Looking for a Maze alternative?
Maze is built for product teams: you bring a prototype, you recruit people, you write the tasks, and a few weeks later you have an answer. If you are running a website, you have none of those things. You have a live site, traffic that is not converting, and a question you needed answered last week. We read the site you already have and tell you what to fix first.
Maze and you x you i, side by side
| Feature | you x you i | Maze |
|---|---|---|
| Conversions More people buying | ||
| Tells you why people are not buying | ||
| Checks your headline says what you sell | ||
| Checks your buttons and calls to action | ||
| Checks your pricing is laid out clearly | ||
| Checks how your pages are laid out | Prototype only | |
| Tests with people you recruit | ||
| Findability Found in Google and AI search | ||
| Checks the Google basics | ||
| Checks AI can read and quote your pages | ||
| Technical health Speed, mobile, accessibility | ||
| Checks how fast your pages load | ||
| Checks it works on phones | ||
| Checks people with disabilities can use it | ||
| Trust and brand Trustworthy and on-brand | ||
| Checks your site looks trustworthy | ||
| Checks your brand is consistent | ||
| Predicts where visitors look first | ||
| Clarity A message that lands | ||
| Checks how hard the page is to take in | ||
| Always on Runs on every audit | ||
| Results in minutes, no traffic needed | ||
| Tells you what to fix, in order | Manual | |
| One audit, no subscription | ||
| Pricing | $5 per audit, no subscription | Free plan, then custom pricing |
When to choose Maze
Choose Maze when you are testing something that does not exist yet. If you have a redesign in Figma and you want to know whether people can find the checkout before you pay a developer to build it, that is exactly what Maze is for, and no audit of your current site will answer it. Teams shipping new flows should test them with real people first.
When to choose you x you i
Choose us when the site is live and the question is why it is not selling. No study to design, nobody to recruit, nothing to build: paste the URL and read the report. It costs $5 once, with no subscription and no seats to buy, so it does not get more expensive because a second person wants to look at it.
What we check that Maze does not
Every one of these is a row in the table above, ticked in our column and blank in theirs.
- Tells you why people are not buying
- Checks your headline says what you sell
- Checks your buttons and calls to action
- Checks your pricing is laid out clearly
- Checks the Google basics
- Checks AI can read and quote your pages
- Connects to Google Search Console
- Shows which searches moved after your audit
- Links your fixes to your Google traffic
- Shows what AI answers cost you in clicks
- Compares your clicks with last year
- Tracks your score against your Google traffic
- Checks how fast your pages load
- Checks it works on phones
- Checks people with disabilities can use it
- Checks your site looks trustworthy
- Checks your brand is consistent
- Predicts where visitors look first
- Checks your writing reads clearly
- Flags copy that sounds AI-written
- Checks how hard the page is to take in
- Results in minutes, no traffic needed
- Scores measured against what real people said, not an opinion
- One audit, no subscription
Maze vs you x you i: common questions
Do I need to recruit anyone?
No. There is nobody to find, no incentives to pay, and no tasks to write. We read your live site directly, so the only thing you provide is the URL.
Can you test a design that is not built yet?
No, and that is a genuine reason to use Maze. We audit a live page. If your site exists, we can read it; if it is still a mockup, test it with people first.
How long does it take?
Minutes. A study run with recruited people takes weeks to design, field and analyse, which is the right investment before a rebuild and far too slow when sales dropped this month.
What does it cost?
One audit, $5, no subscription and no seats. Maze runs a free plan and quotes you for anything past it.