Crazy Egg alternatives (2026)

In most modern tools, the script collects behaviour on every page all the time, and a heatmap for any page simply exists when you ask for it. Crazy Egg works differently: a heatmap is a report you configure per page, historically called a snapshot, with a start, an end, and a status. The company's own help documentation lists the lifecycle, Scheduled, Running, and Completed, which a report reaches "when the end date or visit limit has been reached."

Two consequences follow. There is no retroactive answer: if last month's redesign question concerns a page you never set a report on, there is no map of it. And reports are rationed: the $29 Starter plan runs five at a time, alongside 5,000 tracked pageviews and 50 recordings a month. Fifty recordings is a couple of sessions a day, a sample rather than coverage, and the next plan up is $99. Note also that the meter is pageviews, not sessions, so Crazy Egg's 5,000 covers meaningfully fewer visits than a 5,000-session plan elsewhere. Billing is annual on all plans.

To be fair to it: every plan has unlimited sites and seats, the company states it never charges overages, and since late 2025 a genuinely free tier exists, covering web analytics, surveys, and a lightweight "instant heatmap" with 30-day retention. Most alternatives lists still claim Crazy Egg has no free plan; that is out of date. What stays paid is the core: the full seven-view heatmap reports, session recordings, and A/B testing.

Clarity is the cleanest answer to the report model, because it is the opposite of one. Free forever, no traffic limits, no sampling, and heatmaps that simply exist for every page the script has seen, no setup, no report count, no meter. For the price objection and the coverage objection at once, nothing else comes close.

The trades: recordings are kept 30 days, the data lives with Microsoft under its consent and advertising-ecosystem terms, and there is no A/B testing or survey layer, so parts of the Crazy Egg bundle have no replacement here. The longer look is in Microsoft Clarity alternatives.

Bigdelta answers the report model the same way Clarity does, heatmaps and replays are always on, nothing is configured per page, but connects them to something Crazy Egg never had: full web analytics in the same script and interface, with sessions tied to traffic source, campaign and revenue. The workflow starts from a number that looks wrong and ends at the exact sessions behind it, rather than starting from a report you remembered to schedule.

The quota comparison is stark at the entry level: the free plan covers sites under 100,000 page views a month with up to 1,000 session replays and a year of retention, against 50 recordings a month with six months of storage on Crazy Egg's $29 Starter. Past the free replay cap, additional replays pause while analytics keeps counting. Data stays on EU servers, and paid pricing is public. What is missing versus Crazy Egg: no A/B testing, no popup CTAs, no survey builder. Teams whose Crazy Egg value was the testing stack should look at Contentsquare or keep A/B in a dedicated tool.

For a Crazy Egg team that wants the familiar marketer's bundle, heatmaps, recordings, surveys, at modern scale, Contentsquare is the volume play: the free tier captures 200,000 sessions a month, always-on, with attention maps and error monitoring included. Hotjar itself is gone as a destination, hotjar.com redirects to Contentsquare and new signups are closed, which several Crazy Egg alternatives lists have not noticed. The free tier's one-month retention is the catch, with paid plans from $49 extending it. More in Hotjar alternatives.

If the real job was diagnosing drop-off, Crazy Egg's funnels and errors were the draw more than its heatmaps, Mouseflow goes deeper on exactly that: funnels, form analytics down to field level, and a friction score that ranks sessions worth watching. Pricing is session-based from $25 a month with a 500-session free tier, and its quota rule is printed plainly on the pricing page: when sessions run out, tracking stops until the refill. Its own alternatives are in Mouseflow alternatives.

Lucky Orange bundles always-on heatmaps and recordings with the pieces Crazy Egg never had: live chat, a live visitor view, surveys and announcements, all on every plan from $32 a month on annual billing. No free plan on its website, a 7-day trial only, with retention starting at 60 days. For a small store that wants behaviour tools and visitor conversation in one bill, it is the natural fit; Lucky Orange alternatives covers its own trade-offs.

For data-control requirements no vendor terms satisfy, OpenReplay is open source and free to self-host, with a managed cloud from $199 a month. Replay with developer tooling, plus product analytics, on your own infrastructure with retention you choose. It is an engineering deployment rather than a marketing signup, and there is no heatmap-report concept at all, nor surveys or A/B.

The report model and the meter point to Clarity, free and always-on, if 30-day memory and Microsoft's terms fit. Behaviour connected to analytics and revenue, with a year of free retention, points to Bigdelta. Bundle-at-scale points to Contentsquare, funnel and form depth points to Mouseflow, behaviour-plus-chat points to Lucky Orange, and self-hosting points to OpenReplay. One name you may still see on other lists, Smartlook, stopped accepting signups in May 2026 and is winding down under Cisco, so leave it off the shortlist. The field without a departure story is in best heatmap tools.