Crazy Egg vs PostHog
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 assessmentCrazy Egg compared with PostHog
PostHog is a product analytics platform with replay, flags, experiments, and error tracking, aimed at software products and priced on usage with a large free allowance. Crazy Egg is a website tool aimed at marketers, with heatmaps as the centre of gravity and no event-based product analytics. A SaaS company usually needs PostHog for the app and may still want Crazy Egg for the marketing site.
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 PostHog if
Engineering-led SaaS and product teams that want web analytics, product analytics, replay, flags, and experimentation consolidated in one usage-priced platform, and that are comfortable doing their own revenue-attribution modeling if they need it.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Crazy Egg | PostHog |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Product Analytics | Analytics |
| Starting price | $29 per month ($348 per year) (free trial) | $0 (generous monthly free tiers; pay only past the allowance) (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. | Usage-based pricing per product: every product has a monthly free allowance, then per-unit billing (per event, recording, flag request, survey response, or row) with steep volume discounts; optional platform packages add support and compliance features. |
| Free plan | No | 1M analytics events, 5K session recordings, 1M feature-flag requests, 100K exceptions, 1,500 survey responses, and 1M data warehouse rows per month, on 1 project with 1-year retention. |
| Free trial | Free trial available on every plan | Not applicable; the free tier is permanent, not a trial |
| 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. | Engineering-led SaaS and product teams that want web analytics, product analytics, replay, flags, and experimentation consolidated in one usage-priced platform, and that are comfortable doing their own revenue-attribution modeling if they need it. |
| 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. | Minutes to first data with the JS snippet and autocapture; days to weeks to define clean custom events, dashboards, and cohorts; warehouse sources and pipelines are a separate project. |
| 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 for the web analytics dashboard; moderate for funnels, cohorts, and replay; high for SQL insights, warehouse modeling, and experimentation statistics. |
| Platforms | Any website via a single JavaScript snippet, Google Tag Manager, Shopify, WordPress, Unlimited domains per account | Web app, JavaScript snippet and web SDK, Server SDKs (Python, Node, Go, PHP, Ruby, and others), Mobile SDKs (iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter), Self-hosted Hobby build (Docker, open source) |
| Compliance | GDPR and CCPA considerations addressed in the vendor's privacy documentation, Confirm current certification scope and data processing terms during procurement | SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA (BAA on Boost, Scale, or Enterprise package) |
| Founded | 2005 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | United States | Remote-first; US-incorporated (San Francisco), team distributed globally |
| Ownership | Founder-owned, privately held, never externally funded | Venture-backed |
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.
PostHog
Strengths
- Breadth with real integration: analytics, replay, flags, experiments, surveys, error tracking, and a warehouse genuinely share one event stream and identity graph rather than being bolted-on acquisitions.
- The most generous free tier in the category, 1M events and 5K recordings monthly, permanently, which makes evaluation and early-stage use genuinely free.
- Open-source codebase plus a choice of US or EU (Frankfurt) cloud gives privacy and procurement teams inspectability and residency options most rivals lack.
- Usage pricing with automatic volume discounts and per-product spending caps scales from hobby project to hundreds of millions of events without a sales call.
Limitations
- No packaged B2B revenue attribution: connecting spend and touchpoints to CRM pipeline and closed-won revenue is a data-warehouse project in PostHog, not a built-in report as in Dreamdata or HockeyStack.
- Depth demands technical investment; non-technical marketers can read the web dashboard but will struggle to self-serve funnels, SQL insights, or warehouse joins.
- Usage-based billing is unpredictable without configured limits, and replay-heavy or autocapture-noisy sites can generate surprising invoices.
- The full event platform carries more GDPR surface than minimalist tools: consent, masking, and retention need deliberate configuration, where Plausible or Fathom are compliant nearly by default.
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.
PostHog
Usage-based pricing per product: every product has a monthly free allowance, then per-unit billing (per event, recording, flag request, survey response, or row) with steep volume discounts; optional platform packages add support and compliance features.
- Free (no card)$0
- Pay-as-you-goUsage-based
- Platform packages (Boost, Scale, Enterprise)Quoted / package pricing
At small and mid scale PostHog is close to unbeatable on price: the permanent free tiers cover a real startup's entire measurement stack, and the per-unit rates undercut buying analytics, replay, flags, and experimentation separately. The honest caveat is that usage pricing shifts the budgeting burden onto you: a replay-heavy or event-noisy implementation can quietly cost more than a flat-rate point tool, and the platform packages needed for enterprise compliance are quoted, not listed. Treat it as extremely cheap by default and only as cheap as your instrumentation discipline at scale.
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 profilePostHog
Category LeaderPostHog is the default recommendation in this category for any team with an engineer on it: no rival matches the combination of a free-forever tier that covers real workloads, usage pricing that scales without a sales call, and genuinely integrated replay, flags, and experimentation on top of web and product analytics. The two honest reservations are that marketing teams without technical support will use a fraction of it, and that B2B pipeline attribution, the question GTM leaders most want answered, remains a do-it-yourself exercise on PostHog's warehouse rather than a shipped feature. Buy it as the behavioral system of record; budget separately if you need turnkey revenue attribution.
Read the full PostHog profileCrazy Egg profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; PostHog last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.