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Best Crazy Egg alternative.
Need more than heatmaps? Pieowl gives you product analytics: funnels, retention, cohorts, user profiles and session replay, plus an MCP server for your own AI assistant. No cookies, cloud in the EU.
- Funnels and retention
- Session replay
- No cookies
- EU cloud
Pieowl vs Crazy Egg: which is right for you?
Pieowl if…
- 1Teams that need funnels, retention and cohorts
- 2Products with logged-in users you want to follow across visits
- 3Teams that want analytics with no cookies
Crazy Egg if…
- 1Teams that rely on heatmaps and scroll maps
- 2Marketers who run A/B tests on landing pages
- 3Sites that want on-page surveys and popup CTAs
Crazy Egg focuses on visual page optimization. Pieowl focuses on product analytics across your whole site or app.
Why consider Pieowl over Crazy Egg?
Crazy Egg helps you see what's wrong with a web page. It has heatmaps, session recordings, A/B testing, surveys, error tracking, popup CTAs and conversion analytics. For marketers who want to fix landing pages by eye, those visual tools are its strength.
Pieowl answers a different question: how do people move through your whole product? Funnels show the step where people leave. Retention shows whether they come back. User profiles and cohorts let you follow groups of users over time. Session replay shows what happened in a single visit.
Pricing works differently too. Crazy Egg plans are billed yearly and limit tracked pageviews, heatmap reports and recordings by plan. Pieowl charges per event, with every feature on every plan: $9/month for 10K events, $19/month for 100K and $69/month for 1M on Starter.
Pieowl also sets no cookies and does not store IP addresses. If heatmaps and A/B tests are what you use most, Crazy Egg is still the better tool for that job.
Key differences at a glance
How Pieowl and Crazy Egg compare on the things that matter most. Checked October 2026.
| Feature | Pieowl | Crazy Egg |
|---|---|---|
| Key differences | ||
| Main focus | Product analytics | Visual page optimization |
| Heatmaps | No | Yes (5 to 200 reports by plan) |
| A/B testing | No | Plus plan and up |
| Entry price | $9/mo (10K events), after a 14-day free trial | $29/mo, billed yearly |
| Core analytics | ||
| Web analytics | Yes | Yes |
| Conversion tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Funnels | Yes | Not listed |
| Retention | Yes | Not listed |
| User profiles | Yes | Not listed |
| Cohorts | Yes | Not listed |
| Revenue tracking | Yes | Not listed |
| Visual website optimization | ||
| Session recordingsCrazy Egg: 50 to 10,000 recordings a month by plan | Yes | Yes |
| Click and scroll heatmapsCrazy Egg's best-known feature | No | Yes |
| A/B tests | No | Plus and up |
| Error tracking | No | Plus and up |
| Popup CTAs | No | Yes |
| AI analysis | Via your AI assistant (MCP) | Yes |
| Feedback and surveys | ||
| On-site surveys | No | Yes |
| Privacy and security | ||
| No cookies | Yes | Not stated |
| IP addresses not stored | Yes | Not stated |
| SAML SSO | No | Enterprise plan |
| Integrations and data | ||
| API | Yes | Not listed |
| Raw data export | API, S3 or Google Cloud Storage | Not listed |
| Mobile apps (React Native) | Yes | Not listed |
Technical comparison
For developers, here is how the setups compare.
| Feature | Pieowl | Crazy Egg |
|---|---|---|
| Script size (JS)Pieowl's replay add-on loads only if you turn replay on. | About 3 KB gzipped | Not published |
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| Database | ClickHouse + PostgreSQL + Redis | Managed by Crazy Egg |
Pricing comparison
Pieowl charges per event, after a 14-day free trial with no card. Crazy Egg charges by tracked pageviews and bills yearly. Crazy Egg prices checked October 2026.
Pieowl
Pay per event. Every feature on every plan.- 14-day free trial, no card needed.
- Starter: from $9/month for 10K events, $19 for 100K and $69 for 1M.
- Growth: twice the Starter price, for up to 30 sites and 30 team members.
- Over 10M events a month: talk to us.
- Pay yearly and get 2 months free.
- Paid plans come with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Crazy Egg
By tracked pageviews, billed yearly- Starter: $29/month for 5K pageviews, 5 heatmap reports and 50 recordings a month.
- Plus: $99/month for 150K pageviews, with A/B testing and error tracking.
- Pro: $249/month for 500K pageviews.
- Enterprise: $599/month for 1M pageviews, with SAML SSO.
- All plans are billed yearly and start with a free trial.
Moving from Crazy Egg to Pieowl
Before you switch, check how much you rely on heatmaps and A/B tests. Those are Crazy Egg's core strengths, and Pieowl does not have them.
- 01Add the Pieowl script
Add your site at app.pieowl.com and put the Pieowl snippet on it. Page views start coming in right away.
- 02Track your key actions
Call pieowl('track', 'event_name', { ...properties }) for signups, purchases and other key actions. Or add a data-track attribute to buttons.
- 03Identify users (optional)
Call pieowl('identify', { profileId }) after login to unlock user profiles, retention and cohorts.
- 04Build funnels and turn on replay
Recreate your conversion goals as funnels. Turn on session replay for the sites where you want it.
- 05Remove the Crazy Egg script
When the numbers look right, remove Crazy Egg. You will lose heatmaps, A/B tests, surveys and popups.
Effort: Easy
Estimated time: 1-2 hoursSDK compatibility
Different approaches: Crazy Egg is page and visual focused, Pieowl is event-based.Historical data
Pieowl has no Crazy Egg importer. Heatmaps and recordings can't be moved, so most teams start fresh.
Where Pieowl is a better fit than Crazy Egg
Pick Pieowl when you need product analytics more than visual page tools.
Following users across visits
Identify logged-in users and see their history, retention and cohorts. Crazy Egg focuses on pages, not users.
Finding where people drop off
Funnels show the step where people leave, with breakdowns by device, campaign and more.
Privacy-first sites
Pieowl sets no cookies and does not store IP addresses, so in many cases you don't need a consent banner for analytics.
Small budgets
Try it free for 14 days with no card. Starter is $9/month for 10K events, $19/month for 100K and $69/month for 1M, with every feature included.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about switching from Crazy Egg to Pieowl. Crazy Egg details checked October 2026.
What will I lose if I switch from Crazy Egg?
Heatmaps, A/B testing, on-site surveys, error tracking and popup CTAs. Pieowl does not have these. It focuses on product analytics and session replay.
Does Pieowl have heatmaps like Crazy Egg?
No. Pieowl has funnels, retention, cohorts and session replay, but no heatmaps. If heatmaps are your main tool, Crazy Egg is the better fit.
How does pricing compare?
Crazy Egg starts at $29/month for 5K tracked pageviews, billed yearly. Pieowl is $9/month for 10K events, $19/month for 100K and $69/month for 1M on Starter.
Does Pieowl have A/B testing like Crazy Egg?
No. Crazy Egg includes A/B testing from the Plus plan up. Pieowl does not run experiments.
Does Pieowl have session recordings?
Yes. Pieowl session replay is opt-in per site. Text and form fields are always hidden, and you can block sensitive parts of the page. It is included on every plan.
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Ready to make the switch?
14-day free trial, no card needed. Then from $9 a month for 10K events.