Comparison
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Most people arrive at this search for one of three reasons: a widget stopped rendering after a view limit, the bill grew as they added more widgets, or the widget did not sit right inside their theme. Here is exactly how this product behaves on each.
The three reasons people switch
Views are never counted
There is no view counter in this product — not in the database, not in the API, not in the embedded script. Nothing meters how often your widget is seen, on any plan including the free one.
That is a deliberate architectural choice rather than a generous limit. A mechanism that does not exist cannot be triggered, changed, or quietly lowered later.
One price covers every widget
Widgets are not sold separately and neither are the three types. The paid plan is one flat price for unlimited projects, collection forms and published widgets, whether that is one site or a dozen client sites.
Adding a second widget to a page costs nothing, and the script is only downloaded once no matter how many widgets share a page.
Your theme cannot break it
The widget renders inside a Shadow DOM root, so your site’s CSS cannot reach in and the widget’s CSS cannot leak out. That holds even against blanket rules like* { box-sizing: content-box }or global overrides on div and button.
It is tested that way: the automated suite renders every widget type inside pages carrying deliberately hostile global CSS and asserts on computed styles in both directions.
Isolation is what makes blending safe
A widget that renders as ordinary elements in your page inherits whatever your theme does to it — sometimes helpfully, often not. Because ours is sealed off, adopting your design becomes a deliberate choice rather than an accident.
Switch on Blend In and the widget reads four things from the page it is placed on — the font, the text colour, the background tone and the link colour — and adopts them. It reads nothing else, so a stray rule in your theme cannot drag the layout apart.
If you would rather set everything by hand, every element is separately controllable: quote text, attribution, stars, borders, card background, photo size, corner radius, spacing and density. None of it sits behind a higher tier.
Weight, measured
Page-speed complaints are common for embedded widgets, so this is checked automatically on every change rather than claimed once.
The loader is 4.47 KB gzipped. It contains no framework, no icon font and no third-party request. Optional features are separate files fetched only by widgets that use them, so a simple wall never downloads code for anything else.
The script loads asynchronously, so it never blocks your page rendering, and the embed snippet reserves its own space so the widget does not push your content around as it appears.
Check the current details yourself
Pricing and limits change, and we are not going to quote another company’s numbers on our own site and let them go stale. Compare Elfsight’s current plans against ours on the pricing page, and build a widget in the builder before you decide. It needs no account.
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