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Google Analytics 4

Free plan

No feature only Google Analytics 4 has.

Mixpanel

Free plan

No feature only Mixpanel has.

Leadinfo

From €69 per month

No feature only Leadinfo has.

Fullstory

Free plan

Only Fullstory has:

  • User Feedback
Summary
A customisable and free web analytics tool. Get insights into user behavior with an event-based tracking model, and know what drives sales and traffic with extensive attribution methods.
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
  • GA4 is free to use
  • Many functionalities
  • The reports are customisable
  • Large community
  • Extensive documentation
  • GA4 is easily scalable
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
  • Permanent free plan with session replay
  • Choice of EU or US data center
  • SOC 2 and ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001 certifications
  • Warehouse sync to BigQuery, Snowflake and Redshift
Cons
  • Steep learning curve
  • Implementation can be hard
  • Inaccurate data sampling
  • UI is not easy to use
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Limited features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing
  • Paid prices not published
  • Dashboards and StoryAI not in the free plan
  • Alerts and retention reports need an Advanced or Enterprise plan
  • Moving to the EU data center means opening a new account

Pricing information

Starting Price
  • StandardFree
  • GA4 360$50k+ per year
  • FreeFree
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • Starter€69+ p/m
  • Scale€159+ p/m
  • Pro€359+ p/m
  • 5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
  • FullstoryFreeFree
  • BusinessOn req.
  • AdvancedOn req.
  • EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
100
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
3 to unlimited, by plan
10 on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Account Security
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication

Data Processing

Data Center Locations
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
Software Hosting
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
Google Analytics 4
Mixpanel
Leadinfo
You
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
Unlimited
30 days
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Used for bulk tagging leads
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
Via raw data export API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Same as custom alerts
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Filter leads by country, channel or page
User segments
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Order Completed and Product Purchased events

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
Included from the Scale plan
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
Experiments
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys add-on

Customizability

Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
Define your own labels
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Combine events into a custom event
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024
Directly on the linechart in Insights

Support

Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
Support is by email and support ticket during regional weekday business hours, with a help center and community forum. Free plan tickets have a 2 business day response target, paying customers 1 business day. A Premium Support add-on gives 24/7 critical support. The FullstoryFree help article lists email support as a paid plan feature, while the support hours article lists a response target for free plan customers.
Support Options
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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