Crazy Egg is one of the better-known subscription tools in its space — and at $29/mo (Basic, billed annually only; Plus $99/mo), one of the recurring line items people most often look to replace. If you're searching for a Crazy Egg alternative you pay for once and own forever, Clickmap is the OneTimeSuite answer: $49, one time.
Why people go looking for an alternative
Crazy Egg runs $29/mo (Basic, billed annually only; Plus $99/mo), and like most SaaS the bill never stops — cancel and you typically lose access to your own history. That's roughly $1,044 over three years. Clickmap flips that model: Self-hosted click heatmaps, scroll depth and session recordings, all in your own SQLite file.
What Clickmap covers
- One-tag install — Drop a single defer script tag with your site key and start collecting.
- Click heatmaps — Click density on a proportional page canvas, per URL, filterable by device and date range, with a most-clicked elements list.
- Scroll-depth chart — See what percentage of visitors reach each 10% fold of the page.
- Session recordings — Lightweight click/cursor/scroll event stream with a replay player: play/pause, scrubbing, 0.5-4x speed.
- Rage-click detection — Three-plus clicks in the same spot within a second auto-flags the session; filter recordings to rage sessions only.
The honest trade-off
Crazy Egg will keep shipping features, integrations and managed infrastructure that a pay-once tool won't chase — if that ecosystem is genuinely load-bearing for your workflow, staying is a fair call. For the core job, the math favors owning the tool: $49 once against $29/mo (Basic, billed annually only; Plus $99/mo) forever. Two months of Hotjar buys Clickmap outright, and it never prices you by the session again.
Also worth reading
Clickmap's main head-to-head is with Hotjar — see the detailed comparison or the product page for the full feature list, FAQ and demo video.
Try Clickmap — $49, once
Self-hosted click heatmaps, scroll depth and session recordings, all in your own SQLite file.