Middleware vs SpeedCurve
Middleware
middleware.ioSpeedCurve
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| Figure | Middleware | SpeedCurve |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.30/mo | $90/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 3 |
| Spec score · Real User Monitoring | 9.0 (#5) | 7.1 (#19) |
| Data retention | Free usage retains data for 14 days, pay-as-you-go for 30 days, and custom contracts can specify retention periods. | The Growth plan includes 13 months of data retention. |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Integrations | Documented integrations include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Vercel, databases, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Logstash, Fluentd and the OpenTelemetry Collector. | The REST API provides programmatic access to create, run, and retrieve test results, and the product describes CI/CD integrations with Jenkins, Travis, and CircleCI. |
| Real-user monitoring | RUM covers browser, iOS, Android and React Native applications and correlates sessions with backend traces. | RUM collects field data about real users’ site experiences and can track Core Web Vitals, custom metrics, and JavaScript errors. |
| Support | Free users receive community support, pay-as-you-go customers get a dedicated Slack or Teams channel, and custom-contract customers receive an account team and 24x7 support. | The site lists high priority support for Growth and offers consulting and regular check-ins with Enterprise. |
| What it does | Middleware is a cloud observability platform that collects telemetry, logs and events and presents dashboards, alerts and AI-driven root-cause analysis. | SpeedCurve measures website performance using synthetic monitoring and real user monitoring (RUM). |
Plans
In their own words
Middleware
Middleware is a hybrid observability platform for detecting and resolving issues across infrastructure, application performance, and real-user monitoring. Its listed coverage includes infrastructure monitoring, logs, metrics, distributed tracing, database monitoring, synthetic monitoring, browser testing, and LLM observability. The AI SRE Agent and OpsAI capabilities include root cause analysis, automatic issue detection, faster issue solving, and automatic PR generation. The Free Forever plan costs nothing and includes up to 100GB of data, 1k RUM sessions, 20k synthetic checks, 10 browser test runs, and 2 million OpsAI tokens, with 14-day retention and community support. Pay As You Go costs $0.30 a month, billed according to use, with default 30-day retention. Middleware lists 450+ integrations and a Public API. It runs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, Windows, and API. The company says it encrypts customer data in transit and at rest using TLS 1.2+ and AES-256.
SpeedCurve
SpeedCurve has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.