Is Crazy Egg or Pictory better?

Neither clearly leads. Crazy Egg starts at $29/month and Pictory at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Crazy Egg or Pictory?

Crazy Egg starts at $29/month and Pictory at On request.

Does Crazy Egg or Pictory run on more platforms?

Crazy Egg runs on Web, API. Pictory 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 Pictory is typically brought in for.

What can Crazy Egg do that Pictory cannot?

Crazy Egg covers Heatmaps, Scrollmaps, Confetti Reports, A/B Testing.

Marketing & Analytics · head to head

Crazy Egg vs Pictory

Crazy Egg

Marketing & Analytics

Website optimization with heatmaps

From: $29/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

Pictory

Content Creation

Create Professional Videos - Faster, Easier, and Cheaper With Our Flexible Plans

From: On request
Rated: -

Full review Website

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; Pictory starter plan caps video minutes at 200 per month if billed monthly ($29) versus 2,400 minutes a year if billed annually ($25 per month)

Where they differ

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

Attributes where Crazy Egg and Pictory differ
Attribute	Crazy Egg	Pictory
Starting price	$29/month	On request
Pricing model	Unknown	subscription
Platforms	Web, API	Web
Category	Marketing & Analytics	Content Creation
Founded	2006	Unknown

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

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 Pictory

Nothing recorded that Crazy Egg does not also cover.

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 Pictory
Session recordings to see where visitors strugglenot Pictory
A/B testing page variantsnot Pictory
Snapshot reports comparing behaviour over timenot Pictory

Pictory

No use cases recorded yet. See the Pictory review.

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

Pictory

Starter plan caps video minutes at 200 per month if billed monthly ($29) versus 2,400 minutes a year if billed annually ($25 per month)
Enterprise level usage requires a custom sales consultation rather than a published price

Pricing, plan by plan

Crazy Egg

$29/month

No published plan breakdown. See the Crazy Egg review.

Pictory

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Pictory review.

Which should you pick?

Choose Crazy Egg if

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

Crazy Egg review

Choose Pictory if

Nothing in the data separates Pictory from Crazy Egg on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.

Pictory review

Questions people ask

Is Crazy Egg or Pictory better?: Neither clearly leads. Crazy Egg starts at $29/month and Pictory at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Crazy Egg or Pictory?: Crazy Egg starts at $29/month and Pictory at On request.
Does Crazy Egg or Pictory run on more platforms?: Crazy Egg runs on Web, API. Pictory 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 Pictory is typically brought in for.
What can Crazy Egg do that Pictory cannot?: Crazy Egg covers Heatmaps, Scrollmaps, Confetti Reports, A/B Testing.

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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Crazy Egg vs Pictory

Crazy Egg

Pictory

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Crazy Egg

Only in Pictory

What people use each for

Crazy Egg

Pictory

Where each one falls short

Crazy Egg

Pictory

Pricing, plan by plan

Crazy Egg

Pictory

Which should you pick?

Choose Crazy Egg if

Choose Pictory if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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