{"id":103293,"date":"2026-08-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/blog\/?p=103293"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:41:41","slug":"crazy-egg-vs-hotjar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/blog\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Egg vs. Hotjar: Which Tool Is Better For You?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Should you choose Crazy Egg or Hotjar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Crazy Egg<\/a> is the better pick if you want behavioral analytics, A\/B testing, surveys, and web analytics in one subscription with transparent pricing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hotjar, now part of Contentsquare, gives you a strong behavioral analytics suite \u2014 heatmaps, recordings, funnels \u2014 and voice-of-customer tools, and works for teams already committed to a third-party experimentation tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Crazy Egg vs. Hotjar: A Quick Snapshot<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Short on time? Here&#8217;s what you need to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th><strong>Feature<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Crazy Egg<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Hotjar<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Heatmaps<\/strong><\/td><td>\u2705 5 map types, including confetti maps for per-click segmentation<br>\u2705 20+ audience filters<br>\u2705 Free Instant Heatmaps across all pages<\/td><td>\u2705 Click, scroll, movement, and engagement maps<br>\u2705 Rage-click frustration maps<br>\u26a0\ufe0f No per-click segmentation equivalent to confetti maps<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Session Recordings<\/strong><\/td><td>\u2705 Auto-tagged with behavioral, ecommerce, and form events<br>\u2705 6 months to 2 years retention<br>\u26a0\ufe0f Capped by plan (50\u201310,000\/mo)<\/td><td>\u2705 Generous session volumes (200K sessions\/mo on Free)<br>\u2705 Strong filtering by behavior and frustration signals<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Surveys &amp; Feedback<\/strong><\/td><td>\u2705 Surveys on every plan, unlimited responses<br>\u2705 50+ templates, branching, behavioral targeting<br>\u2705 AI sentiment analysis on responses<\/td><td>\u2705 Voice of Customer line: advanced survey logic, feedback widgets, user interviews<br>\u26a0\ufe0f Separate subscription from $99\/mo (free tier: 100 responses\/mo)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>A\/B Testing &amp; Personalization<\/strong><\/td><td>\u2705 Native A\/B testing with visual editor<br>\u2705 Audience targeting by device, country, UTM and more (by plan) <br>\u2705 Personalization available as an add-on<\/td><td>\u26a0\ufe0f No native experimentation engine \u2014 A\/B testing runs through third-party integrations (AB Tasty, Optimizely, Kameleoon, Adobe Target)<br>\u2705 Sense AI analyzes test results from integrated tools<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Web Analytics<\/strong><\/td><td>\u2705 Standalone analytics \u2014 works with or without GA4<br>\u2705 Conversion tracking with ad pixel support (Google, Meta, TikTok)<br>\u2705 Retroactive multi-step funnels<\/td><td>\u26a0\ufe0f Behavioral focus; traffic analytics assumes GA4 alongside<br>\u2705 Funnels and trend dashboards<br>\u26a0\ufe0f Product Analytics (Heap) is sales-contact only, even for the free tier<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>AI<\/strong><\/td><td>\u2705 AI Analysis on heatmaps, recordings, surveys, and web analytics<br>\u2705 Export data in AI-ready format to any tool (Pro and above)<br>\u2705 MCP connector for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot<\/td><td>\u2705 Sense AI summaries and configurable Sense Analyst agent<br>\u2705 MCP access on every tier<br>\u26a0\ufe0f MCP calls metered by plan (300\/mo on Free, up to 108K\/yr on Enterprise)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Pricing<\/strong><\/td><td>\u2705 $29\u2013$599\/mo, all published, billed annually<br>\u2705 Unlimited domains and team members on every plan<br>\u2705 No overages, ever<\/td><td>\u26a0\ufe0f Modular: Experience Analytics from $49\/mo + Voice of Customer from $99\/mo, Pro and Enterprise custom<br>\u26a0\ufe0f Product Analytics has no self-serve tier<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Support<\/strong><\/td><td>\u2705 US-based priority support on Plus and above<br>\u2705 Priority support for agencies on any plan<\/td><td>\u2705 Help center and community<br>\u26a0\ufe0f Some customers report difficulty reaching humans for account issues<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Feature Breakdown: Crazy Egg vs. Hotjar<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. Heatmaps<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both tools show you where visitors click, how far they scroll, and which elements pull attention, but Crazy Egg offers deeper segmentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Egg gives you five heatmap types: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/click-maps\">Click Maps<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/scrollmap\"> Scroll Maps<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/confetti\"> Confetti Maps<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/overlay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Overlay Maps<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">List Maps<\/a>. Once you set it up on a page, you can flip between views as necessary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Confetti map is the one Hotjar can&#8217;t match: every individual click, color-coded by traffic source, UTM parameter, device, conversion status, or any of 17 other attributes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if you want to see how paid visitors click differently from organic ones or mobile from desktop ones, it&#8217;s all on one page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1887\" height=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102715\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-heatmap-referrer-filter.png\" alt=\"Crazy Egg heatmap with referrer filter panel showing click distribution from ChatGPT, direct, and Google traffic\" class=\"wp-image-109853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102715\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-heatmap-referrer-filter.png 1887w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102715\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-heatmap-referrer-filter-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102715\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-heatmap-referrer-filter-1024x492.png 1024w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102715\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-heatmap-referrer-filter-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102715\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-heatmap-referrer-filter-1536x738.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1887px) 100vw, 1887px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And 20+ audience filters work across all map types.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hotjar covers click and scroll maps, plus engagement maps showing where on the page users interact most, movement maps, and rage-click maps that flag frustration points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"969\" height=\"794\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102739\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-blog-heatmap.png\" alt=\"Hotjar heatmap on a B2B SaaS freelance content writers listicle with hot spots on linked names\" class=\"wp-image-109854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102739\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-blog-heatmap.png 969w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102739\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-blog-heatmap-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102739\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-blog-heatmap-768x629.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 969px) 100vw, 969px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Egg has no dedicated rage-click map, but you can visualize them in Confetti maps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. Session Recordings<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both tools record real visitor sessions. Hotjar records more of them, while Crazy Egg keeps them longer and labels them better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Egg automatically tags recordings with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Behavioral signals (rage clicks, dead clicks)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>E-commerce actions (add to cart, checkout start)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Form interactions (submit, abandon, resubmit)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Account events (signup, login, search).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1220\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102820\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-recordings-signals.png\" alt=\"Recordings list with visitors tagged by behavior signals like slow loading, rage click, and dead click\" class=\"wp-image-109855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102820\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-recordings-signals.png 1220w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102820\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-recordings-signals-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102820\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-recordings-signals-1024x562.png 1024w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102820\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-recordings-signals-768x422.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1220px) 100vw, 1220px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tags work as filters, so you can jump straight to abandoned checkouts from mobile paid traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Egg keeps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/recordings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recordings<\/a> 6-24 months, depending on the plan. Each plan caps monthly volume, from 50 to 10,000 recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contentsquare&#8217;s free Experience Analytics captures 200,000 sessions a month and analyzes 5% of them, capped at 10,000.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just like in Crazy Egg, you can filter them by device, errors, new versus returning visitors, and frustration signals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1910\" height=\"901\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102904\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-session-recording-rage-clicks.png\" alt=\"Session recording showing rage click patterns on a freelancer portfolio page\" class=\"wp-image-109856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102904\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-session-recording-rage-clicks.png 1910w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102904\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-session-recording-rage-clicks-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102904\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-session-recording-rage-clicks-1024x483.png 1024w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102904\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-session-recording-rage-clicks-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102904\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-session-recording-rage-clicks-1536x725.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1910px) 100vw, 1910px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. Surveys &amp; Feedback<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both platforms let you collect direct user feedback. Hotjar&#8217;s features go deeper, but require an add-on subscription.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Egg&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/surveys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surveys<\/a> come with 50+ templates, conditional branching, and behavioral targeting. You can trigger a survey on page load, scroll depth, exit intent, or button click, so the question reaches visitors at the moment that prompted it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1725\" height=\"914\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102952\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-survey-templates.png\" alt=\"Crazy Egg template gallery\" class=\"wp-image-109857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102952\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-survey-templates.png 1725w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102952\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-survey-templates-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102952\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-survey-templates-1024x543.png 1024w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102952\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-survey-templates-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13102952\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-survey-templates-1536x814.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1725px) 100vw, 1725px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Egg&#8217;s AI reads open-text responses and detects sentiment, and you can jump from individual responses to their recordings and see what visitors did before they submitted the survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every Crazy Egg plan includes surveys with unlimited responses, even the free one. That&#8217;s worth pausing on, because response caps are where survey pricing usually stings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hotjar&#8217;s Voice of Customer module comes with advanced survey logic, always-on feedback widgets, and user interview recruitment, so it&#8217;s a genuine user-research toolkit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it&#8217;s a separate product line and the middle plan, Growth, which costs $79 a month (on top of Experience Analytics), caps responses at 500.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1609\" height=\"837\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103016\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-survey-templates.png\" alt=\"Hotjar template gallery\" class=\"wp-image-109858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103016\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-survey-templates.png 1609w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103016\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-survey-templates-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103016\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-survey-templates-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103016\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-survey-templates-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103016\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-survey-templates-1536x799.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1609px) 100vw, 1609px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, if user research is a dedicated function on your team \u2014 interviews, panels, continuous discovery \u2014 Hotjar&#8217;s VoC line is worth the extra bill. If feedback&#8217;s job is to explain what your heatmaps and funnels found, Crazy Egg includes everything you need, uncapped, on every plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4. Web and Conversion Analytics&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both tools integrate with GA4 and can pull data from it, but Crazy Egg also works without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Egg&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/web-analytics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Web Analytics<\/a> runs standalone or alongside GA4. So, if you connect your GA4 account and your historical data backfills automatically, or let Crazy Egg&#8217;s own script track 8 core metrics with 15+ segmentation options.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103150\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-analytics-dashboard.png\" alt=\"Crazy Egg analytics dashboard showing 25.1k unique visitors, pageviews, and country breakdown\" class=\"wp-image-109859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103150\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-analytics-dashboard.png 675w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103150\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-analytics-dashboard-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/funnels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Conversion Funnels<\/a> in Crazy Egg work retroactively: when you set up your conversion events, any funnel you build later already includes your historical data. If you add or remove steps, no data is lost.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103212\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-funnel.png\" alt=\"Crazy Egg funnel showing 26,599 site visitors dropping to 3,027 signups at a 24.7% completion rate\" class=\"wp-image-109860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103212\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-funnel.png 1400w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103212\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-funnel-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103212\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-funnel-1024x731.png 1024w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103212\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-funnel-768x549.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/conversion-analytics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Conversion Analytics<\/a> tracks button clicks, form submissions, and ecommerce events, and supports ad pixels for Google, Meta, and TikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hotjar has funnels and trend dashboards too, and they also connect to recordings for drop-off investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One feature that sets Hotjar apart is Journey analysis, which lets you view all user actions before or after a conversion event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1182\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103259\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-journey-analysis.png\" alt=\"Hotjar journey analysis donut chart showing user paths from page groups like Homepage, Cart, and Best Sellers with performance metrics\" class=\"wp-image-109861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103259\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-journey-analysis.png 1182w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103259\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-journey-analysis-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103259\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-journey-analysis-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103259\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-journey-analysis-768x511.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1182px) 100vw, 1182px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, Hotjar&#8217;s analytics stay behavior-focused. I guess the assumption is that GA4 handles your traffic reporting, and Hotjar does behavior analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full product analytics lives in Contentsquare&#8217;s Product Analytics module (built on Heap), which as of August 2026 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotjar.com\/pricing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no self-serve tier at all<\/a>: every tier, including Free, starts with a sales conversation. But that&#8217;s not a category where Crazy Egg competes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>5. A\/B Testing<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Egg has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/ab-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">native A\/B testing engine.<\/a> Hotjar requires third-party integrations for experiments, but its AI can analyze the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Crazy Egg, you build variants in the visual editor with no code, split traffic (50\/50 or multi-armed bandit), and track results against your conversion goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103334\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ab-test-results.png\" alt=\"Crazy Egg A\/B test comparing a control (3.58% conversion) against a variant with an added exclamation mark (4.08% conversion)\" class=\"wp-image-109862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103334\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ab-test-results.png 1024w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103334\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ab-test-results-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103334\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ab-test-results-768x419.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every variant gets its own auto-generated heatmaps and recordings, so you see <em>why<\/em> a version won, and the data gets sent to GA4, where you can analyze it in more depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Egg&#8217;s test targeting varies by plan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Plus:<\/strong> device type<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Pro: <\/strong>device, country, UTMs, and conversion status<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Enterprise:<\/strong> all segments (full personalization available as an add-on.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contentsquare names built-in A\/B testing as one of Crazy Egg&#8217;s standout strengths. That&#8217;s because Hotjar and Contentsquare have no native A\/B testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can run experiments through integrations with tools like AB Tasty, Optimizely, Kameleoon, or Adobe Target. However, Contentsquare does let you analyze A\/B test results with Sense AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, with Hotjar, insight and action live need different tools with different bills. You find the problem in Hotjar, then test the fix elsewhere (and pay another subscription).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Crazy Egg, the analytics, heatmaps, and recordings that help you find and understand the issue and the test that fixes share the same login details. And the same invoice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>6. AI Features<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both platforms have real AI capabilities and let you analyze the data inside and outside the platform and automate complex multi-step analyses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Egg&#8217;s AI Analysis reads heatmaps, recordings, surveys, and web analytics automatically and flags the most insightful sessions, surfaces traffic anomalies, writes specific recommendations, and more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1690\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103422\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ai-insights.png\" alt=\"AI top insights panel with recommendations on mobile UX, organic search conversion, and UTM attribution\" class=\"wp-image-109863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103422\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ai-insights.png 1690w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103422\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ai-insights-300x51.png 300w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103422\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ai-insights-1024x173.png 1024w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103422\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ai-insights-768x130.png 768w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103422\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ai-insights-1536x260.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1690px) 100vw, 1690px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also analyze the data via external tools, like Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor, by exporting it in an AI-ready format or connecting them via the MCP server.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, Crazy Egg&#8217;s Tasks, available in early access, fully automates the research. For example, it can set up a heatmap on a page that&#8217;s leaking conversions, read and analyze the data to create a new version, and run an A\/B test.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103458\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ai-assistant.png\" alt=\"AI assistant chat interface greeting a user for heatmap analysis\" class=\"wp-image-109864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103458\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ai-assistant.png 1200w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103458\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ai-assistant-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103458\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ai-assistant-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103458\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-ai-assistant-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hotjar&#8217;s AI stack is strong.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sense AI automatically generates summaries of session recordings and heatmaps, analyzes A\/B test results, and design surveys, and the chat feature lets you ask for specific insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hotjar&#8217;s Sense Analyst agent is somewhat similar to Tasks in that it can run multi-step analyses automatically, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/contentsquare.com\/platform\/capabilities\/mcp-server\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MCP server<\/a> connects to AI chatbot tools just like in Crazy Egg, but there&#8217;s no data export in JSON for external analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1001\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103543\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-replay-summary.png\" alt=\"Hotjar session replay of a checkout page with AI-generated key insights and potential issues panel\" class=\"wp-image-109865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103543\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-replay-summary.png 1999w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103543\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-replay-summary-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103543\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-replay-summary-1024x513.png 1024w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103543\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-replay-summary-768x385.png 768w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103543\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-hotjar-replay-summary-1536x769.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing to watch out for: Sense Analyst Advanced isn&#8217;t bundled in any plan, but as an add-on Pro or Enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>7. What Crazy Egg Has That Hotjar Doesn&#8217;t<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apart from native A\/B testing, Crazy Egg also offers Popup CTAs and Astro Map &amp; Live Activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Egg has a<strong> built-in CTA builder<\/strong> with three formats: a button, a popup, and a sticky bar. Pick the type, set the text and colors, choose when it fires, and publish. No developer needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1697\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103609\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-cta-templates.png\" alt=\"Crazy Egg CTA template gallery with options like Give Feedback, Get Started, and Free Download\" class=\"wp-image-109866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103609\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-cta-templates.png 1697w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103609\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-cta-templates-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103609\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-cta-templates-1024x525.png 1024w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103609\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-cta-templates-768x394.png 768w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103609\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-crazy-egg-cta-templates-1536x787.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1697px) 100vw, 1697px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You control who sees each one and when, down to the referrer they arrived from. So paid traffic and organic traffic can get different messages on the same page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each CTA reports views, clicks, and impact on your conversion goals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Live Activity <\/strong>is a real-time feed of what visitors are doing right now: country, referrer, pages viewed, and a running count of active visitors. You can filter by event type or follow a single visitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1741\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103631\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-live-activity-feed.png\" alt=\"Crazy Egg live activity stream showing rage clicks, dead clicks, and JS errors on a homepage\" class=\"wp-image-109867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103631\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-live-activity-feed.png 1741w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103631\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-live-activity-feed-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103631\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-live-activity-feed-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103631\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-live-activity-feed-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13103631\/crazy-egg-vs-hotjar-live-activity-feed-1536x653.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1741px) 100vw, 1741px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Astro Map<\/strong> is the same data as a picture. Current visitors appear grouped around the page they are on, referrers show up as rockets, and actions surface in speech bubbles: visit, scroll, click, conversion goal, error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Useful when a campaign goes live, and you want to catch conversions or errors while you can still act.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>8. Security and data handling<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both tools take visitor privacy seriously, and both give you user permissions and data privacy controls on every plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Egg keeps it simple at the point of capture: passwords, card numbers, and personal form entries are never recorded in the first place, with field masking and IP anonymization available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Data is encrypted, Crazy Egg doesn&#8217;t sell customer data, and it doesn&#8217;t track visitors across websites. It&#8217;s GDPR and CCPA compliant, and you can sign a DPA. All plans include role-based access control, and Enterprise gives you Single Sign-On (SSO) and a Compliance Audit Log.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contentsquare publishes SOC-2 Type 2 and ISO 2700x across every tier, including Free, and offers SSO on all plans, moving from Google OAuth to SAML at Pro and above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>9. Support<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy Egg includes US-based priority support on Plus and above, and agencies get priority support from the marketing strategy team on any plan, while Enterprise customers get live training and onboarding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hotjar&#8217;s baseline is a help center, community, and AI chatbot. The Growth plan gives you access to standard team support, while Pro &amp; Enterprise customers get access to support and customer success specialists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Pricing Breakdown: Which Has the Best Value?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th><\/th><th><strong>Crazy Egg<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Hotjar (Contentsquare)<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Structure<\/td><td>One subscription, all features by tier<\/td><td>Modular: Experience Analytics + Voice of Customer + Product Analytics, priced separately<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Published pricing<\/td><td>Starter $29\/mo \u00b7 Plus $99\/mo \u00b7 Pro $249\/mo \u00b7 Enterprise $599\/mo (billed annually)<\/td><td>Experience Analytics from $49\/mo; Voice of Customer from $99\/mo; Pro and Enterprise tiers custom (&#8220;Let&#8217;s talk&#8221;)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Free tier<\/td><td>Instant Heatmaps, Surveys, Web Analytics, Conversion Analytics<\/td><td>Experience Analytics: 1 project; VoC: 100 responses\/mo; Product Analytics: none \u2014 contact sales<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Domains<\/td><td>Unlimited on every plan<\/td><td>Priced per project\/site<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Overages<\/td><td>None \u2014 collection pauses at the limit<\/td><td>Usage-based tiers<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The modular Hotjar pricing means that to match what Crazy Egg&#8217;s Plus plan bundles \u2014 behavior analytics, surveys, A\/B testing, popup CTAs, web analytics \u2014 you&#8217;d stack Experience Analytics, Voice of Customer, and a third-party testing tool. Each with its own bill and renewal date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And one more thought: Since the July 2025 merger, Hotjar&#8217;s own feature and comparison pages have gone offline, its changelog stopped updating in April 2025 with product news moving to Contentsquare&#8217;s release notes, its G2 listing now reads &#8220;Hotjar by Contentsquare,&#8221; and new accounts sign up through Contentsquare rather than Hotjar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing has been announced as discontinued, and existing accounts still work. But the product is being absorbed into a larger platform, and that&#8217;s something that can affect future renewal costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Final Verdict: Is Crazy Egg or Hotjar Right for You?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Choose Crazy Egg if you want behavioral analytics, A\/B testing, surveys, and web analytics in one tool with a predictable price.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Choose Hotjar if you&#8217;re invested in the wider Contentsquare platform \u2014 enterprise journey analytics, Heap product analytics, dedicated user-research tooling \u2014 and a sales-led, modular purchase fits how your organization buys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your Hotjar subscription is up for renewal soon and you&#8217;d like to consolidate your web and behavior analytics, experimentation, and feedback in one subscription, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crazyegg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contact Crazy Egg Sales<\/a> to chat about your needs. Our team can price competitively and let you try the product before you fully commit. And we\u2019ll help with implementation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should you choose Crazy Egg or Hotjar? 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