Crazy Egg Alternatives: Best Crazy Egg Competitors, Crazy Egg Pricing and Alternatives to Crazy Egg Compared

Crazy Egg alternatives at a glance

Short answer: Crazy Egg costs $29, $99, $249 or $599 a month, every tier billed annually, and it meters tracked pageviews rather than sessions. The $29 Starter plan stops at 5,000 pageviews and does not include A/B testing, which arrives at $99. If you want the same heatmaps for nothing, Microsoft Clarity is free and does not sample. If you want session recordings on a free plan, Crazy Egg is the wrong tool, because its free plan is the only one in this category that leaves recordings out. If you want the fix rather than the map, that is what we do.

Last updated August 2026. Every Crazy Egg figure below was read off crazyegg.com/pricing on August 31, 2026, including the FAQ accordions underneath the price cards.

Crazy Egg pricing in full, verified August 2026

Crazy Egg is one of the few tools in this category that publishes a complete rate card. That deserves saying plainly before anything critical, because Optimizely, Adobe Target, FullStory and Heap all publish nothing at any tier, and AB Tasty publishes a ten-question pricing FAQ without a single number in it. Crazy Egg shows you four prices and what each one buys.

Every tier includes unlimited website domains, unlimited team members, unlimited web analytics, unlimited conversion tracking and funnel reports, unlimited surveys, and AI analysis for heatmaps and recordings. All four plans come with a 30-day free trial.

One detail the roundups almost always drop: the footnote under the price cards reads "All plans are billed annually." There is no monthly option and no billing toggle on the page. The advertised $29 is an annual-equivalent rate, so the real entry commitment is $348 paid for a year. That is not unusual in this category, but it is unusual to have no month-to-month escape hatch at all, and it matters if you are trialing a tool for one campaign.

What happens when you hit the limit, and why "no overages" is not the good news it sounds like

Crazy Egg advertises "No overages, ever" right on the pricing page, and that reads like a straightforward win. Read the FAQ underneath and it means something more specific. In Crazy Egg's own words: "Crazy Egg will never charge overages. When you hit your monthly tracking limits, data collection pauses and automatically resumes on the 1st of the following month."

So the bill is capped and the data is not. If a Starter account burns its 5,000 pageviews on the 11th of the month, it records nothing for the remaining 19 days, and that gap is permanent. You cannot buy the missing period back later, because a heatmap for a week nobody tracked does not exist. For a tool whose entire job is evidence, an unpredictable blind spot is a different kind of cost than an unpredictable invoice, and it lands hardest on exactly the sites that need the data most: the ones having a good month.

It is worth putting the three behaviors side by side, because vendors in this category do genuinely different things at the ceiling and almost nobody compares them:

The useful question to ask any metered vendor is not what it charges at the limit. It is what it does at the limit. Three of the five tools above answer that differently, and only one of them tells you on the pricing card.

What a tracked pageview actually costs, by tier

Crazy Egg meters pageviews, not sessions or visitors, which makes a straight price comparison against Hotjar, Mouseflow or Lucky Orange misleading in Crazy Egg's favor on cheap plans and against it on content-heavy sites. A visitor who reads four pages is one session and four tracked pageviews. Run the arithmetic on the published ladder and the value per unit is nowhere near flat:

Two things fall out of that, and neither appears on the pricing page.

First, Starter is 8.8 times more expensive per pageview than Plus. Paying $29 rather than $99 saves 71 percent of the invoice and gives up 97 percent of the allowance. Starter is not a cheap version of Plus, it is a different product for a different job, and we say the same thing about Kartra Essentials for the same reason.

Second, the ladder inverts at the top. Pro is the cheapest pageview Crazy Egg sells, and Enterprise is 20 percent more expensive per unit than the plan below it. You are not buying volume at Enterprise, you are buying SAML single sign-on, full audience-segment targeting and the higher heatmap and recording counts. If those are not on your list, the $599 tier is worse value per pageview than the $249 one. Convert Experiences has the same inversion in its overage rates and Kartra has it in its cost per contact, so it is worth running this arithmetic on any metered vendor before assuming the ladder rewards scale.

Crazy Egg does have a free plan. It is not on the pricing table.

This one is worth flagging because we had it wrong ourselves until we re-read the page, and so does most of the published comparison content. The price cards show four paid tiers and a 30-day trial, with no free column anywhere. Scroll past them into the FAQ and Crazy Egg answers the question directly: "Yes! Crazy Egg's Free plan doesn't require a credit card to sign up, and includes these features: Web Analytics, Instant Heatmaps, Conversion Analytics, Surveys for websites."

The contents are the interesting part. Crazy Egg gives away heatmaps, the thing it is famous for, and withholds session recordings, the thing almost every rival gives away. Look at the free tiers side by side:

If you have been told Crazy Egg is trial-only, that was true once and is not true now. If you specifically wanted free session replay, Crazy Egg remains the wrong door and Clarity is the obvious one.

Recording storage stops improving after the first upgrade

Run the "what stops getting better as the price rises?" test on the ladder and the answer is retention. Starter keeps recordings for 6 months. Plus keeps them for 2 years. Pro keeps them for 2 years. Enterprise keeps them for 2 years.

So the $29 to $99 step quadruples your history, and then the remaining $500 a month of upgrades buys exactly zero additional retention. That is not a criticism on its own, since two years is generous next to a lot of this category, and it is 24 times what Microsoft Clarity keeps. It matters when you are choosing between Plus and Pro for a compliance or trend-analysis reason, because retention is not the lever. The levers between those two tiers are volume, targeting sophistication and the AI export.

The same test is worth running everywhere. Hotjar freezes its replay allowance at 20,000 across a price range that rises 294 percent. Heap buys you no extra history at all between Growth and Pro. Vendors tend to advertise the metric that keeps climbing and stay quiet about the one that plateaus.

The A/B testing price gate

Crazy Egg Starter does not include A/B testing. It appears at Plus, for $99 a month billed annually, a 3.4x step from the entry tier. That fits a pattern we have now tracked across the whole category, and the pattern has a headline: there is no longer a tool in this set that will split-test a headline for $29 a month.

The honest read is that Crazy Egg's gate is one of the gentler ones, and unlike the landing page builders it is not asking you to also rebuild your pages inside its editor to use it.

The alternatives, one by one

Microsoft Clarity, if you want the heatmaps for nothing

Clarity is free, has no paid tier, no traffic cap, no sampling and no site limit, and it does heatmaps, scroll maps and session recordings. For the majority of people shopping for a Crazy Egg alternative on price, this is the answer and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The catch is not money. Microsoft's own retention documentation publishes three windows: recordings are kept 30 days, labeled or favorited sessions 9 months, and click and heatmap data 9 months, and it states the data is deleted afterward and cannot be recovered. So the most-recommended free tool in this category quietly deletes your evidence every month unless somebody stars it. Clarity also cannot run an A/B test, at any price, because there is no testing product in it.

Hotjar, if you want recordings and surveys from one vendor

Hotjar is now part of Contentsquare and sells from a reported $49 a month. Its distinctive value is that surveys sit next to the recordings, so you can ask the person who just rage-clicked what went wrong. Its distinctive weakness is that the replay allowance is frozen at 20,000 recordings from $119 all the way through $469, which takes the cost per 1,000 replays from $5.95 to $23.45 while you climb. Compared to Crazy Egg it meters sessions rather than pageviews, which usually favors Hotjar on content sites and Crazy Egg on single-page campaigns.

Mouseflow, if forms are where you are losing people

Mouseflow has a genuine free tier at 500 sessions a month and paid plans from $25 for 5,000 sessions, $109 for 25,000 and $319 for 100,000. Its form field analytics and friction scoring are the best in this price bracket, and if your conversion problem is a form rather than a page, it will find it faster than a heatmap will. It is narrower than Crazy Egg elsewhere.

Lucky Orange, if you want replay plus live chat cheaply

Lucky Orange is $32 a month billed annually for 3,500 sessions on its Build plan, and bundles recordings, heatmaps, live chat, surveys and conversion funnels for less than several rivals charge for recordings alone. The entry allowance is small and the per-session cost is high, but it does more jobs per dollar than anything else at that price. Its free access is a 7-day trial rather than a free plan.

FullStory, if you need to search sessions rather than watch them

FullStory has the most generous free tier in the category at 30,000 sessions a month with 12 months of history and up to 10 users, which is 24 times the retention of the tool everybody calls unlimited. Its paid tiers are quote-only, so the moment you outgrow free you are in a sales process with no published number. For engineering teams reproducing bugs it is the strongest product here. For a marketer who wants a heatmap of a pricing page, it is far more tool than the job needs.

PostHog, if an engineer owns this

PostHog gives 5,000 web recordings, 1 million events and 1 million feature flag requests free every month, then bills at a published rate from $0.0050 per recording, with a per-product spending cap you set yourself. It keeps 1 year of history on the free plan and up to 7 years on paid. It is the most transparent pricing in this document and the least marketer-shaped product in it.

Convert Experiences, if the real requirement is testing

If you were looking at Crazy Egg Plus mainly for the A/B testing, Convert is the dedicated tool: $399 a month billed monthly, $299 billed annually, with a 15-day free trial and a published rate card. Note the overage inversion before you size the plan, because Growth charges $3.99 per 1,000 tested users while Pro charges $2.80, so the cheaper plan is 42 percent more expensive per unit once you spill over it.

Converto, if you want the fix rather than the map

We do a different job and it is worth being precise about it. Converto does not produce heatmaps, scroll maps or session recordings, and it does not track your visitors at all. You paste a live URL and it audits the copy, layout, CTAs, page speed and AI-readability immediately, then writes the ready-to-ship variants. There is no snippet, no waiting for traffic to accumulate, and it works on a page that has never had a visitor. It is $19 a month. Crazy Egg tells you where people clicked. We tell you what to change and hand you the copy. Plenty of teams should run both, and our suggestions are data-informed rather than guarantees.

Crazy Egg alternatives compared

What the roundups get wrong about Crazy Egg

Before you buy anything, check whether you have the traffic

Most people shopping this category do not need a paid tool yet, and the arithmetic decides it rather than the feature list. An A/B test needs roughly 1,000 conversions per variation to resolve, which on a page converting at 2 percent means about 50,000 visitors per variation.

If you are under 50,000 visits a month, the highest-return thing you can do is not measure the page harder. It is write a better one. That is the gap we built Converto to fill, and it is also why we will happily tell you not to buy a testing tool yet.

Where Crazy Egg genuinely wins

Three things, and they are real.

Unlimited domains and unlimited team members on every plan, including the $29 one. Crazy Egg states you will never be charged for adding domains or seats, with role-based access control per domain. For an agency running twenty client sites, or any company with a marketing site, a docs site and three campaign domains, that is a structural advantage over every session-metered rival, and it is why Crazy Egg keeps showing up on agency shortlists. Most tools in this document either charge per site or gate seats behind a higher tier.

Heatmaps do not sample. In Crazy Egg's words, heatmaps track 100 percent of pageviews on targeted pages by default, and sampling is something you switch on deliberately, per domain, to stretch your allowance. Plenty of competitors sample quietly on lower tiers and let you find out later.

It publishes the whole rate card and gives you 30 days to try it. In a category where Optimizely, Adobe Target, AB Tasty, FullStory and Heap will not name a figure at any tier, and where AB Tasty replaces the free trial with a sales-led proof of concept, being able to cost the tool and test it without talking to anyone is worth something. Crazy Egg sits firmly on the transparent side of that line.

If those three things describe your situation, the reasonable conclusion is to keep Crazy Egg rather than switch, and to add whatever it does not do. That is usually the fix itself.

Related comparisons

If you are shopping wider: session replay tools, Hotjar alternatives, Microsoft Clarity alternatives, CRO tools and A/B testing tools. For the single tool comparison, see our Crazy Egg alternative page, and for the full ladder read Crazy Egg pricing.