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Convert Experiences vs Optimizely

Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.

Entry price

From $299 per month (Growth, paid annually, 100k tested users; $399 monthly)

Trial only

Quote on request

Quote only

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Priced only on tested traffic — unlimited experiments, domains and users at every tier. Growth is $299/month paid annually ($399 monthly) for 100k tested users; Pro starts around $420/month annually.

Enterprise annual contracts, commonly in the tens of thousands and up. Priced by traffic and modules.

Free tier

15-day trial.

No free tier.

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptCodeless
JavaScriptPythonJavaC#GoRubyPHPCodeless

Platforms

Web
WebAPIiOSAndroid

Fits teams

StartupScale-up / mid-market
Enterprise

Adoption

Emerging

Convert Insights · since 2010

Widely used

Optimizely · since 2010

Strengths

  • Unlimited experiments and seats, so nobody rations testing to save licence cost.
  • Serious privacy posture with EU hosting and no data resale.
  • Transparent, published pricing.
  • The most capable visual editor for non-technical experiment authoring.
  • Deep personalisation and audience-targeting features.
  • Established statistics with sequential testing, so peeking is handled correctly.

Limitations

  • Client-side only — no server-side experimentation.
  • No feature-flag capability.
  • Smaller vendor with a modest ecosystem.
  • Expensive, with a suite-oriented sales motion that pushes adjacent products.
  • Client-side testing causes flicker and is increasingly blocked by browsers and blockers.
  • Heavyweight for teams that only need a handful of experiments.

Best for

Mid-sized e-commerce teams that want unlimited client-side testing with clean privacy handling.

Large marketing organisations running continuous experimentation on high-traffic sites.

All of these integrate with: Google Analytics, Segment.

Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.