Elfsight charges per app, per month, with a monthly view cap on every tier. That's fine for a single widget on a quiet site. It gets expensive the moment you need two or three widget types, or your traffic grows past the cap. Here's the full breakdown, tier by tier, with the math most pricing pages skip.
The per-app model and the view caps are the two places most buyers underestimate the bill.
Elfsight's prices are for one app type. A site that needs an Instagram feed widget, a reviews widget, and a cookie consent banner is running three Basic subscriptions at $6 each, which comes to $18 a month or $216 a year. Amabrik includes all 10 widget types on every plan, so the bill doesn't multiply when you add a second or third widget.
The Basic plan allows 5,000 views a month. A small blog with 8,000 monthly page views would pass that cap before the month ends, and Elfsight pauses the widget until the next billing cycle or until you upgrade. A site with 15,000 page views needs Pro at $12 a month per app. Amabrik has no view cap on any plan.
The Free tier caps at 200 monthly views and displays Elfsight branding on the widget. That's fine for a quick test on a staging site. For a production page, you'd move to Basic at a minimum. Amabrik's 7-day trial has no branding and no view cap.
Elfsight's 96-app pack starts at $12 a month (billed yearly), which gives access to every app type but still imposes the same view and widget count limits as the Basic single-app plan. You're paying more for breadth, not for capacity.
Elfsight ties higher project and collaborator counts to higher tiers. Premium ($24 a month per app) gives you 9 projects and 3 collaborators. Amabrik has no per-seat or per-project fee on either plan, and Lifetime covers unlimited sites.
Elfsight's catalog covers social feeds, forms, chat, and reviews, but it has no security scanner and no SEO or AEO audit. Amabrik includes both, with copy-paste AI fix prompts, on every plan.
Every number verified from elfsight.com/pricing and amabrik.com/pricing as of July 2026.
| Feature | AmabrikRecommended | Elfsight |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Annual ($59/yr) or Lifetime ($99 once) | Per app, per month, per view tier |
| Entry paid price | $59 a year for 1 site | $6 a month per app (Basic, billed yearly) |
| Widgets included | All 10 on every plan | 1 app type per subscription |
| Cost for 3 widget types | $59/yr or $99 once (same price) | $18/mo or $216/yr (3 Basic subs) |
| View cap | None | 200 (Free), 5K (Basic), 50K (Pro), 150K (Premium) |
| What happens at the cap | Nothing, no cap exists | Widget is paused until the month resets |
| Branding on the widget | None on any plan | Elfsight badge on Free; removed from Basic up |
| Multi-site pricing | $99 once for unlimited sites | Per-app sub covers unlimited domains |
| Security scanner | Included on every plan | Not available at any tier |
| SEO and AEO scanner | Included on every plan | Not available at any tier |
| Cookie consent widget | Included, worldwide-compliant | Available as a separate paid app |
| Scan credits | 1,000 included (1 credit = 10 pages), top up 1,000 for $5 | No scanner feature |
Most sites need at least 2 or 3 widget types. Here's what a year costs on each platform, assuming Basic-tier traffic.
Two plans, both with every widget and both scanners. Lifetime is $99 one time for unlimited sites. Annual is $59 a year for 1 site. Both include 1,000 scan credits (1 credit scans 10 pages) and you can top up 1,000 more for $5. No view caps and no branding on either plan. The AI chatbot runs on your own provider key, so your only AI cost is what your provider charges.
$199 $99one time Launch price for the first 100 customers
Each app type is a separate subscription. Basic is $6/mo per app (billed yearly), Pro is $12/mo per app, Premium is $24/mo per app. A site running 3 Basic apps pays $18/mo or $216/yr. The same 3 apps on Pro costs $36/mo or $432/yr. View caps apply per app: 5,000 on Basic, 50,000 on Pro, 150,000 on Premium. The 96-app bundle starts at $12/mo but keeps the same view and widget limits.
$18per month (3 Basic apps)
With one Elfsight app on Basic, the annual cost is $72 and competitive. By the time you're running 3 apps, it's $216 a year and climbing. Amabrik stays at $59 a year or $99 once regardless of how many widget types you use. See Amabrik pricing.
All 10 widgets and both scanners, from one snippet. No per-app billing and no view caps.
It depends on how many app types you use. A single app on Basic costs $72 a year (billed at $6 a month yearly). Two apps cost $144 a year. Three cost $216. Each app type is a separate subscription with its own view cap. Pro doubles the price to $12 per app per month, and Premium doubles it again to $24.
Yes, but it's capped at 200 views a month on one widget, and it shows an Elfsight badge. That's enough to test on a staging site, not to run in production. Most sites move to Basic ($6 a month per app) once they go live.
The widget stops showing on your site until the monthly billing cycle resets, or until you upgrade to a higher tier. On the Basic plan, that cap is 5,000 views per app. A moderately popular page can hit that within weeks.
For most sites that need more than one widget type, yes. Amabrik is $59 a year for 1 site or $99 once for unlimited sites, and that includes all 10 widgets plus a Security scan and an SEO/AEO scan. A single Elfsight app on Basic is $72 a year, and the price multiplies with each added app type.
No, Elfsight subscriptions cover unlimited domains. The limiting factors are the monthly view cap per app and the number of widget instances per tier. Amabrik's Annual plan covers 1 site, and Lifetime covers unlimited sites.
Technically yes. Each loads its own snippet. But they cover similar widget types, so running both means paying for overlap. If Amabrik's 10 widgets cover what you need, one snippet replaces the Elfsight stack and removes the per-app billing.
An independent test found Elfsight renders into the global DOM with about 188 KB of JavaScript across two files and no CSS isolation. Amabrik's loader is under 5 KB gzip, code-splits every widget, and runs heavy ones in an isolated frame.
Two things Elfsight has no equivalent for: a Security scanner that finds exposed API keys, open databases, and missing headers, and an SEO/AEO scanner that scores your site for both Google and AI search. Each issue comes with a copy-paste AI fix prompt. Amabrik also includes a worldwide-compliant cookie consent widget with a 13-month consent log.