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Kameleoon 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 $495 per month (PBX Starter: 10 experiments, 50k tested visitors)

Trial only

Quote on request

Quote only

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Kameleoon now publishes an entry price. Above Starter it is priced by traffic and modules on a custom quote.

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

Free tier

30-day trial, no card, up to 3 experiments.

No free tier.

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptPythonJavaC#PHPGoCodeless
JavaScriptPythonJavaC#GoRubyPHPCodeless

Platforms

WebAPIiOSAndroid
WebAPIiOSAndroid

Fits teams

Scale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
Enterprise

Adoption

Established

Kameleoon · since 2012

Widely used

Optimizely · since 2010

Strengths

  • Genuinely good hybrid model — the same experiment can run client- and server-side.
  • Effective anti-flicker implementation.
  • EU hosting with healthcare-grade compliance options.
  • 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

  • Smaller market presence outside Europe.
  • Only the entry tier is priced publicly; everything above it is a sales conversation.
  • Fewer third-party integrations than Optimizely.
  • 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

European enterprises needing both marketer and developer experimentation under GDPR.

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

All of these integrate with: Google Analytics, Segment, Salesforce.

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