RightMessage

Updated October 2026

The Optimizely alternative for personalizing every audience, with A/B testing built in.

Optimizely is an enterprise experimentation suite, packaged and priced per customer. If your job is showing each ad, audience or customer the right message on the site you already have, and finding out which version wins, you don't need all of that. RightMessage gives in-house marketing teams running paid ads, businesses with several kinds of buyer, and agencies personalization for each audience, with A/B testing built in, on published plans you can start today.

RightMessagevsOptimizely

TL;DR

The short version

What it is
RightMessageWebsite personalization with A/B testing built in, for in-house marketing teams running paid ads, businesses with several kinds of buyer, and agencies.
OptimizelyAn experimentation suite for web, feature and server-side tests, sold alongside personalization, CMS and commerce products.
What changes on your site
RightMessageHeadlines, copy, calls to action, images and sections for each audience, on the pages you already have. Page changes start on Scale.
OptimizelyWeb experiments and personalization campaigns on your pages, plus feature and server-side tests through its SDKs.
Where audiences come from
RightMessageThe ad or link someone clicked, the pages they've viewed, their quiz and survey answers, and your email platform or CRM once they're identified.
OptimizelyAudience conditions in Optimizely, its own data platform, and connected tools.
Testing and measurement
RightMessageA holdback on every campaign from Scale. On Pro, A/B test the page or each audience's changes, with a plain-language verdict.
OptimizelyA/B, multivariate, multi-page and redirect experiments, multi-armed bandits, and its Stats Engine.
Who it's for
RightMessageIn-house marketing teams running paid ads, businesses with several kinds of buyer, and agencies who want each audience to see the right message.
OptimizelyTeams running an experimentation program across web and product.
Starting price
RightMessagePersonalization on Scale, $249/mo, or $199/mo billed annually. A/B tests on Pro, $499/mo, or $399/mo billed annually.
OptimizelyNo public prices. Vendr reports a median of $81,447 a year across 126 purchases.

Or ask an AI to help you choose:

Success story
“One simple tweak doubled our conversions without creating any new pages.”
AAdil K.Senior Media Planner

The complete comparison

One shortlist, two different jobs

Optimizely answers “how do we test everything, across web and product?” RightMessage answers “how do we show each audience the right page, and know it's working?”

They overlap more than you'd think. Optimizely's personalization campaigns serve experiences to audiences and measure them against a holdback. We do that too, inside one campaign. The difference is everything around it. Optimizely is a full experimentation platform, with SDKs, feature flags and its own stats engine. We're the personalization layer for the site you already have, run by the marketing team that owns it.

  1. What everyone sees

    Our WorkForge demo homepage with its default headline, Bring your team, projects, and plans together
  2. What an agency visitor sees

    The same homepage showing an agency visitor the headline Give your agency a clearer way to work
Same page, same URL. The headline changes for visitors in the agency segment.

Test inside the audience, not around it

Most testing tools treat personalization and experiments as separate projects. In RightMessage they live in the same campaign. Each audience gets its own changes, and on Pro you can test challengers against them.

Visitors who don't match an audience see the original page, and you can test that too. One holdback per campaign (from Scale, 10% of visitors by default) measures the whole thing, so you can see what personalization adds before you argue about which headline won.

Campaign matrix with an original page test, Control and Variant A, beside a customer audience that has its own copy for the same elements

Verdicts for operators who aren't statisticians

Optimizely's Stats Engine is built for teams that watch results continuously. Ours is built for marketers who want a straight answer.

We show a likely range instead of p-values. A version only wins when its whole range beats Control. Before you start, we estimate how long a verdict should take from your last 28 days of traffic. On quieter pages a verdict can take months, or may not come, and we'd rather tell you that up front.

Audience test card showing a challenger ahead by 16.8% with a likely range that's still too wide to call, and the next check
Example data from our demo project.

Where Optimizely goes further

If you need multivariate tests, redirect experiments, multi-armed bandits or mutually exclusive experiments, Optimizely does all of that and we don't. The same goes for feature flags and server-side tests through SDKs. For a product team experimenting across web and app, that breadth is the reason to buy it.

We keep our testing focused on pages and audiences, so there's less to set up and less to interpret. Every version goes to GA4, Google Tag Manager or PostHog, so your analysts can dig in with the tools they already use.

The values each test version sends to Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, PostHog and the page

The pricing picture

Optimizely doesn't publish prices. Its plans page says every plan is “individually packaged,” and Vendr reports a median of $81,447 a year across 126 purchases, ranging from $26,460 to $261,075.

Our prices are on our pricing page, and they're per project, so more traffic doesn't raise them. Personalization starts on Scale at $249/mo, or $199/mo billed annually. A/B tests are on Pro at $499/mo, or $399/mo billed annually. There's no contract to negotiate first: start a 14-day trial with every Pro feature and no card, then pick monthly or annual billing.

Bars labeled TRAFFIC climb from left to right while an orange line marked YOUR PRICE stays flat across all of them

Start with one campaign this week

You don't need to rebuild your site or plan a testing program. Add our script, pick one audience with a real reason to see something different (people from one ad campaign, say, or existing customers) and change the headline and call to action they see.

Let the holdback measure it. On Pro, add a challenger and let the A/B test decide. Once that first audience is working, add the next one. Agencies do the same thing per client, starting with the page the client already pays to send traffic to.

New campaign form where you name the campaign and choose the page to personalize
“I’ve seen jaws drop when I show companies this tool.”
Marc ThomasFounder, Positive Human & TinySeed SaaS Institute Coach

Marc Thomas’s RightMessage walkthrough

Not sure yet?

Which one fits your job?

RightMessage

Pick RightMessage if you want every audience to land on the right page.

  • You want to match the page to the ad, the audience or the customer, on the site you already have.
  • You want A/B tests inside each audience, with one holdback measuring the whole campaign.
  • You want a verdict in plain language, not a statistics dashboard.
  • You want published pricing and a 14-day trial with every Pro feature and no card.

That's in-house marketing teams running paid ads, businesses with several kinds of buyer, and the agencies that run their sites.

Optimizely

Pick Optimizely if you're running an experimentation program across web and app.

  • You need multivariate, redirect or bandit experiments.
  • You need feature flags and server-side tests through SDKs.
  • You need mutually exclusive experiments across a large testing program.

If that's you, Optimizely covers more ground than we do.

In-depth comparison

Everything side by side

Category and scope

What it is
RightMessageWebsite personalization with built-in A/B testing
OptimizelyExperimentation, personalization, CMS, commerce and data products
Built for
RightMessageIn-house marketing teams running paid ads, businesses with several kinds of buyer, and agencies
OptimizelyTeams running experimentation programs across web and product
Works on
RightMessageAny site where you can add our script
OptimizelyWeb pages through its snippet, plus apps and servers through SDKs

Personalization

Audiences from
RightMessageAd and UTM context, pages viewed, referrers, quiz and survey answers, Google Tag Manager dataLayer values and events, and email platform or CRM data after someone is identified
OptimizelyIts audience conditions, its data platform and connected integrations
Holdback
RightMessageOne per campaign, 10% by default, settable from 1% to 100%, from Scale
OptimizelyOne per personalization campaign, 5% by default

Testing and measurement

Test types
RightMessageA/B tests on the page or inside an audience
OptimizelyA/B, multivariate and multi-page experiments (experiment types), plus redirect experiments
Test inside an audience
RightMessageYes, on Pro: the audience's changes as Control plus challengers
OptimizelyYes, with Experimentation-in-Personalization, which needs both Personalization and Web Experimentation
Traffic split
RightMessageEven, or custom from 1% to 99% per version
OptimizelyConfigurable allocation, plus multi-armed bandits
Statistics
RightMessageA likely range and no p-values. Split mismatch and contamination checks pause a verdict.
OptimizelyStats Engine with sequential testing and sample ratio mismatch detection
Overlapping experiments
RightMessageNo mutually exclusive groups across campaigns. Inside a campaign, an audience wins on the elements it changes.
Analytics
RightMessageEvery version goes to GA4, Google Tag Manager and PostHog
OptimizelyGA4 and Google Tag Manager and other analytics integrations

Pricing and plans

Public pricing
RightMessageYes, per project, with no fees for visitors or contacts
OptimizelyNo. Every plan is individually packaged
Personalization
RightMessageScale, $249/mo, or $199/mo billed annually
OptimizelyQuoted per customer
A/B testing
RightMessagePro, $499/mo, or $399/mo billed annually
OptimizelyQuoted per customer
What buyers report paying
RightMessageThe published plan price
OptimizelyA median of $81,447 a year across 126 purchases, per Vendr
How to start
RightMessageA 14-day trial with every Pro feature and no card
OptimizelyRequest a demo

Frequently asked questions

Is RightMessage an Optimizely alternative?+

Yes, for in-house marketing teams running paid ads, businesses with several kinds of buyer, and agencies that want audience personalization with A/B tests inside it. You can A/B test the page everyone sees or each audience's changes, with a holdback on every campaign and a plain-language verdict. It isn't a replacement for Optimizely's multivariate, redirect, bandit or server-side SDK testing.

How much does Optimizely cost compared with RightMessage?+

Optimizely doesn't publish prices. Its plans page says every plan is individually packaged, and Vendr reports a median of $81,447 a year across 126 purchases. Grow $99, Scale $249, or Pro $499 per month, or $79, $199, or $399 per month billed annually. The plans have no per-visitor or contact fees. Every plan includes hosted landing pages (Pages). Website personalization and holdback measurement start on Scale, and page and audience A/B tests are on Pro. Lead alerts are an optional add-on on every plan, priced by alerted leads from $49 a month for 50 ($39 a month billed annually), with 1,000 a month included on Pro. Prices last checked October 24, 2026.

Does RightMessage show statistical significance like Optimizely's Stats Engine?+

No. We show a likely range instead of p-values. A version wins only when its whole likely range beats Control, and the checks stay valid however often you look. On quieter pages a verdict can take months, or may not come.

Which RightMessage plan do I need?+

Website personalization and the campaign holdback start on Scale ($249/mo, or $199/mo billed annually). A/B tests of the page or of an audience's changes are on Pro ($499/mo, or $399/mo billed annually). Every new project starts with a 14-day trial that includes every Pro feature, and you don't need a card.

Can I send RightMessage test data to my analytics?+

Yes. Each version is sent automatically to every GA4, Google Tag Manager or PostHog app you've turned on, so you can analyze tests next to the rest of your reports.

Can an agency run RightMessage for its clients?+

Yes. Agency accounts get a branded signup link for clients, and you open each client's project from your own account. A good first campaign is the page the client already sends paid traffic to.

Ready to match every ad on the landing pages you already have?

Try RightMessage free for 14 days with every Pro feature and no card, or book a demo and we'll walk through your first campaign.