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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Instapage

    Score9.8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Instapage is a growth marketing platform that includes a builder for PPC, SEO, demand generation, A/B testing, personalization, and email automation. It is used to convert visitors into customers, engage them at every touchpoint, and optimize performance across the marketing funnel.

    $99

    per month per user

    Smartlook

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Smartlook is an analytics solution tool for websites, iOS/Android apps, and various app frameworks, that answers the "whys" behind users' actions. It helps users understand precisely how customers interact with website and app — watch recordings, create heatmaps, use automatic tracked events, and build conversion funnels. Data is seen on one central dashboard, which enables sharing and collaborating with colleagues. This is to support clear, data-driven decision-making for product managers,…

    $55

    per month 5000 sessions

    Pricing
    InstapageSmartlook
    Editions & Modules
    Create
    $99
    per month 15,000 unique monthly visitors
    Optimize
    starting at $199
    per month starting with 30,000 unique monthly visitors
    Convert
    Custom Pricing
    Pro
    $55
    per month 5000 sessions
    Free
    Free forever
    per month 3000 sessions
    Enterprise
    Custom pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    InstapageSmartlook
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details20% discount for annual pricing.All Smartlook packages support both web and mobile app platforms.
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    Community Pulse
    InstapageSmartlook
    Considered Both Products
    airSlate, Inc
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    Smartlook
    Chose Smartlook
    Easier to follow information right off the cuff.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Would buy again
    113 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    101 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    114 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    104 Answers
    Features
    InstapageSmartlook
    SEO and Conversion Optimization
    Comparison of SEO and Conversion Optimization features of Instapage and Smartlook
    Feature
    Instapage
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    34% above category average
    Smartlook
    -
    Ratings
    Landing page A/B testing:10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic page text replacement7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time analytics dashboard7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO tools7.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Optimization recommendations10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    InstapageSmartlook
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (28 ratings)
    9.0
    (141 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (75 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (107 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    InstapageSmartlook
    Likelihood to Recommend
    airSlate, Inc
    Well-suited for simple landing pages which don't have any complex functionality. Great for creating landing pages for lead generation campaigns - as it comes with tons of excellent templates and a variety of forms. Not great for pages that contain a lot of information and can potentially be very long. We found that Instapage is not a great fit for building pages that need to be updated frequently, like a blog page.
    Incentivized
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    Smartlook
    Smartlook is best for screen recordings. Especially when you are running MVPs. However, its pricing is very high. If your daily visitors are too much then either you will have to lose many of your recordings or you will have to pay too much money.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    airSlate, Inc
    • Instapage makes it easy to frame out a landing page really quickly. They provide template blocks for various components of a landing page (header, features, testimonials, etc.) that you can easily modify for your own needs. Other tools provide whole-page templates, but I much prefer the section-level templating. It's more convenient to assemble a page this way and add the details on top of that versus taking a finished template and peeling away design and functional elements to get what I want.
    • Instapage's mobile auto-resizer works better than other platforms I've used. I found that I had many fewer adjustments on their auto-resizing of the full page than I've experienced with other tools. I still had to work with text size a bit, but they generally did a better job of ordering elements for mobile the way I would want and maintain proportionality of page elements better.
    • Instapage has a lot of integrations that marketers will love. I don't know if they particularly stand out in this respect, but this is a particularly important aspect of their tool that most marketers will care about.
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    Smartlook
    • Funnels are both easy to configure yet comprehensive enough to detect complicated customer journeys.
    • Real-time recording provides exceptional insights to our design & engineering teams.
    • Session recording is surprisingly lightweight and seems to cause no substantial performance degradation for our customers.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    airSlate, Inc
    • There are only a couple of minor issues that I dislike. One is offering a Drupal community-approved update to their module. We are using a slightly older version of Drupal and it appears they don't have plans to offer a Drupal-approved update to their module for that version.
    • There are also random bugs when trying to format text. For example, sometimes a sans serif font appears as a serif and doesn't seem to want to change.
    • If you work with a template and some code, it can be challenging to edit the default coding.
    • The built-in forms can be a bit limiting.
    • The program will try to automatically reformat for mobile, but it may not always be exactly the way you want it to look, so there is a bit of redesigning required when going to mobile.
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    Smartlook
    • I feel nickel and dimed with the events and funnels.
    • We came from sessions being 30 mins of inactivity and now it's 5-10 mins. Session count has gone up significantly which we weren't prepared for.
    • Recording playback isn't as clean and maneuverable like FullStory.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    airSlate, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Smartlook
    As my ratings show, I have been absolutely delighted with Smartlook in terms of usability, cost, support, and its benefit to our organization. I have given it such high ratings because I think it has really benefitted our organization and I think it could do the same for other companies too.
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    Usability
    airSlate, Inc
    I've tried all of the other landing page services on the market, and this is literally the easiest to use. I am not a designer or software developer, just a simple guy and if I can learn how to use it, anyone can. That's what won me over. Their support and pre-made templates are awesome, but the usability is what I love!
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    Smartlook
    Every page, the tool setup pages and dashboards are built very well, the site structure is perfectly designed and intuitive to use. All functions are well documented and the help sections are really everywhere, you don't have to search for answers, as they are just popped up or max. a click away for your service.
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    Support Rating
    airSlate, Inc
    Again, support is just awesome. I've never had any issues go over 24 hours and the people are friendly and speak English really well.
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    Smartlook
    Sofia P. is being our point of contact with the issues we faced. I was unsure about how to explain to her what was going on with the recording numbers (the recording has stopped before we were expecting to), but she readily understood and came with a solution for us in the same day. The problem was blocking our developer to test the integration, so it was great to have support so fast that he could continue his work.
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    Alternatives Considered
    airSlate, Inc
    HubSpot was terrible because it required a lot of coding experience if you wanted to work outside the given 4-5 templates. If you wanted a new template built, or to rebrand existing templates, they charged you. Very inflexible program and was very challenged by it. Our main website was built using WordPress, which is great for building webpages, but more difficult to build a landing page without the distraction of the top navigation menu. Instapage literally answered all the problems we were seeking to address: simplicity, customization, ease of use.
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    Smartlook
    It has been a year between the time when I last used Hotjar and first started using Smartlook. I would say both tools are more or less equal when it comes to features, the only 2 differences I can think of are - price and customer support. Smartlook is cheaper and has superior customer services. You have the feeling when interacting with them that they genuinely care.
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    Return on Investment
    airSlate, Inc
    • We've not had much of a conversion rate on some of our landing pages -- but this could be because we are relatively green with the marketing side of things and forget to send people to it. It's not easy for people to find on their own -- so I highly recommend you use some of the "hidden" SEO tools to increase the ROI. Without it, you're not going to be happy with your investment.
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    Smartlook
    • Smartlook is used by different individuals from different organizations to have insights into different parts of products. It is used as the sole developer of our website as well as marketing campaigns.
    • Smartlook has an amazing feature which is tracking the activities of return users.
    • It gives reliable and efficient services.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Instapage Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Instapage landing page builder for desktop and mobileScreenshot of A/B testing for layoutsScreenshot of understanding consumer behavior through heatmapsScreenshot of an example of how to get feedback from a team and collaborate on edits, in Instapage.Screenshot of some of Instapage's available integrations.

    Smartlook Screenshots

    Screenshot of HeatmapsScreenshot of RecordingsScreenshot of DashboardsScreenshot of EventsScreenshot of FunnelsScreenshot of Analytics for websites & mobile apps