. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan. You get a free trial account before subscribing; its length isn't stated, and nothing on record says it needs a card. - **Features: C.** Real user monitoring with conversion correlation, scripted lab tests behind logins, budgets with alerts, Core Web Vitals breakdowns, competitor comparison videos and deploy tests. It does speed monitoring fully, but that's a smaller job. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You build a plan from page views and checks, set up real user monitoring and script lab tests, and every URL, browser and region adds checks to watch. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an API, Slack, GitHub, CircleCI and Shopify, plus email and webhook alerts. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SpeedCurve's 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 - SpeedCurve'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 $90 a month, against a middle price of $22.41 for the category: 43 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 SpeedCurve does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 3 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 $1,080 a year. - You could not: Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule. - You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Slack, GitHub and CircleCI 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, GitHub, CircleCI, Shopify **Tags:** Page speed, Dashboards, 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-speedcurve) - [Calibre](https://toolgpa.com/tools/calibre): Web performance monitoring with RUM, CrUX data and synthetic tests. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/calibre-vs-speedcurve) - [WebPageTest](https://toolgpa.com/tools/webpagetest): Page speed tests from real browsers in locations around the world. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/speedcurve-vs-webpagetest) - [GTmetrix](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gtmetrix): Page speed testing with Lighthouse reports, monitoring and an API. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gtmetrix-vs-speedcurve) - [Treo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/treo): Core Web Vitals dashboard built on CrUX data and Lighthouse runs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/speedcurve-vs-treo) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.speedcurve.com/pricing/ - https://www.speedcurve.com/js/pricing.min.js - https://support.speedcurve.com/docs/sign-up-for-a-plan - https://support.speedcurve.com/docs/alerts - https://support.speedcurve.com/llms.txt Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/speedcurve Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).