Elfsight pricing in 2026: Elfsight cost per plan, the reviews widget, and Elfsight alternatives
Elfsight costs $0 to $64 per month for a single app, per its own pricing page checked 24 August 2026. Free covers 200 monthly views, Basic was listed at $4, Pro $8, Premium $16, and four Enterprise tiers at $24 to $64. The thing that decides your bill is not the feature list, it is monthly widget views: every tier of an app does the same job, and you are paying for traffic.
That model is unusual in the reviews widget market, and it is why Elfsight looks cheap on a pricing page and expensive on an invoice once a page starts performing. Below is every published tier, a worked example of the view cap, and what the same job costs elsewhere.
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Elfsight pricing plans for a single app
Elfsight publishes its full rate card, which is more than most vendors in this category do. These are the figures exactly as listed for one app, such as the reviews widget on its own.
| Plan | Listed rate | Regular rate | Views per month | Widgets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | n/a | 200 | 1 |
| Basic | $4 / mo, $48 / yr | $6 | 5,000 | 3 |
| Pro | $8 / mo, $96 / yr | $12 | 50,000 | 9 |
| Premium | $16 / mo, $192 / yr | $24 | 150,000 | 21 |
| Enterprise T1 | $24 / mo | Not listed | 300,000 | 50 |
| Enterprise T2 | $32 / mo | Not listed | 600,000 | 100 |
| Enterprise T3 | $48 / mo | Not listed | 1,200,000 | 200 |
| Enterprise T4 | $64 / mo | Not listed | Unlimited | 400 |
One caveat worth carrying into any budget. When we checked, the paid tiers were showing a promotional discount (billed as 33 percent off with a free month) against the regular rates in the third column. Promotional pricing on this kind of site tends to be close to permanent, but it is not contractual, so the honest planning number for a multi year budget is the regular rate rather than the discounted one.
The number that decides your bill
Elfsight charges for traffic, not for features
Every paid tier of a given app does the same thing. What you buy with a higher plan is a bigger monthly view allowance and more widgets.
A view is counted each time the widget loads for a visitor. Not a click, not an interaction, a load. If your reviews widget sits in the footer of every page, it is counted on every page view of your entire site, which is a very different number from the traffic to the one page you were thinking about.
Work it through. A modest site doing 400 sessions a day at two pages each generates roughly 24,000 widget loads a month with a sitewide footer widget. That is nearly five times the Basic allowance of 5,000, so the real plan is Pro. Grow to 1,500 sessions a day and you are at about 90,000 loads, past Pro and into Premium. The widget has not gained a single feature at any point in that journey.
The thresholds are also spaced very unevenly, which is where budgets get caught. Basic covers 5,000 views and Pro covers 50,000, a tenfold jump. A site generating 6,000 views a month pays the whole Pro tier to cover 1,000 views of overspill. Before you buy, take your actual monthly page views, decide honestly whether the widget will be sitewide or on one page, and price the tier you will land on in six months.
Rough view estimates by site size
Assuming a widget placed sitewide, at two page views per session.
These are arithmetic from the published caps, not quotes. Check your own analytics before committing.
The pricing model most comparisons miss
One app or all 96, and why the reviews widget alone is cheaper
Elfsight sells a catalogue of roughly 96 widgets. You can buy one app or the whole pack, and the difference is a factor of three.
| Tier | Single app | All apps pack | Views included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $4 / mo | $12 / mo | 5,000 per app |
| Pro | $8 / mo | $24 / mo | 50,000 per app |
| Premium | $16 / mo | $48 / mo | 150,000 per app |
| Enterprise | $24 to $64 / mo | $72 to $192 / mo | 300,000 to unlimited |
If reviews are the only thing you need on the page, buy the single app. The all apps pack is genuinely good value for an agency building marketing sites that also want an Instagram feed, a form and a countdown timer, and genuinely poor value for a business that wants one reviews block and nothing else. This is the split that decides whether Elfsight is cheap or expensive for you, and it is why two people can both quote their real Elfsight bill and disagree by a factor of three.
All prices read at source, 24 August 2026
Elfsight alternatives for reviews, priced side by side
Four ways to get reviews onto a website, with the pricing model that actually drives each bill. Every figure below came from the vendor's own pricing page on the same day.
| Vendor | Entry price | Top published price | What the price scales with | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elfsight | Free, 200 views | $64 / mo single app | Monthly widget views and widget count | Low traffic sites wanting several different widgets |
| Trustindex | Free tier, then $65 / yr | $349 / yr unlimited domains | Number of domains only. Views and widgets unlimited | High traffic sites and agencies running many domains |
| EmbedSocial | Free, 1 source | EUR 99 / mo Premium | Number of review sources and monthly views | Brands aggregating many social and review sources |
| ReviewJet | $49 / mo, $288 / yr | $499 / mo, $2,988 / yr | Review requests per month, per account | Businesses that need to collect reviews, not only display them |
Where Elfsight wins
Breadth and price at the bottom of the range. If you are building a small marketing site and want a reviews block, a contact form and an Instagram feed, $12 a month for the all apps pack is hard to beat, and the editor is genuinely easy. Elfsight also publishes its full rate card, which half this category refuses to do.
Where Trustindex wins
Traffic. Trustindex sells unlimited widgets, views and reviews and meters only the number of domains, so a busy site pays $65 a year rather than climbing view bands. If your reviews widget is going sitewide on a site that gets real traffic, that difference compounds every month.
A note on EmbedSocial: its pricing page quotes euros, so a US buyer carries currency conversion and any card fee on top of the listed figure. Worth pricing in before you compare it directly with the dollar figures above. Separately, ReviewsOnMyWebsite, which appears on a lot of older comparison lists, now redirects to LocalImpact and its plan prices load dynamically rather than appearing as static figures, so we have left it out of the table rather than quote a number we could not read at source.
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When Elfsight is the right buy, and when it is not
Buy Elfsight if
You run a low to mid traffic marketing site, you want more than one kind of widget, and you would rather pay $12 a month for the whole catalogue than assemble four separate vendors. The editor needs no developer and the embed works on any platform that accepts a script.
Think twice if
Your traffic is growing and the widget will sit sitewide. View metering means your bill tracks your success while the product stays the same, and the tier jumps are large. Model the Premium and Enterprise rates, not the Basic one, before you commit.
Look elsewhere if
You need to collect reviews rather than display ones you already have. Elfsight is a display layer. It shows reviews beautifully and does not ask a single customer to leave one, which is a different job and usually the one holding a business back.
That last distinction is the one worth sitting with, because it is not really a pricing question. A widget makes the reviews you have look good. It does nothing about the ratio of happy customers to customers who actually wrote something down, which for most businesses is somewhere under five percent. If your problem is that you have eleven Google reviews and your competitor has three hundred, no widget on the market fixes it. We wrote about closing that gap in how to get more Google reviews, and the tooling side of it in review generation software.
Five minutes, before you pay anything
What to check before buying any view metered widget
These are the questions that separate the price on the pricing page from the number on next year's invoice.
1. Pull your real page views
Open analytics and take the last full month of page views, not sessions. If the widget goes sitewide, that page view figure is your view count. Compare it against the tier caps before you pick a plan.
2. Decide sitewide or single page
A widget on one testimonials page might use 3 percent of the views of the same widget in a global footer. This single decision can move you two pricing tiers.
3. Price the tier above the one you need
Buy on the assumption you grow. If a year of growth pushes you into the next band, the honest comparison is that band against a flat priced competitor.
4. Check the renewal rate
Promotional discounts are common in this market. Ask, or read the terms, for what the rate becomes at renewal rather than what it is on signup day.
5. Count the scripts on your page
Every hosted widget is a third party request on page load. If you are already loading four, adding a fifth has a performance cost that shows up in Core Web Vitals.
6. Ask who owns the reviews
Display widgets read from a platform you do not control. Check you can export what you collect, and see our note on getting review data out in the guide below.
On the last point, if you are the sort of buyer who wants the underlying data rather than a rendered block, it is worth checking what each vendor exposes programmatically before you sign. We cover what is and is not available from the platforms themselves in the Google reviews API and the Trustpilot API.
Asked and answered
Elfsight pricing questions people actually search
Elfsight costs $0 to $64 per month for a single app, according to its own pricing page checked 24 August 2026. Free covers 200 monthly views and 1 widget. Basic was listed at $4 per month, Pro at $8, Premium at $16, and four Enterprise tiers at $24, $32, $48 and $64. Those rates carry a promotional discount against regular rates of $6, $12 and $24.
Elfsight has a free plan, but it is capped at 200 widget views per month across 1 widget. A view is counted every time the widget loads for a visitor, so a page getting 10 visitors a day exhausts the free plan inside three weeks. The free tier is best understood as an extended trial rather than a plan you can run a business on.
Yes, past 200 monthly views. Elfsight does not charge for features, it charges for traffic. Every paid tier of a single app includes the same functionality, and what changes is the monthly view allowance and how many separate widgets you can build. That is why the cost question depends entirely on how much traffic your pages get.
Elfsight listed annual billing at $48 a year for Basic, $96 for Pro and $192 for Premium on a single app, checked 24 August 2026. Those work out at $4, $8 and $16 per month. The all apps pack was three times the single app rate, at $12, $24 and $48 per month for the same three tiers.
It is one app inside Elfsight's catalogue of roughly 96 widgets, alongside Instagram feeds, chat, countdown timers and forms. It pulls Google reviews onto a page as an embeddable block. Because Elfsight sells per app, buying the reviews widget alone costs the single app rate, not the all apps rate.
You build the widget in Elfsight's editor, then paste a small script into your site. The widget renders from Elfsight's servers, which is what makes it work on Squarespace, Wix, WordPress and plain HTML without a plugin. It also means the view counter runs on their side, and that counter is what your bill is based on.
Yes. Because the widget is a script embed rather than a plugin, it works anywhere you can paste a code block, which includes Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Shopify and WordPress. Squarespace users generally add it through a Code Block or the site wide code injection panel, so no platform specific version of the widget is needed.
Elfsight is good value if you want several different widgets on a low traffic marketing site, because the all apps pack is cheap for what it covers. It is poor value if you want one reviews widget on a high traffic site, since the view metering means your bill climbs with your traffic while the feature set stays identical.
Elfsight is an established widget vendor with a large public customer base, and its widgets are a normal third party script embed. The security consideration is the same as any hosted widget: the script runs on your pages and loads from the vendor's domain, so it adds a third party dependency and a request on every page view.
Trustindex sells flat annual plans at $65, $125 and $349 a year with unlimited widgets, views and reviews, which suits high traffic sites. EmbedSocial charges in euros from EUR 29 to EUR 99 a month by number of sources and views. ReviewJet publishes $49 to $499 per month per account and bundles review collection with display rather than selling the widget alone.
Trustindex and EmbedSocial both run free tiers, and both are capped in a similar way to Elfsight's. Free widget tiers exist to get the script onto your page, and every vendor sets the cap low enough that a real commercial site outgrows it. If reviews matter to your revenue, price the paid tier you will actually land on rather than the free one.
You are pushed to upgrade to the next view band. This is the single most important thing to model before buying, because the jump is not linear: Basic covers 5,000 views, Pro covers 50,000 and Premium covers 150,000. A site sitting just over a threshold pays the whole next tier for the overspill.
If you are comparing widget vendors rather than review platforms, the head to head numbers are in reviews widget pricing compared. For platforms that host a public review profile instead, start with Trustpilot pricing.
One embed, every review source, a price that does not track your traffic
Collect reviews by email and SMS, then show them anywhere on your site. Published, flat, per account pricing.
From $24/mo, billed yearly. No per-review fees.
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