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Rating
5/5
Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
A B2B tool that helps businesses identify and track website visitors in order to generate leads and improve their sales and marketing efforts.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- Great for B2B leadgen
- Quality company insights
- Modern user interface
- Responsive support
- Easy to set up
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- 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
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Limited features
- Pricing based on company ID's, relevant or not
- Slight learning curve
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- 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
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| 0-50 company ID's | $49 p/m |
| 51-100 company ID's | $69 p/m |
| 101-250 company ID's | $99 p/m |
| 251-500 company ID's | $139 p/m |
| 501-750 company ID's | $179 p/m |
| 751-1.000 company ID's | $229 p/m |
| 1.001-2.000 company ID's | $279 p/m |
| 2.001-3.000 company ID's | $349 p/m |
| 3.001-4.000 company ID's | $439 p/m |
| 4.001-5.000 company ID's | $529 p/m |
| 5.000+ company ID's | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
| FullstoryFree | Free |
| Business | On req. |
| Advanced | On req. |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
21 days
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
You
Snitcher
You
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
12 months*
Unlimited
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Historical data ingestion
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
User segments
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Ecommerce Reporting
Order Completed and Product Purchased events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
Feature flags and A/B testing
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Surveys
Guides and Surveys add-on
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Support
Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
Support via a contact form (answered by email), live chat and the help center.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
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
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community