5 Reasons to choose leading solution AB Tasty over Optimizely

Discover why customers choose global leader AB Tasty, named a 2025 G2 Best Software, over Optimizely. Find out how AB Tasty helps accelerate digital growth with a complete testing and personalization platform, with award winning support. 

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  • AB Tasty offers a more user-friendly interface, an advanced widget library, and a flexible Visual Editor, making it easier for marketers to create and manage campaigns without heavy technical expertise.
  • Optimizely requires more technical resources and has a steeper learning curve. Users may get lost in its complexity, paying for features they don’t end up leveraging.
  • AB Tasty prioritizes web performance with features like modular architecture, smart caching, and a dedicated Performance Center to monitor and optimize campaigns.
  • Optimizely has been reported to struggle with SPA (Single Page Application) compatibility and dynamic content use cases in practice.
  • AB Tasty provides dedicated Customer Success Managers (CSMs) to troubleshoot issues effectively and provide strategic feedback.
  • Many customers switching from Optimizely cite dissatisfaction with its support quality and lack of proactive assistance.
  • AB Tasty can access dataLayer variables to build powerful custom segments on audiences and product attributes. AI-based segments (like EmotionsAI) are available for advanced personalization and experimentation campaigns.
  • Optimizely has no native dataLayer integration, so it’s more difficult to create audiences and goals from the dataLayer. There are also no AI segments available.
  • AB Tasty frequently introduces new features and updates based on customer feedback, ensuring cutting-edge solutions for experimentation and personalization.
  • Optimizely’s focus on being a comprehensive suite (including CMS and CDP) can dilute its specialization in experimentation.
  • AB Tasty stands out with emotion-driven personalization, AI-generated visuals, and automated conversion insights. Enabling teams to quickly create, test, and scale impactful experiences.
  • Optimizely lacks emotion-based visitor segmentation and prompt-led asset creation, giving AB Tasty a decisive advantage for intelligent, scalable CX optimization.

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  • AB Tasty is among the Leaders with high Market Presence and Satisfaction. See here what +200 brands from around the globe have to say about AB Tasty.
  • Optimizely is a Contender with average Market Presence and Satisfaction.
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emotions ai example

Turn emotions into
data-driven sales

EmotionsAI transforms emotional signals into actionable insights in 30 seconds. Connect with your audience on a human level and drive sales with true personalization.

Your vision,
our AI’s creation

Make visual changes by prompting our Visual Editor Copilot with changes you want to see in your experiment – whether it’s updating colors, adding animations, or modifying buttons.

engagement levels

Engage every
visitor with AI

Understand what interests your visitors and how often they come back, then deliver content that’s just right – whether it’s their first visit or their fiftieth.

Features

Test your journey

Easily run A/B tests, split tests, multivariate tests, multi-page tests, and A/A tests.

Pre-built AI Segments

Target by engagement level, including disengaged, wandering, high-value and loyal visitors.

Visual Editor

No code, low code WYSIWYG editor to easily build variations with no technical knowledge needed.

Custom Widgets

Build, animate, re-use and share your own widgets.

Performance Center

Manage campaigns to maximize website performance.

Cross-account sharing

Test go well? Spread the wealth by copying experiments across accounts.

Widget Library

Test with pre-built experiences to boost engagement.

Dynamic Allocation

Based multi-armed bandit, limit the loss in low performing variations.

Audience Builder

Build your own segments based on a huge list of criteria including behavior, location and interests.

Full-stack experimentation

Experiment on both client-side and server-side.

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AB Tasty

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