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Crazy Egg vs Lessonly

Crazy Egg logo

Crazy Egg

Software

Website optimization with heatmaps

From
$29/month
Rated
-
Lessonly logo

Lessonly

Software

Training Software for Teams

From
$300/month
Rated
-

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Crazy Egg the Starter plan at $29 a month covers 5,000 pageviews and 50 snapshots, which a modest site exhausts quickly; Lessonly lessonly is now marketed as Lessonly by Seismic, and its former pricing page redirects to a demo request with no plan prices shown, gating cost behind a sales conversation
  • They diverge on capability: Crazy Egg covers Heatmaps, Lessonly covers Lesson builder.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Crazy Egg and Lessonly actually diverge.

Attributes where Crazy Egg and Lessonly differ
AttributeCrazy EggLessonly
Starting price$29/month$300/month
Pricing modelUnknownsubscription
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb
Founded20062012

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Unknown).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Crazy Egg

  • Heatmaps
  • Scrollmaps
  • Confetti Reports
  • A/B Testing
  • Session Recordings
  • Google Analytics
  • Shopify
  • WordPress

Only in Lessonly

  • Lesson builder
  • Practice scenarios
  • Learning paths
  • Performance tracking
  • Coaching
  • Salesforce
  • Slack
  • Zendesk

Both cover

  • Web support

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Crazy Egg

  • Click, scroll and move heatmaps on a pagenot Lessonly
  • Session recordings to see where visitors strugglenot Lessonly
  • A/B testing page variantsnot Lessonly
  • Snapshot reports comparing behaviour over timenot Lessonly

Lessonly

  • Sales enablement teams wanting Seismic's training and coaching platform, willing to go through a demo for pricingnot Crazy Egg

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Crazy Egg

  • The Starter plan at $29 a month covers 5,000 pageviews and 50 snapshots, which a modest site exhausts quickly
  • All plans are billed annually rather than monthly
  • There is no free tier, only a trial
  • Reaching 500,000 pageviews means the Pro plan at $249 a month

Lessonly

  • Lessonly is now marketed as Lessonly by Seismic, and its former pricing page redirects to a demo request with no plan prices shown, gating cost behind a sales conversation

Pricing, plan by plan

Crazy Egg

$29/month

No published plan breakdown. See the Crazy Egg review.

Lessonly

$300/month
  • Starter$300/month
    • Lesson builder
    • Practice
    • Basic analytics
  • Pro$600/month
    • Advanced reporting
    • Integrations
    • Coaching

Which should you pick?

Choose Crazy Egg if

  • You need heatmaps.
  • You work on Web, API.
  • You also want scrollmaps.

Choose Lessonly if

  • You need lesson builder.
  • You also want practice scenarios.

Questions people ask

Is Crazy Egg or Lessonly better?
Neither clearly leads. Crazy Egg starts at $29/month and Lessonly at $300/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Crazy Egg or Lessonly?
Crazy Egg starts at $29/month and Lessonly at $300/month.
Does Crazy Egg or Lessonly run on more platforms?
Crazy Egg runs on Web, API. Lessonly runs on Web.
What is Crazy Egg best used for?
Crazy Egg is most often used 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. Of those, click, scroll and move heatmaps on a page and session recordings to see where visitors struggle are not what Lessonly is typically brought in for.
What can Crazy Egg do that Lessonly cannot?
Crazy Egg covers Heatmaps, Scrollmaps, Confetti Reports, A/B Testing. Lessonly covers Lesson builder, Practice scenarios, Learning paths, Performance tracking. Both handle Web support.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Crazy Egg: How is Crazy Egg priced?

Crazy Egg starts at $29/month for 5,000 tracked pageviews and 50 recordings. Pricing scales to $599/month for Enterprise tier. A/B testing available from $99 plan up. Annual billing required with no monthly option. 30-day free trial available.

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Crazy Egg: What features does Crazy Egg include?

Crazy Egg provides heatmaps showing user clicks and scrolls, session recordings, A/B testing from the Plus tier up, and unlimited domains and team members across all plans.

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Crazy Egg: Does Crazy Egg offer a free trial?

Yes, Crazy Egg offers a 30-day free trial for all new users to test heatmaps and session recordings before committing to a paid plan.

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