Optimizely vs Wingify (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Wingify grades higher than Optimizely: 2.4 against 1.8 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Wingify grades higher on the free plan and platforms. They get the same grade on value for money, features and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Wingify
A/B testing, personalization and visitor recordings, formerly VWO
Free trial
Which one is for you
Pick Optimizely if
- Fits if you run many tests a month and have a team to run them
- Works for a large company that wants experiments, flags and content in one vendor
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want a price to look at, as nothing is published
- Not for you if you need a free plan or trial, because neither is listed
- Skip it if you are a small site that just wants simple page tests, as this is a platform
- Watch out: it's several products, so what a quote includes varies by which you choose
Pick Wingify if
- Fits if your growth team runs website tests every week
- Works for online shops that test product and checkout pages
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want to see a price before talking to sales
- Not for you if you just want recordings and heatmaps, which free tools cover
- Tight if you need SSO, the API or approval workflows, which are Enterprise features
- Watch out: recordings and heatmaps are kept 30 days on Growth and 60 on Pro, and multivariate tests start on Pro
- Watch out: VWO and AB Tasty agreed to merge in 2026; the announcement says existing contracts stay unchanged
How we grade them
| 1.8GPAOptimizelyWeak | 2.4GPAWingifyFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CNo prices are published; every plan is quoted after you describe your needs, so there's nothing to compare. | CNo published figure for this size, or any size. Growth, Pro and Enterprise are all quoted by sales from monthly active users, or tracked users for Behavior Analytics. Contentsquare, PostHog and Amplitude, listed beside it, publish prices. This doesn't, so it sits at C. |
| Free plan and trial | FNo free plan and no free trial on the plans page. | CNo free plan, but there's a free trial account with most core products and a sandbox full of sample data. How long it lasts isn't stated, and nothing on record says it needs a card. |
| Features | BWeb experimentation, feature experimentation, bandits and AI help, plus a CMS and an agent platform. What's in your quote depends on which products you pick. | BUnlimited A/B, split URL and multivariate tests, bandits, guardrail metrics, heatmaps, recordings, form analytics, personalization and feature rollouts. Graded against the tools it's listed beside, it covers the whole testing job. Multivariate tests start on Pro. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. A platform this broad comes with setup and a learning curve. | CNo rating on record. The visual editor lets you change a page without code, but planning tests and reading the statistics takes learning, and paid plans start with a demo. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb only, with no integrations listed in the listing. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It works with Google Analytics 4, Tag Manager, Shopify, WordPress, Salesforce, HubSpot, Segment and Mixpanel, though API access is Enterprise only. |
| Best for | enterprise A/B testing and experiments | A/B testing a website's pages |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Optimizely and Wingify. How we grade
Where they differ
- Optimizely also covers AI agents and reports.
- Wingify also covers session replay.
In commonWebAI featuresA/B testing
At a glance
| Optimizely | Wingify | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Free trial |
| Starts at | Not published | Not published |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | None listed | Free trial account with most core products and a sample-data sandbox; length not stated |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Optimizely | Wingify |
| Price read from | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 18, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Optimizely
- No prices are published: every plan is individually packaged and quoted after the buyer describes their needs.
- Optimizely is a multi-product platform, so what a quote includes depends on which products are chosen.
- No free plan or free trial is listed on the plans page.
Wingify
- No prices are published: every plan (Growth, Pro, Enterprise) is quoted by sales, based on monthly active users or, for Behavior Analytics, monthly tracked users.
- Session recordings and heatmap data are kept 30 days on Growth, 60 on Pro and 90 on Enterprise; other data is kept 13 months.
- Single sign-on, API access, approval workflows and self-hosting of the test script are Enterprise features.
- VWO and AB Tasty agreed to merge in 2026; existing contracts and pricing stay unchanged, according to the announcement.
Key features
Optimizely
- Web experimentation
- A/B and multivariate tests on the front end of a site, which the vendor says run flicker-free.
- Feature experimentation and management
- Experiments and feature releases controlled from code, aimed at engineering teams.
- Bandits and AI assistance
- Multi-armed bandits and AI help with test ideas, test plans and reading results.
- Agentic CMS
- A content management system sold alongside the experimentation tools.
- Agent platform
- AI agents that automate marketing tasks and workflows.
Wingify
- A/B, split URL and multivariate tests
- Unlimited experiments, variations and goals on every plan, built in a point-and-click visual editor or with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Multivariate and cross-domain tests start on Pro.
- Test statistics and guardrails
- Multi-armed bandit and rollout campaigns on every plan; guardrail metrics and sample ratio mismatch checks from Pro, and mutually exclusive test groups on Enterprise.
- Heatmaps and session recordings
- Behavior Analytics adds click and scroll heatmaps, session recordings, form analytics and rage-click filters, with sensitive fields masked automatically.
- Personalization and feature rollouts
- Separate modules show different page content to chosen audiences and release app features to cohorts, with the option to roll a change back.
- Wingz AI
- An AI layer that proposes test ideas, sets up experiments and flags patterns in visitor behavior. Wingz Core comes with paid products; Wingz Advanced costs extra.
Plans
Optimizely
Pricing could not be confirmed. See optimizely.com.
Wingify
Pricing could not be confirmed. See wingify.com.
Ways to pay less
Optimizely
No public discounts listed.
Wingify
- Nonprofit
Preferential pricing for nonprofits
Wingify says it gives nonprofits preferential pricing on all plans; organizations contact the team for a quote.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Optimizely or Wingify?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Optimizely has no price we could confirm, and Wingify has no price we could confirm.
Which has a free plan, Optimizely or Wingify?
As of Nov 12, 2026, neither Optimizely nor Wingify has a free plan. Wingify has a free trial.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.