# Hotjar alternatives that also test your fixes > Hotjar alternatives compared: Contentsquare, Microsoft Clarity, Mouseflow, Crazy Egg, Lucky Orange, Fullstory and Cuttl. Heatmaps, recordings and A/B tests. Source: https://cuttl.io/alternatives/hotjar/ · Last updated: 2026-11-05 Most Hotjar alternatives show you where visitors get stuck. Cuttl also finds the problems for you, tests the fix and checks it worked. Hotjar is now part of Contentsquare, and new accounts start there. If you’re looking at alternatives, the main question is what you need beyond heatmaps and recordings. Cuttl covers both, with click, scroll, hover, zone and friction maps. It also ranks problems and adds A/B testing, fix checks, funnels, on-page feedback and AI assistants, with a free plan to start. ## Pick by what you need. - If you need: Look at / Why - Heatmaps, recordings and A/B tests in one tool: Cuttl / Spot a problem, test the fix and check it worked, from one Cuttl Tag - A free tool for heatmaps and recordings only: Microsoft Clarity / Free, with heatmaps and recordings - The Hotjar tools inside a larger platform: Contentsquare / Hotjar is part of it, with a free plan to start - Funnels and friction detection: Mouseflow / Funnels on every plan, form analytics from its Premium plan - Heatmaps with testing from a mid-tier plan: Crazy Egg / A/B testing on its Plus plan and above - Heatmaps and live chat for a small store: Lucky Orange / Includes live chat - Large-team session analytics: Fullstory / Session replay with a free plan to start ## Hotjar alternatives at a glance. - Feature: Cuttl / Contentsquare / Microsoft Clarity / Mouseflow / Crazy Egg / Lucky Orange / Fullstory - Heatmaps: Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes - Session recordings: Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes - Zone heatmaps: Yes, with conversions per zone / Growth and up / Yes (area maps) / Not listed / Not listed / Not listed / Not listed - Frustration signals: Yes, ranked as issues / Frustration Score from Growth / Yes / Yes (Friction Score) / Yes (rage and dead click tags) / Yes (frustration filter) / Yes (rage clicks) - Form analytics: Yes / Pro and Enterprise / Not listed / Premium plan and up / Not listed / Yes / Not listed - A/B testing: Included / Add-on on Pro, included on Enterprise (1M+ sessions) / No / Not listed / Plus plan and up / Not listed / Not listed - Checks whether a change worked: Yes (Change Impact) / Not listed / Not listed / Not listed / Not listed / Not listed / Not listed - Free plan: Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes (heatmaps, analytics, surveys) / Free trial / Yes Yes With limits or on some plans No or not listed ## Why teams look beyond Hotjar. ### It’s part of Contentsquare now New accounts start on Contentsquare, so the plans and pricing you compare may differ from the Hotjar you knew. ### Seeing a problem isn’t fixing it Heatmaps and recordings show where visitors get stuck. Testing a fix usually means a second tool, a second tracking code and a second report. ### Several sites or clients Plans that count projects or sessions get costly across many sites. ### Not enough traffic for A/B tests Small sites need a way to check a change without waiting weeks. ## Seven Hotjar alternatives, and what each is good for. ### Cuttl Good for: finding a problem and testing the fix in one place. - Click, scroll, hover, zone and friction maps - Session recordings, funnels, form analytics, feedback and NPS surveys - Problems found, ranked by severity and checked once fixed - A/B, split URL, multi-page and multivariate tests - A visual editor, targeting, guardrails and approvals - Claude and ChatGPT through MCP, with your approval - Heatmaps and recordings for every test variant - A free plan, then Pro and Max by unique visitors ### Contentsquare (includes Hotjar) Good for: teams that want the Hotjar tools inside a larger platform. Has a free plan with heatmaps and session replay. A/B testing on every plan instead of an add-on, and unlimited sites on Max. ### Microsoft Clarity Good for: a free way to get heatmaps and recordings. A/B testing, fix checks and Change Impact, with a free plan too. ### Mouseflow Good for: funnels and friction detection, with a free plan for 500 sessions a month and form analytics on Premium. A/B testing on the same plan, with recordings and heatmaps of each variant. ### Crazy Egg Good for: marketers who want heatmaps and surveys, with A/B testing from its Plus plan. Issues ranked by severity from rage, dead and error clicks, and A/B testing on every plan, Free included. ### Lucky Orange Good for: small online stores that want heatmaps, recordings and live chat together. A/B testing and Change Impact, plus a free plan. ### Fullstory Good for: large product teams that want detailed session analytics. A/B testing on the same plan, and heatmaps tied to each test variant. ## Why Cuttl is the better choice. - Find the problem and test the fix in one place. A problem such as rage clicks on a checkout button becomes a test idea with the recordings and heatmap attached. - Every kind of heatmap. Click, scroll, hover, zone and friction maps, filtered by device, channel, segment, test variant or a clicked element. Open the menus and tabs visitors opened, and look back at past versions of a page. - See why the winner won. Every variant gets its own heatmaps and recordings. - Know when a fix worked. Cuttl marks an issue “Looks fixed”, then “Fixed, verified”, and reopens it as “Regressed” if it comes back. - Answers without much traffic. Change Impact compares changed pages with the rest of the site before and after, so a change doesn’t need an A/B test. - Control for bigger teams. Targeting, guardrails, approvals, version history and an emergency stop that turns off every test at once. - Work from Claude or ChatGPT. Ask about your visitors and draft tests through Cuttl’s MCP server. Nothing launches without a person. - A/B tests on every plan. Testing isn’t a separate product. Paid plans are priced by unique visitors, Max covers unlimited sites, and bots we detect never count. ## Everything in Cuttl, from one Cuttl Tag. ### Journey Insights ### Web Experiments ### AI assistants ## How to choose a Hotjar alternative. 1. Start from the decision you need to make. If it’s “which version converts better”, pick a tool that runs the test. 2. Check how many sites and visitors you have. Per-project and per-session limits add up. 3. Check what happens after a problem is found. Who builds the test, and where do you read the result? 4. Check privacy settings. Look for masked form inputs, consent handling and IP storage. Cuttl never stores visitors’ IP addresses and masks form inputs by default. ## Switching takes a few minutes. ### Add the Cuttl Tag A short piece of code in your page’s head, or through Google Tag Manager. It can run next to Hotjar while you compare. ### Set up goals Pick the clicks, form submits or revenue you care about. ### Run your first test Turn an issue into a test with one click. ### Keep or remove your old tool Remove its code once you no longer need it. ## Questions ### What is the best alternative to Hotjar? It depends on what you need. If you want heatmaps, recordings and A/B testing in one tool, Cuttl is built for that. If you only need free heatmaps and recordings, Microsoft Clarity and Cuttl’s free plan both work. ### Does Hotjar still exist? Hotjar is part of Contentsquare, and new accounts are created on Contentsquare. People who already had a Hotjar login can still use it. ### Is there a free Hotjar alternative? Yes. Cuttl has a free plan, and so do Contentsquare, Microsoft Clarity, Mouseflow, Crazy Egg and Fullstory. Only Cuttl’s free plan includes A/B testing. ### Is there an open-source Hotjar alternative? Cuttl isn’t open source, and you can’t run it on your own servers. It runs on ours, so there’s nothing for you to patch. Teams that need to run their own analytics need a different tool. ### Which Hotjar alternative has A/B testing? Cuttl has A/B and split URL tests on every plan, including Free, multi-page tests on Pro and Max, and multivariate tests on Max. Some others sell testing separately. ### Can I run Cuttl next to Hotjar? Yes. Both run from a script in your page’s head, so you can compare them on the same pages. ### Why choose Cuttl over Hotjar? Cuttl lets you act on what you see: test a fix, view heatmaps and recordings for each version, and get told when the fix worked, all in one tool. It also finds and ranks problems for you, and works with Claude and ChatGPT through MCP. ## See where visitors get stuck, then test the fix. Add the Cuttl Tag to your site, turn on Journey Insights, and your first sessions show up in Cuttl.