Convert Experiences vs Optimizely

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Convert Experiences is a website testing platform with published plans and a free trial. Optimizely is an enterprise experimentation platform with feature testing, sold through a sales conversation.

The verdict

For a small B2B team that wants to start testing a website soon, I'd pick Convert Experiences. You can read the plans, try it and learn whether the workflow suits you without a scoping conversation.

If testing is a full-time job for several teams, with engineers running tests in the product and marketers running them on the site, I'd pick Optimizely. It is built for that.

A test needs enough visitors to reach a result, whichever tool you use. A bigger platform will not fix a low-traffic site.

What the data says
  • Both cover 6 of the 6 features we compared.
  • Both have an API and an MCP server, so either works with AI employees.
  • In our Growth experiments ranking, Convert Experiences places 2 and Optimizely 4 of 5.

Side by side

Convert Experiences and Optimizely compared
10 points compared
Starts at$299/moNot known yet
Free planNoNot known yet
APIYesYes
MCP serverYesYes
Audience targeting for experimentsYesYes
Automatic traffic shifting to winnersYesYes
Bayesian or sequential statisticsYesYes
Feature flags and gradual rolloutsYesYes
Server-side experimentsYesYes
Website personalisationYesYes
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Plans and pricing

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Convert Experiences

  • Growth100,000 tested users a month, 5 active projects, 10 domains; 299 USD a month billed annually.$399/mo
  • Pro100,000 tested users a month, 30 active projects, unlimited domains; 420 USD a month billed annually.$599/mo
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Optimizely

Pricing not in our catalogue yet.

Prices as the vendors list them. They change often; the final price is on their sites.

Who each is for

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Choose Convert Experiences if…

Pick Convert Experiences if you are a marketing, growth or agency team that tests pages on websites. Agencies get separate projects and domains for each client. The plans are public, there is a 15-day trial and an enterprise tier exists if you outgrow the standard ones.

It is the better fit when you want to begin this week. Check the monthly tested-user allowance against your traffic first, since that number sets the plan.

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Choose Optimizely if…

Pick Optimizely if you run a structured optimisation programme across websites and product features. Feature experimentation uses SDKs for several languages, so engineers can test inside your own code, while marketers use web experimentation. The wider platform also covers content management and campaign tools, so one vendor can cover several jobs.

Expect a demo before you see a number, and budget for people as well as the licence. Someone needs to own the test roadmap, and engineers need to add the SDKs.

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