Catchpoint Internet Performance Monitoring Pricing 2026: Tier-by-Tier Breakdown

The fast facts

The pricing model

Annual token / points allocation. Tokens are consumed by tests and RUM beacons; rollover within the contract year.

The token / points model

Catchpoint sells synthetic + RUM as a single platform on a token/points-based pricing model. Each contract includes an annual pool of tokens; synthetic tests consume tokens at a published rate (varies by test type, HTTP, browser, transaction, API), and RUM beacons consume tokens at a much lower rate. Unused tokens within a month roll over to the next month within the contract year; at renewal, unused tokens expire.

The model is unusual in the category. Most RUM vendors charge per-session or per-GB. Catchpoint's token model conflates synthetic and RUM into a single budget, which makes sense if you genuinely use both products and want to flex between them mid-year, but makes apples-to-apples per-session comparison against Datadog, Dynatrace, or Sentry meaningless.

The Quick Start floor

The cheapest published Catchpoint contract is the Quick Start tier at $10,000/year. It covers single-journey synthetic monitoring (one critical user journey monitored from a small number of locations) and is positioned for teams adopting synthetic monitoring for the first time. The Quick Start tier does not include the RUM product as a standalone, RUM access requires the Expert tier.

The Expert tier includes RUM and replay

The Expert plan at $11,988/year (roughly $999/month) bundles synthetic monitoring across multiple journeys, RUM capture, session replay, and the full Catchpoint dashboard. Pricing is per-account, not per-user, additional team members do not add to the bill. For a team running an established performance and reliability practice with both synthetic and RUM workloads, the Expert tier is the smallest viable Catchpoint contract.

WebPageTest free tier

Catchpoint owns WebPageTest (acquired 2020) and runs it as a separate free product with 150 runs/month for guests and higher limits for free registered accounts. This is genuinely useful for ad-hoc performance debugging but it's not RUM, it's synthetic tests against your URL. WebPageTest is the right tool for “why is this page slow right now”; Catchpoint Expert is the right tool for “monitor RUM trends continuously”.

How Catchpoint compares

• Versus Akamai mPulse, both are enterprise-positioned. Catchpoint publishes a $10K/year floor; mPulse is fully quote-only. Catchpoint is somewhat more accessible for procurement transparency.
• Versus Datadog RUM, at 1 million sessions/month, Datadog is ~$4,500/month or $54,000/year on annual commit. Catchpoint Expert is $11,988/year, dramatically cheaper for pure RUM, but Catchpoint's RUM is less feature-rich than Datadog's and the platform is synthetic-first.
• Versus SpeedCurve, SpeedCurve at $90/month-and-up bundles RUM + synthetic similarly to Catchpoint but at much lower price points. Catchpoint Expert offers more enterprise features (SSO, audit log, custom dashboards); SpeedCurve targets the engineering-team-buying tier.
• Versus Pingdom, same synthetic + RUM bundle category. Pingdom's pricing is currently unverifiable (page returned 403); Catchpoint at least has a $10K floor to anchor against.

When Catchpoint is the right choice

• You need both synthetic monitoring and RUM in a single contract.
• You operate a critical-revenue-path application (e-commerce, fintech, SaaS billing) where uptime and performance regression matter at the business-impact level.
• You can budget the $11,988/year minimum and need enterprise features (SSO, audit log, custom dashboards).
• Your team is already invested in WebPageTest workflows for ad-hoc performance debugging.

When Catchpoint is the wrong choice

• You only need RUM with no synthetic monitoring, the bundled model is overkill.
• You are early-stage or budget-constrained, $11,988/year is the floor for the RUM-inclusive tier.
• You need granular per-session cost predictability, token pricing is genuinely hard to forecast.

For the RUM-vs-synthetic structural comparison, see RUM vs synthetic monitoring cost. For enterprise-tier procurement context, see RUM for enterprise.

Try it in the calculator

The RUM cost calculator includes Catchpoint alongside 17 other vendors. Enter your monthly page views, session replay coverage, retention, and sampling rate to see how Catchpoint's pricing compares head-to-head against the alternatives.

Where to go next

• Multi-vendor calculator — estimate Catchpoint's cost against 17 alternatives at your specific workload.
• Per-session pricing models — how Catchpoint's pricing model compares structurally to Datadog, Dynatrace, and Raygun.
• Quote-only vendors — the five RUM vendors that don't publish prices and the operational consequences.
• Hidden RUM costs — sampling, retention storage, replay storage, and overage gotchas across the category.
• Methodology — how we verified the Catchpoint pricing data shown above (verified 2026-06-16).