The SpeedCurve Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about SpeedCurve in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.
SpeedCurve
The Insider’s Guide
Web performance monitoring with RUM, synthetic tests and budgets
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among technical SEO tools, read from SpeedCurve’s own pages.
Made by SpeedCurve · checked Oct 23, 2026 · toolgpa.com
Contents
- 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
- 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
- 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
- 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
- 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
- 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
- 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
ToolGPA put this guide together from SpeedCurve’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on SpeedCurve’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 23, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
2.2
GPA, above 20 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade
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.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about SpeedCurve, taken from its own pages and our grades.
- 1
Best for real user and lab speed data with budgets
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.
- 2
Paid plans start at $90 a month
As its pricing page puts it: $90 per month, billed annually, for 500K page views and 3K checks.
- 3
You can try it first
Free trial account before subscribing; its length is not stated
- 4
It runs on Web
Web.
- 5
Real user monitoring
Measures page views from real visitors, with sampling to control cost, custom data, conversion correlation and A/B test segments.
- 6
Synthetic monitoring
Scheduled tests in several browsers and regions, with scripting for user flows, pages behind a login and private staging sites.
- 7
Performance budgets and alerts
Set budgets on RUM and synthetic metrics and get alerts by email, Slack or webhook when a page crosses one.
- 8
A 2.2 GPA, above 20 of 83
That is against the other technical SEO tools we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
- 9
Keep it
Nothing SpeedCurve does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 3 things listed below take a company.
SpeedCurve at a glance
- Pricing
- Free trial, from $90 per month, billed annually, for 500K page views and 3K checks
- Free plan
- No
- Free trial
- Free trial account before subscribing; its length is not stated
- Runs on
- Web
- Made by
- SpeedCurve
- Category
- Technical SEO & Site Audits
- Our grade
- 2.2 GPA, fair
The report card
Best for real user and lab speed data with budgets
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.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.
Who SpeedCurve is for
- 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
Who it is not for
- 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
Good to know
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.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
$90
A month to start
SpeedCurve is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $90 per month, billed annually, for 500K page views and 3K checks.
You get a free trial account before subscribing; its length isn't stated, and nothing on record says it needs a card.
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.
Trying it first
Free trial account before subscribing; its length is not stated
Read from speedcurve.com on Oct 23, 2026.
Ways to pay less
Annual discount
Save 20% with annual billing
SpeedCurve's plan builder and billing docs give a 20% discount for paying annually instead of monthly.
Stated on support.speedcurve.comOther 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.
Stated on speedcurve.com
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
1
Place it runs: Web
Web performance monitoring with RUM, synthetic tests and budgets. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: public API, dashboards, page speed.
It does speed monitoring fully, but that's a smaller job.
- 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.
Where it runs
- Web
What it works with
- Slack
- GitHub
- CircleCI
- Shopify
SpeedCurve is made by SpeedCurve.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
20/83
Other technical SEO tools it is graded above
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.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 84 technical SEO tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. SpeedCurve’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 9 of 83
- CFree plan and trialAbove 18 of 83
- CFeaturesAbove 10 of 83
- CEase of useAbove 7 of 83
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 27 of 83
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 73 technical SEO tools. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. SpeedCurve is the marked dot.
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
Keep it, or make your own?
Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.
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.
What you could not
- Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule.
- Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services.
- It plugs into other products, Slack, GitHub and CircleCI among them, and has an API.
What this rests on. SpeedCurve’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
DebugBear, Calibre, WebPageTest, GTmetrix and Treo
The 5 tools SpeedCurve is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 2.2GPA
DebugBear
Free trial · from $99/mo
Page speed and Core Web Vitals monitoring with lab tests and RUM.
- 2.2GPA
Calibre
Free trial · from $75/mo
Web performance monitoring with RUM, CrUX data and synthetic tests.
- SpeedCurve also covers dashboards.
- 2.6GPA
WebPageTest
Free plan · from $180/yr
Page speed tests from real browsers in locations around the world.
- WebPageTest has a free plan. SpeedCurve does not, though it has a free trial.
- 2.8GPA
GTmetrix
Free plan · from $4.99/mo
Page speed testing with Lighthouse reports, monitoring and an API.
- GTmetrix has a free plan. SpeedCurve does not, though it has a free trial.
- SpeedCurve also covers dashboards.
- 2.2GPA
Treo
Free plan · from $75/mo
Core Web Vitals dashboard built on CrUX data and Lighthouse runs.
- Treo has a free plan. SpeedCurve does not, though it has a free trial.
- SpeedCurve also covers dashboards.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
14
Questions, each answered in a line or two
The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.
Is SpeedCurve free?
No, SpeedCurve is a paid product, but you can try it first. Free trial account before subscribing; its length is not stated.
How much does SpeedCurve cost?
SpeedCurve lists 3 plans. Starter: $90 per month, billed annually, for 500K page views and 3K checks.
What platforms does SpeedCurve work on?
SpeedCurve is available on Web.
Does SpeedCurve offer any discounts?
SpeedCurve publicly lists the following: Save 20% with annual billing; 10% volume discount on larger plans.
Does SpeedCurve have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. SpeedCurve is listed for Web.
Does SpeedCurve have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. SpeedCurve is listed for Web.
Is SpeedCurve open source?
SpeedCurve is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Does SpeedCurve have an API?
Yes. SpeedCurve offers a public API, according to its own site.
What does SpeedCurve integrate with?
SpeedCurve's listing names Slack, GitHub, CircleCI and Shopify. A listing names up to eight integrations, so it may connect to more.
Who makes SpeedCurve?
SpeedCurve is made by a company of the same name.
What are the alternatives to SpeedCurve?
The closest alternatives to SpeedCurve in our directory are DebugBear, Calibre, WebPageTest, GTmetrix and Treo.
How does SpeedCurve compare with other 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.
Is SpeedCurve good value for money?
ToolGPA grades SpeedCurve C for value for money. 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.
Could I make my own version of SpeedCurve?
Nothing SpeedCurve does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 3 things listed below take a company.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from SpeedCurve’s own pages on Oct 23, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 23, 2026. 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.
Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by SpeedCurve. Prices change, so check speedcurve.com before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
3,189
Tools graded, in 94 categories
ToolGPA grades software the way a school report grades a pupil: five subjects, a letter for each with the reason written beside it, and a GPA that averages them. Prices, plans and platforms are read from each maker’s own pages and dated, so you always know how fresh a figure is.
Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.
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tools graded
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categories
426
price changes on record
579
apps priced in 12 countries
What else is on toolgpa.com
- SpeedCurve, kept up to dateEverything in this guide, with prices and grades as they are todaytoolgpa.com/tools/speedcurve
- How grades are givenThe rules behind every letter and every GPAtoolgpa.com/grades
- Value chartsWhat each tool costs against what it scores, for every categorytoolgpa.com/charts
- CompareAny two tools side by side, plan by plantoolgpa.com/compare
- Price changesEvery price rise and cut on record, each with its sourcetoolgpa.com/price-changes
- Prices by countryWhat apps cost on the App Store in 12 countriestoolgpa.com/prices-by-country
- Pay lessEvery public discount: yearly billing, students, nonprofitstoolgpa.com/save
- Keep or makeWhich tools are worth paying for, and which you could build yourselftoolgpa.com/keep-or-make
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Compare tools at toolgpa.com ›Everything in this guide is ToolGPA’s own summary of what SpeedCurve’s pages, its app-store listings and public reviews said on the dates shown. Grades are our judgement under the rules at toolgpa.com/grades. Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. SpeedCurve is a trademark of its owner, and this guide is not made, paid for or approved by SpeedCurve. Prices and plans change: check speedcurve.com before you buy.