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Run rigorous A/B tests and personalize every visit on Shopify or any storefront โ no engineers required.
Shogun is a page builder for creating and designing Shopify and BigCommerce pages. CustomFit.ai is a CRO platform for testing and optimizing those pages to increase conversion rate and revenue per visitor. These tools are not direct competitors โ one builds, one optimizes. If your goal is to improve conversions rather than design capabilities, CustomFit.ai is what you need. If you need both, they work well in tandem.
| Feature | CustomFit.ai | Shogun |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify native integration | โ | โ |
| BigCommerce integration | โ (JS snippet) | โ |
| No-code visual editor | โ (for testing) | โ (for building) |
| A/B testing | โ | Shogun A/B (limited, higher plans only) |
| Personalization engine | โ | Limited (via Shogun Personalize add-on) |
| D2C/ecommerce metrics (AOV, RPV) | โ | No |
| AI-powered optimization | โ | No |
| 14-day free trial | โ | โ |
| Starting price | $99/mo | $39/mo (Build), $249/mo (Measure w/ A/B) |
| Developer required | No | No |
| Purpose | CRO / Experimentation | Page building |
Shogun helps you build pages faster with a drag-and-drop editor. Its primary value proposition is design speed and flexibility โ particularly for landing pages and product pages on Shopify and BigCommerce.
CustomFit.ai exists to answer a different question: of all the possible versions of your page, which one actually makes more people buy? It does this through rigorous A/B testing, AI-driven traffic allocation, and personalization based on 1000+ visitor attributes.
Shogun does offer A/B testing in its higher-tier "Measure" plan, but it's an add-on feature within a page builder, not a purpose-built experimentation platform. The testing capabilities are more limited in depth โ fewer targeting options, no AI-driven allocation, and less flexibility in what elements you can test.
CustomFit.ai installs from the Shopify App Store in one click. There's no theme modification required, no code to write. The visual editor overlays on your live store, so you're testing real pages on real traffic immediately. First experiment: same day.
Shogun's setup is also no-code, but building a page in Shogun takes design time โ you're constructing a page from components. For stores that already have pages and want to optimize them, CustomFit.ai is faster to get value from because you're testing what exists rather than rebuilding it.
CustomFit.ai is purpose-built for experimentation:
Results speak for themselves: CustomFit.ai customers average an 11% CVR increase. Bellavita achieved 11% CVR lift, Kapiva 9.48%, Chargebee 40% AOV increase.
Shogun's A/B testing (available on the Measure plan at $249/mo) covers basic variant testing on Shogun-built pages. It's meaningful for teams already invested in Shogun who want to run simple page tests, but the experimentation depth โ targeting options, AI optimization, multivariate support โ doesn't match a dedicated CRO platform.
CustomFit.ai segments visitors across 1000+ attributes: device, location, traffic source, cart value, purchase history, behavioral signals. A visitor arriving from a Google Shopping ad sees a different product page than a returning customer who previously bought from you. This personalization runs automatically once you define the rules โ no manual page duplication required.
Shogun offers a "Personalize" feature as a separate module that adds some content personalization capability. It's useful for basic use cases but doesn't reach the depth of a purpose-built personalization engine, particularly for the kind of behavioral targeting that drives D2C revenue.
CustomFit.ai tracks the revenue metrics that matter to D2C brands directly in the platform: revenue per visitor, average order value, add-to-cart rate, and conversion rate โ broken down by variant and audience segment. You can see exactly what a winning variant is worth in dollars.
Shogun's analytics focus on page performance โ views, engagement, funnel metrics for Shogun-built pages. It integrates with Google Analytics and Shopify analytics for broader reporting, but experiment-level revenue attribution requires a separate setup.
| Plan | CustomFit.ai | Shogun |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | $99/mo (50K MUV) | $39/mo (Build โ no A/B testing) |
| A/B testing included | $99/mo | $249/mo (Measure plan) |
| Growth | $249/mo (100K MUV) | Custom |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom |
| Free trial | 14 days, no credit card | 10-day trial |
Note: To access Shogun's A/B testing features, you need the Measure plan at $249/month. CustomFit.ai includes full A/B testing, personalization, and AI optimization starting at $99/month.
Shogun is the right choice if your bottleneck is page creation speed and design flexibility. If you launch new collections frequently, run many marketing campaigns with dedicated landing pages, or need design components beyond your theme's capabilities โ Shogun solves that problem well. Its page builder is mature and widely used. The most effective setups often use Shogun for building and CustomFit.ai for optimizing โ they address different parts of the same funnel.
If you're using Shogun and want to add CRO capabilities with CustomFit.ai:
If you're on Shogun's Measure plan primarily for A/B testing, migrating to CustomFit.ai at $99/month gives you more testing depth at a lower price point, and you can keep using Shogun's page builder at the Build tier.
Does Shogun have built-in A/B testing? Yes, but only on the Measure plan at $249/month. The testing functionality is more limited than a dedicated CRO platform โ fewer targeting options, no AI-driven optimization, and testing is restricted to Shogun-built pages.
Can CustomFit.ai test Shogun-built pages? Yes. CustomFit.ai's visual editor overlays on any rendered Shopify page, including those built with Shogun. You can create variants without modifying the underlying Shogun page.
Is CustomFit.ai cheaper than Shogun for A/B testing? If A/B testing is your goal, yes. CustomFit.ai starts at $99/month with full testing capabilities. Shogun's A/B testing requires the $249/month plan.
What metrics does CustomFit.ai track that Shogun doesn't? CustomFit.ai tracks revenue per visitor and average order value per experiment variant โ direct revenue attribution that tells you exactly what each test is worth financially. Shogun's analytics are page-performance-focused rather than experiment-revenue-focused.
Can I use both Shogun and CustomFit.ai together? Absolutely. This is a common setup: use Shogun to build pages with design speed and flexibility, use CustomFit.ai to run experiments on those pages and continuously optimize for revenue. They don't conflict.
How does CustomFit.ai's AI optimization work? CustomFit.ai's AI monitors variant performance in real time and gradually allocates more traffic to higher-converting variants before the experiment concludes. This means you're capturing revenue uplift during the test period, not just after declaring a winner.