Crazy Egg vs Plerdy
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
Editorial assessmentPlerdy compared with Crazy Egg
A close comparison, since both target small businesses on pageview-style pricing and both include lightweight testing. Crazy Egg has the stronger heatmap reporting formats and longer brand pedigree; Plerdy has the wider bundle, including popups, NPS, and SEO checking, at a similar or lower price. The decision usually comes down to whether the additional modules replace subscriptions you would otherwise 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.
Choose Plerdy if
Small ecommerce stores, freelancers, and small agencies that want heatmaps, replays, popups, and surveys from one affordable subscription, particularly where connecting clicks to revenue matters more than analytical depth.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Crazy Egg | Plerdy |
|---|---|---|
| Category | CRO | CRO |
| Starting price | $29 per month ($348 per year) (free trial) | Free for a small monthly pageview allowance; paid plans from roughly $29 per month (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | 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. | Subscription priced by monthly pageviews with all modules included at each tier, plus a permanent free plan. Annual billing is discounted, and higher tiers add pageview allowance, retention, and site count. |
| Free plan | No | Limited monthly pageviews across heatmaps, recordings, and core tools |
| Free trial | Free trial available on every plan | Free plan, with trial access to paid tiers |
| Best for | 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. | Small ecommerce stores, freelancers, and small agencies that want heatmaps, replays, popups, and surveys from one affordable subscription, particularly where connecting clicks to revenue matters more than analytical depth. |
| Setup time | 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. | Under an hour for the script; enabling and configuring each module adds a few hours depending on how many you use. Ecommerce revenue tracking requires connecting order data, which is straightforward on major platforms. |
| Learning curve | 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. | Low per module, moderate in aggregate simply because there are several. The dashboard covers a lot of ground, and new users benefit from enabling one module at a time. |
| Platforms | Any website via a single JavaScript snippet, Google Tag Manager, Shopify, WordPress, Unlimited domains per account | Web (JavaScript), Google Tag Manager, Shopify, WordPress, Common site builders |
| Compliance | GDPR and CCPA considerations addressed in the vendor's privacy documentation, Confirm current certification scope and data processing terms during procurement | GDPR, CCPA |
| Founded | 2005 | 2017 |
| Headquarters | United States | Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Ownership | Founder-owned, privately held, never externally funded | Bootstrapped, independent |
Strengths and limitations
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.
Plerdy
Strengths
- Unusually wide bundle for the price, replacing several separate subscriptions.
- Revenue-weighted heatmaps connect clicks to orders rather than to attention alone.
- Pageview-based pricing is often cheaper than session metering for deep-browsing ecommerce sites.
- Multi-site management makes it economical for freelancers and small agencies.
Limitations
- Each module is competent rather than category-leading, and specialists will notice.
- No rigorous A/B testing framework, only lightweight variant testing on on-site messaging.
- No native mobile app support.
- Interface and documentation are less polished than better-funded competitors.
Pricing compared
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.
Plerdy
Subscription priced by monthly pageviews with all modules included at each tier, plus a permanent free plan. Annual billing is discounted, and higher tiers add pageview allowance, retention, and site count.
- Free$0
- BusinessFrom about $29
- PremiumFrom about $89
On price per capability Plerdy is one of the strongest offers in conversion optimization: a heatmap tool, a replay tool, a popup builder, a survey widget, and an SEO checker for less than most vendors charge for one. The honest caveat is that each module trails its category leader, so the saving is real only if competent versions are sufficient. For sites under a few hundred thousand monthly pageviews with no dedicated CRO specialist, that is usually the case, and the sales heatmap adds something genuinely useful that costlier tools do not offer.
Editorial verdict on each
Crazy 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 profilePlerdy
Plerdy is the value play in conversion optimization: five tools for the price of one, with a revenue-weighted heatmap that genuinely improves on how competitors present click data for ecommerce. It will not win a feature comparison against Hotjar on research or against VWO on testing, and it should not be bought expecting that. It should be bought by the small store, freelancer, or small agency currently paying for a heatmap tool, a popup tool, and a survey tool separately, who would rather have one competent script and the difference back in budget. Check the module you care most about before consolidating, and pair it with a real testing tool if you intend to make claims about lift.
Read the full Plerdy profileCrazy Egg profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Plerdy last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.