Alternatives
EyeQuant helped pioneer AI saliency prediction — heatmaps showing where eyes land on a design, trained on eye-tracking research. The alternatives split along one axis that matters more than any feature list: whether your question is where they look or whether they keep watching.
Three usual reasons. Price-to-usage fit: subscription tiers make sense for design teams testing weekly, less so for occasional checks. Output fit: a static heatmap can't answer video questions — where a 30-second cut loses viewers is invisible to per-frame saliency. Benchmark opacity: across this category, scores are relative to something — and you usually can't inspect the something. Whichever sent you looking, the alternatives sort into spatial tools and temporal ones.
The temporal option: AdCortex™, trained on fMRI brain-response data, scores video (and statics, converted to a 10-second stimulus) second by second — Hook Strength, the full attention curve, the exact drop-off second, and a percentile against 76 top-performing TikTok ads you can audit. Self-serve from $49/month (about $2.45 per test), up to 8 free credits. It won't give you a spatial heatmap — if your work is feed ads rather than fixed layouts, the curve is the number that decides budgets.
The closest like-for-like swap: predicted attention heatmaps on designs, landing pages, and packaging, with self-serve pricing aimed at individual designers and small teams. If EyeQuant's job is the job, this is the budget-friendly seat. Comparisons: PreTestAds vs Attention Insight and Attention Insight alternatives.
Saliency prediction with an enterprise retail lean — shelf context, packaging, and omnichannel assets, sold to brand and category teams. Strongest when "will it pop on shelf?" is the recurring question. Comparisons: PreTestAds vs Dragonfly AI and Dragonfly AI alternatives.
Eye-tracking-trained attention prediction with brand norms, team workflows, and integrations — the version a large design org standardizes on. Whether that packaging is worth it is its own question: is Neurons worth it? and Neurons alternatives.
Name the asset that decides your next dollar. If it's a layout — page, pack, banner — pick a saliency tool and let the heatmap tune composition. If it's a video ad, the money dies temporally, at the swipe decision, and you want the curve. Teams doing both usually run one of each — the two instruments cost less together than one $500-per-variant live test.
Score a video or static against a public benchmark — up to 8 free credits, no credit card.
Test Your Ad FreeFor the same job — predicted saliency heatmaps on static designs — Attention Insight and Dragonfly AI are the closest like-for-like options, with Neurons as the enterprise-packaged version. If your real question is whether a video ad holds attention over time rather than where eyes land in a frame, that's a different instrument: second-by-second attention scoring from about $2.45 per test.
Saliency predicts where eyes land in the first moments of seeing a static frame — a spatial question, ideal for layouts, packaging, and web pages. Attention-over-time predicts whether a viewer keeps watching a video second by second — a temporal question, ideal for feed ads where the failure mode is scrolling away. Tools trained for one don't automatically answer the other.
PreTestAds scores both against the same 76-ad public benchmark: video up to 60 seconds directly, statics converted to a 10-second stimulus. You get a percentile, hook strength, and drop-off second rather than a spatial heatmap — the output is a curve, not a map.