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Fathom Analytics
From $15 p/m
No feature only Fathom Analytics has.
Amplitude
Free plan
Only Amplitude has:
- Annotations
Chartbeat
On request
No feature only Chartbeat has.
Fullstory
Free plan
No feature only Fullstory has.
Fullstory
Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Simple & Intuïtive
- User segmentation
- Data visualisations
- Feature Analytics
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- 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
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Dashboard customisation
- Limited free plan
- User support access
- Pricing transparency
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources 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
- 100k page views$15 p/m
- 200k page views$25 p/m
- 500k page views$45 p/m
- 1 Million page views$60 p/m
- 2 Million page views$100 p/m
- StarterFree
- Growth$49+ p/m
- EnterpriseOn req.
- BasicOn req.
- PlusOn req.
- PremiumOn req.
- FullstoryFreeFree
- BusinessOn req.
- AdvancedOn req.
- EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
1
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
You
Chartbeat
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
13 months
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
One-click CSV export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Order Completed and Product Purchased events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
Headline A/B testing tool
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Guides and Surveys add-on
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Create a custom event from existing events
Annotations
Support
Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
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