Compare Elevate A/B Testing vs Convert.com
Convert is built for broad experimentation across websites and technical teams. Elevate A/B Testing is built specifically for Shopify, with dedicated workflows for price, shipping, theme, product image and checkout tests, plus ecommerce-focused statistical controls. Here’s how the two compare for Shopify experimentation.
Elevate vs Convert: feature by feature
| Feature | Elevate A/B Testing | Convert.com |
|---|---|---|
| Billing meter | Elevate A/B Testing Included: Monthly order volume |
Convert.com Partial or conditional: Monthly tested users (visitors bucketed into experiments) |
| Published entry price | Elevate A/B Testing Included: $49/mo Basic, $99/mo Standard, $499/mo Premium for stores up to 1,000 orders a month; 40% off annual |
Convert.com Included: Growth $399/mo monthly, or $299/mo billed annually at $3,588/yr, for 100K tested users a month. Pro $599/mo monthly or $420/mo annually |
| Overage | Elevate A/B Testing Included: None. A busy month does not create an extra invoice |
Convert.com Partial or conditional: Over-quota charges are off by default, so experiments pause when the allowance runs out. Switch them on and Growth bills $399 per extra 100K tested users, Pro $699 per extra 250K |
| Price testing | Elevate A/B Testing Included: Standard plan and up, full cart integration |
Convert.com Included: All plans. Rules by product, collection, tag or regex pattern. Checkout-level price rules need Shopify Plus |
| Shipping testing | Elevate A/B Testing Included: Standard plan and up |
Convert.com Partial or conditional: Through JavaScript variations and targeting rules, not native shipping rates |
| Checkout testing | Elevate A/B Testing Included: Standard plan and up |
Convert.com Included: Supports Shopify checkout extensibility; checkout-level pricing runs through Cart Transform Functions, which need Plus |
| Installation | Elevate A/B Testing Included: Shopify App Store install, billed on your Shopify invoice |
Convert.com Partial or conditional: Shopify App Store app (listed Oct 2024) that places the tracking tag. The subscription is bought and billed on convert.com |
| Theme, template, split URL testing | Elevate A/B Testing Included: Basic plan |
Convert.com Included: Included |
| Multivariate testing | Elevate A/B Testing Included: Supports multivariate and multi-page testing natively |
Convert.com Included: Multivariate and multi-page testing on Pro |
| Server-side and full-stack testing | Elevate A/B Testing Partial or conditional: Server side tracking available on all plans. |
Convert.com Included: Pro plan and up, with SDKs, feature flags and rollouts |
| Statistics | Elevate A/B Testing Included: Bayesian model |
Convert.com Included: Frequentist and Bayesian on Growth; sequential testing added on Pro |
| Heatmaps and session recordings | Elevate A/B Testing Partial or conditional: Integrations with Microsoft Clarity and heatmapping tools |
Convert.com Included: Convert Signals and heatmaps on all plans |
| Privacy and compliance | Elevate A/B Testing Partial or conditional: Shopify data, app permissions |
Convert.com Included: GDPR, CCPA, LGPD and TTDSG; SOC 2 and ISO 27001; first-party cookies. 8% of the plan fee goes to tree planting, and Convert publishes the kinds of business it turns away |
| Trial | Elevate A/B Testing Included: 14 days, through Shopify billing |
Convert.com Included: 15 days, no card, full features on a limited quota. No free tier on either |
| MCP & API | Elevate A/B Testing Included: MCP server plus a read-only External API, included on every plan. Connects Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. API keys issued from Settings > MCP & API |
Convert.com Included: REST API v2 for experiences, goals and reporting; official MCP server (hosted via OAuth or self-hosted) |
| Custom events | Elevate A/B Testing Included: A full custom event suite is included. Any event can serve as the experiment goal, as an extra metric to track, or as an inclusion trigger for who enters the test. |
Convert.com Included: Included. |
| Outlier detection & exclude mechanism | Elevate A/B Testing Included: Included. Configurable outlier thresholds, plus automatic exclusion of bot traffic, draft orders and free gift orders before a winner is called. |
Convert.com Partial or conditional: Basic functionalities available. |
| Statistical Controls | Elevate A/B Testing Included: Deep statistical controls: set the significance threshold, minimum visitors, conversions and running days before a winner is called. Stronger outlier detection, plus free gift exclusion from revenue, AOV and profit calculations |
Convert.com Included: Statistical and outlier settings available |
Where Elevate A/B Testing wins
No visitor quota.
Convert ships with over-quota charges switched off, so when the 100K tested-user allowance runs out, your experiments pause (Convert says within about an hour). Turn charges on and Growth adds $399 for the next 100K. Elevate bills on order volume, so a test that gets picked up by a newsletter keeps running and does not produce an invoice.
A third of the entry price.
Convert's floor is $299/month on an annual contract. Elevate's Standard plan, which is where price, shipping and checkout testing live, is $99/month, and Basic starts at $49.
Billed and supported inside Shopify.
Elevate installs from the App Store, reads the store's own data and shows up on your Shopify invoice. Convert has had an App Store listing since October 2024, but the app is a connector that places the tracking tag; you still buy the plan on convert.com, and as of 22 Sep 2026 the listing has no reviews.
Shipping tests on real rates.
Convert runs shipping tests through JavaScript variations and audience rules. On Elevate, shipping testing is a plan feature from Standard up.
Faster setup for a team without an experimentation engineer.
Convert's Pro tier is where server-side testing, feature flags and raw data export live, and those features reward a team that will use them. If you want a price test live today, that stack is more tool than the job needs.
Statistical controls that are built for ecommerce.
You can set the significance threshold, minimum visitors, conversions and running days before Elevate calls a winner. You can also cap unusually large orders without removing the conversion and exclude free gifts from revenue, AOV and profit calculations, so Shopify-specific edge cases do not distort the result. Convert has statistical and outlier settings too; Elevate makes the controls directly relevant to the commerce data behind the decision.
Where Convert wins
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Compliance paperwork. Convert lists GDPR, CCPA, LGPD and TTDSG compliance, SOC 2 and ISO 27001, and runs on first-party cookies without storing personal data. It gives 8% of every plan fee to tree planting with TIST and publishes a policy on the businesses it will not work with. If your legal team reviews vendors, most of that folder is already written.
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Works beyond Shopify. Convert has been running on 40,000 sites over 15 years, and every plan includes 90+ integrations, an API and an MCP server. If your experiments span several properties, that reach matters.
