SpeedCurve RUM Pricing 2026: From $90/mo + Hidden Gotchas
SpeedCurve RUM pricing for 2026. Starter $90/month covers ~100K page views per month with RUM + synthetic. Annual billing offers 20% off. No session replay product, pure performance metrics.
The fast facts
| Pricing model | tiered-usage |
| Cheapest paid | $90/mo (Starter) |
| Per 1,000 sessions | , |
| Per GB ingest | , |
| Per 1,000 replays | , |
| Free tier | No |
| Session replay | none |
| Retention | Not published |
| Annual discount | 20% |
| Source | www.speedcurve.com/pricing/ |
The pricing model
Usage-based across page views and synthetic checks. Starter tier covers ~100K page views/mo; scales up to enterprise.
What SpeedCurve actually charges for
SpeedCurve is unusual in the RUM category because it sells RUM and synthetic checks as a single bundled product, priced on a usage tier rather than per-session. The Starter plan ($90/month) covers roughly 100,000 monthly page views plus a small number of synthetic checks. Higher tiers expand both the page-view ceiling and the synthetic check count. SpeedCurve does not publish a per-session unit rate, which makes apples-to-apples comparison against per-session vendors like Datadog or Dynatrace harder.
The product specialises in performance metrics specifically, Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS), waterfall analysis, third-party impact reports, performance budgets, and competitive benchmarking against named competitors. There is no session replay, no error tracking, no JavaScript-error capture. SpeedCurve is the right fit when the team's primary goal is web performance optimisation rather than debugging or user-experience analytics.
Annual billing discount
SpeedCurve publishes a 20% annual discount on every tier, one of the more transparent annual incentives in the category. For the Starter tier, that brings the effective annual cost to $864 (vs $1,080 monthly billing × 12). At the upper end of the published tiers (around $576/month), annual billing brings the bill to roughly $5,530/year vs $6,912/year on monthly billing.
How SpeedCurve compares structurally
- Versus Datadog RUM, Datadog is more expensive at scale ($4.50/1K sessions on annual commit) but bundles session replay and integrates tightly with Datadog APM, logs, and infrastructure. SpeedCurve is cheaper for pure performance work, but you give up session replay and the unified observability story.
- Versus Sentry, Sentry is cheaper per session but is fundamentally an error-monitoring tool that has bolted on performance tracking. SpeedCurve is the opposite: performance-first with no error capture.
- Versus Cloudflare Web Analytics, Cloudflare is free but captures only the Core Web Vitals metrics. SpeedCurve adds waterfall analysis, third-party impact, performance budgets, competitive benchmarking, features Cloudflare does not offer.
- Versus Catchpoint, Catchpoint is a competitor in the synthetic + RUM bundled space. Catchpoint starts at $10,000/year minimum; SpeedCurve starts at $1,080/year monthly or $864/year annual.
What we wish SpeedCurve published
Two things would make SpeedCurve's pricing more comparable to the rest of the category. First, a per-page-view or per-session unit rate, currently the bundle pricing makes it hard to model what the rate actually is at the upper tiers. Second, a clearer published ceiling on the data retention window per tier; the Starter tier mentions limited retention but doesn't specify the days.
Notable gotchas
- No session replay, if replay is a hard requirement, SpeedCurve is not the right tool.
- Bundled with synthetic, the per-page-view headline price includes a small synthetic check allowance whether you want it or not.
- Annual discount requires upfront payment, monthly billing is more expensive per month.
- Performance-budgets feature is a deliberate differentiator and one of the strongest reasons to pick SpeedCurve over a generic RUM vendor.
Try it in the calculator
The RUM cost calculator includes SpeedCurve alongside 17 other vendors. Enter your monthly page views, session replay coverage, retention, and sampling rate to see how SpeedCurve's pricing compares head-to-head against the alternatives.
Where to go next
- Multi-vendor calculator — estimate SpeedCurve's cost against 17 alternatives at your specific workload.
- Per-session pricing models — how SpeedCurve'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 SpeedCurve pricing data shown above (verified 2026-06-16).