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Hyros vs ClickMagick
By Dana Rourke, Lead Reviewer. Reviewed by Campaign Buyer Editorial. Updated 23 September 2026.
Quick answer
Pick Hyros if your sale closes after a sales call, a webinar or a long email sequence and you are already spending real money, because its server-side attribution follows that journey across your CRM and payment processor; pick ClickMagick if you run your own Meta, Google or YouTube paid traffic as a solo advertiser, affiliate or info-product seller and want first-party tracking, a flat published price and a morning email that tells you what to scale or cut. For most readers who reach this page, ClickMagick is the default, because it fits the traffic they actually run with a predictable bill, while Hyros earns its quote only once your spend and funnel complexity are genuinely high.
Side by side
| Hyros | ClickMagick | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Long-funnel attribution | First-party CAPI tracker |
| Best-fit funnel | High-ticket, call, webinar | Own paid-traffic funnel |
| What it tracks | A buyer across tools | Clicks and conversions |
| Platform feedback | Server-side to platforms | CAPI to Meta, Google |
| Pricing model | Custom quote, spend-based | Published visitor tiers |
| Best-fit spend | ~$50k/mo and up | Any budget |
| Outside proof | Mixed, quote-gated | Thin, disputed |
If you are deciding between Hyros and ClickMagick, you are choosing between two tools that both promise numbers you can trust more than platform-reported ROAS, but that watch very different funnels. Hyros is a server-side attribution platform: it stitches a long buyer's journey across your CRM, your email tool and your payment processor, so a sale that closes weeks after the click still traces back to the ad that started it. ClickMagick is a first-party tracker for your own paid traffic: it records the click-to-conversion path under your own domain and feeds a cleaner signal back to Meta, Google and YouTube so their algorithms chase real buyers. ClickMagick even markets itself as the cheaper Hyros alternative. The real decision is what kind of funnel you run and how much you spend.
Hyros watches a person move through your whole business and makes a long, high-ticket funnel measurable. ClickMagick watches your ad traffic move through a page and a checkout and turns it into a self-serve decision layer at a published price. Hyros is a managed platform priced on a quote. ClickMagick is a login you pay a fixed tier for.
The two questions that decide it
Answer these before you look at a feature list. First: where does your sale actually close? If buyers convert in one session or a short window, moving from your ad to a page and a checkout, your problem is reading and optimizing that traffic, and that is what ClickMagick is for. If the sale comes after a lead opt-in, an email sequence, a sales call or a webinar, standard pixels lose the thread long before the money changes hands, and piecing that path together across your tools is exactly what Hyros does. ClickMagick can send a conversion back to the platform, but it cannot reconstruct a sale that a salesperson closes weeks later in a CRM.
Second: how much are you spending? ClickMagick has a published entry price and works at any budget, which is why a solo advertiser or an affiliate can run it from day one. Hyros is sold on a quote, and buyers say it pays off at around $50k a month in spend on a genuinely complex funnel. Point Hyros at a simple funnel below that and most of its machinery sits idle while you pay for it.
Hyros: attribution for the long funnel
Hyros targets the funnel that keeps going after the first form. If your sale happens after an opt-in, an email sequence, a sales call or a webinar, standard pixels lose the thread. Hyros tracks server-side and stitches the journey across payment processors and CRMs, which is why info-product sellers, coaches and high-ticket advertisers credit it with finding revenue Meta and Google never attributed. For a media buyer pouring spend into a funnel whose payoff is weeks and several touchpoints away, that is the reason to run it.
Its drawback is opaque pricing: you talk to sales to get a number, and below the spend threshold above, a cheaper tool does the job. Its reports will also differ from what the ad platforms show, since its credit comes from a model, so use it to make better allocation calls on a long funnel. The full Hyros review covers how it holds up over time.
ClickMagick: first-party tracking and a morning to-do list
ClickMagick has been tracking links and conversions since 2014, and it now bills itself as an attribution layer it calls TrueTracking. The pitch suits the solo Meta or Google buyer: your ad account optimizes toward whoever it thinks converted, so if you feed it clean first-party data on who actually bought, it spends your budget on better people. ClickMagick sets up a tracking domain of your own, catches conversions server-side, and pushes them back through the platforms' conversion APIs. For a buyer whose sales close quickly on traffic they buy themselves, that is the draw, at a fraction of a Hyros quote.
Its most praised features are the ones a solo operator without an analyst needs. The Morning Magick email reads your numbers overnight and tells you what to scale, pause or fix. Support draws the warmest reviews of anything in this category, with same-day replies and the occasional screen recording.
Its weak spot is independent proof. There is no meaningful G2 or Capterra presence, and ClickMagick stopped maintaining its Trustpilot page after disputing what it called fake reviews, so you lean on the vendor's own case studies more than you would like. Check its numbers against the network, GA4 and your backend before you move budget. Our full ClickMagick review goes deeper on the accuracy complaints and the setup that avoids them.
Where the pricing diverges
The two use opposite pricing models, and that itself tells you who each is for. ClickMagick publishes its tiers: $79 a month for 10,000 tracked visitors, $199 for 100,000, and $349 for one million, with yearly billing taking roughly a sixth off. Each extra site adds $40 a month. You can size it against your real traffic before you sign up. Hyros publishes nothing. Its fee is a quote you negotiate with sales, usually from a few hundred a month up depending on your spend and funnel complexity, so you cannot comparison-shop it.
ClickMagick's cost is low to start and scales with the visitors you track, which suits a buyer who wants to know the bill in advance. Hyros's quote scales with the value of the attribution, and on a high-ticket funnel recovering a handful of misattributed sales can pay for it many times over. Get the Hyros number in writing before you commit.
A third path if you host the funnel yourself
Neither Hyros nor ClickMagick builds or hosts the funnel it measures. Both watch a journey on pages and checkouts that live somewhere else, and both feed a signal back to the ad networks after the fact. ElasticFunnels takes the other route. It is a funnel platform for teams running paid traffic: it builds the pages, split-tests variants under one URL so the ad platform keeps its learning, hosts the checkout with order bumps and upsells, and keeps a CRM, automations and a call center on the same data layer as the pages and the sale. A purchase in its checkout is recorded directly, with nothing to model afterwards. When a funnel closes on a call, the call notes, CRM record and payment sit together, which is the path Hyros is hired to reconstruct. ElasticFunnels also fires server-side postbacks to your networks on purchase, refund, chargeback and renewal. It starts with a 14-day free trial that takes no card, on plans from $97 a month, plus 0.5% of revenue processed through its hosted checkout.
Its drawback is that it is newer than either tool here, with very little independent review coverage to check its claims against, so until you run real volume through it you are largely relying on the vendor's word for how its attribution holds up. That is what you would expect of a platform this young, and the no-card trial lets you test it first. Its reporting covers the funnels it hosts, so sales closing in tools it does not host still need Hyros, and paid clicks to outside pages still need a tracker like ClickMagick.
Which one for you
Your sale closes after a call, a webinar or a long email sequence: Hyros. It is the only one of the two that can follow that sale through your CRM and payment processor, and it earns its quote once your spend and funnel complexity are real.
You run your own Meta, Google or YouTube paid traffic as a solo advertiser, affiliate or course seller: ClickMagick. A cleaner signal to the networks, a published price and a morning email with next steps are worth more to you than a managed attribution platform you cannot fully use. Watch the visitor tiers as you grow.
You host your own pages and checkout end to end: look at ElasticFunnels alongside them, keeping its newness in mind, and keep a dedicated tracker for any click traffic that lands on domains it does not host.
ClickMagick is our default pick because more readers who reach this site run their own paid traffic on a budget they need to predict than run the high-spend call funnel Hyros requires. On its own turf, a funnel that closes after a call or a webinar, Hyros is plainly the better fit, and we rank it fourth in our ad tracker ranking for exactly that buyer, while ClickMagick sits sixth for the solo advertiser it serves. To weigh Hyros against a click tracker, see RedTrack vs Hyros, and for ClickMagick against a self-hosted tracker built for volume, see Binom vs ClickMagick.
Hyros
What works
- Server-side tracking that follows a lead through the call, the webinar and the CRM
- Finds sales that Meta and Google miss on multi-step funnels
- Pulls sales data from payment processors and CRMs alongside site analytics
What to watch
- A weak fit when checkout is one step and the ad budget is modest
- The fee is high enough that smaller accounts walk away.
- Reported revenue is modeled, so the totals will not match what the ad platforms report.
ClickMagick
What works
- Flat monthly price based on the visitors you track, not a cut of your revenue, so the bill does not climb every time a campaign wins.
- First-party TrueTracking with a custom domain and CAPI feeds cleaner conversion data back to Meta, Google and YouTube, which users credit for better ad optimization.
- The Morning Magick email reads your stats each morning and names what to scale, pause or fix, which suits a solo buyer with no analyst.
- Support is the most-praised part in public reviews: fast replies, often the same day, sometimes with screen recordings.
What to watch
- The Starter plan tracks just 10,000 visitors for $79, so anyone buying real volume is pushed to the $199 Standard tier fast.
- Independent proof is thin. There is no meaningful G2 or Capterra presence, and ClickMagick stopped maintaining its Trustpilot page after disputing fake reviews, so you lean on the vendor's own case studies more than you would like.
- Its numbers will differ from what the ad network reports, so reconcile them against GA4 and your backend before you move budget.
- Setup rewards patience. Postbacks, cross-domain tracking and CAPI all need wiring, and a botched setup is behind most of the accuracy complaints.
Pricing
Hyros: from a custom quote. No public price table on the pricing page. One plan with everything included; price is quoted on a setup call and follows the revenue Hyros tracks. Pricing FAQ states setup team, account AI analyst, full tracking and Claude MCP are included, with a guarantee that your ads grow or you do not pay.
ClickMagick: from $79/mo. Starter $79/mo or $66/mo when the year is paid as $790. Signup says Try it free for 14 days and Don't pay today, and does not say whether a card is collected. Trial if no account in the past 6 months. 30-day money-back for new customers. Terms: annual plans include two months free. Referral program: There are no coupons. Agencies: 35% when client accounts are created in Business Manager.
Prices as of 1 November 2026
Our pick
ClickMagick
ClickMagick is the pick if you are an affiliate, a solo advertiser or an info-product seller who wants a flat monthly bill and a morning email telling you what to scale or cut, and you can live with an entry plan that tracks only 10,000 visitors.
Frequently asked questions
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Sources
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12 discussions and reviews read for this page. Quotes are excerpts; open a link to read the original in context.
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Written by
Dana Rourke
Lead Reviewer
Dana Rourke is the lead reviewer at Campaign Buyer. She covers trackers and attribution on this site: she reads what long-term users report about each tool, checks its documentation and pricing, and verifies prices with the vendor before writing the verdict. Keeping the rankings honest mostly means writing down what the top pick gets wrong, so she does that first.
Last checked 2026-09-23
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