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AudioEye vs Inclusify: who does the fixing, and what evidence you keep

AudioEye pairs automation with certified experts who write custom fixes, and a legal assurance behind it. Inclusify is the engineering side: real-browser audits, dated reports, findings your agents can query.

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How does Inclusify compare with AudioEye?

AudioEye is a managed service: automation first, then certified experts writing custom fixes, with a financial assurance on its top plan. Inclusify is software that audits the page a browser renders and keeps the record. AudioEye publishes no price and no Shopify app. Inclusify publishes every price and sells no assurance.

Published by Inclusify, one of the two products compared. Every row carries the page it was read from. How this comparison is built. Last checked .

  • Approach

    Inclusify
    Audit of the page a browser renders, in headless Chrome. Nothing on your site is changed.
    AudioEye
    Automation plus people. Their own words: "AI automation, expert audits, custom fixes, & real-time risk insights all in one platform", with the fixes deployed to the site.
    Source for AudioEye, Approach, checked

  • What it detects

    Inclusify
    The full axe-core ruleset, plus a Tab walk, a screen-reader transcript from the accessibility tree, and an AI read of authored copy.
    AudioEye
    They claim their automation "tests 37 of 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA criteria, more than any other automated accessibility tool" and fixes up to half of what it finds.
    Source for AudioEye, What it detects, checked

  • Evidence it keeps

    Inclusify
    A dated monthly record for 24 months on every monitored plan, 30 days of day-by-day history on Pro, and a downloadable report.
    AudioEye
    The plans page names real-time risk insights and custom legal response services. No retention window and no report format are published on it.
    Source for AudioEye, Evidence it keeps, checked

  • WCAG version claimed

    Inclusify
    WCAG 2.1 AA. Issues are detected and reported against the success criteria; conformance is not claimed for you.
    AudioEye
    WCAG 2.2 A/AA on the product page. The plans page names WCAG without a version at all.
    Source for AudioEye, WCAG version claimed, checked

  • EAA and EN 301 549

    Inclusify
    Covered as guidance, with an EN 301 549 mapping in the product. Nothing is asserted about your own conformance.
    AudioEye
    Not published on the plans page. The European Accessibility Act appears in the site's compliance menu, but neither it nor EN 301 549 is positioned against a plan.
    Source for AudioEye, EAA and EN 301 549, checked

  • Shopify app

    Inclusify
    Native app with a theme app embed, billed through Shopify.
    AudioEye
    Their App Store page reads "This app is not currently available on the Shopify App Store".
    Source for AudioEye, Shopify app, checked

  • Free tier

    Inclusify
    A free plan with no card and no time limit: the widget, 35 adjustments, one language, 1,000 monthly visitors.
    AudioEye
    Not published. The plans page mentions neither a free plan nor a trial.
    Source for AudioEye, Free tier, checked

  • Entry price, last checked September 2026

    Inclusify
    $0 on Free, then $39 a month for Starter. Per website.
    AudioEye
    Not published. Basic Protection, Self-Serviced Protection and Maximum Protection each carry no figure.
    Source for AudioEye, Entry price, last checked September 2026, checked

  • Legal and regulatory notes

    Inclusify
    None. Inclusify sells no legal support, offers no assurance, and makes no compliance claim on your behalf.
    AudioEye
    AudioEye Assurance, on Maximum Protection, is described as "limited, guaranteed financial protection against WCAG-related demand letters and/or lawsuits".
    Source for AudioEye, Legal and regulatory notes, checked

  • Page speed cost

    Inclusify
    0 ms added blocking time on a mobile test page.
    AudioEye
    +99 ms added blocking time on the same page.
    Our benchmark for AudioEye, Page speed cost, run

Which fits you better, Inclusify or AudioEye?

Inclusify if you want a named rule set, findings your developers can act on and a price you can read before talking to anyone. AudioEye if you want somebody else to write the fixes, an expert audit, a certification, or the financial assurance on their managed plan. Neither settles accessibility for you.

  • 4 fit Inclusify
  • 1 no tool settles on its own
  • 2 we would point at AudioEye
  • Inclusify

    You want to read the price and start today

    Their plans page routes every tier to a conversation. Every Inclusify price is published.

  • Inclusify

    You want the rule set named, and run against the page a browser renders

    The full axe-core ruleset in headless Chrome, and it is open source, so what it tests is checkable.

  • Inclusify

    Your developers want findings in Slack, Jira or their own AI tools

    A full MCP server over OAuth on the account's own scans. Their developer tools document CSV export you upload yourself.

  • Inclusify

    You want per-page history with dates on it, not a report at review time

    Re-scanned roughly every 20 hours, 30 days of daily history on Pro, 24 months of monthly record.

  • Neither

    You want one script to take care of accessibility on its own

    Nothing here does that, ours included. Automated testing reaches part of WCAG 2.1 AA, not all of it.

  • AudioEye

    You want somebody else to write the fixes for your site

    Their managed plan puts certified experts on what automation leaves. Inclusify has no equivalent.

  • AudioEye

    You need a certification, an expert audit, or a commercial assurance

    AudioEye issues one for the pages it covers and sells Assurance. Inclusify signs nothing.

Still weighing more than these two? accessiBe Alternatives: An Honest 2026 Comparison Guide is the list of alternatives rather than this one pairing.

What does each product actually ship?

Both ship a visitor toolbar, both scan against WCAG, and both publish an MCP server for developers. The table splits on what happens to a finding: Inclusify names the rule set, tests keyboard and screen-reader behaviour, and keeps dated per-page history. AudioEye puts certified people on what automation leaves.

  • 4 Both document it
  • 4 Only Inclusify
  • 0 Only AudioEye
  • 2 Partial on one side

Compiled from publicly available product documentation reviewed August 2026. Features and pricing change. Check both vendors before deciding.

What automated testing reaches, and what it does not

These shares are percentages of WCAG success criteria, not percentages of the issues on your page. The two get quoted as if they were the same number and they are not. Six evaluation tools benchmarked against WCAG 2.0 covered between 23% and 50% of the success criteria, and one criterion in two was not analysed by any tool at all.

  1. A tool decides

    23%

    of WCAG success criteria

    Criteria a scanner can pass or fail on its own, such as contrast ratios, missing alt attributes, unlabeled form controls and duplicate ids. 23% is the conservative end of the 23% to 50% range measured across the six tools.

  2. A tool points, a person decides

    27%

    of WCAG success criteria

    Criteria a tool reaches for some of the ways they can fail but not all, so it narrows the page down to candidates and a person makes the call. This is the rest of the covered half, up to the 50% ceiling the same benchmark measured.

  3. Only a person can judge

    50%

    of WCAG success criteria

    Criteria no tool analysed at all: whether alt text describes the image, whether focus order follows the visual order, whether an error message can be understood, whether a custom component behaves under a screen reader.

Including Inclusify

This is a limit of automated testing, not a gap in one vendor's product, and Inclusify sits inside it with everyone else. Our scanner runs axe-core in a real browser and it reaches the same kind of criteria the benchmark describes, which means the larger half of this chart is still work for a person and still needs changes in your code. We detect, report and track. Anything sold as covering the rest on its own is describing a product that does not exist yet.

Where these figures come from

Does a legal assurance stop the lawsuit?

Not by itself, and the clearest figure on that is AudioEye's own. Businesses that had already bought an accessibility product make up a large minority of those sued, overlay users are sued in their thousands, and federal filings rose again in 2025. An assurance covers the cost, not the barrier.

  1. 38.5%

    Share of businesses sued in 2025 that already had an accessibility solution or overlay installed. This is AudioEye's own reported figure.

    ADA website lawsuit statistics, checked

  2. 1,023

    Lawsuits in 2024 against sites that were already using an overlay, as reported by UsableNet. The figure has climbed year on year rather than fallen.

    ADA website lawsuit statistics, checked

  3. 3,117

    Federal website-accessibility lawsuits filed in 2025, up 27% on the 2,452 filed in 2024, as reported by Seyfarth Shaw.

    ADA website lawsuit statistics, checked

More than an overlay

Where is Inclusify stronger than AudioEye?

Because Inclusify is software rather than a service, everything it finds is yours to act on immediately, at a price you can read. The rule set is axe-core and named, the keyboard walk and screen-reader transcript come from a real browser run, and the per-page history is dated rather than assembled at review time.

  • Widgets and overlays

    Acts on
    The visitor's browser, on top of the page your server already sent.
    Changes
    What that visitor sees and hears: text size and spacing, contrast, color filters, motion, reading aids and text to speech.
    Cannot do
    It cannot change the markup your developers ship, so the underlying page is unchanged for everyone who never opens it, and that is as true of Inclusify's widget as of any other.

  • Compared on this page

    Enterprise platforms

    Acts on
    Your roadmap, through audit hours, remediation help and an account team.
    Changes
    Which findings get prioritized and fixed, with people attached to the software rather than software alone.
    Cannot do
    The work is bounded by the hours in the contract, so coverage stops where the retainer stops.

  • Testing and monitoring platforms

    Acts on
    Your pages, crawled and tested on a schedule from outside the site.
    Changes
    Nothing on the site itself. It produces the list your developers work through.
    Cannot do
    It reports rather than repairs, so nothing improves for a visitor until someone ships the change.

  • Platform-native apps

    Acts on
    Your store, installed from the platform's own marketplace and billed through it.
    Changes
    Whatever the platform lets an app change, usually a theme embed and settings in the admin.
    Cannot do
    It is scoped to the one platform it is sold on, so it does not follow you to a site that marketplace does not cover.

  1. A price you can read

    Every Inclusify plan price is published, the free plan needs no card, and a paid plan starts with a trial. AudioEye routes all three tiers to a conversation.

  2. A rule set you can read

    The full axe-core ruleset in headless Chrome, against the page a browser actually renders. It is open source, so what it tests is checkable.

  3. Findings your own tools can pull

    An MCP server over OAuth exposes the account's violations, history and crawl results. Their developer tools document CSV export you upload yourself.

  4. Behaviour, not only rule counts

    A real Tab walk that names focus traps and obscured focus, plus a screen-reader transcript taken from the live accessibility tree.

  5. Every domain in one account

    Multiple domains under one organisation, one set of findings, one bill, and a partner portal for agencies, priced by audited pages rather than by service tier.

The capabilities behind these, plan by plan, are on the Inclusify features page.

Being straight about it

What does AudioEye do that Inclusify does not?

Four things, and they are the reasons people buy AudioEye. Certified experts write custom fixes on what automation leaves. Manual auditing produces a certification for the pages covered. AudioEye Assurance is a commercial commitment on those pages. And more than twenty years in the market is a kind of assurance no feature table carries.

  1. Human remediation, included

    Automation reaches a limit on every site. Their managed plan puts certified experts, including testers who use assistive technology daily, on the rest. Inclusify has no equivalent.

  2. Expert audits and a certification

    AudioEye pairs automation with manual auditing and issues a certification for the pages it covers. Inclusify produces a dated scan record and nothing a specialist has signed.

  3. A legal support offering

    AudioEye Assurance is a commercial commitment on the pages they cover. Inclusify makes no promise of that kind and does not sell one.

  4. Scale, volume and longevity

    More than 129,000 customers, over 20 years in the market and a public listing, against our 100-page ceiling. That is a different kind of assurance from a feature table.

What does each one cost?

Only one side of this publishes a figure. Inclusify is four prices from $0 to $279 a month per website, sized by audited pages. AudioEye's three plans, Basic Protection, Self-Serviced Protection and Maximum Protection, each carry no price on the plans page: one routes to a sign-up, the other two to a conversation.

  1. $0FreeWidget, 1,000 visitors
  2. $39Starter5 monitored pages
  3. $99Pro25 pages, crawl, AI review
  4. $279Enterprise100 monitored pages

Per website. Annual billing costs ten months. The free plan needs no card; paid plans start with a 7-day trial. What each Inclusify plan includes.

What AudioEye publishes

Three tiers, Basic, Self-Serviced and Managed, and no monthly or annual figure published for any of them: one routes to a sign-up, the other two to a conversation. Third-party listings quote numbers and we are not going to repeat them. Ask what the remediation hours cover.

Their pricing page, checked

How do you decide between Inclusify and AudioEye?

Answer four questions before you look at either price. Whether you are buying software or a team. Who on your side will ship the fixes if nobody else does. What the artifact has to look like if a demand letter arrives. And whether a commercial assurance is worth more to you than a record you can read.

  1. Software, or software with people attached?

    Their proposition is automation plus experts plus an assurance. Ours is a tool. Work out which one you are short of.

  2. Who is going to make the fixes?

    This decides it. If the answer is nobody, a reporting tool changes nothing and their managed plan is the realistic route.

  3. Do you need something signed?

    They issue a certification for the pages they cover. We produce the dated evidence underneath one, not the statement.

  4. How many pages really need auditing?

    Count templates, not URLs. If the answer is still in the thousands, our 100-page ceiling is the wrong shape.

  5. What happens between engagements?

    A managed engagement fixes what exists today, and the site changes every week. Ask who hears about a regression.

Switching questions.

Neither, in the abstract. They are not really the same purchase. AudioEye is a managed programme: certified experts writing custom fixes, an expert audit, a certification and a commercial assurance. Inclusify is software: a named rule set, real-browser audits, dated per-page history and a price you can read.

AudioEye is the stronger pick if you want somebody else doing the remediation, or coverage of an estate running to thousands of pages. Inclusify is the stronger pick if you want keyboard and screen-reader behaviour tested rather than only rules counted, and findings your developers can pull into Slack, Jira and their AI tools. Plenty of teams would sensibly run one after the other rather than choose.

There is no figure of theirs to compare against. Their plans page lists Basic Protection, Self-Serviced Protection and Maximum Protection and publishes a price for none of them, and quoting a number from a review site would not be their price list. Ours is $0, then $39, $99 and $279 a month per website.

Those Inclusify prices are per website and sized by audited pages, with the widget, the scanner and the crawl on the same plan. Compare them against whatever AudioEye quotes you, and count the remediation hours inside their number, because those hours are the thing you are actually buying.

Engineering visibility, and nothing that overlaps the remediation. Inclusify audits your pages in a real browser, keeps issue history per page with dates on it, and exposes findings to Slack, Jira and AI agents through its MCP server, so your developers can work on them without waiting for a review meeting.

It does not replace the work AudioEye does for you. What it changes is that you can see the state of a page between their engagements, and show what changed and when.

Yes, and we say so in the table rather than around it. AudioEye publishes a testing SDK as an MCP server, aimed at a developer running checks against a page they are building. Inclusify's MCP server answers questions about the scans already recorded on your own account, which is a different job.

That is also why there is no fix-validation row on this page. Their MCP server exposes a verify step that re-scans a page after a change, and documented is documented, even though Inclusify's validate step judges markup before it deploys.

Less than that, deliberately, because Inclusify does not present itself as fixing issues at all. It detects and reports them against WCAG 2.1 AA, suggests a fix for the rules where a suggestion is safe to make, and records what changed between scans so the work can be tracked rather than assumed.

The coverage figures on this page are the honest frame for both of us. Six evaluation tools benchmarked against WCAG 2.0 covered between 23% and 50% of the success criteria, and one criterion in two was not analysed by any tool at all.

No, and neither can any automated product on its own. Inclusify detects and reports WCAG 2.1 AA issues, tracks them per page over time, and gives you dated documentation of that work. Fixing them is a decision your team makes, and the fix lands in your markup rather than in a script.

AudioEye Assurance is a commercial commitment about cost rather than a statement that a page conforms. Read what it covers and on which pages before it counts as reassurance.

When the work needs a person or a signature. Certified manual auditing, custom remediation written for your site, a certification covering the pages they are engaged on, or the AudioEye Assurance commitment on their managed plan. None of those has an Inclusify equivalent, and none of them is a feature we are working towards.

Also when the estate is large, because our plans top out at 100 audited pages. And when nobody on your side is going to act on a report, because then a tool that only detects and reports will not move anything.

Four plans, priced per website. Free is $0 and covers the widget on one language for up to 1,000 monthly visitors. Starter is $39 a month and monitors 5 pages. Pro is $99 for 25 pages, the on-demand full-site crawl and the AI content review. Enterprise is $279 for 100 pages.

Starter also adds widget customization, all 71 languages and an email when a scan finds something that was not there before. Pro adds downloadable compliance reports and 30 days of day-by-day history. Annual billing costs ten months instead of twelve, the free plan needs no card, and every paid plan starts with a 7-day trial.

Very little, and none of it is used for tracking. The widget stores a visitor's own preferences in their browser and sets no cookies. The only request it makes is a one-pixel beacon used to count monthly visits, and the visitor's IP address is hashed before it is stored.

So the raw address is never written to our database. The widget does not read, copy or transmit the content of your pages.

Scans run on Inclusify's own infrastructure in a real Chrome browser, so a page is tested as a visitor's browser renders it rather than as static HTML. We store the findings and not copies of your site: rule identifiers, the selectors and short snippets needed to locate each issue, and the score.

On Pro and above the AI review sends targeted material to an AI provider, specifically images that are missing alt text and short label or heading strings, never a dump of your page or your customer data. Inclusify holds no accessibility certification and is not SOC 2 audited, and nothing here should be read as implying otherwise.

Any site where you can add one script tag. There is a native Shopify app with a theme app embed, so Shopify stores install it with a toggle and no code, and a Wix app on the Wix App Market that adds the widget for you. There are documented install steps for WordPress, Magento, BigCommerce, Webflow and Squarespace.

The scanner works against any URL it can reach, and password-protected Shopify stores are handled rather than failed.

Add the Inclusify snippet or install the Shopify or Wix app, confirm the widget appears, then remove the other vendor's script. Nothing has to come down first, because the free plan has no time limit, so you can run both side by side for as long as you want before removing anything.

There is no importer, so settings and any dismissed findings do not carry over, and the pages you want monitored are nominated once in the panel.

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