Outgrow alternative
Outgrow vs QualifySites: they’ll build it too. Then what?
Outgrow is a capable quiz and calculator platform, and it will even make one for you from $250 a piece. So the difference between us isn’t who does the building. It’s what happens on day two, and every month after that.
Where Outgrow is strong
A big toolbox, and calculators that really calculate
Outgrow has been around since 2016, and its range shows it. One account gives you nine kinds of interactive content: numerical calculators, outcome quizzes, graded assessments, polls, surveys, forms, product recommenders, rules-based chatbots and landing pages. Few tools in this space cover as much.
The calculators are the stand-out. Its formula builder handles several variables at once, draws charts and shows different messages depending on combinations of answers. One Capterra reviewer said it was the only tool they found that could do that. Mortgage, ROI and pricing calculators are its natural home.
It’s also cheap to start. Freelancer plans begin at $14 a month on annual billing, Essentials gives unlimited pieces and 7,500 leads a month for $95, and there’s a seven-day trial. Reviewers rate its support highly too.
The catches people mention
Reviews come back to the same few points: a learning curve and a busy editor, design limits without custom code, and plans that make it hard to tell what you’ll get. The biggest jump is from Essentials at $95 to Business at $600 a month on annual billing. That’s where removing Outgrow’s branding and using your own domain come in, unless you qualify for its loosely defined small-business incentive.
Two ways to get it built
Same starting point. Very different months after.
Both routes end with a quiz or calculator on your site. What differs is who’s responsible once it’s live.
Outgrow, with a “We’ll Create” build
- Day 1
Pick a plan and brief the build
You choose the subscription it will run on and describe what you want made.
You
- Build
Outgrow makes the piece
A calculator, quiz or recommender, from $250. Turnaround and revisions aren’t published.
Outgrow
- Launch
You embed it and wire up tracking
Pixel events, your CRM fields, maybe a Zapier route to Meta’s Conversions API.
You or a freelancer
- Month 2+
You decide what to change
Read the analytics, set up any A/B test, rewrite questions. Or leave it as it is.
You
QualifySites
- Week 1
We map your best customers
With you and whoever takes the calls, before anything is designed.
Us, with your team
- Live in 7–14 working days
We build it in your brand
Questions, scoring, design, CRM connection and conversion tracking, all done.
Us
- Launch
We split-test it
Your traffic is shared between the new journey and your current page, so the numbers decide.
Us
- Every month
We test one more thing
A question, its order, the result or the offer, with a short report on what changed.
Us
Feature by feature
Outgrow and QualifySites compared
| Outgrow | QualifySites | |
|---|---|---|
| Who builds it | You, or Outgrow’s “We’ll Create” team from $250 a piece. | We do, after agreeing with your sales team what a serious buyer looks like. |
| After it goes live | Yours to run. We couldn’t find ongoing testing or optimisation in the build offer. | We keep running it: a split test, then a new A/B test every month and a report.Edge: QualifySites |
| Calculators and formulas | A real strength. Multi-variable formulas, charts and conditional messages.Edge: Outgrow | Built to order for your pricing, from a range to an itemised estimate. |
| Types of content | Nine: calculators, quizzes, assessments, polls, surveys, forms, chatbots, recommenders, landing pages.Edge: Outgrow | Quizzes, finders, calculators or a custom tool, one journey per offer. |
| Sending outcomes back to ads | Meta Pixel events documented. Server-side Conversions API only through a Zapier template. | Click IDs on every lead; qualified leads, value and sales sent to Meta and Google.Edge: QualifySites |
| Your brand, your domain | Branding removal and a custom domain come with Business, at $600/mo billed yearly. | Designed in your brand on every plan.Edge: QualifySites |
| Lead allowances | From 250 a month up to 50,000 on Business. | Plans follow your ad spend, not a lead count. |
| If it doesn’t work | We couldn’t find a performance guarantee. | Beat your current page by 30% in 30 days, or your money back.Edge: QualifySites |
The first year
What a year actually costs
Outgrow is cheaper, even after you add the work around it. This is what that work looks like in dollars, so you can weigh it for yourself.
What these numbers assume
- Outgrow prices are the lower, annual-billing figures from its pricing page on 23 October 2026: Essentials $95 and Business $600 a month.
- One “We’ll Create” build at its published starting price of $250. A complex build may cost more.
- Tracking set-up: 6 hours of a freelancer at $75 an hour to connect pixels, CRM fields and a Conversions API route.
- Testing: 2 hours a month of your own time, valued at $50 an hour, to read results and change one thing.
- QualifySites Starter: $1,500 set-up plus $495 a month on monthly billing. Quarterly billing costs 10% less.
- None of this counts the guarantee: if we don’t beat your current page, the QualifySites figure comes back to you.
What the gap pays for
Why we cost more than a $250 build
A quiz or calculator doesn’t make money on the day it launches. It makes money when the right people finish it, the right ones get called first, and your ads start finding more people like them. Most of that happens after the build, and most of it is easy to skip when it’s nobody’s job.
So our price covers the unglamorous parts. Before we design anything, we agree with your sales team what a qualified enquiry looks like, in writing. After launch, your traffic is shared between the new journey and your current page, and we compare cost per qualified lead and per booked call rather than counting completions. Qualified leads, their value and sales go back to Meta and Google with the click ID they arrived on, so the platforms learn who buys. Then we change one thing a month and tell you what happened.
We couldn’t find any of that in Outgrow’s build offer, and its own pages don’t claim it. That isn’t a criticism; it’s a different product. If you have someone who’ll own the testing and the tracking, the Outgrow route is a sensible, cheaper one.
Plans
Outgrow’s plans next to ours
Outgrowpublished plans, checked 23 October 2026
- Freelancer Limited$22/mo$14/mo billed yearly · 250 leads a month · 5 content pieces
- Freelancer Pro$45/mo$25/mo billed yearly · 1,000 leads a month · 7 pieces
- Essentials$115/mo$95/mo billed yearly · 7,500 leads a month · 3 users · pixels
- Business$720/mo$600/mo billed yearly · removes branding · your own domain
- “We’ll Create” buildsFrom $250Per content piece, on top of a subscription
Outgrow shows two prices per plan without saying which is annual; the lower is listed as billed yearly. Builds are extra, and run on one of these subscriptions.
QualifySitesone plan, sized by your ad spend
- Starter$495/mo + $1,500 set-upAd spend $3k to under $10k a month
- Growth$975/mo + $2,500 set-upAd spend $10k to under $30k a month
- Scale$1,495/mo + $4,500 set-upAd spend $30k+ a month
One plan, sized by your ad spend, with the build, tracking, split test and monthly tests included. Live in 7–14 working days.
Who should pick which
Outgrow or us? It depends who you are
A mortgage broker who wants a repayment calculator the team can tweak
Our pick Outgrow
Formula-heavy calculators you own and adjust yourselves are where Outgrow is strongest. Our service would be more than you need.
A content team publishing a new poll or quiz every fortnight
Our pick Outgrow
Unlimited pieces on Essentials and high lead allowances suit volume. We build one journey per offer, carefully.
A safari operator spending $15k a month on Meta
Our pick QualifySites
One booked trip pays for months of our fee, and the gain comes from testing and feeding Meta better signal, not from a one-off build.
A wedding venue whose quiz is already live but nobody touches it
Our pick QualifySites
A build without upkeep tends to stay as it was on day one. Monthly tests and a report are what keep it improving.
An agency building calculators for a dozen clients
Our pick Outgrow
Outgrow sells agency plans with client accounts. You keep control and the margin.
A new business without a steady flow of enquiries yet
Our pick Neither, yet
Get the offer and the traffic working first. Neither a calculator nor a split test can be judged on a trickle of visits.
Questions
Outgrow vs QualifySites: what people ask
Does Outgrow build quizzes and calculators for you?
How much does Outgrow cost?
Can Outgrow send leads to the Meta Conversions API?
Is Outgrow good for complex calculators?
What do I get from QualifySites that an Outgrow build doesn’t include?
Can I move an Outgrow calculator to QualifySites?
How we compared
We’re QualifySites, so we’re not neutral, and you should read this page knowing that. Everything we say about Outgrow comes from its own public pricing, product and help pages, checked on 23 October 2026, and from themes that come up again and again in public reviews. Prices change, so check theirs before you decide. If anything here is wrong or out of date, email hello@qualifysites.com and we’ll fix it.
A build is a start. Results take months.
See what your current page is costing you, then let us build the journey, run the tests and prove it against the numbers.