Convert Experiences vs Crazy Egg
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Both sides assessedConvert Experiences compared with Crazy Egg
Crazy Egg includes unlimited A/B testing at $99 a month alongside heatmaps and recordings, which is a third of Convert's price. What it does not have is sequential testing, sample ratio mismatch detection, outlier handling, multivariate or multipage testing, collision prevention, or published methodology. Use Crazy Egg for straightforward copy and layout tests; move to Convert when a wrong result would cost more than the subscription difference.
Crazy Egg compared with Convert Experiences
Convert Experiences is a dedicated A/B testing platform at $299 a month billed annually for 100,000 tested users, with sequential testing, sample ratio mismatch checks, multivariate testing, and a proper QA workflow. Crazy Egg includes unlimited testing at $99 with far less statistical machinery. Run Crazy Egg's tests for straightforward copy and layout changes; move to Convert when the decisions are big enough that the statistics have to be defensible.
Choose Convert Experiences if
Marketing and conversion teams at small and mid-sized companies who run testing as an ongoing programme rather than an occasional experiment, especially agencies and privacy-conscious European businesses that need GDPR-safe testing with published statistics and no sales call to buy.
Choose Crazy Egg if
Small marketing teams, agencies, and ecommerce operators who want cheap heatmaps with real segmentation, some session recordings, and built-in A/B testing on one bill, and who benefit from unlimited team seats and unlimited domains rather than a per-site or per-seat structure.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Convert Experiences | Crazy Egg |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Product Analytics | Product Analytics |
| Starting price | $299 per month billed annually ($399 monthly) (15 days trial) | $29 per month ($348 per year) (free trial) |
| Pricing model | Subscription metered on tested users per month, meaning visitors actually entered into an experiment, with tiers differing on test types, active projects, domains, and support. | Subscription metered on tracked pageviews per month, with separate per-plan caps on session recordings and heatmap reports, and unlimited team members and domains on every tier. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | 15 days, no credit card required | Free trial available on every plan |
| Best for | Marketing and conversion teams at small and mid-sized companies who run testing as an ongoing programme rather than an occasional experiment, especially agencies and privacy-conscious European businesses that need GDPR-safe testing with published statistics and no sales call to buy. | Small marketing teams, agencies, and ecommerce operators who want cheap heatmaps with real segmentation, some session recordings, and built-in A/B testing on one bill, and who benefit from unlimited team seats and unlimited domains rather than a per-site or per-seat structure. |
| Setup time | A day to a first live test. Install one script, verify with the QA overlay and Live Log, build a variation in the visual editor, define a goal, launch. Full-stack and server-side testing on Pro takes longer because it involves your codebase rather than the page. | Under thirty minutes. One script covers every domain and every report, with documented paths through Google Tag Manager, Shopify, and WordPress. Heatmap reports need creating per page, which is the only ongoing setup task. |
| Learning curve | Moderate. The visual editor is approachable and the targeting builder is drag and drop, so a marketer can be productive quickly. The statistics deserve real study: choosing between frequentist and Bayesian, understanding what sequential testing permits, and knowing when to winsorize a revenue metric are the differences between running tests and learning from them. Convert's support includes hypothesis generation help and A/A testing assistance, which suggests they know this. | Very low for the reports themselves. The part that rewards a little study is the filter set: knowing to compare paid against organic on a confetti map, or converters against non-converters on a scroll map, is what separates a useful subscription from a pretty one. A/B testing adds a second concept set but stays approachable. |
| Platforms | Any website via a single JavaScript snippet, Server-side and full-stack testing (Pro tier), Shopify and WooCommerce, WordPress, Google Tag Manager, Akamai CDN delivery | Any website via a single JavaScript snippet, Google Tag Manager, Shopify, WordPress, Unlimited domains per account |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA | GDPR and CCPA considerations addressed in the vendor's privacy documentation, Confirm current certification scope and data processing terms during procurement |
| Founded | 2009 | 2005 |
| Headquarters | Claymont, Delaware, United States (remote-first across 20-plus countries) | United States |
| Ownership | Bootstrapped and profitable, privately held | Founder-owned, privately held, never externally funded |
Strengths and limitations
Convert Experiences
Strengths
- The most transparent statistics of any testing tool at this price: selectable frequentist and Bayesian engines, sequential testing via asymptotic confidence sequences, automatic sample ratio mismatch detection, and named bandit algorithms.
- Genuine privacy engineering rather than a compliance page: first-party cookies only, no personal data stored by default, automatic Do Not Track support since February 2018, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified.
- Published, self-serve pricing with a 15 day no-card trial in a category where almost every remaining competitor hides its numbers behind a demo request.
- Serious QA tooling, with a unified overlay, live event log, collision prevention, and version control, which is where testing programmes usually break rather than in the statistics.
Limitations
- No free tier and a $299 monthly floor billed annually, which rules it out for anyone not testing continuously.
- Multivariate testing, multipage experiments, full-stack testing, sequential testing, SSO, and raw data export all require the Pro tier, so the practical entry price for a demanding team is $420 a month billed annually.
- Both self-serve tiers carry the same 100,000 tested user allowance, so a high-traffic site cannot buy more volume without moving to a quoted Enterprise contract.
- It is a website testing tool. Product teams testing inside signed-in applications against warehouse data are better served by GrowthBook or Statsig.
Crazy Egg
Strengths
- Five distinct heatmap report types over the same data, which gives more analytical range than the single heat visualisation most competitors ship.
- More than twenty audience filters including UTM parameters, conversion goals, and custom variables, applied to both heatmaps and recordings.
- Unlimited team members and unlimited domains on every plan, which makes it dramatically cheaper than per-site competitors for agencies and multi-brand companies.
- Unlimited A/B testing included from $99 a month, so seeing the problem and testing the fix happen in one tool on one bill.
Limitations
- Three separate meters, covering pageviews, recordings, and heatmap reports, make it easy to hit a wall on one while well inside the others.
- Starter at 5,000 tracked pageviews and 50 recordings is too small for a real business site, so the effective starting price is $99 rather than $29.
- Heatmap reports are capped per plan, at 5 on Starter and 75 on Plus, which limits how many pages you can study at once.
- The A/B testing is a page variant tool with targeting, not a statistics platform; there is no sequential testing, no variance reduction, and no published methodology.
Pricing compared
Convert Experiences
Subscription metered on tested users per month, meaning visitors actually entered into an experiment, with tiers differing on test types, active projects, domains, and support.
- Growth$299
- Pro$420
- EnterprisePrice on request
Convert is expensive next to the testing bundled into heatmap tools and cheap next to enterprise experimentation platforms, which is exactly the gap it is built for. Working out the bill is easier than usual because the meter counts only visitors entered into an experiment. A site with 10,000 monthly users running one test at 50 percent traffic allocation consumes around 5,000 tested users a month, so it sits inside the 100,000 allowance many times over and pays $299 for capacity it will not use. A site with 100,000 monthly users running several concurrent tests across most of its traffic will approach or exceed the allowance and should price the Enterprise band. That shape means Convert is poor value for occasional testing and good value for a busy programme, and the break-even point is roughly whether you run more than one test at a time, every month, all year. What you get above cheaper alternatives is statistical machinery that holds up under scrutiny, sequential testing, sample ratio mismatch detection, named bandit algorithms, outlier handling, plus a QA layer and a privacy posture that survive a compliance review. If nobody in your organisation will ever question a test result, you do not need any of it.
Crazy Egg
Subscription metered on tracked pageviews per month, with separate per-plan caps on session recordings and heatmap reports, and unlimited team members and domains on every tier.
- Starter$29
- Plus$99
- Pro$249
- Enterprise$599
Crazy Egg looks like the cheapest option in the category and is really a $99 product once you account for how quickly 5,000 tracked pageviews disappear. At that price the value is strong: 150,000 pageviews, 1,000 recordings, 75 heatmap reports, two years of recording storage, unlimited A/B testing, unlimited seats, and unlimited domains. Working out your bill from user numbers means multiplying by pages per visit. A site with 10,000 monthly visitors viewing three pages each generates around 30,000 tracked pageviews, comfortably inside Plus at $99. The same site at 100,000 monthly visitors generates roughly 300,000 pageviews, which needs Pro at $249. Against Lucky Orange, where a comparable session volume costs $199, Crazy Egg is competitive and adds A/B testing that Lucky Orange does not have, while lacking live chat that Lucky Orange does. Against Microsoft Clarity, which is free and unlimited, Crazy Egg's argument is segmentation depth, five report types, long storage, testing, and a vendor relationship. Against Convert or VWO for testing specifically, it is a tenth of the price and a fraction of the statistical rigour.
Editorial verdict on each
Convert Experiences
Convert Experiences is the best remaining self-serve A/B testing platform for a marketing team that runs testing seriously. The statistics are the reason: selectable frequentist and Bayesian engines, sequential testing built on asymptotic confidence sequences, automatic sample ratio mismatch detection, outlier handling, and bandit algorithms named rather than obscured, which is more rigour than anything else you can buy with a credit card at this price. Around that sits a genuine QA layer, flicker-resistant delivery over Akamai, forty-plus targeting filters, and privacy engineering that has been ahead of regulation since 2018. Buy it if testing is a continuous programme and someone in your organisation will eventually question a result. Do not buy it for occasional experiments, because $299 a month billed annually is a lot to pay for a tool you open twice a quarter, and do not buy it as a product analytics platform or as a feature flag service, because it is neither.
Read the full Convert Experiences profileCrazy Egg
Crazy Egg is the sensible heatmap purchase for a small marketing team, provided you price it honestly at $99 rather than $29. Five heatmap report types with twenty-plus audience filters give it more analytical range than tools that charge more, unlimited seats and unlimited domains make it unusually cheap for agencies and multi-brand businesses, two year recording storage beats the category norm, and unlimited A/B testing means you can act on what you find without a second subscription. It is twenty years old, founder-owned, and unfunded, which in this particular category counts for something real. The reservations are honest ones: three separate meters make it easy to hit a wall, the recording caps are modest next to Microsoft Clarity's free unlimited offer, the testing lacks any statistical depth, and there is no live chat if that is what you were hoping for. Buy it to understand and improve a marketing site. Do not buy it to debug software or to analyse behaviour inside a signed-in product.
Read the full Crazy Egg profileConvert Experiences profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Crazy Egg last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.