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Alternatives to Crazy Egg
24 marketing tools sit alongside Crazy Egg in this directory. Below is what separates each from Crazy Egg on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 24
- With a free tier
- 7
- Cheaper to start
- 5
- Crazy Egg starts at
- $29/month
Why people look past Crazy Egg
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Crazy Egg entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Crazy Egg carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 7 of the 24 alternatives below can be used without paying.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Understand how users behave on your site
- Can be used without paying; Crazy Egg cannot.
- Starts $10 a month dearer, at $39/month.
Digital experience intelligence platform
- Can be used without paying; Crazy Egg cannot.
Session replay and heatmaps
- Can be used without paying; Crazy Egg cannot.
- Starts $29 a month cheaper, at Free.
Experience Optimization Platform
- Can be used without paying; Crazy Egg cannot.
The main open source marketing automation platform, self-hosted and GPL licensed
- Can be used without paying; Crazy Egg cannot.
Open source, cookie-free web analytics you can self-host for the cost of a database
- Can be used without paying; Crazy Egg cannot.
- Starts $29 a month cheaper, at Free.
Every Crazy Egg alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crazy Egg (this page) | $29/month | - | - | |
| HotjarHeatmap and feedback platform offering session recordings, heatmaps, and user feedback tools for understanding user behavior. | Free, then $39/month | - | - | vs Crazy Egg |
| FullStoryDigital analytics platform with session replay, heatmaps, and funnel analysis for website and app optimization. | Free | Quote | 3 | vs Crazy Egg |
| MouseflowUser experience analytics tool with heatmaps, session recordings, and form analytics to understand visitor behavior. | Free | Subscription | 4 | vs Crazy Egg |
| VWOA/B testing and optimization platform with split testing, heatmaps, and visitor recording capabilities. | Free | Usage-based | - | vs Crazy Egg |
| Mautic | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Umami | Free | Per month by event count | 4 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Google Optimize | Free | Freemium | 1 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Swydo | €69/month | Per month by data source count | 1 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Onclusive | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Roxhill | On request | Quote | 4 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Wunderkind | On request | Quote | 2 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Invoca | On request | Quote | 5 | vs Crazy Egg |
| WebEngage | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Postscript | $49/month | Per month plus per message sent | 4 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Bloomreach | On request | Quote | 2 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Netcore Cloud | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Zoho Marketing Automation | $19/month | Per month by contact count | 3 | vs Crazy Egg |
| CallRail | $50/month | Per month by plan, plus per-number and per-minute overages | 4 | vs Crazy Egg |
| CleverTap | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Insider | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Optimove | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Octoboard | €25/month | Per month by connected client count | 1 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Freshpaint | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Crazy Egg |
| Madgicx | $49/month | Usage-based | 2 | vs Crazy Egg |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Crazy Egg badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Cheaper than Crazy Egg (5)
Entry price under Crazy Egg's $29/month. The record does not say what unit that price is charged in, so confirm per-seat versus flat rate before comparing budgets.
- Mouseflow , Free
- Umami , Free
- Google Optimize , Free
- Zoho Marketing Automation , $19/month
- Octoboard , €25/month
What you would be giving up
Crazy Egg is most often brought in for click, scroll and move heatmaps on a page, session recordings to see where visitors struggle, a/b testing page variants, snapshot reports comparing behaviour over time. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Crazy Egg is broadly right and the question is cost, the Crazy Egg pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Marketing category lists everything the directory holds, and best marketing tools ranks them.
Crazy Egg runs on web, api. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Crazy Egg alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Crazy Egg?
- 24 other marketing tools are listed in this directory, led by Hotjar, FullStory, Mouseflow, VWO. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Crazy Egg?
- 7 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Hotjar, FullStory, Mouseflow, VWO, Mautic.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Crazy Egg?
- Yes. 5 of the alternatives below start under Crazy Egg's $29/month: Mouseflow at Free, Umami at Free, Google Optimize at Free, Zoho Marketing Automation at $19/month.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Crazy Egg?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is no free tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Crazy Egg?
- Crazy Egg is most often brought in for click, scroll and move heatmaps on a page, session recordings to see where visitors struggle, a/b testing page variants, snapshot reports comparing behaviour over time. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Crazy Egg?
- None of the marketing tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Crazy Egg alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Marketing, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Crazy Egg against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Crazy Egg covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every marketing tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Marketing category, 24 tools beside Crazy Egg. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.