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Catchpoint pricing
Catchpoint publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 1 September 2026, Catchpoint pricing is free across 4 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Free tier plus published entry tiers, enterprise quote-only
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Catchpoint plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| WebPageTest Starter | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| WebPageTest Professional | $180/year | 3 | +$180/year, 3 more features |
| IPM Quick Start | $10000/year | 2 | +$9820/year, 2 more features |
| WebPageTest Expert | $11988/year | 3 | +$1988/year, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
WebPageTest Starter
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 150 monthly test runs, 60-day retention, 30 global locations.
WebPageTest Professional
$180/yearOver WebPageTest Starter, this tier adds:
- 1,000-20,000 monthly test runs
- 13-month retention
- 40 global locations
IPM Quick Start
$10000/yearOver WebPageTest Professional, this tier adds:
- Single end-to-end journey monitoring
- DNS, SSL, CDN and API monitoring
WebPageTest Expert
$11988/yearOver IPM Quick Start, this tier adds:
- Real user monitoring with session replay
- Unlimited users with SSO
- 3,000+ agents across 300+ cities
Where Catchpoint stops being free
WebPageTest Starter, Free
- 150 monthly test runs
- 60-day retention
- 30 global locations
WebPageTest Professional, $180/year
The first thing you pay for:
- 1,000-20,000 monthly test runs
- 13-month retention
- 40 global locations
What the product covers
The full Catchpoint feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Global vantage point network
- WebPageTest integration
- BGP and DNS monitoring
- Real user monitoring
- Token-based points model
People bring Catchpoint in for a web performance engineer wanting a fuller-featured, paid version of webpagetest with longer retention and more locations, an enterprise sre or network team monitoring internet-dependent application delivery, dns and cdn performance at scale, an organisation wanting bgp-level visibility into internet routing issues affecting its services, a team wanting real user monitoring with session replay alongside synthetic testing from one vendor. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Catchpoint are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Networking
Too few networking tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catchpoint (this page) | Free | Free tier plus published entry tiers, enterprise quote-only | - | |
| MikroTik RouterOS | On request | One-time purchase, per licence level | - | vs Catchpoint |
| Cisco Meraki | On request | quote, hardware plus mandatory recurring licence | - | vs Catchpoint |
| PRTG Network Monitor | On request | Per sensor tier, billed monthly on an annual contract | - | vs Catchpoint |
| OpenVPN | Free | Open source core is free; Access Server billed per simultaneous connection | - | vs Catchpoint |
| Icinga | Free | Open source core, with paid repository, module and support subscriptions sold separately | - | vs Catchpoint |
| pfSense | Free | Open source Community Edition, free; commercial Plus edition sold separately by Netgate | - | vs Catchpoint |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Catchpoint badges page.
Before you pay for Catchpoint
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between Free and $11988/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Catchpoint runs on web, and is published by Catchpoint Systems of New York, New York, United States. The full record is on the Catchpoint review, and the rest of the category is under best networking tools.
Catchpoint pricing questions
- How much does Catchpoint cost?
- Catchpoint publishes 4 tiers, from Free for WebPageTest Starter up to $11988/year for WebPageTest Expert. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Catchpoint have a free plan?
- Yes. The WebPageTest Starter tier costs nothing and covers 150 monthly test runs, 60-day retention, 30 global locations. Paying starts at $180/year for WebPageTest Professional.
- What is the difference between WebPageTest Starter and WebPageTest Professional on Catchpoint?
- WebPageTest Professional costs $180/year against Free, and adds 1,000-20,000 monthly test runs, 13-month retention, 40 global locations.
- Is the WebPageTest Expert plan on Catchpoint worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is real user monitoring with session replay, unlimited users with sso, 3,000+ agents across 300+ cities. It costs $11988/year against $180/year for WebPageTest Professional. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which networking tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside Catchpoint have a free tier: OpenVPN, Icinga, pfSense.
- What am I actually paying for with Catchpoint?
- The record lists 5 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a web performance engineer wanting a fuller-featured, paid version of webpagetest with longer retention and more locations, an enterprise sre or network team monitoring internet-dependent application delivery, dns and cdn performance at scale, an organisation wanting bgp-level visibility into internet routing issues affecting its services.
- Does Catchpoint charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Catchpoint prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Catchpoint against before paying?
- The closest networking tools in this directory are MikroTik RouterOS, Cisco Meraki, PRTG Network Monitor, OpenVPN. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Catchpoint covering price, platforms and features.