AudioEye alternative — transparent pricing, real fixes
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The short version
AudioEye is the most substantial vendor in the overlay category — a public company with real testers, real engineering and a genuine expert-services business. The architectural point still holds: both its automated fixes and its expert-authored fixes are delivered through JavaScript at runtime, not written into your source. adasafe reports failures in your own code and hands you fixes to apply there.
What AudioEye actually does
AudioEye is clear about the mechanism in its own documentation. Its automated remediations “inspect the code that is delivered to a visitor's browser and apply fixes to it,” and it states that they “do not adjust a site's source code.”
The part buyers usually miss is what happens with the human layer. AudioEye employs certified testers who find issues automation cannot — that work is real. But the fixes those experts author are deployed through the same JavaScript framework, without affecting the source code. So paying for the managed tier buys you better fixes, delivered the same way.
There is an exception worth knowing: AudioEye's self-managed tier is explicitly “we guide you to fix at source,” with developer tooling and an expert audit. That product is not an overlay, and it is the closest thing in their range to what adasafe does.
The guarantee, and what the contract says about it
AudioEye markets “the industry's only real legal guarantee”: for each page their experts certify, they say you will not receive a valid legal claim, or they will pay out to resolve it. That is a genuine, differentiated offering and no automated scanner matches it.
Read the Terms of Service alongside it. The offerings “DO NOT GUARANTEE ACCESSIBILITY OR COMPLIANCE” except where a guarantee is provided in writing in an order and explicitly labelled as one; everything else is supplied “AS IS”; AudioEye disclaims indemnification, hold-harmless and defence obligations arising from a third-party claim that a customer website is not accessible; and liability is capped at six months of fees.
None of that is unusual for software terms. It does mean the guarantee is a specific, page-scoped, conditional product rather than a blanket shield — worth reading in full before it becomes the reason you buy. AudioEye is also refreshingly direct about the ceiling: it states it believes “there is no fully automated solution on the market that can provide 100% compliance.” We agree.
Pricing you cannot see until you talk to sales
AudioEye's plans page lists three tiers and no prices. Every path runs through “Talk to an Expert.” The product is metered by pageviews — their terms set an overage rate of $400 per million pageviews — so cost scales with traffic in a way you cannot model before a sales call.
adasafe publishes its prices: $39, $129 or $299 a month, flat, regardless of traffic, plus a $99 one-off verified scan. Whether that matters depends on whether you want to evaluate before you speak to someone.
How the two compare
- Where the fix lives. AudioEye: the browser, for both automated and expert-authored fixes. adasafe: your source, applied by you.
- Human testing. AudioEye has certified human testers. adasafe does not — we are automated scanning plus fix generation and validation.
- Legal posture. AudioEye offers a written, page-scoped guarantee. adasafe offers evidence, not indemnity.
- Pricing. AudioEye: unpublished, sales-gated, metered by pageviews. adasafe: published, flat, self-serve.
When AudioEye is the better choice
If you want someone else to own the problem — testers, remediation and a contractual guarantee with money behind it — AudioEye offers that and we do not. If you have no engineering capacity to apply fixes, a managed service is the honest answer. And if your risk tolerance means you want a vendor who will pay out on a claim, that is a real product you cannot buy from a scanner. AudioEye is a serious company; this comparison is about architecture and pricing transparency, not competence.
What adasafe does not do
- No human testers. Automated testing catches a subset of WCAG failures; the rest need manual and assistive-technology testing by a person.
- No legal guarantee, no indemnity, no litigation defence.
- We do not apply fixes for you. You review and ship them.
Sources
See what a scan actually reports on your site
adasafe scans a live page and lists the WCAG 2.2 failures it finds, with the element and the fix. No widget, no script to install.