Crazy Egg Alternative: The Crazy Egg Competitor That Writes the Fix, Not Just the Heatmap
Crazy Egg maps the behavior. Converto prescribes the fix: paste your live URL for a scored audit of the copy, layout, CTAs and speed, plus the variants to ship. No snippet, from $19/mo.
Why this tends to convert:
Data-informed, not guarantees
Where each one fits
Crazy Egg is a well-established optimization tool built around heatmaps, scroll maps, click tracking and session recordings, with no-code A/B testing from its $99 Plus tier. For visualizing behavior on a page that already has traffic, it does a solid job and has done for years. Like every behavior tool it needs a snippet installed and time to gather data, and when it comes to testing it runs the test but leaves you to write the variations. Converto handles the part Crazy Egg leaves open. Paste a live URL and it audits copy, layout, CTAs, page speed and AI-readability immediately, then generates the ready-to-ship variants, with nothing to install. It is self-serve from $19/mo with no annual commitment, against Crazy Egg at $29/mo billed annually, and the two are complementary: use Crazy Egg to watch behavior, Converto to get the fix and the copy to ship. Suggestions are data-informed, not guarantees.
Side by side
Converto vs Crazy Egg
| Capability | Converto | Crazy Egg |
|---|---|---|
| Audits an existing live URL instantly | After snippet plus data | |
| Generates the variations for you | ||
| Nothing to install (no snippet) | ||
| Works with zero traffic (no sample needed) | Needs traffic | |
| Heatmaps, scroll maps and recordings | ||
| Runs on-page A/B tests | Optional snippet | From $99/mo |
| Month-to-month billing available | Annual billing only | |
| Self-serve, priced for one person | From $19/mo | From $29/mo, annual only |
| Keeps collecting past the plan limit | Pauses to the 1st |
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What Crazy Egg does, and what it leaves you to do
Short answer: Crazy Egg shows you where visitors clicked, scrolled and hesitated, and from $99 a month it will run a test between two versions you wrote yourself. Converto is the other half of that job. Paste a live URL and it scores the copy, layout, CTAs, page speed and AI-readability immediately, then writes the improved version. No snippet, no waiting for traffic, $19 a month. Most teams that use both do so because one observes and the other prescribes.
Last updated August 2026. All Crazy Egg figures were read off crazyegg.com/pricing on August 31, 2026, including the FAQ answers underneath the price cards.
Crazy Egg pricing, verified August 2026
Crazy Egg publishes its whole rate card, which is worth crediting in a category where Optimizely, Adobe Target, AB Tasty, Fullstory and Heap name no figure at any tier. Four plans, all billed annually:
| Plan | Price | Tracked pageviews/mo | Recordings/mo | Recording storage | A/B testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $29/mo | 5,000 | 50 | 6 months | No |
| Plus | $99/mo | 150,000 | 1,000 | 2 years | Yes |
| Pro | $249/mo | 500,000 | 5,000 | 2 years | Yes, with deeper targeting |
| Enterprise | $599/mo | 1,000,000 | 10,000 | 2 years | Yes, plus SAML SSO |
Three things about that table are not obvious from the price cards, and all three change the buying decision.
There is no monthly billing. The footnote reads that all plans are billed annually, and no toggle exists on the page. The advertised $29 is a $348 commitment for the year.
A/B testing starts at $99, not $29. Starter is a heatmap, recording and analytics plan. If testing is the reason you are shopping, the real entry price is 3.4 times the advertised one.
Hitting the limit stops the data, not the bill. Crazy Egg advertises no overages ever, and its FAQ explains what that means: when you hit your monthly tracking limits, data collection pauses and resumes on the 1st of the following month. Your invoice is safe. A Starter account that burns 5,000 pageviews on the 11th records nothing for the next 19 days, and you cannot buy that period back afterward.
Where Crazy Egg is genuinely the better tool
We are not going to argue you should drop it, because for several jobs you should not.
Every plan, including the $29 one, includes unlimited website domains and unlimited team members, with role-based access control per domain. Agencies and companies running several sites off one subscription get real structural value there that session-metered rivals do not offer. Crazy Egg also states its heatmaps do not sample by default and track 100 percent of pageviews on targeted pages, with sampling available as an opt-in setting per domain to stretch the allowance. And it gives you a 30-day free trial with the full price list published in advance, which is more than most of this category will do.
If you want to know how visitors actually behave on a page that already has traffic, install Crazy Egg. Nothing we do replaces watching a real scroll map.
Where a behavior tool leaves you stuck
A heatmap tells you that 70 percent of visitors never reach your pricing table. It does not tell you whether the headline is wrong, the proof is missing, the CTA is buried or the page takes six seconds to paint. It also needs three things before it can tell you anything: a snippet installed on the site, traffic flowing through the page, and enough elapsed time for a pattern to form. On a page you launched this morning, or a page nobody visits yet, a behavior tool has nothing to say.
The same gap shows up in testing. Crazy Egg Plus will run your A/B test perfectly well. It will not decide what the variant should say. Writing the challenger is the part that takes the skill and the hours, and every testing tool in this category leaves it to you.
What Converto does instead
You paste a live URL. Converto reads the page the way a conversion specialist would, and returns a scored audit across copy, layout, CTA strength, page speed and how legible the page is to answer engines like ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. Then it writes the variants: headlines, subheads, CTA copy, section ordering. You ship them.
There is nothing to install, so there is no developer ticket and no tag manager change. It works immediately on a page with zero traffic, because it reads the page rather than the audience. It is $19 a month, self-serve.
| Crazy Egg | Converto | |
|---|---|---|
| What it gives you | Where people clicked and scrolled | What is wrong and the copy to replace it |
| Setup | Snippet on every page | Paste a URL |
| Time to first answer | Days to weeks of traffic | Immediate |
| Works with no traffic | No | Yes |
| Entry price | $29/mo, annual only | $19/mo |
| A/B testing | From $99/mo | Optional snippet |
| Heatmaps and recordings | Yes, the core product | No, and it does not track visitors |
Cheaper ways to get what Crazy Egg does
If price is the reason you are here, the honest answer is Microsoft Clarity rather than us: it is free, has no paid tier, no traffic cap and no sampling, and it does heatmaps and session recordings. The catch is retention, since Microsoft publishes a 30-day window for recordings and 9 months for heatmap and click data, and states the data cannot be recovered once deleted. Mouseflow is $25 a month for 5,000 sessions with the best form field analytics in this bracket. Lucky Orange is $32 a month annual for 3,500 sessions and bundles live chat.
For the full picture including free-tier contents, the cost per 1,000 tracked pageviews at each tier and where the ladder inverts, see our Crazy Egg alternatives comparison, or read the ladder in detail in Crazy Egg pricing. Shopping wider: session replay tools and CRO tools.
Last updated August 2026
Questions
Crazy Egg alternative questions
It depends which half of the job you want. For heatmaps and recordings at a lower price, Microsoft Clarity is free and does not sample, and Mouseflow is $25 a month with better form analytics. For getting an actionable fix rather than a behavior map, Converto audits any live URL and writes the improved copy, with no snippet and no waiting for traffic.
Yes. Crazy Egg starts at $29 a month billed annually, which is a $348 annual commitment since there is no monthly option. Microsoft Clarity does heatmaps and recordings for free with no cap. Mouseflow is $25 a month for 5,000 sessions. Converto is $19 a month and does a different job, auditing the page and writing the variants.
Yes, although it does not appear on the pricing table. Crazy Egg's FAQ states its free plan requires no credit card and includes web analytics, instant heatmaps, conversion analytics and surveys. Session recordings are not included, which is the reverse of most rivals, who put replay in the free tier.
No. Converto does not produce heatmaps, scroll maps or session recordings, and it does not track your visitors at all. It audits the copy, layout, CTAs, page speed and AI-readability of a live URL and generates the variants to ship. The two tools complement each other rather than compete: one observes behavior, the other prescribes the fix.
Crazy Egg shows how visitors behave and, from $99 a month, runs tests you design. Converto tells you what is wrong with the page and writes the improved version, immediately and without a snippet. If you have traffic and want evidence, use Crazy Egg. If you need the rewrite, or the page has no traffic yet, use Converto.
Data collection pauses and resumes automatically on the 1st of the following month. Crazy Egg states it will never charge overages, so the bill is capped, but the tracking gap is permanent because a heatmap for an untracked period cannot be reconstructed later. That risk falls hardest on the 5,000-pageview Starter plan.
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Paste your page and see what is leaking
Drop in any live URL and Converto audits the copy, layout, CTAs, speed, and AI-readability of the page you already have, then hands you ready-to-ship variants to lift signups and sales. Self-serve pricing, no snippet, no sales call. Suggestions are data-informed, not guarantees. Decide for yourself.