Heap vs Crazy Egg
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
Free tier available
Free tierFrom $29 per month (annual billing, 5k pageviews)
Trial onlyWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Paid tiers are quote-based by session volume.
Tracked pageviews are the meter, and the entry plan's 5,000 a month is small enough that a modest marketing site outgrows it. Recording and heatmap-report counts are separate caps on the same plan.
Free tier
Free plan with a monthly session limit.
Free trial on every plan; no permanently free tier.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Widely used
Contentsquare · since 2013
Established
Crazy Egg · since 2006
Strengths
- Retroactive event definition eliminates 'we didn't track that' entirely.
- Very fast time to first insight — no instrumentation project required.
- Warehouse sync for teams that want the raw data.
- Heatmaps, recordings, surveys and A/B testing in one subscription rather than three.
- The A/B editor is usable by a marketer without an engineer, which is the whole point of buying it.
- Twenty years of the same product, which is unusual reassurance in this category.
Limitations
- Autocaptured data needs governance or the event list becomes unusable noise.
- Session-based pricing on high-traffic products.
- Acquisition means overlap with Contentsquare's own products.
- Pageview-metered, and pageviews are the thing you least control — a good week of traffic is an overage.
- Session replay is shallower than FullStory or LogRocket: no console, no network, no error correlation.
- Web only. There is no mobile SDK.
Best for
Product teams that want analytics without an instrumentation backlog.
Marketing teams that want to see behaviour and act on it in one tool, without an engineer in the loop.
All of these integrate with: Segment.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.