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Crazy Egg vs Socialyte

Crazy Egg logo

Crazy Egg

Marketing

Website optimization with heatmaps

From
$29/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Socialyte logo

Socialyte

Influencer Marketing

Social media intelligence and influencer insights platform

From
$349/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

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; Socialyte socialyte has been absorbed into Obviously (obvious.ly), a full-service influencer marketing agency; socialyte.co 301-redirects to obvious.ly from the vendor's own domain, and the successor's own site publishes no self-serve pricing, only agency contact.
  • They diverge on capability: Crazy Egg covers Heatmaps, Socialyte covers Social listening.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 30 August 2026.

Where they differ

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

Attributes where Crazy Egg and Socialyte differ
AttributeCrazy EggSocialyte
Starting price$29/month$349/month
Pricing modelUnknownsubscription
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb
CategoryMarketingInfluencer Marketing
Founded20062018

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 Socialyte

  • Social listening
  • Influencer tracking
  • Audience sentiment analysis
  • Competitive intelligence
  • Trend identification
  • Custom reporting
  • Earned media valuation
  • Instagram

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

Socialyte

  • Social listeningnot Crazy Egg
  • Influencer trackingnot Crazy Egg
  • Competitive analysisnot 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

Socialyte

  • Socialyte has been absorbed into Obviously (obvious.ly), a full-service influencer marketing agency; socialyte.co 301-redirects to obvious.ly from the vendor's own domain, and the successor's own site publishes no self-serve pricing, only agency contact.

Pricing, plan by plan

Crazy Egg

$29/month

No published plan breakdown. See the Crazy Egg review.

Socialyte

$349/month
  • Insights$349/month
    • Social listening
    • Influencer tracking
    • Audience analysis
  • Intelligence$749/month
    • Advanced listening
    • Competitive intelligence
    • Sentiment analysis

Which should you pick?

Choose Crazy Egg if

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

Choose Socialyte if

  • You need social listening.
  • You also want influencer tracking.
Socialyte review

Questions people ask

Is Crazy Egg or Socialyte better?
Neither clearly leads. Crazy Egg starts at $29/month and Socialyte at $349/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Crazy Egg or Socialyte?
Crazy Egg starts at $29/month and Socialyte at $349/month.
Does Crazy Egg or Socialyte run on more platforms?
Crazy Egg runs on Web, API. Socialyte 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 Socialyte is typically brought in for.
What can Crazy Egg do that Socialyte cannot?
Crazy Egg covers Heatmaps, Scrollmaps, Confetti Reports, A/B Testing. Socialyte covers Social listening, Influencer tracking, Audience sentiment analysis, Competitive intelligence. 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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