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Rating
5/5
Summary
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Intuitive dashboards
- Great filtering
- Possibility to tag elements
- Helpfull support
- Automatic form tracking
- User feedback surveys
- 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
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
- Funnels could be improved
- You run into credit limit quite fast
- 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
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 200k page views | $29 p/m |
| 100k page views | $19 p/m |
| 500k page views | $49 p/m |
| 1M page views | $69 p/m |
| 2M page views | $89 p/m |
| 5M page views | $129 p/m |
| 10M page views | $169 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Starter | €39 p/m |
| Growth | €129 p/m |
| Business | €259 p/m |
| Pro | €499 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| FullstoryFree | Free |
| Business | On req. |
| Advanced | On req. |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
30 days
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1-10+ depending on plan
10
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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
Mouseflow
Pendo
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
3-5+ years depending on plan
12 months
84 months
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
through integrations
Import historical data by CSV
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
Export your data to CSV
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Via web hook
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Order Completed and Product Purchased events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings
Guides and Surveys add-on
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Change the widgets of a report
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Custom tagging of recordings
Annotations
Support
Support description
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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